talks for next week 3 years after donald trump pulled out of an international agreement. plus a historic handover of power in the share but an alleged akubra time to raises questions over the stability of the new government just. welcome to the show we begin with breaking news from washington d.c. where the u.s. capitol is again the scene of a major security incident police say a car rammed a barricade barricade outside the capitol killing one officer and injuring another the area was put on alert after supporters of former president donald trump rioted on january 6th. but more recently officials have begun scaling back barriers put up afterwards citing a reduced security threat. and the u.s. capitol police gave this press conference with more details of what happened. at approximately 102 hours this afternoon a suspect entered what we refer to as the north barricade of the capitol. the suspect rammed his car into 2 of our officers and then hit the north barricade barrier ass
even though it is just a couple decades that you cover so much goes on in that period. you dealt with sprawl by focusing on four people who are influential if not household names. how did you settle on this approach and those four guys? guest: i was a product of the cold war. i grew up in east asia, so-called frontline, taiwan and indonesia. they are all military dictatorships. the sense of the cold war is a real thing, i grew up with that and always wanted to explore that in writing and do a little research i came to the conclusion so much was to come over the span of the cold war, so much of what was to come was set into place between the end of world war ii and the mid-1950s. fdr talked about world war ii being the end of the british and french empire and america was democracy around the world and 12 years on, 1956 and the united states is paying for maintenance of the british and french empire. they are not bringing democracy but overthrowing democratic regimes. h
from the ravages of the cold war. one quick the cia in despair by the moral compromises they made on the duplicitous and distractive americans, anyone would be so heartbroken to take his own life. the quiet americans: 4 cia spies at the dawn of the cold war a tragedy in 3 acts is the story of these four men and how the united states at the pinnacle of its power managed to permanently damaged moral standing in the world. the author of say nothing says in this beautifully observed book scott anderson unearths devastating secret of how the united states lost during the cold war. are focusing on this colorful life of four legendary interesting distilled a larger geopolitical saga into internet story of flawed but talented men and the inescapable american idealism and power. it is a helluva book with scenes about the unintended consequences of espionage and intervention that still resonate today. scott anderson is the author of two novels, lawrence in arabia, international
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