Deep establishment. Is a process. You cut government spending, increased taxes in order to balance the governments books but you fail. Yes, you reduce government expenditure, but on the other tax, the economy shrinks so a reduced and your books dont balance a you cut even more. It shines even further and cut more, so it is a neverending downward spiral. Amy then six weeks after Hurricane Maria hit puerto rico, millions still lack clean Drinking Water and electricity. Just back from puerto rico, we will bring you a report from the interior where the storm has exploded the fault lines of poverty and austerity. My name is carmen. Everything here was destroyed. It is not easy to be struggling like this, doing everything by hand. There are Sick Children and elders. That is how it is here. My father vanished. He died. So that hasnt been easy for us. We are alive. We have to thank god amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im
Elites benefit from global capitalism with former greek finance m minister Yanis Varoufakis. Is due book, adults in the room my battle with europes deep establishment. Is a process. You cut government spending, increased taxes in order to balance the governments books but you fail. Yes, you reduce government expenditure, but on the other tax, the economy shrinks so a reduced and your books dont balance a you cut even more. It shines even further and cut more, so it is a neverending downward spiral. Amy then six weeks after Hurricane Maria hit puerto rico, millions still lack clean Drinking Water and electricity. Just back from puerto rico, we will bring you a report from the interior where the storm has exploded t the fault lines of poverty and austerity. My name is carmen. Everything here was destroyed. It is not t easy to be strugglig like this, doing everything by hand. There are Sick Children and elders. That is how it is here. My father vanished. He died. So that hasnt been easy f
Estimated 100,000 people gathered at Arlington Cemetery in virginia for ceremony honoring the unknown soldier of world war i. A silent film documenting the journey of the soldiers remains from france to the capital rotunda and its procession through the streets of the capital of washington, d. C. Up next well show you the entire 23minute silent film with narration provided by two world war i historians. Welcome to real american on American History tv. 20172018 is the centennial of americas involvement in world war i. And there will be undoubtedly lots of discussion about the impact of that war on the world and on american society. As part of that conversation, we are going to show you some vintage films from that era that document americas participation. And to help us understand this, because these are silent films, weve invited two world war i historians to help us narrate the action of the film. Mitch yochelson and Allison Finklestein will be with us to look at a 23minute film on th
The early 1930s. We had a wonderful panel for you today. I dont think i need to name all of them. You have here the bios of each. People well prepared to discuss this very serious topic. Let me just say two more things. One, this event is timed in part to something very unusual, a fulllength regular movie, bitter harvest, coming to a theater near you later this week. You may have seen advertisement for this on tv over the weekend. Ive seen a pic of fact ive more in touch more than once. He keeps your attention a very, very difficult subject. But its not a documentary. Its a fulllength feature film which seems to be the way to catch peoples attention in this post modernist age. Second thing and hepatitis a i did not need to be reminded, you can follow us at hashtag future ukraine. And with that, i think im done. I will just introduce Timothy Fairbanks is a senior fellow nonresident senior fellow at our center will be moderating todays discussion. Tim . Sorry, i knew i would make a mista
Council. Good afternoon. We have a Different Event for you this afternoon. Thank you for coming. The title of i say this is a little bit unusual because this is kind of a deeper dive than usual into history. It is very fornt understand the past and understand what we are today. We spend a little more time on the historical today than on the current dimension. It has gotten short since the awful events in the early 1930s. We have a wonderful panel for you today. I dont think i need to name all of them. You have people well prepared to discuss this very serious topic. Let me just say two more things. One, this event is timed in part to something very unusual. A full length regular movie, bitter harvest is coming to a theater near you later this week. You may have seen this over the weekend. I have seen it. I have seen it more than once. It keeps your attention. It is a way to do this in this post modernest age. You can follow us at at futureukraine. I think im done. I think ill introduce