History. So if you will join you for just a second and reflecting together on that. And then we could start a little belated. [silence. Alright thank you. So this is a book that began, i began writing this book in the fall of 2014. And i began writing because i was invited to st. Louis to give a talk on washington university. I felt called to talk about the murder of Michael Brown in the protests on the uprising. So i was invited to october, went there and felt that i had to go out and present what was happening because i am a missourian and i felt that was a history in which i was both one i knew very well, and one that i was implicated in. And so with the particular kind of turn of mind, that i have, i started to look at the political economy with a particular simple straightforward riddle which is how could it be that the city of ferguson that has a 26 billiondollar corporation within the city limits, 26 billion a year, emerson electric, how could that city the funding poor black mo
Friday at the age of 80. All weekend, people were remembering just how extraordinary this mans life was. Civil rights icon and American Hero john lewis passing away at age 80. As a college student, he helped lead the fight against racial inequality by participating in multiple protests. In 1963, he was just 23, the youngest speaker at the march on washington right alongside Martin Luther king, jr. My friends, let us not forget that we are involved in a serious social revolution. Trevor two years later, he would lead Peaceful Protesters across the edmund pet us the bridge, fighting for the right to vote. They were met by brutal force by state troopers, lewis, bloody and with a fractured skull. He would continue his fight as a u. S. Representative known as the conscience of the congress. Hundreds gathered in a candlelight vigil. Trevor barack obama credited lewis for making his presidency possible, aparting him in president ial medal of freedom in 2011, and said not many of us get to liv
Are under attack here in the us and again media silence how is this possible natashas sweet reports and the president of the Catholic League bill donohue will be here to discuss and if you think you know al sharpton think again who is this m s n b c host the media turns to for his input on civil rights issues a new president ial candidates run to for a seal of approval you may be surprised im Steve Malzberg the press. He wishes. By. Well you probably dont know this because the media wont tell it to you but this week america and the world in fact received more indisputable evidence that while the. New york times and the Washington Post were plastering page one with stories of trump campaigns russian collusion the f. B. I. Knew all along that it was total nonsense the New York Post editorial from last monday points to a february 2017 times piece to cleric phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Trumps Campaign and other Trump Associates had repeated contacts with senior
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Accidental admiral . Guest what a great question at a certain level all of our lives, you can choose to steer a particular course but the sea will come, the wind will come and you will go in a different direction. It comes from a period in my career when i was a four star admiral just finishing up at us Southern Command in charge of all military activities south of the United States and i was very hopeful in going to the pacific as commander of us Pacific Command which is a senior position, robert gates, called me up and said forget about the specific we are going to send you to nato so i became the first and thus far the only admiral, supreme allied commander in nato and it was an accident that did that. From the nato perspective i was be accidental admiral who became the supreme allied commander. Host the navy was an accident as well. Guest somewhat. I grew up in a marine corps family. My father fought in korea and vietnam. I grew up in that environment and went to Quantico High Scho