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With iraq, the u. S. Had just invaded afghanistan, and we were talking about how horrible it was that the u. S. Was about to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9 11, and we started laughing about the color code alerts. Remember the george w. Bush alerts, yellow, orange, red, and said it was to keep people in a state of fear, and that we needed another color coded alert to say, theres a different way of dealing with this. We go after whoever attacked us, not wholesale invasion of countr...

Laters, Veterans Issues either convention at a convention in maryland. Booktv is television for serious readers. The sunday on indepth code pink cofounder medea benjamin. Join our three hour conversation. We will take your phone calls even old, and tweets. Then on saturday, we are live from the Nations Capital for the National Book festival followed on sunday with lynne cheney. Those are some of the upcoming programs on cspan two2s booktv. Senator alexander a representative gordon were part of a...

We have had a nice long perio d without having these brinkmanship moments. I have been studies that show a really does have an economic impact. It is really not good for the economy for there to be this uncertainty, and for congress to keep going to the 11th hour on these things. It seems like on with a set itself up to have Something Like that. Worst case is if you do have another crisis where the government shuts down, they dont raise the debt ceiling really uncertain. Susan f. there will be a...

Coming up next from earlier today code pink founder was on the indepth program to discuss her writing and answer viewer questions. Among her books bridging the global gap how to stop the next war now into and at the most recent, drone warfare. Host Medea Benjamin how and when was code pink found it . Guest we were a group of women environmentalists sitting together in a retreat right after 9 11 talking about how he we could deal with the Climate Crisis and during the lunch break we started talki...

Climate crisis and during our lunch break we started talking about the 9 11 attack, the u. S. Invaded afghanistan and we were talking about how horrible it was that the u. S. Was about to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9 11, and we started laughing about the color coated. It was really to keep people in a state of fare fear and that we needed another colorcoated alerto that theres another way of dealing with this. Thats when we came up with the idea of code pink. We wanted to be ho...

What is expected to be one of the hottest days on record. Is also the hundreds day 100th day of the Trump Presidency and people are concerned. People are here talking about Climate Justice. Last night at a forum at Howard University was a discussion about Climate Justice and climate racism. Climate disruption is the topic everywhere. We are standing in front of the ous kent along where a News Conference is happening, of the leaders who will be marching today. There are thousands. I wanted to sta...

Islamic world, as well as the election in iran where president Hassan Rouhani has been elected in defiance of iranian hardliners. , you, the iranian people, rejected the call of those who wanted to return us to the past and keep us in the same situation as before. And you helped push us forward. Amy plus, we will look at turkeys crackdown on protests not just in turkey, but even here in the United States. Last week, turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan looked on as members of his security deta...

It is in many ways the culmination of years of research and effort to put together what an answer to a question that i have always wanted to ask. That was, who were the other guys and gals . Who were the other people who compromised the story of oil . A lot of times we know about johnny rockefeller, the richest man in the world. When he was alive and today, of all days for the release of the softcover of breaking rockefeller is important. Because i do not pick this day. But may 23 is the 80th an...

Serious readers. Good afternoon, everyone. Im Karlyn Bowman and its a great pleasure for me to welcome all of you and our cspan audience to the saponins event to celebrate the publication of henry olsons new book the working class republican Ronald Reagan the return of buecollar conservatism. Henry is a senior fellow at the ethics and Public Policy center, a former aei colleague and a member in Good Standing of apis election launch team. Henry arrived at aei in 2006 and we soon bonded over polit...

Fury. We then look at how attorney general Jeff Sessions is using the Justice Department to roll back decades of progress. On civil rights, Voting Rights, rights and reform. As a whole, i think, has been unfairly maligned and blamed for an acceptable of a few bad actors. Speak with the head of the Civil Rights Division at the department of justice in the Obama Administration until january. All that and more, coming up. Amy welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im...