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Next up five talks about the special Operations Commands Cultural Support Teams. Its a program that puts women on the battlefield to conduct culturally Sensitive Missions in afghanistan that require contact with women and children despite women being officially banned from combat. Hello. Good evening. Welcome to book passage in san franciscos historic ferry building. I want to thank you all for coming out tonight to support independent bookstores and independent thinking. I also want to thank ou...

These are crimes against not just these are crimes against humanity. And it has to be said as such. And it couldnt be said in the most strongest way. Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, is a tactic. It is a vehicle, it is a methodology to conduct it by people. And what we have to constantly be asking ourselves, what do these people want to achieve by the use of these kinds of tactics. I would suggest that they are trying to destabilize the modern world, theyre trying to undo the modern world, theyr...

Another 220,000 people in afghanistan. This comes as president obama has again delayed the withdrawal of u. S. Troops from afghanistan. I have consulted with general campbell and ive decided we will maintain our current posture of 9800 troops through the end of this year. Amy as the longest war in the history of the United States drags on, we will look at the case of u. S. Army Sergeant Bowe bergdahl. The former taliban prisoner has been charged with desertion could be sentenced to life in priso...

Worry much about north korea . No, sir. Okay. When i say unstable i mean unpredictable, provocative. Unpredictable, provocative, danger, why he. Thats what i meant. Willing to i think willing to be provocative as well. So in your backyard youve got dangerous, provocative, unstable with nukes in north korea, right . Yes, sir, within short distance from the capital. The leader of north korea seems to be like nuts. I dont i dont know how yall should describe the guy, but he seems nutty to me. So un...

Building up their military presence in crimea . Ambassador nuland . Yes, sir. Mr. Poe that would seem to me that they are there to stay. What do you think . Ambassador nuland i think we need to maintain the pressure and we have to maintain the cost and we have to keep mr. Poe when i talked to the president of ukraine last year asking what we could do, he replied that they would prefer that we send something other than canned food to them, which is what we were doing0 are we what we were doing. A...

Amount of accountability. Pepfar does, as well. I will never forget president , in rwanda aside president kagame in rwanda said, this is the first time we have been held accountable. You have to report events down to the site level. We are investing heavily in Data Management systems. It is hard to steal money if you have to show results. It is much easier if you say, i did some things. It is drilling down that accountability to the site level, and then we have layers of investigative approaches...

We were there as golf company stood rigid in a mudwalled memorial service. It was the first time the troops had come to grips with the terrible loss signified by seven battlefield crosses. And we wondered, whats become of them . We caught up with them on a field trip, part of their washington reunion. What do they think of their war . Was coming home the homecoming they hoped for . Cooper these heavenly looking South Pacific islands were once known as a forgotten corner of hell. Thats because mo...

You to give me a moment to come to you with the mic so that the whole event can be heard as well as seen. I also want to ask you to try to formulate a question rather than a statement in fairness to everyone else. It is my great pleasure to introduce to you and to welcome back to labyrinth a friend and neighbor subthree whose book subone wages of rebellion the moral imperative of revolt. He has reported from one of 50 countries working for many major news outlets. For 15 years he was Foreign Cor...

Welcome and a happy thanksgiving to you. Across the country, family and friends are celebrating and shopping. Well bring you more on the holiday festivities at home and abroad but now we want to start in egypt, where alah fatal has been arrested, in defiance of a new law. Earlier Egyptian Security forces used water cancan on killing one student. Sentenced up to 11 years in prison. Hoda amil has more from cairo. Certainly there was an uproar across the board. People were angered seeing this 14 gi...

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