Is maligned and discredited for holding the powerful to account. They are the fake, fake, disgusting news. Reporter nine out of ten murders of journalists are never solved. But on the island of malta, one family took a stand and said enough is enough. Reporter a tiny island in the southern mediterranean. Malta is home to fewer than half a million people. Its quiet and generally safe. Tourists have long been drawn to its warm climate, rich history, and rugged coastline. But malta has a dark side. With loose banking laws, malta has been a magnet for organized crime and Money Laundering. And no one knew this islands seedy and dangerous underbelly better than journalist daphne car wanna galizia. I have to say it is a very corrupt country. Reporter for three decades, daphne made it her business to uncover maltas secrets. Her signature exposes were full of detailed investigations and revealed allegations of kprupgs corruption by maltese government officials. Her work earned daphne many admir
And that thats the answer to this problem. The challenge that we have in the world today is, you know, that its the world today. Its 2014. Ts not 1990, its not 1980. So isolating russia is not really something that the United States can do unilaterally. I mentioned the point about europerussia economic relations. But there is also china out there. And even if we were to succeed in bringing our china allies along with a strategy of isolating russia, isolating russia, in my view, basically pushes russia into far closer alignment with china than its in now. You start to see again major russian arms sales to china, and, you know, do we start to see Russian Support for chinas territory torle claims . Territorial claims . Then we have a new cold war and a potentially very dangerous one. I dont think we have a new cold war. I think we have a time when we take off the rosecolored glasses. The obama administering has been more slisstuss of our adversaries than our allies. We have had a misguide
It is affecting peoples attitus as they enter the political process, and i believe at this point, the democrats believe that that will work to their advantage, but as i said, these things are organic, and just as bill clinton kind of rethought and redefined the Democratic Party after three consecutive losses during the reagan and first bush presidencies, there may be a republican on the horizon who will similarly do that and be able to capture the imagination of his or her party, and then win in the national election. Its what keeps people like me going. [laughter] [applause] thank you, all, very much. [applause] up next on booktv, arguing the American Media aided in the reelection of president barack obama saying the media was consistently critical of the Republican Party and the nominee, mitt romney, while negligent to do the same with barack obama. This is about 45 minutes. [applause] thank you, john, and my thanks to the harming foundation for inviting me. If i cough, i got a tickl
Capital as booktv and American History tv look at the history and literary life of annapolis, september 7th and 8th on cspan2 and 3. In superwealth, max borders argues that americans should not be worried about income inequality and said government redistribution policies will lead to economic stagnation or worse. Booktv talked to mr. Borders during freedom fest 2013 for about 15 minutes. Host now on booktv we want to introduce you to max boarders who has written a new book called super wealth. Mr. Borders, tell us about yourself before we get started. Guest sure. Im the editor of a magazine called the treeman, one of freeman. The nations oldest libertarian think tank. Host howd you get started with that . Guest well, been doing it for about a year now, editing at the freeman, and i got mixed up with them by, basically, writing about these ideas in the movement. They saw someone they liked in me, and ive been doing it ever since, having a great time doing it. Whered you grow up . Guest
Thank you very much for that lovely introduction. I suspect all of you know this but ladies and gentlemen, tonight you will be in the presence of a literary giant. Among latin american giants, Gabriel Marquez is known for mesmerizing, others educate, and captivate, and then there is Eduardo Galeano. Truth teller, galvanize her, firebrand, a writer who tells us about history, that those who inhabit the corridors of power dont want us to know more truly understand. Eduardo galeano was born a commentator, it seems. By the time he was 14 he was publishing cartoons in newspapers. By 20 he was the editor of the leftwing weekly newsletter, he became the Top Executive of a paper of record. In 1971 at the tender age of 31 he published day hair raising indictment of north american influence on the hemisphere. The open veins of latin america. Four years ago at the summit of the americas, hugo chavez hand and a copy of that book to barack obama. [applause] auld let ease with which he stepped into