Dozens of Different Missions for decades are simply shocking and unacceptable. It is the u. S. That is footing most of the bill for the peacekeepers who are committing these atrocities against men, women, and children. If the people who we are funding and supporting to the peacekeepers cannot be trusted our support for peacekeeping is at risk of doing more harm than good. Listen to act, not just to bring an end to Sexual Exploitation. Simply providing peacekeeper and police does not fulfill a Member States obligation. It is the responsibility of Member States to oversee the appropriate units. It is a struggle. Contributing countries are deploying in order to get troops paid we are not attracting the best, most capable forces from around the world. Before we make progress, we have to institute meaningful accountability for nations and their peacekeepers that connect these crimes. Ive been forward to exploring ways we can help the u. N. Push for accountability that is meaningful to and t
Yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of the opening of the panama canal. As part of booktvs College Series we visited the university of maryland where professor julie greene talk to us about the workers from around the world who built the canal from her book the canal builders. The interview was about half an hour. The canal builders is the name of the book. The author is university of maryland professor julie greene. Professor green wended the idea of building a canal come about . Guest well the idea was an old one in american history, at least in the u. S. , at least from the mid19th century on but its been before that. Europeans have drunk of it for centuries. Host and always through panama . Guest no there was a lot of talk of going through nicaragua or even mexico but for a lot of reasons, the french seized on the idea of panama and then the United States debated long and hard about possibly going to nicaragua. Some earthquakes in the fact that the french had done construction w
Closing below 1400 for the First Time Since june. Markets around the world are holding their cheollective brea as the allies and the u. S. Weigh options against syria. And such at a tack on syria could send crude surging to 150 barre barrel. And jpmorgan is going to settle lawsuits settled from subprime mortgages. The nasdaq and the s p coming off of the worst levels. And the fears of u. S. May attacking syria in the next few days, stocks are posting the biggest drop in eight weeks on the syria concerns. There is some line of thinking, jim, because today is a big event on the National Mall anniversary of the i have a dream speech, that the president may not act today and he is overseas and so a window of thursday and friday where if they are going to dit, they will do it. I read the speech again and i have to go listen to it. I do, too. And we listened to it tomorrow. Yes. It is on youtube and even though it is online, it is not part of the public domain. True . Yes, we can only play s
Know what i live there again i dont know so im not sure. Bearing witness global news that matters ditto for made some minds. Coach a bit. Sure linked to news from africa and the world story link to exceptional stories and discussions from uses easy and while its a damn good it comes to pick up join us on facebook g w for guy. Luther move. Move. Hi welcome to a new edition of kino film magazine today weve got three stories of big city life and german youth and a biopic on a rebel that inspires an order to. All. Of us that. We start with a tale of pop music rebellion from behind the iron curtain galad good omen and body the contradictions of communist east germany steam shovel operator who became one of the countrys most famous folk singers could have done was both rebel and true believer a working class hero and a supporter of the social state ill hold them in the east going to man is almost unknown among western germans but a new film from eastern german director andreas delays and is