The reserve seats can be used, at least for this session. Rather than your having to be stuck in the back. So as i started to say, one of the goals of this conference is to engage the Younger Generation in deciding what we should or should not do. What we should desist from doindoing in the area of support for democracy abroaded in the decades ahead. So its appropriate the next generation have a major voice in formulating the new consensus, hopefully well get to a new consensus you have bios, ive introduced only two speakers by name. In your conference packages you have bio information on all of them. Our goal today is to have a really intense focused discussion where people have a chance to engage the panelists have a chance to engage with each other, they have dissending and differing views and leaving plenty of dim for discussions with you. Thomas melia hopes to be here. Hes snuck traffic. Dissent. Here are the three questions ive asked our speakers and you to think about and focus
Keystone xl tar sands pipeline. Protesters gathered near kerrys speech to send a message against the pipeline at least they , tried to. We did not specifically name him. We could not use the names of country, so we could not clout the United States or canada around keystone xl. We were not allowed to name specific projects, for example, so we cant talk about keystone xl pipeline. The rules book at the cop. We will look at how the United Nations is silencing voices of dissent inside the Climate Summit. And we will look at the state of the talks as negotiations enter a final day. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Cia director john brennan has refused to rule out the agencys use of torture under future president s while defending the officials who devised and carried it out. Speaking out for the First Time Since the release of Senate Findings this week, brennan refused to label cia methods torture. In defia
As secretary of state john kerry flies into lima to give an impassioned speech about combating Climate Change, he says nothing about the proposed keystone xl tar sands pipeline. Protesters gathered near kerrys speech to send a message against the pipeline at least they , tried to. We did not specifically name him. We could not use the names of country, so we could not clout the United States or canada around keystone xl. We were not allowed to name specific projects, for example, so we cant talk about keystone xl pipeline. The rules book at the cop. We will look at how the United Nations is silencing voices of dissent inside the Climate Summit. And we will look at the state of the talks as negotiations enter a final day. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Cia director john brennan has refused to rule out the agencys use of torture under future president s while defending the officials who devised and carr
As secretary of state john kerry flies into lima to give an impassioned speech about combating Climate Change, he says nothing about the proposed keystone xl tar sands pipeline. Protesters gathered near kerrys speech to send a message against the pipeline at least they , tried to. We did not specifically name him. We could not use the names of country, so we could not clout the United States or canada around keystone xl. We were not allowed to name specific projects, for example, so we cant talk about keystone xl pipeline. The rules book at the cop. We will look at how the United Nations is silencing voices of dissent inside the Climate Summit. And we will look at the state of the talks as negotiations enter a final day. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Cia director john brennan has refused to rule out the agencys use of torture under future president s while defending the officials who devised and carr
There is a movement for democracy among people that work there, thinking it matters more and more to their work. And that is also true in the United States. During this last 25 years in the United States government. These last 25 years it has become part and parcel of every diplomats dna to appreciate that the democratic character of governments that we partner with affects their International Posture and policies as well and our military establishment and intelligence agencies i think increasingly understand that and increasingly weave that into their engagements with their partners as well but its not a universally hello view yet but an emerging and broking view so i think we will continuing in this direction at least another 25 years and hopefully have a few more successes to talk about when we meet 25 years from now. Thanks very much, tom. I am going to open the floor to questions. I do ask that you keep the, your questions to actual questions. Weve had some very long and very deta