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National security, venezuela accuses the United States of plotting another coup as it helped to do in 2002. We will look at the growing crisis. These accusations like previous such accusations come are ludicrous. As a matter of longstanding policy, the United States does not support political transitions by nonconstitutional means. Amy gateway to freedom the Hidden History of the underground railroad. We will speak with the pulitzer prizewinning author and historian eric foner. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman....

Generations. This is about 40 minutes. Thank you all for coming. Thanks, many thanks to those of you who are suffering in the sun. Soon, the shade of copper beech will shade you gently. So i promise to speak long enough for that to happen. Now, every endeavor like this that spans so many years is a collaborative effort, and we are very lucky you today to have Richard Rabinowitz they will come up and say a few words, because it is he and linda kaplan, both of the American History workshop, who pioneered the story of northern slavery, and particularly in new york, with the two great shows at the...

Theyre also very different. And i suspect that the truth is somewhere in the middle here, and i couldnt tell you which one is better. And this is another one. This is an image that came out of one of the books that i did and it is showing the british piling up material, and this is in the Capitol Building. And if youll notice, the guy on the left, on the back, hes carrying a backpack that would carry two cases for a congrieve rocket. Rocket and if youll notice the man standing on top of the pile, hes literally taking the projectile material that would have been inside of that rocket and hes sp...

The shoals. And some more ships would sail up the bay under captain peter parker to disrupt communications and further confuse the americans. And hes able hes able to persuade ross and Admiral Cochrane to go along with this. Ross, he takes them ashore, in st. Marys county and ross sees how poor the defenses are. And ross is, you know, an aggressive commander himself. He certainly has proven himself in the european wars, and hes eager to get home. Hes got a wife who is not at all happy hes been sent across the ocean to fight in this new war. So what they agree to is they dont commit to an attac...

And most of them i think were built around either boston or philadelphia. In supporting the war, and particularly the naval war, did jobs ever come into any of the equations in 1812, or looking longer through American History, when did jobs become an issue of National Policy . All right. When did jobs start driving our defense policy . Yes. Not during this war. I dont see any evidence that federalists said, well, weve got to support expanding the navy because thats going to be jobs in our commercial ports where were often in a majority. Ive not seen that hint of that. And this is a rare war, i...