Trouble tonight at eight eastern on cspan q a. You can listen to q a and all of our podcasts on our free cspan. Now app. Daniel ellsberg has passed away at the age of 92. He is best known for leaking sensitive documents on the vietnam war, known as the pentagon papers, which many believe helped to end the longest u. S. Conflict of the 20th century. The disclosures would also lead to a Landmark Supreme Court decision on freedom of the press. In 2019, the university of massachusetts amherst acquired the papers of Daniel Ellsberg and next from the school he talks about his career and his fight against the proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. This is just over 2 hours. All right. Good evening. Good afternoon. Good evening. Were going to get started. So greetings and welcome to the 21st annual friends of the umass librarys fall reception. Im simon nehme, dean of libraries here at Umass Amherst. And today i have the honor of welcoming you to a very, very special program planned to celebrate the
Chicago tribune. Thank you. Good afternoon, everybody. We are here today to discuss drone warfare. It is a book entitled drone warfare killing by remote control. The author is medea benjamin. I know her from a long time ago and we met when we were in mexico when i was a correspondent or. Medea benjamin was doing some advocacy work. So she is a longtime peace advocate and advocate. She cofounded Global Exchange and has been using her life for questioning and challenging some assumptions on the policies of government her book, drone warfare killing by remote control. She has use as possible use of the book for other reasons you can relate to your home. This book is full firstperson reporting and some of her travels are included to afghanistan and pakistan. Regular sponsored research and some other sources paint a picture of where the drone use has grown to today. I would like to open with the question about what you can find when you started this and how do you characterize this piece of
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Its own money. Its about community support. Its about shopping local. Its about sustainability right here where we live and we work. Brown the internets making its way into our cars, our refrigerators, even our toilets. Hari sreenivasan asks does that make it easier for hackers to disrupt our daily lives . Woodruff and, its a bird, its a plane, its the story of superman through the ages. There is no more symbolic character than superman, who created the archetype of the superhero. And everything thats come after him thats touched on the idea of somebody who dressed up in a weird outfit and fights for the powers of good, comes fromim. Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these
Brown the internets making its way into our cars, our refrigerators, even our toilets. Hari sreenivasan asks does that make it easier for hackers to disrupt our daily lives . Woodruff and, its a bird, its a plane, its the story of superman through the ages. There is no more symbolic character than superman, who created the archetype of the superhero. And everything thats come after him thats touched on the idea of somebody who dressed up in a weird outfit and fights for the powers of good, comes from him. Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions