Am paula im on the board of the Atlantic Council and vice chair of the center for strategy and security. Todays conversation comes at a very crucial time for afghanistan, afghanistan sits at a very key Inflection Point with peace negotiations currently ongoing between the taliban and the afghan government, though these talks give hope for an inch of decades of war in afghanistan, they also do raise certain concerns, it is truly vital that we remain vigilant in protecting the goals and gains that have been made on behalf of women and girls rights in afghanistan as well as those marginalized voices more generally, and the last two decades particularly as the negotiations have been underway the peace talks represent a major opportunity to really ensure that these gains are cemented. Id like to mention that back in september when these talks began and got underway, at the time initiated by former secretary of state madeleine albright, the Atlantic Council of the advisory board, she initiat
Todays conversation comes at a very crucial time for afghanistan, afghanistan sits at a very key Inflection Point with peace negotiations currently ongoing between the taliban and the afghan government, though these talks give hope for an inch of decades of war in afghanistan, they also do raise certain concerns, it is truly vital that we remain vigilant in protecting the goals and gains that have been made on behalf of women and girls rights in afghanistan as well as those marginalized voices more generally, and the last two decades particularly as the negotiations have been underway the peace talks represent a major opportunity to really ensure that these gains are cemented. Id like to mention that back in september when these talks began and got underway, at the time initiated by former secretary of state madeleine albright, the Atlantic Council of the advisory board, she initiated a statement, over 100 former heads of states, prime ministers, Foreign Ministers among many others iss
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Years ago it became the first city to pass a soda tax, so now, it is targeting the grocery checkout aisle. Good evening, i am ken bastida. I was with cook. The city of berkeley again trying to change diet habits. Don ford says that means changes in the checkout line. Reporter they will put a stop to that. It is a temptation to start to control, they say, something had to be done. Last night the Berkeley City Council universally past the healthy checkout ordinance, the first in the world, to require that food right of the Cash Register be healthy choices. Reporter Stores Larger than 2500 ft. B2 must have only wholesome food for you to look at while waiting to check out. One of those stores is. They say the last minute shopping impulse is real. We know as people tend to purchase that which is accessible to them at the last minute before they are about to pay. Adam bowles, or just out of visually come you know, visually being attracted to the product or being hungry order the situation ma
Violence President Trump showed us as much in todays rose garden briefing slash 2020 campaign stump speech when after Promising Police reforms by among other things giving Law Enforcement more money. He then randomly started talking about the economy. And what does that mean the stock market went through the roof these good numbers they drove it up to a level that. Were almost at the same level hard to believe were getting very close to the level we were before the pandemic and before all of the things that youve seen happen. Yeah you know because nothing nothing says Police Reform like master pretoria wall street bootlicking i mean when i think of reform in police a wall street meanwhile democratic candidate joe biden well. Actually isnt even heard from joe at this point. You know rapidly rising. Because even remember hes running for president seriously but despite the failures of our corporate approved leadership on all levels its the protesters and the activists on the ground who ar