Station but entire people, and entire language group. First however, modern world works including what you think is the modern pristine roles of social democracies in scandinavia. Its not there. Its just more sophisticated allusion. At all about inches one cable gives you a sense of the wealth of information that is housed on wikileaks site. I want to thank julian assange, the middle of the night there for joining us. I think everyone who was happy to see you. [applause] thanks. And if the julian paved the way like the wizard of oz on the screen, lets remember as we leave that Chelsea Manning is behind bars, Edward Snowden is in exile, julian is in this embassy and other whistleblowers have had their lives ruined, have been targeted after under tremendous russia right now. All of you have one of these books. Make sure you tell your friends about it, talk about it on social media. Buy another copy and give it to someone. And most of all be out there in public whenever the crosshairs are
The post is a charter sponsor of the book festival , and it is my pleasure to introduce our guest for this program. Born in 1976 and is a staff writer for the new yorker. He writes about Foreign Affairs and politics, author of agent ambition chasing fortune, truth, and faith in the knew china. That won the National Book award. In the book he traces the rise of the individual in china and the clash between aspiration in the authoritarianism. He had this to say, and the pages of the new yorker evan oz knows has portrayed, explained, and poked fun at the state china better than any other writer from the leicester east eliminating the gilded age, appetite, challenges, and dilemmas in a way that few have done. Also is a contributor to this American Life on public radio and frontline. Before moving to the new yorker he was a beijing bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune we contributed to a series that won the 2,008 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. The award for young journalists an
Know, obviously he had an expansive view of executive power. I wouldnt call him a dictator but he thought he had a lot of power and he used it and used it. No question about that. He shouldve been impeached and he stayed in office he would have been convicted. But i think a lot of the conspiracy theories exaggerate just how bad nixon was. I dont think there was a massive conspiracy to us all the constitution as some people do. I think watergate was more issues of screw ups that they hired of these idiots to be spies. Those guys screwed up. They broke into the office of the psychiatrist of daniel ellsberg. They broke into the watergate. They got caught. Nixon covered it up it was terrible but i dont think it was a massive conspiracy to undo the constitution. I just dont. Host and the final call for evan thomas comes from spokane, washington. Go ahead. Caller i appreciate it so much. Your book written about the ship that my husband was on, he was a survivor of the uss johnston, and the b
Accountability from the department of Veterans Affairs. If the allegations are untrue, its dishonorable, disgraceful and i will not tolerate it. President obamas sometimes angry comments coming after he met with eric shinseki, and others. Afterwards jobs and maybe even eric shinsekis were on the line. I said to rick and to him today i want to see, you know, what the results of the reports are, and theres going be accountability. Reports emerged from the phoenix v. A. Of staffers cooking the books, submitting phoney documents to make it look like veterans were receiving timely care. Some waited months for appointments. The most damning, 40 veterans died waiting for help. Allegations spreading to other v. A. Locations. The president s comments fell short. Tough words are not enough when it comes to the issue. We need action. Its not only rub karnings the American Legion was critical, responding to the president in a statement. The question is this . Now some democrats are as well. The fi
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