We have a special guest with us tonight my friend and a wonderful writer and author. Ian toll doesnt really need an introduction it should be very long and to be extremely accomplished the author of six books as well the pacific war the third volume has been released 19441945 from the naval of the United States will writing the writers award so those anymore Samuel Eliot Morrison was out there that thank you so much with the twilight of the gods. Its my pleasure. I am struck by the book this is a big story of the western pacific but you began this book in an interesting way of looking at fdr and douglas macarthur. I will expand on my question. Military history there is the expectation and in this case almost 100 pages into the book. And the unconventional way to begin work of military history i thought it had a little bit of latitude in the case that they are committed to read it or not and with that observation with the pacific war there is a lot of literature and i went to say there
A grant vicki, the protest has just about wrapped up the protesters making their way down court street that scene behind me here with the black lives barrel on the black lives matter mural in martinez they had they were heading down to the marina area. There was a lot of anticipation that was building up to this event be. Town was pretty much bracing for thousands of people here to show up out of there was hundreds of people that showed up here and businesses also boarded up but as police stood by and watched what was happening. The protests remained peaceful. Hundreds of people make their way down court street waving signs and chanting for racial equality, the demonstration taking place where a man and woman recently defaced a black lives matter mural thats the disgraced that were out here fighting against this White Supremacy and White Supremacy in a to white people and this is unfortunate that this is where we still are in america, but we have to do what we have to do them. Proteste
Well. Lower machard just been youre watching the listening post working from home this week were breaking from our usual format for months now weve been doing nonstop coverage of the media side of the coronavirus pandemic from the misinformation being spread by government citizens and journalists alike to the war of narratives being waged by great powers but covert 19 has also brought out some of the best in the 4th estate people who are producing vital coverage some of which is designed and delivered in new ways to help us understand a breaking story thats rooted in medical science and laden with complexities we have 4 examples from 4 different parts of the world each using a different media from the United States and brazil countries whose president s have repeatedly misinformed we hear from 2 medical experts turned broadcasters one through his podcast the other over you tube later well take you to europe and an aggregator that gets you around some of Silicon Valleys trouble some alg
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A new round of the battle for the black sea will ukraine keep the intercepted initiative so free to feel like the first there maybe a couple of months they cant on the night of august 5 an unexpected unexpected blow receives a russian tanker juice there where it seemed the occupiers feel so safe near the kerch strait the ship received a serious damage the day before, the ukrainian defenders came under attack and in general, the heart of the russian fleet, the port of novorossiysk, here is a video from aboard a ukrainian drone, it successfully attacks the russian large Amphibious Assault ship alinigorsk gornyak and this is how the fool looked the next morning, he didnt have time to drown , we pulled him away in the last effort, we already declared and in principle this logic of hostilities that it is impossible to achieve victory by fighting only on its territory, the enemy a must understand and the population of the enemy must understand that there are no safe places on Enemy Territory