Report from occupied territory where he laid out issues were grappling today, stop and frisk, alienated communities, Police Brutality. These are back and its incumbent upon the nation i think to have debates about where these different moments come together and diverge. I totally agree, and i would add, this is another example, because i go with katrina on the cruises fundraising cruise, we had a panel and Jesse Jackson was on this, the beginning of this cruise, and he got off the ship after the first half, and on the panel, our columnist eric walterman, who is a very smart person, who goes out of his way, i keep telling him, to make unnecessary enemies. I love eric, and hes a really good writer, and i look forward to his column regularly. Eric said after jesse was off the boat, just in passing on this panel, im very glad that the first black president obama had been elected was not Jesse Jackson but was barack obama. At which point Jeremy Scahill brilliant Investigative Reporter and c
Cared about words a lot, and so you stayed out of his way when you were editing him and basically in my experience was you said yes or no to what he wanted to do, and you could say no, and its not for us, and but i like to say grow gore vidal. I was going to speak of someone else in the protradition of great writers and essayists contributing to the nation. Tony cushner, who i brought on to the editorial board, he in 1994 was so incensed by Andrew Sullivans piece on the case for gay marriage because it was in a very participatory aroundal capitalist, militaristic framework and we talked about it and he wanted to reply. I knew as victor has done brilliantly over the years he wanted to put tony cushner with any copkind, who had, who was really someone who came to the nation with a sensibility the nation had not had and did the first issue on gay rights called the gay moment when victor was editor, but in that piece, tony finally produced called the socialism of the skin its an extraordin
The cia also werent helped by the fact that the name of that program was called chaos, and had very negative connotations, even though the cia insists that it was just a randomly chosen code name. 40 years later, we are still talking about these two committees. Just how significant were they . Well theyre very significant for the cia and the fbi. The fbi had been conducting its own very questionable activities under j. Ed dpar hoover, and those get very tcurtailed. The Central Intelligence agency permanently established by the senate by the congress thats not just a kind of blip on the radar. Its permanently under supervision, which is why we get now for example dianne feinstein, who has an investigation into the cias enhanced interrogation tactics, thats kind of coming from the foundations of oversight that get laid down by the church and the pike committees, and theyre also very important for ushering in a new era in the cia in the sense that a lot of the more active or more you migh
Vietnam war and beyond when military service eventually became voluntary. The National World war i museum and memorial hosted this event. Its about an hour 10 minutes. Good evening and welcome to the National World war i museum and memorial. My name is laura vote. Im the curator of education. And it is my absolute pleasure to be welcoming you here this evening for a riveting conversation on the anniversary, the 100th anniversary, of a piece of legislation that completely changes the United States. Now, your National World war i museum and memorial opened here in kansas city in 1926 because the wonderful folks of kansas city wanted to create a memorial for those who lived through and those who died in the world war. The war itself began in 1914, and yet the United States remained neutral until 1917. With a volunteer army of about 120,000, on april 6th, Congress Declared war against germany in 1917 and they decided to move on on may 18th of 1917 to exponentially increase that army. Now,
Vietnam war and beyond when military service eventually became voluntary. The National World war i museum and memorial hosted this event. Its about an hour 10 minutes. Good evening and welcome to the National World war i museum and memorial. My name is laura vote. Im the curator of education. And it is my absolute pleasure to be welcoming you here this evening for a riveting conversation on the anniversary, the 100th anniversary, of a piece of legislation that completely changes the United States. Now, your National World war i museum and memorial opened here in kansas city in 1926 because the wonderful folks of kansas city wanted to create a memorial for those who lived through and those who died in the world war. The war itself began in 1914, and yet the United States remained neutral until 1917. With a volunteer army of about 120,000, on april 6th, Congress Declared war against germany in 1917 and they decided to move on on may 18th of 1917 to exponentially increase that army. Now,