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From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Ethan good evening. Im ethan bronner. Im a managing editor at bloomberg news. Im filling in for charlie rose who is on assignment. Joining me now is geoffrey robertson, a distinguished british barrister. He has argued many landmark cases in human rights, as well as criminal and media law. He is currently part of the legal team representing armenia at the European Court of human rights. The case will determine whether denying the genocide o...

General ham let me start with you. Sort of going in proposition with africom in many ways is youre not going to have large amounts of american troops under your command on the ground, if any. Did you feel at times that you were a general in charge of the contractor army . No, not at all. There is a proper role i think for the contractors but theres also a proper role for the uniformed military. Like the other Combatant Commanders and the Service Chiefs i was part of a discussion with the chairma...

Super interesting to one the biggest differences there are no ghettos in switzerland and portugal. But they couldnt do is act like the people who were attics were others. In switzerland if you are an addict in switzerland switzerland the semis picture postcard you have in your head. Its a nice little place with lovely ordered parks and if youre a heroin addict people see you are a heroin addict reader have the equivalent of words shot away. That was really importance of part of the job offers th...

Democracy or its ideals. Just wondering from critiquing american decisions, how did we do what mistakes we make and how would you do it differently . I dont have time to tell you all the mistakes that were made here. The basic problem has been not having a strategy, not having an idea and reacting. The arab uprising countess off guard here three months later what was our response . We still didnt have one. One year later, what do we want . Still dont have one. That goes on today. Pacific the u. ...

Colorado body colorado then deputy mayor of boulder and these experiences led to her coauthoring a book, running as a woman, an analysis of womens campaigns from 1920 to 1992. During the cart orer administration, she was appointed a regional director of the federal agency that supervised vista and the peace corps and other volunteer programs. Shes worked for foundations shes worked for the office of the president of the United University of california, and she has written a great deal for the ma...

Opinion. The shift to the favorable side. Twenty years, 15 or 20 years from now, maybe 20 of the people in favor of legalization, now at Something Like 50 . Given the evidence we havent written why this is a bad idea. But the other thing is, and this is relevant, that as Public Opinion has softened on the subject of marijuana maybe 60 of people in favor, the Scientific Evidence is overwhelming against it. Eightynine, 90 we didnt have these Research Studies done. But now it is overwhelming with w...

Ramifications of passing which included greater rights and opportunities but also isolation and disregard from the greater africanamerican community. Or topic for today is a chosen exile a history of racial passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs. Allyson hobbs is an assistant professor in the History Department at stanford university. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and received im sorry from Harvard University and she received a ph. D. With distinction from the universi...

Significant economic support. You would also be healing an enormous amount of devastation in the community with africanamerican men who are massively incarcerated. One thing its very easy to lobby for his just pardons. Governors governors and the president just a mass pardoning people for these harmless offenses. I dont think i totally answered your question but i got somewhere there. Thank you. Its a man. Hooray. You are going to give a really test us around question to compensate. I first want...

A nation, you may find yourself rooting for just that in the form of a clampdown on the landmark 1950 teen film o. Same name. Guest boy, isnt that a great start to a review . Cspan not bad, he used the word fascinating. Why the birth of a nation, and what is it . Well, its considered americas first blockbuster film. And the story i wanted to tell is not only the making and the release of that film in 1950, but the controversy that it provoked. And its mainly a story about a civil rights leader, ...

Videos, author information and to talk directly with authors during our live programs. Facebook. Com booktv. Elliot ackerman is next on booktv. The decorated afghanistan and iraq war veterans book is a novel about an afghan boy who joins a u. S. Funded militia following the u. S. Invasion. So our guest tonight is elliot ackerman. Hes a decorated veteran of the United States marine corps and a writer whose work has been published in the new yorker which alone would be an accomplishment for me for...