The agencies bulk collection of phone records of all americans. We will speak with nsa whistleblower kirk wiebe as well as Edward Snowdens Legal Advisor ben wizner. Then we go to egypt where else to president Mohamed Morsi is facing charges of committing terrorist acts and treason. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A white houseappointed task force has proposed a series of curbs on Key National Security agency surveillance operations following leaks by former nsa contractor Edward Snowden. On thursday, the panel recommended that hold its collection of billions of american phone calls, sending the additional risks to public trust, personal privacy, and civil liberties. The phone records should be held by Telecommunications Providers or have a third party. Underminings for its encryption and criticized its use of Computer Programming flaws to mount Cyber Attacks. At the white house, press secretary jay car
Panel celebrating the publication of democratization and authoritarianism in the erab world edited by Larry Diamond and me and published by the Johns Hopkins university press. If im not mistaken, this is the 30th journal of democracy book at Johns Hopkins has published since the series began in 1993. These volumes, which mostly but not exclusively draw up on articles that previously appeared in the journal have addressed a very wide range of regional issues related to democratization around the wor world. It is a quarterly publication sponsored by the National Endowment for democracy. It has become a leading global forum for serious analysis of the problems and prospects of democracy around the world. Larry diamond, who is also my coeditor of the journal will serve as the moderator of todays discussion and i will limit myself here with just a few brief remarks mostly about the book itself. Today given the intense worldwide focus on the shattering events in ukraine, the arab world is no
This event was hosted by the National Endowment for democracy in washington, d. C. The challenges of moving from what i call authoritarian rackets, protection rackets, democratic protection rackets, governance, and the paradigm itself focuses on the dynamic of the conflict and identity in the air of a political system, that paradigm is by no means limited to the cases of the arab world. Lets look at ukraine right now as an example, where the issue of identity politics and hypocrisy intersect and democracy. But i think the issues of identity conflict are especially precedent in the arab world for a variety of reasons, and its not something that we really expected in the sense that when the revolt started of course in tunisia in the rural area, not in part of the metropolitan capital but in the rural areas it was about a revolt searching for social and economic equality and dignity. And so many of the initial slogans in the rebellion not only in tunisia, i much prefer the notion of the a
Transplants and also deceased kidney transplants. So, you know, theyre learning from us. Now the question is will we learn from them . Time. Okay. Thank you all for coming. Ill be over here signing books. [applause] if you would like one. [applause] on behalf of the public library, thank you again for coming, and thank you to all of you for coming and for your great questions. For more information on this system, please visit the d. C. Public library web site. Have great night. [applause] [inaudible conversations] wed like to hear from you. Tweet us your feedback, twitter. Com booktv. Larry diamond and marc plattner, the editors of democratization and authoritarianism in the arab world, along with book contributors talk about the promise of democratization in the middle east after the arab spring and the eventual backlash that took place in egypt and elsewhere. This is about an hour and 45 minutes. Good afternoon. Im marc plattner, the editor of journal of democracy and the Vice Presid
Brazil faces germany. We begin in brazil with the south american tools set to kick off. Stadium, the game will pave the way for the first World Cup Final in 12 years. The winner will advance sundays final in rio where they will face either argentina or the netherlands. Tell us theres a huge amount at stake here in this exciting game. Absolutely. Its really hard to hear you right now. Theres so much singing and cheering right behind me. There is a lot at stake here. The atmosphere of anticipation, the brazilian fans are already dreaming about a final world cup its almost as if we are living the World Cup Finals. For that to happen, they will first have to be germany. Germany has a very strong team and brazil will have to face them without their star player. He is out due to a back injury. The brazilian coach has been speaking today and has said he has done his share, now its up to us to do hours will stop those are the words of the brazilian coach stop they will have to play without the