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This is gps the Global Public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and Around The World. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you from aspen, colorado. Today, an extra special program with three, yes, three former secretaries of the treasury. First, ill talk to Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner about the state of American Politics and the downgrade of the uss Credit Ratings and the struggles of the chinese economy and then robert ruben talks to me about how to make hard decisions and what ...

World. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you from aspen, colorado. Today, an extra special program with three, yes, three former secretaries of the treasury. First ill auck to Henne Paulson and Timothy Geithner about the downgradingst u. S. Credit ratings and the struggles the chinese economy. And then robert rubin talks about how to make hard decisions. And what a yellow legal pad has to do with that skill. Finally, david byrne came to fame with his new wave band Talking Heads. Some 40 years ago. I t...

now, its sickening to see the new attacks on the fbi. threatening life of law enforcement agents and their families. for simply carrying out the law and doing their job. look, i want to say this clear as i can, theres no place in this country no place for endangering the lives of law enforcement. no place. none. never, period. im opposed to defunding the police and also opposed to defunding the fbi. >> president biden condemning the attacks on the fbi after the remarks which came just ...

rec i learned thoughts on capitol hill hello. everyone, and welcome to the amazon for our haiti is where were headed dispute new world order as outcast dictators press the flesh and pyongyang. >> how will americas next president challenge this anti-us axis? >> biden and trump insiders make their case. >> from my archive flashback to when the star spangled banner was played in north korea in a bygone age for musical diplomacy. also, these hours, the doctor who saved the hamas leaders li...

David berns first big break came in the 1970s at the iconic new york music club cbgbs. the band he lead, talking heads, went on to have a fame to acclaim with defining hits. they also put out what is often heralded as one of the greatest concept films of all time. stop making sense. ♪ ♪ >> the band split in 1991, but bern who was often called a polymath has stayed indulging his artistic and human interests. hes kept making music. ♪ ♪ hes written books, hes created pieces grounded to scie...

The leaders of both countries have recently put forward plans to transform their states. But are these proposed changes really that transformative?

Oh, Visible Hair, Oh Hair, Hair, Oh Hair, thou art my beauty, my power, my glory, my identity, my voice, and yet are thou a ‘jab’ in my ‘hijab’ that brought my death on the 16 September, 2022 after my arrest by the Iranian morality police?  Could these be Amini’s…

This week, the editors revisit writer-artist Constance DeJong’s “In Between the Dark and the Light,” a piece published in January 1981 on “Television/Society/Art,” a symposium held at the Kitchen in New York City the prior autumn. DeJong’s Reader (Primary Information), an anthology of eighteen texts including out-of-print and unpublished works, is in bookstores now.Before the internet, television was of course the messiah-bogeyman of consequence, promising liberation via the democra...

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Jürgen Habermas Named Sheikh Zayed Award Cultural Personality The 15th iteration of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award gives its career achievement honor, Cultural Personality of the Year, to the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas. Jürgen Habermas at the Munich School of Philosophy, 2008. Image: Wolfram Huke, CC by SA 3.0 ‘A Pioneer of Critical Theory’ Capping its announcements of 2021 winners, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in Abu Dhabi has named German philosopher Jürgen Habermas its Cultural P...