Author sean mcfate is next on booktv. The associate professor of the National Defense university and former military mercenary talks about the use of mercenaries in wars around the world today. He says we are headed towards a future that will resemble the middle ages hiring mercenaries to fight in wars is the norm. [applause] thank you. Thank you to Atlantic Council for hosting us and thank you for making at out on a less than auspicious weather day. This book is about the return of private military force International Relations today. I wrote this not simply as an International Relations scholar but also as a practitioner that i work for a Company Called dyncorp national for several years in africa and while i was working there i saw many press reports, many think tank reports, a lot of leftwing and rightwing kneejerk reaction to simply did not get what i thought the industry was right. The genesis of writing this book was not in any way a whistleblower book. It was really to paxton s
[cheers and applause] [speaking spanish] [cheers and applause] im david, and welcome to one of the most anticipated events of this or any other year. Noam chomsky. [cheers and applause] and backstage i was joking with noam, i held up this flyer it said, sold out, which will be, uhuh think ammunition for his enemies ammunition, i think, for his enemies. Noam chomsky has never sold out. [applause] in pursuit of cultural Freedom Series which organized this event, thanks also tolannon for digitizing our noam chomsky audio archive which now numbers close to 250 recordings. You can go to alternativeradio. Org. Thanks lannon. [applause] i started alternative radio because of noam chomsky. I wrote him a letter he wrote back. We started corresponding. Then after a while i suggested we do an interview. He said yes, of course. That was 31 years ago. Its an honor for me to introduce no, maam chomsky, but how to noam chomsky but how to introduce who, as they say, needs no introduction . Well, do so
Patterson, who is on our irgc board of directors. And bob who has come all the way from toronto to be here this to be with us this evening. Joe straw is the associate professor of International Studies and the director of the center for christians scholarship and Redeemer University in toronto. Eric patterson is the current Vice President of the religious Freedom Institute here in washington, and the scholar at large for the Region University in virginia beach. It also should be pointed out that our providence executive director contributed a chapter to this book. And i am mark thule, president and editor at providence. So a special welcome to all of you who are here physically this evening in Downtown Washington d. C. , to all of our viewers on facebook and twitter, and to our viewers on cspan book tv. This video will be airing no doubt many times in the near future. Eric patterson, i believe, wants to speak first and he will explain the rest of the evening to you. But there will be p
A high profile Russian Private military agency during its classified operations against Ukrainian Forces in dunbar. Plus if urges brothels to ban russia from support moscows military operation, and you and ukraine from entering the you with just passed a pm here in the russian capital. And youre watching our 2 international. Im donalds quarter. Welcome to the program. Now, europe has suffocated itself by creating constant challenges to the supply of russian gas. Thats according to russias top diplomat, sergei lab rav speaking in ethiopia, and the last leg of his tor, across africa, europe sustained me could have during the last, almost 10 years was creating barriers on the way of bringing to European Countries cheap and accessible. Russia, english. They have suffocated the all themselves with their own films, the buy proofs for biplane, the, was from russia. Now theyre looking for alternatives. Is he o p a is the 4th african country, the Russian Foreign minister visa that in the last 5
Took place gradually as a result of various conflicts. The u. S. Expanded into the vacuum made possible by the collapse of soviet power in the middle east with the gulf war and then became even more deeply involved with the iraq war and afghanistan in central asia. I will get to that in a moment of the in europe, although the presidency of the George Herbert walker bush had promised gorbachev as a condition for german reunification within nato that the u. S. Would not expand nato eastward, the Clinton Administration reneged on this promise and did so. Finally in asia the United States simply kept its Cold War Alliances in place with no practical plan for revising them for incorporating china into some kind of a new regional order although china was invited to join the World Economy. If theres a single statement of the bipartisan hegemony strategy would sum it up, i think george w. Bushs speech at west point in 2002 where he said competition between great nations is inevitable but Armed