Carter Center: Former President Jimmy Carter in hospice care

PBS NewsHour – Feb 18, 2023

Some of Washington, D.C.’s most familiar landmarks were built with the labor of enslaved people, their accomplishments largely lost to history. In part three of our series, “Hidden Histories,” we learn about one of those enslaved laborers, a sculptor named Philip Reid.

How an enslaved man helped create these iconic monuments in Washington, D.C.

PBS NewsHour – Feb 18, 2023

Some of Washington, D.C.’s most familiar landmarks were built with the labor of enslaved people, their accomplishments largely lost to history. In part three of our series, “Hidden Histories,” we learn about one of those enslaved laborers, a sculptor named Philip Reid.

Former President Jimmy Carter in hospice care

NBC News – Feb 18, 2023

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The Carter Center announced Saturday that the 39th president of the United States decided to receive hospice care instead of “additional medical intervention” after a series of recent hospital stays. The 98-year-old and oldest living president will spend the rest of his days in Plains, Georgia alongside Rosalynn, his wife of more than 70 years. Carter’s grandson tweeted that the Carters are “at peace and – as always – their home is full of love.”

Civil War | Official Trailer

MSNBC – Oct 8, 2021

From executive producers Brad Pitt and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. comes “Civil War,” a documentary about the roots of division in the United States. The film offers an intimate look at how race, heritage, tradition and geography shape our beliefs and the different ways Americans portray the story of our civil war – as well as the stories we refuse to tell. Watch “Civil War,” Sunday, October 24th at 10pm ET on MSNBC.

It is high time we paid attention to our teachers and not worry so much about hedge fun managers. – YouTube

Senator Bernie Sanders – Feb 18, 2023

The top 15 hedge fund managers on Wall Street make more money in a single year than every kindergarten teacher in America combined — over 120,000 teachers.

Reporter Seymour Hersh on “How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline”: Exclusive TV Interview

Democracy Now! – Feb 15, 2023

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UPDATE: We have blurred some imagery about 30 seconds into the video in response to a content warning from YouTube that severely limited the reach of this interview. What you see now is an edited version. For the uncensored version of this interview that aired on our show, visit democracynow.org.

When the Nord Stream pipelines carrying natural gas from Russia to Germany were damaged last September, U.S. officials were quick to suggest Russia had bombed its own pipelines. But according to a new report by the legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, it was the U.S. Navy that carried out the sabotage, with help from Norway. Citing a source “with direct knowledge of the operational planning,” Hersh writes on his Substack blog that planning for the mission began in December of 2021. The White House and the Norwegian government have since denied the claims. Hersh joins us for an in-depth interview to discuss his report and says the U.S. decision to bomb the pipelines was meant to lock allies into support for Ukraine at a time when some were wavering. “The fear was Europe would walk away from the war,” he says. Hersh won a Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for his reporting on the My Lai massacre. His reporting on CIA spying on antiwar activists during the Vietnam War era helped lead to the formation of the Church Committee, which led to major reforms of the intelligence community, and in 2004, he exposed the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq.

Michael Parenti | CAPITALISMS WAR AGAINST DEMOCRACY

Chris Hedges Fan Club – Feb 17, 2023

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Michael John Parenti is an American political scientist, academic historian and cultural critic who writes on scholarly and popular subjects. He has taught at universities as well as run for political office.

Parenti is well known for his Marxist writings and lectures.

Michael Parenti was raised by an Italian-American working-class family in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York City. After graduating from high school, Parenti worked for several years. Upon returning to school, he received a BA from the City College of New York, an MA from Brown University and a PhD in political science from Yale University. Parenti is the father of Christian Parenti, an academic, author and journalist.

U.S. universities increasingly worried by students’ use of AI

Feb 18, 2023
Higher learning institutions across the U.S. are grappling with increased use of chatbots and other artificial intelligence-based computer software that can help students write papers and essays and much, much more.