Environmental damage caused by the farming industry has been on the rise in recent years. Animals are often mistreated. In germany a growing number of people want to see changes to Agricultural Policy but little has shifted could this be because of lobbyists in the Agricultural Sector are lobbyists more powerful in this policy area than in others. Our Research Revealed a tightly intertwined web of interests in which corporations influential figures manning several lobbying positions and politicians are closely linked a lot is at stake. During the making of this film billions of euros in agricultural subsidies were being negotiated in brussels and germany was under pressure to finally impose stricter limits. On the amount of liquid manure used on its fields. Who is pulling the strings behind the scenes. At. Brussels farmers and conservation groups from across europe are protesting outside the headquarters of the European Commission to call for a change in Agricultural Policy they collec
Environmental damage caused by the farming industry has been on the rise in recent years. Animals are often mistreated. In germany a growing number of people want to see changes to Agricultural Policy but little has shifted could this be because of lobbyists in the Agricultural Sector are lobbyists more powerful in this policy area than in others. Our Research Revealed a tightly intertwined web of interests in which corporations influential figures manning several lobbying positions and politicians are closely linked a lot is at stake. During the making of this film billions of euros in agricultural subsidies were being negotiated in brussels and germany was under pressure to finally impose stricter limits on the amount of liquid manure used on its fields. Who is. Pulling the strings behind the scenes. At. Brussels farmers and conservation groups from across europe are protesting outside the headquarters of the European Commission to call for a change in Agricultural Policy they collec
Beaten, worked up. Guest thanks for the kind words, congressman. Great to speak with you. Host when i think about this book, i think about it as having three major parts after you sort of introduced the situation now, you do a really good job of talking about three stories about how workers struggle and built the middle class by organizing and bargaining through a lot of adversity and demanding policy changes. And then you go through a lot of thhard times is what i call the reagan era that we are still in where companies and starting with the president of the United States who attacked workers a lot in their unions and then you telling the hopeful stories about different creative and innovative ways and make some policy recommendations. A lot of books like this are criticized because they come up short on the policy recommendations i hope we get into that because you paid quite a few interesting suggestions on what might be done to restore the voice of power and workers in this country
There is a possibility that those articles of impeachment may never be delivered to the senate and on top of that nancy pelosi watching the process in congress after all shes the speaker with jerry nadler and adam schiff how they played. Their own very biased game nancy pelosi now wants to control the game in the senate that is that is unheard of and of course the senate isnt going to react well i think theyre drunk himself also made mistakes which made these pathetic situation possible you know i tend to agree with Stephanie Cohen steven cohen who basically said they have. Felt you know these russia gay do you agree again things directed against him see strategy was to appease them he surrounded himself by rules for forbes. Sure you know vain hope that that will be there. When the democrats we know that there is a huge oh true liberal i do or we just standing behind it its not just the us democrats its by our to say its my being and its a lot of republicans these are people who basica
A looming refugee crisis as tens of thousands of syrians flee attacks in the province turkeys president says any influx of refugees would also have consequences for europe. Plus russia inaugurated its 1st direct train to crimea since annex in the territory from ukraine in 2014 it is a big step towards cementing russian control of the territory despite international sanctions. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us a court in saudi arabia has sentenced 5 people to death for the murder of journalist jamal kushal it also handed jail terms to 3 additional suspects in connection with the killing the saudi writer and dissident was never seen again after entering the kingdoms consulate in istanbul last year he was killed and reportedly dismembered inside the building but his remains were never found out she was a resident of the u. S. At the time and was known for writing critically about the saudi royal family. For more on this story we can speak to ca toby cadman hes an Internati