The United States are we heading down a healthy road will race continue to be used cynically to get votes while the poor and disadvantaged continue to suffer endlessly joining us today is someone who has been thinking of preaching about these issues for decades he is professor cornell west one of the most prominent intellectuals alive professor west teaches at harvard and princeton universitys hes written 20 books and he still has time for his new weekly podcast and its great that tight rope. Professor west thank you so much for joining us recently i was at the National Museum of africanamerican history and culture and i saw the emmett till way i saw the wing that tells the story of the horrifying near genocide in tulsa in 1921 and if you can occur to me that george floyd a modern arbor Rionda Taylor could one day be a wing in a museum and we would still have everything the same today so let me just ask you bluntly is this is in Inflection Point to you or do you think that this is just
City of can assure in violence thats followed the Police Shooting of a black man. I also ask people to stop the violence and looting being in the name of justice while at the same time u. S. 1st Lady Melania Trump calls for calm and unity during her address to the Republican Party convention. So iran 1st of all where in agreements been reached to give the u. N. Nuclear watchdog access to 2 of the suspected former atomic sites leaders in teheran announced it in a joint statement with the International Atomic Energy Agency the i. A. E. A. President Hassan Rouhani also promised to continue cooperation more from assad begun teheran on the outcome of that meeting. Iran had said that they were willing to grant access to these sites if it had ended questions if it ended questions once and for all and that was a vague precondition but it seems like now its obvious that the 2 sides have come to an agreement now iran will grant access to these 2 sites and the i. A. E. A. Has said in this joint s
Hi im Steve Clements and i have a question is there a connection between the shooting of jacob lake and can osha wall street capitalism and Excessive Military spending my guest today says there is lets get to the bottom line. When a policeman shot jacob blake 7 times in the back in front of his kids in wisconsin last month it was a painful reminder that real change is not coming fast enough to these United States the shooting reignited passions across the country especially after an armed white 17 year old counter protester came to wisconsin from a nearby state until 2 other people protesting the shooting so whats going on in the United States are we heading down a healthy road will race continue to be used cynically to get votes while the poor and disadvantaged continue to suffer endlessly joining us today is someone who has been thinking of preaching about these issues for decades he is professor cornell west one of the most prominent intellectuals alive professor west teaches at har
Reagan socoming into office represented what i think Time Magazine is say iing here. A fresh start for so many people. Reagans hero was franklin roosevelt. Reagan was of a different party, but his hero was roosevelt because he grew up listening to him on the radio and saw in him a figure that would help restore hope to americans, the faith that better days ahead. Someone who retore stored a sense of can do spirit in americans and thats what reagan was all about. He came of age, not just in the shadow of the Great Depression and cold war, but in the shadow of the vietnam war, the disruptions of the 1970s and 1960s and for reagan, there had to be a better way. A more positive perspective. It was not enough to accept things as they were. There had to be a better way. He brought a muhao infusion of idealism that Many Americans were looking for after a decade, decade and a half following the vietnam war, the 1960s, when people were escaping rather than really seeking major fundamental chang
Protest gets out of control. And anger in argentina over a government plan to reform the judicial system critics say it will be used to protect the political elite. U. S. President donald trump says novembers elections november the 3rd the difference between saving the American Dream or allowing a socialist agenda to destroy it after formally accepting the Republican Party nomination for a 2nd term as president he told a crowd of supporters that novembers vote will be the most important in u. S. History to trump painted an optimistic picture for the country while describing the Democratic Partys proposals as extreme. Ad the Democratic National Convention Joe Biden and his party repeatedly assailed america as a land of racial economic and social injustice so tonight i ask you a simple question how can the Democrat Party ask the lead our country when it spends so much time tearing down our country. They do not see america as the most free justin exceptional nation on earth instead they s