The cspan online store has book tv products, go to cspanstore. Org to check them out. See all the book tv and cspan products available. Good afternoon. I am the director of the Boston Institute for International Public affairs and i am so delighted to be here today to celebrate killer high. As a student of Chinese Affairs are hardly have to be told about the important of the relationship between drugs and war. Of course i know the intensity of feelings in china about the century of humiliation that begin with the opium war but at the same time, it is easy for a lot of people including myself to think of Something Like the opium war as in the mom and we or something very particular to a time and place and i have to say im guilty of thinking about the opium war that way. A truly great scholarship like killer height and a lot of the work done at the Boston Institute forces us and me too see the world in a totally new way. This book has forced me and all readers to focus on the internal an
Of people including myself to think about Something Like the opium war as maybe an anomaly or something very particular to a very particular time and place and i have to say im guilty of thinking about it that way but great scholarship, truly great scholarship like killer high, like a lot of the work done at the Washington Institute forces me to see the world ina totally new way. This book has forced me and i think it forces all readers to really focus on the eternal and incredibly expensive relationship between drugs and war. That relationship extends from war conducted by people who are often on a form of drugs, some form of psychoactive substance. It extends to wars and conquest of drugs or the Raw Materials for drugs. It extends to wars for markets and outlets for drugs and of course we are all familiar with warsagainst drugs but as peter argues so effectively , this phenomenon, this interaction between psychoactive substances and conflicts is leased throughout history and up to th
Opium war as an anomaly or something very particular to a very particular time and place. I am saying i am guilty of thinking about the opium war that way. But great scholarship, truly great scholarship like killer high in a lot of the work thats done here at the Watson Institute forces me and us to see the world in a totally new way. This book, has forced me, and i think it forces all readers to really focus on the internal and expansive relationship between drugs and war. That relationship extends from war conducted by people who were on a form of drug, some kind of psychoactive substance. It extends to wars and conquest of drugs or the Raw Materials for drugs, extends to wars for markets and for outlets for drugs, and as we are all familiar with wars against drug. But peter argues so effectively this phenomenon, this interaction between psychoactive substances and conflict, is laced throughout history. And right up until the present. Peter makes a number of very interesting conclusi
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Cargo ship in pennsylvania. Why some investigators say more drugs could still be onboard. Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Well, new information is emerging this morning about why acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan dropped his bid to leave the pentagon. The news came to light as part of a Background Investigation ahead of a confirmation hearing. David martin reports from the pentagon. Reporter Patrick Shanahan and his wife kimberly divorced eight years ago, a year after a runin with police which began with this 911 call. My husbands throwing punches at me. According to Court Documents he denied that, claiming she punched him, giving him a bloody nose. When the police arrived, she was charged with assault and the charges later dismissed. After the divorce, fights over money and custody of the three children continued. In 2017 his 17yearold son beat his mother with a baseball bat. I was kno