China-EU Virtual Summit: Eye on the Prize

CGTN

Published on Sep 14, 2020

Chinese President Xi Jinping co-hosted via video link a Monday meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose country currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency. Also in the meeting were European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. President Xi said China and the EU could work together under four principles: peaceful coexistence, openness and cooperation, multilateralism, as well as dialogue and consultation. They sought to speed up investment agreement talks, with an eye on wrapping up negotiations within this year. Both cooperation and frictions hit ties between China and the EU – two of the world’s biggest trading partners. In the face of a COVID-19 pandemic, both sides are looking to strengthen coordination.

Black parents take charge of teaching race and history in Canada

CBC News: The National

Published on Sep 14, 2020

Some Black parents are taking it into their own hands to teach their kids about race and history in Canada, as both pandemic concerns and some teacher reluctance threaten to push a more inclusive education into the background.

Possible signs of life found on Venus

CBC News: The National

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Published on Sep 14, 2020
Scientists are excited they have found evidence that hints at signs of life in the clouds of Venus. Astronomers have detected a small amount of a chemical compound, phosphine, that doesn’t exist naturally.

Bob Woodward’s “FEAR: Trump in The White House”

92nd Street Y

Published on Sep 17, 2018

Watergate journalist Bob Woodward’s new book, FEAR: Trump in the White House, announced as the most acute and penetrating portrait of a sitting president ever published during the first years of an administration, is unprecedented.

Talking with Jacob Weisberg, Bob Woodward gives a front-row-seat view of life inside Donald Trump’s White House, as revealed in his new book, FEAR: Trump in the White House. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, an associate editor at The Washington Post, shows how the president makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Drawing from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, contemporaneous meeting notes, files, documents, and personal diaries, FEAR brings to light the most explosive debates that drive decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One, and the White House residence. It’s the inside story on President Trump as only Bob Woodward can tell it. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear first-hand as the legendary journalist sits down with the chairman and editor-in-chief of Slate.

Recorded on September 12, 2018 at 92nd Street Y.

Shields and Brooks on virus aid impasse, Woodward’s Trump revelations

PBS NewsHour

Published on Sep 11, 2020

Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including the congressional stalemate over pandemic relief legislation, revelations from Bob Woodward’s interviews with President Trump and the political impact they may have and whether Joe Biden’s campaign message is resonating with voters.

Biden brands Trump ‘climate arsonist’ over US wildfires

FRANCE 24 English

Published on Sep 14, 2020

Joe Biden branded President Donald Trump a “climate arsonist” on Monday for refusing to acknowledge global warming’s role in deadly wildfires sweeping the western United States, while Trump blamed lax forestry and declared, “I don’t think science knows.”

How is our food diversity associated with poverty alleviation?

CGTN

Published on Sep 14, 2020

Of the 30,000 varieties of edible plants on the planet, we only eat about 200 on a regular basis. Concerns over the diversity of our food have made us pay a second look at our menu and how we produce food. Why do so few of the world’s edible plants feature on our tables? Is industrialized food production a blessing or curse? And how is food diversity associated with poverty alleviation?

“Trump Is Criminality Personified”: Rev. William Barber on Protecting the Vote & Mobilizing the Poor

Democracy Now!

Published on Sep 14, 2020

With less than two months before November, the Poor People’s Campaign has launched a push to register tens of millions of poor and low-income voters, who could decide the fate of the election. “Voting is power unleashed,” says Rev. Dr. William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign and president of Repairers of the Breach. “We’ve got to train the people on the power of the vote, the power to protect the vote, and the power to shape public policy by the vote.” The initiative is called MORE, which stands for Mobilizing, Organizing, Registering, Educating People for a Movement That Votes.

“These Are Climate Fires”: Oregon Firefighter Ecologist Says Devastating Blazes Are a Wake-U p Call

Democracy Now!

Published on Sep 14, 2020

President Trump has said little about the wildfires raging in California, Oregon and Washington for three weeks, other than to suggest poor forest management was primarily to blame. But the states’ governors are pushing back and directly linking the fires to the climate crisis. “These are climate fires,” says Timothy Ingalsbee, an Oregon-based wildland fire ecologist and former wildland firefighter who now directs Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and Ecology. “Though some scientists hesitate to attribute a single event to climate change, these are exactly the conditions predicted by climatologists.”

Pandemic, Wildfires & Heat Wave: Undocumented Farmworkers Face “Triple Threat” as West Coast Burns

Democracy Now!

Published on Sep 14, 2020

As devastating fires burn across the West Coast, some of the most vulnerable people are farmworkers — many of whom are undocumented. Despite the risks of the pandemic and the climate-fueled fires, many feel they have to keep working even if that means working inside evacuation zones. The state of California has repeatedly allowed growers to continue harvesting despite evacuation orders putting workers at great risk. Estella Cisneros, legal director of the agriculture worker program for California Rural Legal Assistance, says farmworkers who speak out against unsafe working conditions risk losing their jobs. “Farmworkers have continued to work during this whole time, despite fears of contracting COVID-19 in the workplace, despite fears of getting heat stress while they’re at work, and now despite fears of the dangers that wildfire smoke brings,” Cisneros says.