Planed a slump in sales on the controversy over n.f.l. Players kneeling during the national anthem trial Snyder n.p.r. News embattled f.b.i. Counterintelligence agent Peter Struck is in for hours of grilling from Congress today he ll face lawmakers eager to question him about alleged misconduct during politically charged investigations in 2016 N.P.R. s to Mack has more Deputy Assistant Director Peter Struck played important roles in Cory s into Hillary Clinton s e-mail server and the Russia case now run by special counsel Robert Mueller but Muller reassign struck after the Justice Department s internal watchdog discovered highly political text messages that he said during the election to another top f.b.i. Employee lawyer Lisa Page. Republicans have cited page and struck such messages as evidence about what they called bias inside federal law enforcement and allege that the f.b.i. Had launched the Russian vest occasion out of partisan animists Today s hearing will be the 1st time when
That s Abby Martin and this is alternative radio I m David Barsamian this edition of a our features Abby Martin on corporate media and us and pire renowned Indian writer under the rule I once assured an American audience that the United States might enjoy a collective sigh of relief when it finally gives up on being an empire but empires Die Hard in response to eroding economic predominance military spending in the United States has skyrocketed simultaneously to deflect from legal matters that encircled the White House we see a more and more bellicose foreign policy the winds of war is a terrible term as if war were a natural as the wind in fact wars are trumped up sold hook line and sinker to talk about corporate media s complicity in war mongering in service of empire is Abby Martin she s an investigative reporter and television host of The Empire files on tell us sure she spoke at Cal Poly in San Louis a bespoke California and now Abby Martin. And the host of Empire files on Telus
now, and in all seriousness, you think of otto war warmbier and the lives adversely impacted over the years, as a result of that absence of leadership, the failure to have this kind of a maximum pressure campaign that shows that the military option of the dying principle, diplomacy, military economics. kim jong un knows that the military option is real. this fantastic news, a lot of great developments, however, we have to be cautious, we have to keep that strategy off of maximum pressure. we have to put kim jong un to the test right away to make sure that this continues to stay real. we shouldn t be waiting until meeting three. and the president has a great team. it s only getting better. so hopefully it s successful. abby: sign that engagement and direct talk actually can lead to something positive. your thoughts on mike pompeo. because he is most recently been to north korea, meeting with kim jong un. the question is can he get through confirmation to be the next secretary of state?
I know. We live in an era in which pocket sized technology has become an utterly press a fact of life continuous breakthroughs in engineering and programming have allowed us to add greater and greater functionality to our mobile devices with each passing year but most of us still remember a time when the ability to carry a machine in one s pocket was considered both futuristic and revolutionary and few devices of this kind were as iconic and as widespread as the pocket calculator far lesser known is the unlikely story of this humble devices incredible origins in the midst of Holocaust era Germany a young Austrian engineer and salesman named Kurt heard Stark was in the midst of perfecting his invention the Curta calculator when he was taken into custody by the Nazis this week we presented account of hurt stocks time in a salt mine deep below the bill wrote a concentration camp where playwright Kenneth Lay and based his story in part on an oral history recounted by her stark shortly bef
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