And by contributions from your pbs stations from viewers like you. Thank you. Waeltlter isaacson have wrin biographies son some of the mos famous many history and his latest is on the life of Leonardo Da Vinci. It is great to be back. Why Leonardo Da Vinci . All the one you mentioned of people who smart, smart people what really counts is being creative. Thats what ben franklin was because he loved art and science and steve jobs, was always at the intersection of beauty and engineering so i thought i am going to do leonardo because hes the ultimate example, somebody that crosses all disciplines and sees the beauty and pattern in nature until he can be an engineer and scientist and artist and understands all of creation and including how we fit into it. What have you learn of studying these persons and your research broadly, talk about your value of creativity and imagination creativity comes in kacuriou and being able to connect your knowledge. Steve jobs is very imaginative. He knew h
Governor says he is canceling the controversial 300 million whitefishith wha energy. Democracy now got reaction from the head of the puerto rico Electrical Workers Union Angel Figueroa jaramillo. I believe this is the time to make sure these context of. Appen again amy then, tensions continue to mount between the United States and north korea. No mistake, any attack on the United States or our allies will be defeated. Any use of Nuclear Weapons by the north will be met with a massive military response effective and overwhelming. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President trumps former Campaign Chair Paul Manafort and his former business associate rick gates were told to surrender to authorities monday after a federal grand jury in washington, d. C. , handed down the first indictments in special counsel Robert Muellers investigation to russias alleged interference and the 2016 president ial election
And buy contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Please welcome sash sasha polakowsuransky, hes the author of the book go back to where you came from, white n s nationalism. I read that. What kind of backlash did you get from that . I got some creepy message, something that i dont want to see on facebook and twitter. It got under a lot of people skin. Give me some sense of what you heard . There were a lot of backlash of White Nationalist groups. I got a lot of comments looking into my own background and insinuating things of jewish people. It was uncomfortable but i was not entirely surprise. I think there were people out there who were offended by it because i was calling them out. Is immigration like, i am going to say the new third rail, although there is nothing new about the debate. Is it a new third rail in politics . It is a central issue in this century and all throughout europe. Most o f the reporting that i did was in places like france and jeremy
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. The recent ambush of u. S. Troops in niger put a spotlight on africa. And, nick turis, author of tomorrows battlefield u. S. Proxy wars and secret ops in africa. And next time they will come to count the dead war and survival in south sudan he joins us in new york. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me on. Excuse the raspiness of the voice. I think i can get through it. An important conversation, why i am here. Sure. Let me start reviewing what happened on capitol hill today very quickly. So, general mattis was on the hill today testifying. And was essentially pressed on whether or not these troops, these american troops in niger were operating under the military authorization put on the books after, after, 9 11. He essentially set they were not operating under that war authorization of, of 2011. But instead were operating what he referred to as title 10. This would be the u. S. Code that allows u. S
And by contributions to your pbs station, from viewers like you. Thank you. Pleased to welcome professor debra rhodie she has been articulating for the search for justice in the country, the latest book is called cheating, ethics and law in every day life. Professor good to have you on the program. Thank you for having me. Let me ask a strange question to start. Has, the notion or the definition of cheating, changed over the last 40 years as you have been doing this work . I dont think the definition has changed but the forms it takes do evolve with time. Technology, of course, has transformed the forms of cheating. You have file sharing, downloading music and lifting stuff off the internet. Whole sites on the internet that enable people to cut and paste their term paper and have somebody else write their papers. That is what has been the major thing. Maybe i could have asked that question before, you answered what i wanted to get at. Which is, theres a culture of cheating in the count