Breathe which is written as a letter to her sons. Heres a portion of that program. People here when you say i wonder if why they irredeemable and they hear all white people as individuals as opposed to whiteness as an identity that is clone two. So when i go to the second paragraph and unlike what if we took this identity apart, the people had a different history or body but it would be a different relationship to identity but i think what potentially we have as a consequence is a more humane relationship to each other, when i went later in the first paragraph when i say a person and the individual can be a heaven, certainly it is someone who is raised by a white man or as someone who thinks so many figures like take for example john brown or howard zinn or bob zellmer who i think are some of the most precious people in the world, it is important to not have a formulation that removes them from my sense of struggle that im engaged in, so thats what i was thinking. One more question abo
That we cant just take a country club view, winners and losers, this would be donald trump, i dont care about them. Ive got my cadillac, all is well in the world. On a lot of the policy proposals nancy makes on the left, i agree. I may not quite agree with the scale she wants to do them on but we agree that we should help poor people and pregnant women and so forth, that there should be not a fist in peoples face but an open hand of help and that is perfectly consistent with what we unfortunately called capitalism. The ordinary capitalists transaction, we buy a cup of coffee and for one thing for sure act of buying a cup of coffee is mutually advantageous in both people are happy about it but furthermore youll notice in your own life that if you make a habit of going to that coffee shop you eventually become friends. Commerce creates friendship the way church creates friendship. Or College High School class. They are not forcing each other to do things. They are allowed to say no and o
Postponed new in depth programs. We are showing highlights from past programs. First from november of 2018, author imani perry, author of several books including a history of the black National Anthem and breeze which is written as a letter to her son. Heres a portion of that program. People here when you see i wonder if people are irredeemable they hear all white people and they hear white people as individuals as opposed to whiteness as an identity so that when i go into the second paragraph, what if we took this identity apart, those people would not have a different history or body, but it would be a different relationship to identity that i think would potentially have as a consequence a more humane relationship to each other. When i went into later in the first paragraph saying a person, an individual can be a heaven, certainly both as someone who was raised by a white man or as someone who thinks of so many figures like, take for example john brown or bob zellner, some of the mo
Admiral blair serves as a member of the Energy Security leadership council, the National Bureau of Asian Research, u. S. China relations in the atlantic council. Previously served as director of National Intelligence from january 2009 to may 2010 and prior to retiring from the navy he was after 34 years commander of u. S. Pacific command, admiral blair will provide testimony on the drivers of chinas development of expeditionary capabilities. After admiral blair we will hear from kristin, chief executive officer of Vantage Point asia llc, a consultancy that provides expertise on the Indo Pacific Region with a focus on Chinese Foreign policy and Security Issues. She also holds a position of abject senior policy analyst at asd, formally she served director of the navy asiapacific Advisory Group at the pentagon. And was a senior project director for Chinese Military writtenrity, she has extensively on Chinese Foreign policy security and military affairs. She will address how bri furthers t
Of people including myself to think about Something Like the opium war as maybe an anomaly or something very particular to a very particular time and place and i have to say im guilty of thinking about it that way but great scholarship, truly great scholarship like killer high, like a lot of the work done at the Washington Institute forces me to see the world ina totally new way. This book has forced me and i think it forces all readers to really focus on the eternal and incredibly expensive relationship between drugs and war. That relationship extends from war conducted by people who are often on a form of drugs, some form of psychoactive substance. It extends to wars and conquest of drugs or the Raw Materials for drugs. It extends to wars for markets and outlets for drugs and of course we are all familiar with warsagainst drugs but as peter argues so effectively , this phenomenon, this interaction between psychoactive substances and conflicts is leased throughout history and up to th