Club. Im the former executive director for the investigative reporting and the current board member and moderator for tonights program. This program is part of the clubs series by the Bernard Foundation and it is my pleasure to introduce todays distinguished speaker senior fellow at the institute at Brown University brothers overthrow hes also an awardwinning correspondent for the boston globe. His new book tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the cias seat medical experiments of the 1950s and 60s. On the original interviewer int, survivors testimonies and documentary research, the book brings to light the massive hunt for the secret of mind control that spans several countries including the work of nazi scientists and led experimentations on Government Employees willing and unwilling, foreign politicians and the children, prisoners, sex workers and anyone else they deem threatening or expendable. Youre about to hear a tale of the most powerful unknown americans in the 21
Welcome to so because visionaries mean so. Contemporary art can be a very powerful social commentary with no further ado my guest today is legendary i way when. I waits really great to have you on our program today welcome thank you. So now that i have you here there are so many things that i want to ask you for instance your art mainly is. Commentary on certain events as a reflection on things situations and thats understandable because you speak from your whole experience your whole Life Experience behind that art but. I just want to know your perception and. Is it just important to have a cell for a quick reflection on your own experience or do you expect this to actually change peoples lives as well. As you said my world really relieved my south experience. And the struggle our political struggle it changed my life and also on the. Benefits me would benefit other people but do you do you feel like its your mission also to change other peoples life with your art or this is not somet
Liberal of Self Expression places but then somehow there is a complete dictatorship of the within that specter off contemporary art. For instance you can say this is art and if youre an artist and you said this is art there were supposed to be of that this is art and then where do you make. That the difference whether is real art or not how do you make that difference will be temporary for me in the judgment is how real it can be and not have it really motions really being out in the real world of a free its a real struggle but the socalled liberals are very often is also dictatorship a liberal idea which is a very. No one has nothing to do with or through a struggle. Ive spoken to many people during my career and there was a period when i was interviewing war reporters a lot and i would ask them why are you doing this because they would keep going back and back to hot spots and making this scary but amazing photos and then come back home and go to a psychiatrist all the time and not a
Cuts once he . Was on. This is bulls and bears thank you for joining us, im david asman, joining us. S p is up more than 13 since president s tax cuts within into effect two years okay. But former Vice President , 20 candidate joe biden telling cbs 60 minutes that benefits from tax cut to middle class have been minimal. You said you would repeal all of trumps tax cuts, but do you mean just for wealthy or the middle class too. Trump did give the middle classa tax cut. That was negligible. We should make sure that the wealthy pay their fair share. David liz, you have a piece in the hill today on biden taking on the trump economy, how tough a sell is that going to be for joe biden. I think it is a very tough sell. I am so tired of the whole line that rich have to pay their fair share, such a cliche, it would be nice to have someone with more imagine nation. The tax cuts affected everyone, democrats did such a good job of slamming that tax bill, a majority of americans ended up thinking th
Foundation today or speaker Stephen Kinzer from Brown University it also has a new book poison or in chief. The author of nine books to overthrow with that awardwinning correspondence and to tell astonishing stories of the cia medical experiments of the fifties and sixties. With original interviews and survive her testimony in documentary research for the secret of mind control span several countries including nazi scientists leading to experimentation of Government Employees and foreign politicians prisoners, sex workers and anyone else that is deemed threatening. With the most powerful unknown in the 20th century of the government lies and deceptions. Please welcome Stephen Kinzer. [applause] thank you. This is now my tenth book. I have to say that if i devoted a great deal of my career to figure out whats behind the facade of politics and Public Diplomacy that we see maybe they were surprising or shocking to some people but this is the first time i have been shocked im still in shoc