As president obama considers Arming Ukrainian soldiers to fight russianbacked rebels, german chancellor Angela Merkel warns there is no military solution to the crisis. I have always said i dont see a military solution to this conflict, but we have to put all our efforts into bringing about a diplomatic solution. Should the United States intervene by arming ukraine . We will host a debate between retired air force general charles wald, the formerDeputy Commander of u. S. European command, and university of chicago Professor John mearsheimer. Then to ferguson, six months after the Police Shooting of Michael Brown, more than a dozen st. Louisarea residents have filed lawsuits accusing ferguson and a neighboring suburb of creating an illegal debtors prison scheme by targeting African Americans with arrests and fines. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama says he has not yet decided yet whether
Going green. Guy eurozone pmi coming in. The Services Data falling to 53. 3. The forecast was 53. 9. Q2 is not going to be as strong as it was in q1. Maybe this reality just beginning to fade a little bit. The manufacturing number stronger than anticipated for the aggregate number for the eurozone. Lets find out what is going on in paris. Leaders gathering for the business and climate summit. How will we cover this . We dispatched Francine Lacqua. You have been talking to great guests. Francine we certainly have. We are not expecting anything concrete, there is a clear sentiment that there has been a business shift. A lot of these leaders basically are starting to look at this because they are expecting some kind of agreement set in stone by the end of the year. We spoke to be loreal ceo exclusively, he was telling me they already have a lot of things in place for example for Waste Management, reducing packaging. If you look at oil and grass gas industries, that will be problematic if
[inaudible conversations] i think we will get started. I want to thank julia ott before introducer for allowing me to say a few words. Welcome the new school. Welcome to one of the featured events of the Harvard Center for capitalism studies. For a couple of years i taught a course at eugene college, our undergraduate division, on understanding Global Capitalism. The first day we become in and everyone had to look at the tag of the shirt to the person, shirt of the person to their loved and tell us what country that shirt was made in. So that was the first thing we did in understanding Global Capitalism. We would write the names of the countries on the board. And it was invariably 25 countries. Actually remarkable that the production still quite diversified. What we learned by looking at cotton shirts in that case was about globalization of production. We learned about the modern structure of the modern corporation, about branding, fashion design, about the relationship between trade a
[inaudible] and the representative but normally each of the candidates of the award is fully capable and deserving of the honor. I say that with conviction. These are wonderful finalists. We are at 90 submissions this year. We have decided however to honor the last of the speakers this evening and the guggenheim award will be given to alexander watson. Will you please join us . [applause] would you like to say a word or two . I would like to thank the judges again for such an amazing honor and matter to her as well. [laughter] and secondly my publishers and. The last word the 14 monthold daughter is that not right . That is correct. Let me close on the proceedings with Ralph Waldo Emerson in a letter he wrote. At the beginning of a great career. [applause] standardized testing in todays Education System the discussion ranges from the introduction of the common course data standards to the cost to taxpayers up to 1. 4 billion per year. My name is monica and the book passage is very happ
Livestreamed land and john from the bank of america for making these political conversations possible and thank my political colleagues who worked so hard on this event. I thank all of you for coming out and thank administrator mccarthy for a fantastic conversation. [applause] this week on q a, our guest is dr. Frances jensen neuroscientist and author of sub for. She talks about the most recent the teenage brain. She talks about the most recent work on the brain and the development of adolescence and the reasons behind any of the behaviors parents see during the sometimes turbulent years. Cspan dr. Frances jensen author of the teenage brain, what impact did the fire in your house have on your life and your teenagers . Guest will have brought us a lot closer together. It was one of those events that you certainly dont plan for and be learned how to function as a team. It was basically we lost everything in this house fire that happened just as they were turning into teenagers. Cspan wha