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I am sorry about that entrance. I wasnt doing it for theatrics but i do have a brandnew hip. [laughter] [applause] i love it. But the rest of the body hasnt caught up yet. [laughter] we go slow. Nobody is moderating us. We are just talking. We are talking about douglas and liberation . Absolutely. Let me start. To stop, i want other people to know about this. Im interested obviously in literacy. I am impressed with what i only recently discovered, which is this country is unique in the world in ...

It to such a pleasure to speak about your book try washington and we the people. Im going to get into the idea of revolution, you say in the book america has been through divisive. Before some followers that we are living through today, with the hindsight of history, we can see them as inflection points, the transitional period between old system that is broken down in anyone with information, are we at an inflection point, absolutely, we are right in the middle of it, to the best example, in 20...

States. Benjamin i noticed that there may have been a flurry of books on socialism. This is price because socialism has come into the american mainstream for the first time in our countrys history. There have been socialist candidates in the past predict Norman Thomas but they were never in the mainstream for now, infected a time when many of the socialisms had collapsed at the end of the 20th century suddenly its back in his back with a vengeance. So my surprise theres a lot of books that try t...

Let me say first that i accept the nomination of the Democratic Party. I accept it without reservation. And with only one obligation. The obligation to devote every effort of my mind and soul to lead our party back to victory and our nation to greatness. I am grateful that you have with a platform to run on. This is essential to the Human Dignity of all men. And our first principle. This is a platform on which i can run. I am grateful that i will rely on the many others. They bring unity and str...

America. Already talk about the actual wars and fighting and times where the cold war got hot in africa and today, were talking about the cultural cold war and perhaps the fight for influence between the United States and the soviet union. So in that context, jazz really comes to the forefront. So were thinking about why that guy the running around in the congo and his counterparts are in pakistan and south asia and Eastern Europe and all those kinds of things. What are they doing there . Were g...

With life programming. Please consider donating to help us continue our work. Please visit us at commonwealth club. You can find us and the description box below. Welcome to todays virtual program. I served as a supervisor in the city and county and most recently at the california director for bernie 2020 where i could work very close with sean campaigning for senator sanders. Theres not too many things more that scare me than writing a book. [laughter] and how to fight injustice. Sean will shar...

A court appeal has granted a motion for mandamus. It is an extraordinary remedy that tells the judge, we must do something or not do something. And they directed the judge flynn or dismiss case. But happen yesterday in the full court, all ten judges to decide this case re heard it. The reason this case is being heard, it is an unusual posture and that after pleading guilty, Michael Flynn, the Justice Department is dismissing the case. And so for that reason, the judge is required to give permiss...

Guard and thanked them for their help and said the decision to call in those troops helped calm things down. Kenoshas been ravaged by antipolice and antiamerican riots, violent mobs demolished or damaged at least 25 businesses, burned down public buildings and i threw bricks at Police Officers which your officers wont stand for and they didnt stand for it. These are not acts of peaceful protest, but really domestic terror. My administration coordinated with the state and local authorities to ver...

Guard and thanked them for their help and said the decision to call in those troops helped calm things down. Kenoshas been ravaged by antipolice and antiamerican riots, violent mobs demolished or damaged at least 25 businesses, burned down public buildings and i threw bricks at Police Officers which your officers wont stand for and they didnt stand for it. These are not acts of peaceful protest, but really domestic terror. My administration coordinated with the state and local authorities to ver...

The key thing here that i want to return to throughout this presentation is shown by this photograph here of Winston Churchill, harry truman, and Joseph Stalin smiling and shaking hands. And the point that i really want to reiterate here is that these three men and most of the advisors around them did not believe that what they were doing at potsdam was laying the seeds of a cold war. We know from the scholarship of the 1960s, 1970s and beyond, a lot of historians read potsdam backwards. That is...