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Profile: Joe Biden on terrorism
Joe Biden gives his view on terrorism in an Feb., 2007 interview. By Thushan Amarasiriwardena, Globe Staff
Video|Sat, 23 Aug 2008|More from Boston.com
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“…Change radically the president's policy. Empty Guantanamo closed it down. Bulldozed down Abu Ghraib they produced terrorists they don't get us -- they -- identified terrorist. Make a firm commitment to Iraq surge troops in Afghanistan. …”
Podcast of the Day 080708
We'll start things off today with an email about Townie Tunes and play one for you too. Loren ran across an amazing quote from Robert Downey Jr. Sue has some interesting news stories for you. A brand new epidode of Men from Maine. It's time for your Bob Ryan Report and Bob is live from China. A Wallyology report on what men hate to hear women say and Loren will also tell us why women live longer than men. PJ gives us a review of the latest chick flick. Wally got a sneak peak of the new Showcase Theaters down at Patriot Place. Loren has an expiriment to try with your pet. We'll wrap things up with a great way to try some of the great restaurants around town, Restaurant Week!
Audio|Thu, 7 Aug 2008|More from 105.7 WROR
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“…You are different from Abu Ghraib and the horses can put him right. …”
The American Exception, Again
Barack Obama at the Victory Column in Berlin just now marks another stage of "rejoining the world" and "rebranding" the American voice out there on the globe. It's an astonishingly rapid transition in these dog days of July, 2008. Obama on tour is becoming "the cause of all mankind," as Thomas Paine once said of our country. What would it mean, or require, for Americans to see ourselves this way again? This is the puzzle Ted Widmer sets himself in Ark of the Liberties , whose title comes with express irony from lines that Herman Melville wrote with irony as well, in White Jacket : "And we Americans are the peculiar, chosen people -- the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world... We are the pioneers of untried things, to break a new path in the New World that is ours." Click to listen to Chris's conversation with Ted Widmer (38 minutes, 17 mb p3) Ted Widmer     Ted Widmer, curator of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown, is a connoisseur of political rhetoric -- an American historian and, among other things, editor of the Library of America's compendium of great speeches. I put it to him in conversation: who thinks we're "the last best hope of earth" after the war in Iraq? Who looks at our pretty lowly rank in international measures of equality and life expectancy, and says: "lead on, America!" What is it that is still exceptional about this world nation of ours? Do we even want to be exceptional anymore? And would a President Obama make us feel more comfortable with the neighbors, more like them, or yet rarer, more blessedly peculiar? The world has become a lot more like us. We are more like the world and the world is more like us. Democracy is successful on every continent, immigration exists everywhere, most countries have constitutions and very few monarchies are left on earth. One hundred years ago, it was still a relatively rare thing to have a self-sustaining democracy with its own constitution. So our model has won. We won in a million ways in the 20th century and other countries are like us. I'm hopeful that if [Obama] is elected, it will lead to the latest American renaissance and that it will inspire people again in our capacity to lead. I think that was badly damaged, but I now object to a lot of books by liberals, even though I am a democrat. There's this huge wave of pessimism crashing over the marketplace and you can't walk into a bookstore without seeing 20 books about how we blew it... Ted Widmer in conversation with Chris Lydon at Brown University, July, 2008. I reminded Ted Widmer, and myself, that the great William James thought we'd blown it, and exposed the fraud of "exceptionalism," in the occupation of the Philippines a century ago. "God dam the U.S. for its vile conduct," James fulminated (anticipating Reverend Jeremiah Wright in the taking of prophetic liberties with his language). James went to the heart of the "exceptional" question: We used to believe... that we were of a different clay from other nations, that there was something deep in the American heart that answered to our happy birth, free from that hereditary burden which the nations of Europe bear, and which obliges them to grow by preying on their neighbors. Idle dream! pure Fourth of July fancy, scattered in five minutes by the first temptation. In every national soul there lie potentialities of the most barefaced piracy, and our own American soul is no exception to the rule. Angelic impulses and predatory lusts divide our heart exactly as they divide the hearts of other countries. It is good to rid ourselves of cant and humbug, and to know the truth about ourselves. Political virtue does not follow geographical divisions. It follows the eternal division inside of each country between the tory and the liberal tendencies, the jingoism and animal instinct that would run things by main force and brute possession, and the critical conscience that believes in educational methods and in rational rules of right. William James, "Address on the Philippine Question" in William James: Writings 1902 - 1910, Library of America. Ted Widmer remembered that Mark Twain, too, went volcanic about the Philippines and the imperial transformation of the American eagle. Twain's revision of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" began, "Mine eyes have seen the orgy of the launching of the Sword / He is searching out the hoardings where the stranger's wealth is stored..." Mark Twain was very angry about the Philippines. America's most beloved writer in many ways, and yet he had a most acute political conscience… He might have had to explain to a judge in 2008 why he was writing the anti-governmental things that he was writing around the time of the Philippines insurrection, which was the ugly aftermath to the Spanish American War. Those guys are brilliant and, I think, with William James you get something closer to what the Puritans would have said, which I find a more honest message, and it's what Lincoln was saying too, which is that if you believe that God is favoring you more highly, then you also have further to fall and you have a higher accountability. It seems to me that we're lacking the accountability. We're trying to take the good part of this and we're rejecting the other part that comes with it. Lincoln, many of the Puritans and William James all felt that if we're failing to live up to our incredible, special position in the world - we're so lucky, we live far from all these other wars, we have so many natural resources, we have this great system of government - if we're screwing it up, God's going to be very angry at us. And that I just find a more honest way of looking at it. There's a dark side of exceptionalism as well as a light side. Ted Widmer in conversation with Chris Lydon at Brown University, July, 2008.
Audio|Thu, 24 Jul 2008|More from Open Source
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“…But I have to say. McCain is also pretty effective. Spokesman against Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo because he he was tortured. And everybody knows that I think he he could be very eloquent. Statesman in the …”
My WBZ Afternoon Headlines 6/30/08
Why did David Woodman die, smokers about to get pinched, travelling expected to be way down this July fourth, these stories and more in the WBZ Afternoon News.
Audio|Mon, 30 Jun 2008|More from WBZ NewsRadio Headlines
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“…60s83 right now in Boston. The first complaint regarding alleged torture at Abu Ghraib in Iraq has been filed today in a federal court in Seattle. Former detainees at the infamous prison are suing US contractors claiming that innocent people were arrested and taken to Abu Ghraib. . Where they were forced to take off their clothes and undergo electrical shocks and mock executions. With the fourth of July holiday …”
Here and Now for Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Exactly who came up with the harsh interrogation techniques that could be used on detainees at Guantanamo Bay and at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq. That's the focus of a Senate Armed Service committee hearing today. According to the committee's finding, Pentagon lawyer, William Haynes inquired in 2002 into a military program that trained Army soldiers on how to survive enemy interrogations. He and other officials wanted to know if the techniques could be reverse engineered and used to extract intelligence. We'll have the latest from the hearing with Demetri Sevastopulo, Pentagon and Intelligence correspondent for the Financial Times of London. It can weigh in at half a ton and measure 6 feet. Until recently, it was considered unfit for human consumption. Now the blue fin tuna, loved by sushi eaters in Japan, is endangered. We speak with Richard Ellis, a conservationist, biologist, and author. He has a book coming out in July titled "Tuna: A Love Story." He recently wrote
Audio|Tue, 17 Jun 2008|More from WBUR: Here and Now Podcast
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“…bad apples were responsible for putting and -- humiliating naked prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq. In hearing today Senate Armed Services Committee chair Carl Levin says a new report shows that Abu Ghraib was tied directly to top officials in the Bush Administration. Acting over the objections of military lawyers. …”
Here and Now for Monday, June 9, 2008
Senator Barack Obama begins his general election campaign as the presumptive Democratic nominee today with a speech in North Carolina about what he sees as the most important campaign issue: the economy. John McCain speaks at a private campaign event in Washington, DC, but both are already trading words over the economy and national security. CNBC Chief Washington correspondent and New York Times political writer John Harwood says that we'll be seeing more of the partisan ideology that's been largely absent from the primary race. More than a month after Cyclone Nargis, two million Burmese need help beyond food, water, and shelter. According to Doctors Without Borders, they need help finding the will to go on. But does humanitarian aid to people in places like Burma end up making repressive regimes stronger? We'll speak with Dr. Nicholas de Torrente, executive director of Doctors without Borders U.S.A. United, Delta, and Continental have recently announced layoffs. Are we seei
Audio|Mon, 9 Jun 2008|More from WBUR: Daily News Update
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“…an oxygen tank in the other. Alongside her with a servicemen from Abu Ghraib to prisoners handcuffed to federal agents and the -- family. There was a line anti smoking commercial and those passing by would …”
“…the airport smoking rooms at home to people with lung cancer and Abu Ghraib guards. The stories are from. David carefully kept diaries and notebooks and I can I might send the team we've got up …”
5/21/08:Ralph Peters
You won't read it in the newspapers or see it on most news channels but there has been incredible progress made in Iraq. Bringing us the news from the front is Colonel Ralph Peters, author of "Looking for Trouble."
Audio|Wed, 21 May 2008|More from Michael Graham, WTKK, Boston, MA
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“…but that's sent. Double standard here are -- immediate desperately want another Abu Ghraib and are trying to turn this. This school shooting which is over in Iraq but the media is trying to keep alive …”
Errol Morris’ “Feel-Bad” Masterpiece
Oscar-winner Errol Morris says his Abu Ghraib movie is built on "a graphic representation of American foreign policy, pure and simple."
Audio|Fri, 9 May 2008|More from Open Source
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“…was devised by a handful of MP uses. On one here at Abu Ghraib and it was part of our foreign policy. And one of the things that I find most appalling. Is the photographs were used to blame. A handful of them pieces. Really letting everybody else off the -- as if somehow no one else was involved in this it was just these guys won here by the way Abu Ghraib was not one here. Or -- Angeles city there were close to 10000 prisoners at the end of 2003 were talking about …”
“…film about. The Iraqi prison that became an American torture chamber at Abu Ghraib. . Again Errol Morris we're proud and privileged to admire you as a friend and have you. Take this new film apart with …”
Revealing Memoir by JFK's Speechwriter
In a new memoir, Ted Sorensen recounts his experiences advising JFK during some of the most dramatic moments of American history.
Audio|Mon, 5 May 2008|More from WBUR: Daily News Update
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“…today Academy Award winning filmmaker Errol Morris investigates prisoner abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. And first today. Good evening my fellow that. …”
“…to go behind the infamous photographs taken by American soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. WBUR as Andrea -- report. …”
Here and Now for Friday, May 2, 2008
In the most far-reaching crackdown on credit card issuers in years, federal regulators are expected to approve new rules today that would ban some of the worst practices in the credit card industry, such as retroactive and arbitrary interest rate hikes. We speak with Kathy Kristof, reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Exorcism of demons, mesmerism, Freudian therapy, biofeedback: Yhe mind's connection to health has a rich history both within and outside of the scientific community. We speak with Anne Harrington, a professor at Harvard University about her new book, "The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine". A recent report by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University predicts that this summer teen unemployment will reach an all-time high. We speak with Joseph McLaughlin, a co-author of the study, and Mark Isenberg, of Action for Boston Community Development. Congressman Walter Jones (R-NC) is the man who brought "Freedom Fries" to the Washingto
Audio|Fri, 2 May 2008|More from WBUR: Here and Now Podcast
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“…another controversial topic. Those infamous photographs taken by American soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Here now Andrea Shea sat down with the filmmaker. When news of the Abu Ghraib photos scandal broke in 2004 people all over the world were shocked and appalled. Pictures of young American soldiers degrading Iraqi prisoners …”
“…we'll have full coverage of Tuesday's primary for -- coming up -- Abu Ghraib through the lens of filmmaker Errol Morris. Second one minute here. …”