Known psychiatrists, Robert Jay Lifton. For the past five decades, he has written extensively on the psychological dimensions of war, from the u. S. Atomic bombing of hiroshima, to doctors who aided nazi crimes, to nuclear war. The atrocities produced in situations where ordinary people kill large numbers of civilians as occurred in the vietnam war and which i wrote about, that continues to haunt us in our war fighting in iraq and afghanistan. We learned, or should learn from, what we have done and what others have done to us. Amy for the hour. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Dozens of people were killed across yemen on wednesday in one of the worst days of fighting so far. The heaviest violence was seen in the southern port city of aden where those were killed kind of fleet and to the north 35 civilians were killed by an airstrike. Speaking during a visit to saudi arabia, secretary of state john kerr
If i can have your attention. I am with the alliance for health reform. Thank you all for coming. Target lowincome population from the Affordable Care act and private insurance using federal medicaid dollars. To do that, they need federal approval in the form of a medicaid waiver. Three states already have their waivers in hand and are operating their new programs. Today we are going to take a look at the experiences of two of those states and a broader look at what some other states are proposing to do. We will also look at the balance between on the one hand exposing these same low income people to additional premiums are costsharing and on the other additional im sorry additional premiums in the condition of getting it and on the other hand not getting coverage at all. So we are pleased have as a partner today the Commonwealth Fund essentially philanthropy established to promote the common good and we are doubly pleased to have is the comoderator sara collins who is Vice President f
Need 3. 6 trillion in investment and thats in all a number that includes things other than transportation but we need 3. 6 trillion in investment by the time the decade is through in order to raise it to appropriate levels. Now thats an all in number as i said. The thing is our infrastructure deficit is only going to get worse without action. We cannot meet the needs of growing country and a growing economy by simply maintaining our current level of effort. We must do more. Over the next generation this will become even more apparent because the country will demand more of this Transportation System than it ever has. By 2050 the system will need to move up to 100 million new people and 14 billion additional tons of freight almost twice what we currently do. Even if Congress Today funded our Transportation System at recent levels we would still be on the same track towards slower , less safe nation where rushhour becomes a rush all afternoon. So what we need right now is to rally around
Executive Infrastructure Club which brings together companies and key u. S. Decision makers at the federal and local levels who have informal roundtable discussions. It allows a dialogue in order for us to sort of share our best practice and Lessons Learned over time. And when i speak to my counter parts in the d. O. T. And those on the hill, its very clear that we have had the same challenges that were always very happy to share those experiences. So thank you very much for the opportunity to explain that. [applause] thank you so much. Nigel. Thank you very much. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. And thank you very much to the organizers and sponsors of this weeks event for infrastructure week 2014. So im going to talk about p3. Im going to talk about p3 from a u. K. Perspective, from my involvement in the private sector so youve had heard from judith a lot of what im going to say is really going to echo what jude yitsdz has said from the private sectors point of view. What i would
Legislation to support ukraine and its urgent effort to meet its current crisis, including building up its Democratic Institutions. Mr. Speaker, russias land grab in crimea violates the Core Principles of several bilateral and multilateral agreements and treaties between ukraine and russia. The buddha pest memorandum, the United Nations charter, as well as the hell sinka helsinki final act. This includes strong sanctions against russians directly responsible for the aggression. H. R. 4278 also authorizes targeted sanctions against ukranians involved in undermining the democratic processes and provides assistance to the ukranian government for identifying and recovering stolen assets. It is after all these criminal officials, including and especiallyiana could he vitch yanokovich who have so harmed the ukranian people. Another key provision of the bill provides support for ukraines democracy and Civil Society and i want to recognize the importance of supporting as well the faithbased gr