Amy 10 years ago this week, Hurricane Katrina devastated the gulf coast, killing 1800 people, forcing over one million to evacuate. As president obama heads to new orleans, we will speak with local activist and attorneys still fighting to rebuild the city. But first, to guatemala. There is an uprising. Today there is a National Strike , a mass demonstration calling for the followed president perez molina. If it develops, you can leave to the fall of the army and oligarchy and the system of hunger. The u. S. Is try to stop that, the oligarchy is, but no one knows if they will succeed. Amy a general strike has been called in guatemala two days after the Supreme Court approved a request by the countrys attorney general to impeach president Otto Perez Molina in a Corruption Scandal. The matter is now in the hands of the guatemalan congress. We will speak with journalist allan nairn. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy
Amy 10 years ago this week, Hurricane Katrina devastated the gulf coast, killing 1800 people, forcing over one million to evacuate. As president obama heads to new orleans, we will speak with local activist and attorneys still fighting to rebuild the city. But first, to guatemala. There is an uprising. Today there is a National Strike , a mass demonstration calling for the followed president perez molina. If it develops, you can leave to the fall of the army and oligarchy and the system of hunger. The u. S. Is try to stop that, the oligarchy is, but no one knows if they will succeed. Amy a general strike has been called in guatemala two days after the Supreme Court approved a request by the countrys attorney general to impeach president Otto Perez Molina in a Corruption Scandal. The matter is now in the hands of the guatemalan congress. We will speak with journalist allan nairn. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy
Continues to have an impact in contemporary times. This was part of a conference hosted by the future of Freedom Foundation. Some viewers may find language in the program offensive. By way of self introduction, the freedomt of foundation. [applause] many of you know we are devoted to presenting an uncompromising moral, philosophical, and theomic case for equilibrium philosophy. I practiced law for about 12 years and that shifted gears and went into the educational arena and libertarian philosophy. We have published many books, but the ones that i am really proud of our the kennedy autopsy, regime change, the jfk assassination, and the evil of the National Security state. Published a top secret classified document called a study of assassination. By reading this document, its clear that by this time, seven years after the cia had been called into existence with the National Security act of 1977 that this agency was specializing in the art of assassination how to kill people. Among the f
And in the late 1970s, you make a decision, like a lot of kids, which is to take a road trip. And you take that road trip right into guatemala in a moment of civil war, essentially. Well, my fathers family. My fathers from a russian jewish immigrant background family from here in boston. But my mothers family in guatemala is an Old Fashioned guatemalan mestizo catholic very traditional guatemalan family. And i had spent a lot of time in guatemala as a child, the first couple years of my life, almost every summer, summer after summer. But then, as i become more and more your typical American Teenage kind of kid, i become sort of selfconscious about that. I want to fit in the way americans do. And i sort of begin to stay away from guatemala, i guess. I hadnt been down there probably since sixth grade or so. And sure, then in college one day with my friends, we didnt really have anything to do that summer. And one of my friends had a new ford mustang, and i said, lets drive down to guatem
That polar approach. And so weve learned the absolute necessity of a close relationship with canada, we learned that was in our National Interest. That relationship we have with canada has enabled us to truly be able to provide Aerospace Control and maritime morning. That relationship is critical to the security of the United States and canada. Both our countries have benefit from the against existential threats. That relationship we have with canada is a model that is worthy of emulating. But in Aerial Threat over the poles is not the only threat that north america faces are the Security Landscape is evolving, and north america faces a threat from the south. Now, our threat from the south is not presently an existential threat but it is a Security Threat nonetheless. And this threat, that is transnational in nature, exploits seems between countries. Its an organized threat. It is a networked threat. It is agile, its adaptive and it can reach the point where it actually destabilizes re