Our panel will be talking about three topics. First, the thinking of the lusitania itself and how that came to happen. Second, the Propaganda Campaign spurred on by the sinking of the lusitania that helped convince americans to go to war. And third, president wilsons leadership and strategy leading up to his declaration of war on april six, 1917. We have a distinguished panel of experts. First, rear admiral samuel cox, retired, the director of navy history and heritage command and curator for the navy. He is responsible for the navys museums, art and artifact collections. The research library, 150 million pages of archives, and for collecting and interpreting u. S. Naval history throughout the world. A graduate of the us naval academy, his 37 year naval career focused on intelligence and he served as director of intelligence for the us cyber command. Professor Richard Striner, who comes to us from washington llege, he is a professor of history and author or coauthor of ten books and nu
Lusitania itself and how that came to happen. Second, the Propaganda Campaign spurred on by the sinking of the lusitania that helped convince americans to go to war. And third, president wilsons leadership and strategy leading up to his declaration of war on april six, 1917. We have a distinguished panel of experts. First, rear admiral samuel cox, retired, the director of navy history and heritage command and curator for the navy. He is responsible for the navys museums, art and artifact collections. The research library, 150 million pages of archives, and for collecting and interpreting u. S. Naval history throughout the world. A graduate of the us naval academy, his 37 year naval career focused on intelligence and he served as director of intelligence for the us cyber command. Professor Richard Striner, who comes to us from washington llege, he is a professor of history and author or coauthor of ten books and numerous articles. For this event, we should note his book, Woodrow Wilson
and out of control, a wildfire in new york to more than 100 million people under heat alerts in the u.s.. where was donald trump, and what was he doing before 187 minutes as rioters stormed the u.s. capitol, forced the 2020 election certification to stop, and hunted for vice president mike pence? well, that was the question the january six committee took great pains to answer in thursday night s primetime hearing, according to sworn testimony by numerous insiders, trump had become irate when the secret service refused to and go to the capital. he then spent most of the next three hours as a private dining room watching the chaotic scenes on tv, and refusing pleas from everyone around him to end the violence. his closest advisers testified they never saw or heard trump summon help from any federal agency, listen to this. are you aware of any phone call by the president of united states to the secretary of defense that day? not that i m aware of, no. are you aware of any
27 four month after giving birth to her second child. Attributed her Failing Health to the trauma of racial injustice. Racism kills. Amy we will look at a remarkable investigation by propublica on how hospitals are failing black mothers. Bottom line is in the United States we have some of the highest rates of Maternal Death in the industrialized world. This is driven by the high rate of black mothers. Like mothers are three to four times more likely to die in childbirth, and this is something we should all be talking about. Amy we will discuss how the fallout of Police Violence is killing black women like erica garner. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President donald trump hardened his position on immigration wednesday, a day after he appeared to support a widereaching deal on immigration that could grant millions of undocumented people a pathway to citizenship. During a meeting with congressional lea
Choctaw reservation last week talking about that. What are the sources of wandering . Is the universal service fund useful to you now and what would we have to do to improve its . Look at the federal government do in terms of funding for tribal infrastructure . Particularly for those tribes that might have more difficult the . Im thinking of the pueblos in new mexico or the tribes at the grand canyon smaller and less funding available. How were these funds helpful to you the once a helpful to the wants of we do have in these programs that we these programs that we do have are they . Thank you congressman pallone and you are always welcome. With usf funding Stable Funding mechanisms are critical. Where they have to develop the climate bank plans are land federal Funding Sources to be there to begin with. Providing funding for the structure build outs and that is critical to the longterm sustainability of these telecommunications providers. Are you using funds from universal service now