Washing over the darker portions of a war. The vietnam war bitterly divided america. We must admit past mistakes. And we must learn from past mistakes. Because that is how we avoid repeating that mistake. Chuck hagel talks about mistakes made in the vietnam war. Retired threestar Lieutenant General Daniel Bolger, author of the new book why we lost a generals inside account of the iraq and afghanistan wars. Up. That and more coming welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. And china, the worlds two largest polluters, have agreed to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions over the next decade. President obama unveiled the details with chinese president xi jinping in beijing. Also announce the United States has produced a new goal of reducing our Greenhouse Gas emissions by 26 to 28 below 2005 levels by 2025. It is an ambitious goal but an achievable goal. Whichl double the pace at we are reducing carbon emission in the United States. It put
And willie fcc rejected president obamas call to preserve Net Neutrality and an open and Free Internet . Then to iraq. To gain is nothing washing over the darker portions of a war. The vietnam war bitterly divided america. We must admit past mistakes. And we must learn from past mistakes. Because that is how we avoid repeating that mistake. Chuck hagel talks about mistakes made in the vietnam war. Retired threestar Lieutenant General Daniel Bolger, author of the new book why we lost a generals inside account of the iraq and afghanistan wars. Up. That and more coming welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. And china, the worlds two largest polluters, have agreed to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions over the next decade. President obama unveiled the details with chinese president xi jinping in beijing. Also announce the United States has produced a new goal of reducing our Greenhouse Gas emissions by 26 to 28 below 2005 levels by 20
Detainees at Guantanamo Bay. This provision makes sense for the security of this country and it makes sense for good intelligence collection. The ban on transfers to yemen is a very critical aspect of this amendment. The amendment bans any detainee transfers to yemen until december 31, 2014. Its been four years since the president posed a moratorium on transfers to yemen from guantanamo following the failed airplane bombing attempt on Christmas Day 2009 by umar farouk. At that time yemen was viewed as a hot spot for terrorists especially with the rise of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. Now four years later not much really has changed except for the rising recidivism rate. We know that former detainees have rejoined aqap both as leaders as well as members. We know that former detainees have rejoined we know that yemen continues to struggle with terrorist groups who are trying to make sure it remains an aqap strong hold. And we know that aqap continues to look for ways like the 2009 f
That american gis are reading a day or two later. This shows four u. S. Gis reading all about it in stars and stripes. Heres another one. This is from not very much later. This is from may 8th, 1945. The day after the successor to a very recently dead Adolph Hitler signed the Unconditional Surrender of the nazis in northeastern france. These three u. S. Soldiers in this photo are in beckham, germany. You can see the reason theyre holding what looks like pots and pans, they are holding their mess kits in one hand and theyve got the nazis quit front page of stars and stripes in the other hand and all three of them are wearing an eartoear grin. Here is another shot from three months later. Japan surrenders as well. And the headline even larger headline on the front page of stars and stripes that day was peace. We know from the caption on this one that the woman on the left, her name is johnny dexter. The woman on the right is lucille brennaman. The man in the middle, the gi is robert ingr
Is a collection of stories on the history of Popular Culture. When you say Popular Culture, it is quite more than that. I believe that what i have been trying to do is go into more detail as to how Popular Culture impacts the politics and sports and other arenas. It is not just about pop culture. It is about what we have for stories about popular music. Sports biographies. We have had some history of media. So i purposely castanet to see what we had. Were with the founder and publisher jack boyle sunday at 8 00 p. M. On cspan q a. The forum on the Health Insurance exchanges. The former head of medicare and medicaid and Michael Burgess of texas on the subcommittee. Politico pro posted this one hour at events. Good evening, i want to thank you for joining us at the Politico Health care breakfast. Thank you for joining us. We are Live Streaming as well. We have a good panel and we are going to talk about state involvement and some of the other aspects that are happening on the ground. I w