Hes sending up to 300 military advisers to help Security Forces in iraq with islamist militants. The u. S. Combat troops will not return to the country. Obama held a News Conference after meeting at the white house with his financial or rather, National Security team. Secretary of state john kerry and defense secretary chuck hagel took part. The United States will continue to increase our support to iraqi Security Forces. Were prepared to create joint Operation Centers in baghdad and Northern Iraq to share intelligence and coordinate planning to confront the terrorist threat of isil. The military leaders will be prepared to take targeted and precise actions in iraq if necessary. The u. S. Will promote diplomatic efforts between iraq and its neighbors. And he said hes sending kerry to the middle east and europe this weekend to discuss the crisis. Obama said iraqi leaders must rise above their differences. He said they must come together around a political plan for their countrys future.
The farreaching influence of big money and how a handful of power players regardless of their Party Affiliation is the subject of a hasbook by nomi prins who written for mother jones, the nation, and more, also a former director with golden that. Her new text is called all the president s bankers the hidden alliances that drive american power. , welcome back. Thank you so much for having me. Tavis when i picked this thing off of my desk the day it arrived, and i saw this title, all the president s bankers the hidden alliances that drive american power, i thought, i am ad you did this, but it is not hidden. It are many who believe america was a corporation before it was a country. That is a whole other conversation, but what is new about this big money . Well, what is new is how this relationship actually works over history, because what i did to create that relief that book is that traveled to all of the president ial archives and look at who were the individuals, which families, which
A lot of rage against the war in vietnam. I have a lot of rage against male supremacy. I had a lot of rage about injustices around race. And all of those things rushed into my mind and my politics in the fall of 1969 when i was a freshman in college. Thats what i met all those problems and almost issues and recognize them as problems, people disagreed with me were just wrong. And so either they had to be convinced or the words worth talking to. And then, of course, as you get older, you realize some of the things you thought might have been wrong and they might not even the best strategies, and that you really do need people coming at issues from different perspectives, and that there other ways to deal with the problems in the world than just raging against them. It is a sort of perspective, give me a sort of perspective that allowed me to hear what other people were saying that, when they disagreed with it, and to actually incorporate some of that thinking into my own ideas. So its b
[inaudible conversations] up next on booktv after words with guest host author nomi prins. This week this American Life contributor jake halpern in his latest book bad paper chasing debt from wall street to the underworld. It tells the story of a former Bank Executive and a former bank robber going into business together to collect unpaid bank debts by questionable means. The program is about an hour. Host hi and welcome. Im nomi prins and im here today with jake halpern the author of a fascinating and horrifying new book bad paper chasing debt from wall street to the underworld. Welcome. Guest thanks for having me. Host thank you. This book is incredible and so is your story. I think that to really mirror each other. It takes place in buffalo new york, a lot of it. You are from there, arent you . Guest thats right. I grew up there and my dad and his wife still live there. I go back there fairly often and its how i found my way into this world. Host you talk about many unsavory charact