Aaron owe control and teach at university of texas in austin. Im pleased to share this panel today on the deep state. Joining me here to talk about this quite important topic are three fantastic historians all of whom study politics and power in American History. Professor beverly gauge of yale. And balker of duke and p professor allen of Northwestern University. Im going to set the stage with four or five minutes of introductory remarks and then introduce each panelist individually before they speak 15, 20 minutes apiece and then well open the floor to discussion in this roundtable. Were here today to talk about the ore ethic origins and effects of what we call the deep state. This is not really new. Today we call it the deep state, in earlier eras activists spoke about the washington establishment, the power elite, the system, and even the military Industrial Complex. Even though those terms varied throughout the ages they usually share a lot in comment so the arguments that typicall
How about life in london with the top stories on aljazeera the u. S. Secretary of state is warning that saudi arabia is not yet ready to begin direct talks with doha to resolve the gulf crisis Rex Tillerson was speaking hours after meeting the saudi leaders he said it wasnt for the u. S. To impose a solution gulf countries had to find one themselves with respect to the talks getting underway yes i did in my meetings with the crown Prince Mohammed bin samana i asked him to please engage the police and gauge in dialogue. There is not a strong indication that parties are ready to talk yet. And so we cannot force talks about people who are not ready to talk so there has been no invitation to the white house because its not clear that parties are ready to engage but were going to continue to work towards that dialogue and towards that engagement. This is it is quite important for the collective security and we feel sort of that this is it would be the victim of this crisis again this is the
Will beat on thursday to consider its response to the Central Governments move to take control of the regions institutions on friday the upper house of Spains Parliament will vote on whether to impose direct rule once thats approved the Central Government may install a representative to govern the region its been a standoff ever since catalonia has secession referendum last month latasha but the reports now from barcelona. Well what were seeing is a real hardening of positions on both sides weve just had a meeting of the cattle and parliaments executive body and what theyve decided is that on thursday they will have a full session of parliament to try and formulate their response to madrids decision to impose direct rule on the region but weve heard over the past couple of days from castle and regional leaders decrying this decision by madrid as outrageous saying that it slams the door to any future dialogue and we saw hundreds of thousands of process session supporters on the streets
This month the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff says the u. S. Will stand as you know despite the deaths that isnt isis affiliated group and i think what you bring up is what were dealing with in many places is isis and al qaeda. In this case they try to leverage local insurgencies. And connect those local insurgencies globally this is the challenge that were dealing with and so our initial assessment is these your local tribal fighters that are associated with isis earlier the widow of one of the sergeants who died criticized President Donald Trump for being insensitive johnson says trump struggled to remember her husbands name during a condolence call from denies the allegation. Well he said there was the president yes the president. He knew what he sounded up for but he hers anyway. And now was it made me cry because i was very angry at the way the tone of his voice and how he said he couldnt remember my husband they only way he remember my husband name because he told me he ha
President xi paying premier league to chang was the only want to retain his spot alongside she who broke with recent precedent by failing to include a clear successor on choose the she became the most powerful leader in decades when the communist party added his name and political ideology to the constitution when workers are shot. Back socialism with chinese characteristics has entered into a new era the new era must showcase these new faces i need to have new actions in twenty eighteen we will have the fortieth anniversary of opening up it is a very important thing of determining the fate of china forty years of reforming and opening up has led Chinese People to their moderately Prosperous Society and are becoming richer and richer we need to draw from this experience and continue to modernize the governance and system of china under thomas has more from beijing. The single most important point to make about the new members of the Standing Committee is that none of them seems to be a