Members of iraq veterans against the war are pushing the military to do more to help soldiers suffering from postTraumatic Stress syndrome. We will look at the department of Veterans Affairs, how it has paid more than 200 million in wrongful death payments to the families of veterans who died under v. A. Care. They would take a look at the latest u. S. Effort to topple the cuban government. This time from using social media. A new expose reveals usaid securely set up a fake twittermy program and hoped to use to trigger a cuban spring. The Obama Administration defends the program. It was not a Covert Program. It was debated in congress and reviewed by the gao. Those kinds of things dont happen the Covert Programs. It was a program about increasing the level of information the cuban people have and were able to discuss among themselves. And that is part of an effort we undertake not just in cuba, but elsewhere. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, th
In a country with 1112 million eligible voters there is still long lines of men and women in kabul and other cities that want a voting card. We should not judge the afghan election by the same standards we judge our own election. We have had 200 years of democratic evolution. This democracy is in its infancy. It will be the first peaceful hand off of power in afghanistan history. We want to not rush to judgment ahead of the people. It is there judgment to make whether the outcome is creditable. We dont want to second guess their steps along the way. The drawdown in the number of International Observers will have a sake psychological affect on the afghanistan and how the International Community views it. So the reduction is unfortunate but it will not make a huge difference. There is enough observes there to do their job. The real story is this is an afghanistan election persuint to their observation. With the afghanistan president ial elections this weekend a look at what to expect. An
Victims of a bar barrick procedure given to them while they were in labor. This is Al Jazeera America, live from new york city. I am erica pitzi. Health officials are 2350i9ing ebola on two fronts working to stop the virus from spreading and also trying to head off a public panic. According to the World Health Organization, this outbreak has claimed 4,555 lives, nearly all of them in west africa. To date, only two people have contracted the disease in this country. Both are nurses who cared for ebola victim thomas eric duncan. Fear is contagion. Today, president obama used his weekly address to urge people to resist the hysteria. Melissa chan is in dallas, a city thats become the focal point of the u. S. Response to ebola. Melissa, this cdc is going to issue new guidelines for hospitals dealing with ebola. Do we know what those changes will be or when they will be announced . Well, erica, the cdc said it would like to issue those guidelines as soon as possible. Possibly today and we ha
Belong to a community. I agree with you that often, the conversation is about people with children and my definition does not assume that we will all have children two my first two chapters, i think the world has changed drastically for women before they get married. It is before you run into the reality of it that we were talking about. I think it is remarkable what has happened in the life of a single woman in so many different ways, culturally in terms of workplace opportunities and self conception and identity, it has been radically transformed almost more than any other state in the last 30 years. On that note, even though we have become the conversation today. I would like to thank janet rosen and Meghna Chakrabarti for joining us. Tell us what you think about programming this weekend. You can tweet us at booktv. Comment on our facebook wall, or send us an email. Booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on cspan2. From the Fourth Annual book festival, the triumph of the city featur
Army specialist ivan lopezs life inside out looking for what brought him on post with his own private mission to kill. Were learning too about how the shootings unfolded moment by moment and how the aftermath is being so very deeply felt in the fort hood extended family. Lets go first to justice correspondent pamela brown with the latest on the investigation. Pamela, the big question tonight is one of motive. What are we learning about the why . Why ivan lopez went on this rampage . Reporter that is the big question, john. Investigators still trying to figure out what the trigger was. But were learning from sources that theyre looking into whether he was angry over canceled leave, looking into whether that might have played a role. General milley spoke here earlier today, general at fort hood, said there was a possible verbal altercation between lopez and another soldier right before the shooting happened. So theyre looking at that as well. General milley making it clear here that lope