Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/06/11/David_Sirota_The_American_Populist _Revolt
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/06/11/David_Sirota_The_American_Populist _Revolt
Author David Sirota argues that the power to change society lies ultimately with the people themselves - not with their leaders.
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David Sirota discusses The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street & Washington.
Job outsourcing. Perpetual busy signals at government agencies. Slashed paychecks. Stolen elections. A war without end, fatally mismanaged.
Ordinary Americans on both the right and left had had it with corrupt politicians of both parties and are organizing to change the status quo.
In his invigorating new book, David Sirota investigates whether this uprising can be transformed into a unified, lasting political movement.
Sirota, the author of Hostile Takeover, is, Naomi Klein writes, "...a clearheaded and principled hell-raiser for economic justice" - Cody's Books
David Sirota has taught management at Cornell, Yale, MIT, and Wharton Business School and was a study director at the University of Michigan's Institute of Social Research. His work has been featured in Fortune and The New York Times.
Sirota holds a doctorate in social psychology from the University of Michigan.
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/05/28/Can_Bipartisanship_Be_Revived
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/05/28/Can_Bipartisanship_Be_Revived
Democratic consultant Jenny Backus identifies potentially difficult issues either John McCain or Barack Obama may have as President when dealing with Congress.
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The Bill Green Lecture Series memorializes Bill Green (1929-2002), who represented the East Side of Manhattan in Congress from 1978 to 1992.
Rep. Green, a Democrat, was an independent thinker who frequently crossed the aisle to collaborate on critical issues such as the environment, urban policy, and affordable housing. He served as a trustee of The New School and a board member of Milano.
This lecture series, which pays tribute to his deep commitment to bipartisanship, is generously funded by the Taconic Foundation, on whose board he also served - The New School
Jenny Backus is a consultant and strategist for the Democratic Party (unaffiliated in the 2008 presidential race).
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/06/05/The_Inaugural_Nelson_Polsby_Congre ssional_Con
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/06/05/The_Inaugural_Nelson_Polsby_Congre ssional_Conversation
U.S. Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) argues that Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama's plans for a broad bipartisan coalition may not be realistic.
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The inaugural Nelson W. Polsby Congressional Conversation will be hosted by Norm Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute and feature Representatives Barney Frank and Tom Davis.
It is a candid conversation between prominent congressional leaders of opposing political interests on finding ways to build bridges, find solutions and govern effectively in a highly partisan environment.
The Polsby series aims to honor the late Berkeley congressional scholar Nelson Polsby by enabling substantive discussion between politically opposed leaders.
Polsby was noted for his ecumenical approach to divisive political issues and his efforts over many decades to expand our understanding of political institutions and to make them work better - The New Republic
Barnett "Barney" Frank is an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives. He is a Democrat and has represented Massachusetts's 4th congressional district since 1981. The district includes many of Boston's southern suburbs--such as Brookline, Newton and Foxborough--as well as the South Coast.
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/06/18/Chinas_Olympic_Human_Rights_Challe nges
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Human Rights Watch Media Director Minky Worden discusses whether recent international attention due to environmental disasters, economic growth, and the 2008 Olympics has affected China's positions on human rights.
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As human rights emerge as a central concern around the 2008 Beijing Olympics, China's Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges examines China in transition today.
When Beijing first sought to host the Olympics, China was still recovering from the upheavals of Maoist rule and adapting to a market revolution. How are Chinas leaders managing the Olympic process and the internal and external pressures for reform the Games are creating?
China's Great Leap illuminates China's recent history through voices of leading China experts, and points to key areas for future reform. Join the book's editor, Minky Worden, and contributing writers Scott Greathead and Emily Parker for an evening of discussion, moderated by Jamie Metzl, Executive Vice President of the Asia Society - Asia Society
As Media Director of Human Rights Watch, Minky Worden works with the world's journalists to help them cover crises, wars, human rights abuses and political developments in more than 70 countries worldwide.Before joining Human Rights Watch in 1998, Ms. Worden lived and worked in Hong Kong as an adviser to democratic party chairman Martin Lee and worked at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. as a speechwriter for the U.S. attorney general and in the executive office for US attorneys.
A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Ms. Worden speaks Cantonese and German and is an elected member of the Overseas Press Club's board of governors. She is the editor of China's Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges (Seven Stories, May 2008) and the co-editor of Torture (New Press, 2005).
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/06/11/Thomas_Henriksen_American_Power_Af ter_the_Ber
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Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Thomas Henriksen argues that indirect diplomatic and military support are a more effective strategy for fighting terrorism abroad than are large-scale military actions.
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Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the United States has been involved in a string of conflicts, from the Persian Gulf War to Panama, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and the Iraq war.
What are the connections between these various interventions? What common themes emerge through analysis? What missteps were made?
Henriksen notes the use of containment, interventions, regime changes, and even humanitarian assistance as responses to rogue states, civil strife, and militant Islam.
He will also analyze the transformation from Washington's stability-first policy to its democracy-promotion agenda in the Middle East, which threatens this crucial region with instability, he says, necessitating a new grand strategy to confront terrorism - The Commonwealth Club of California
Thomas H. Henriksen is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. His current research focuses on American foreign policy in the post-Cold War world, international political affairs, and national defense. Henriksen specializes in the study of U.S. diplomatic and military courses of action toward terrorist havens, such as Afghanistan, and the so-called rogue states, including North Korea, Iraq, and Iran. He also concentrates on armed and covert interventions abroad.
Henriksen's most recent book is American Power after the Berlin Wall (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), which examines for the first time, in a single volume, U.S. foreign policy from 1989 to the present through the prism of Americas interventions around the world.
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/06/10/Dr_Andrew_von_Eschenbach_Modernizi ng_the_FDA
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Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Andrew von Eschenbach discusses how the FDA investigates cases of widespread food contamination, such as the Salmonella-tainted tomato scare in the summer of 2008.
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With Congress pushing for faster approval of new medications and federal coffers shrinking, the FDA is facing tough challenges.
Hear what lies ahead for the agency and the future of consumer safety.
Von Eschenbach leads the nation's premiere consumer protection and health agency, with regulated products that account for more than 20 percent of consumer spending.
As the former director of the National Cancer Institute, von Eschenbach is a nationally recognized urologic surgeon and oncologist - The Commonwealth Club of California
Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D., was sworn in as the 20th commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on December 13, 2006.
As commissioner, he leads the nation's premiere consumer protection and health agency, regulating products that account for more than 20% of consumer spending.As the former Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Dr. von Eschenbach is a nationally recognized urologic surgeon and oncologist.
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/21/Uncommon_Knowledge_Henry_Kissinger
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger gives his perspective on warfare and anti-war dissent.
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Henry Kissinger discusses war and more with Peter Robinson as part of the Hoover Institution's interview series, Uncommon Knowledge.
War and the media - the two have not partnered so well since Vietnam. But in the days of the Internet, conservative talk radio, and Fox News, has the dynamic changed?
Kissinger says only a bit, and that the media remain heavily biased against military action.
Additionally, the 1960s concept that the U.S. government is somehow an evil enterprise is alive and well.
In this environment, Kissinger says our leaders need to present a clearer and more educated vision of the American role in the world - Hoover Institution
Henry Alfred Kissinger was the 56th Secretary of State of the United States from 1973 to 1977, continuing to hold the position of Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs which he first assumed in 1969 until 1975. After leaving government service, he founded Kissinger Associates, an international consulting firm, of which he is chairman.
Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's television program, Uncommon Knowledge. Robinson is also the author of three books: How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life; It's My Party: A Republican's Messy Love Affair with the GOP; and the best-selling business book Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MB.
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/21/Uncommon_Knowledge_Henry_Kissinger
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger discusses the long-term implications of Chinese economic and political growth for United States security.
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Henry Kissinger discusses war and more with Peter Robinson as part of the Hoover Institution's interview series, Uncommon Knowledge.
War and the media - the two have not partnered so well since Vietnam. But in the days of the Internet, conservative talk radio, and Fox News, has the dynamic changed?
Kissinger says only a bit, and that the media remain heavily biased against military action.
Additionally, the 1960s concept that the U.S. government is somehow an evil enterprise is alive and well.
In this environment, Kissinger says our leaders need to present a clearer and more educated vision of the American role in the world - Hoover Institution
Henry Alfred Kissinger was the 56th Secretary of State of the United States from 1973 to 1977, continuing to hold the position of Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs which he first assumed in 1969 until 1975. After leaving government service, he founded Kissinger Associates, an international consulting firm, of which he is chairman.
Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's television program, Uncommon Knowledge. Robinson is also the author of three books: How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life; It's My Party: A Republican's Messy Love Affair with the GOP; and the best-selling business book Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MB.
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/06/05/Tim_Weiner_Discusses_the_History_o f_the_CIA
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/06/05/Tim_Weiner_Discusses_the_History_o f_the_CIA
Journalist Tim Weiner discusses future President George H.W. Bush's appointment to Director of Central Intelligence under Gerald Ford.
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In his balanced, and thus all the more disturbing, history of the CIA, Tim Weiner tells how an agency intended to inform the President about the world became so mired in cloak and dagger politics that the US now lacks the intelligence it needs to operate effectively on the world stage.
Why is it that the agency intended to provide us with intelligence about the world became a tool to shape our perception of that world for political purposes?
Why, for decades, did the agency acquire a shining reputation despite misreading nearly every global crisis?
How did the CIA misread Castro's Cuba, chances of victory in Vietnam, and the Soviet Union's staying power?
Mr. Weiner argues that these C.I.A. missteps have encouraged many of our gravest contemporary problems: Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and terrorism - World Affairs Council of Oregon
Tim Weiner is a reporter for The New York Times. He has written on American intelligence for twenty years, and won the Pulitzer Prize for his work on secret national security programs. He has traveled to Afghanistan and other nations to investigate CIA covert operations firsthand.
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