10/06/14 10/06/14 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] >> from pacifica, this is democracy now! >> jean-claude duvalier is dead. however, the case against him continues because the victims had a case not only against duvalier but against all involved from far or near, in torture, execution, disappearance, rate, and plunder. the former u.s.-backed dictator of haiti, jean-claude duvalier, also known as baby doc , is dead at the age of 63.

we will speak to jean saint-vil and journalist amy wilentz, author of "the rainy season: haiti since duvalier." west.professor cornel >> how do we weigh the honesty and integrity and decency to have the courage to speak candidly and to fight for justice. cornell west will join us to talk about his latest book, "black prophetic fire." all that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. fighting is raging on several fronts amidst us-led airstrikes on iraq and syria. wereast 16 fighters reportedly killed sunday after attacking a hezbollah position

inside eastern lebanon close to the syrian border. a female kurdish suicide bomber reportedly killed a number of islamic state fighters. but the islamic state is reportedly threatening to capture kobani after several weeks of fighting sparking fears of a massacre if it takes control. the latest violence comes as video was posted online showing an islamic state member beheading a british aid worker, alan henning. he is the fourth western hostage to be beheaded by the group in just over a month. in the video, the islamic state issues death threats against another captive, u.s. aid worker peter cassock. pleas for, his mother him. >> we are praying for you and your safe return. most of all, know that we love you and our hearts ache for you

to be granted your freedom so that we can hug you again and then set you free to continue , theife you have chosen life of service to those in greatest need. we implore those who are holding you to show mercy and use their power to let you go. targets ofhe first u.s. airstrikes in syria last month was a former french intelligence officer who defected to the al qaeda linked nusra front. the officer is said to be the officer anding survived the attack. joe biden has apologized after saying u.s. allies in the middle east armed and funded islamic extremists in syria. ourur biggest problem is allies. our allies in the region are our largest problem in syria. great friends, i

have a good relationship with them, the 70's, the varieties, etc. what were they doing? they were so determined to take proxyssad and have a sunni-shia war and they poured hundreds of millions of dollars and 10,000 tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against saddam, except the people who were being supplied work on nusra and al qaeda and extremist elements of jihad he's coming from other parts of the world. >> over the weekend, the vice president directly apologized in phone calls to the turkish president recep tayyip erdogan and crown prince from pacifica, this is democracy now! of the united --mohamed bin zayed of the united arab emirates.

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and we are really hoping for the recovery of the patient in dallas. we understand that his situation has taken a turn for the worst. we know evil is a serious disease and we are hoping for his recovery. on friday, four members of duncan's family were moved out of the apartment where he had been staying. been forced toad remain there under a forst orenstein but the sheets and dirty towels used by duncan remained inside as authorities trouble to find a company that would take them and no federal officials intervened. jenkinsounty judge clay says the family hasn't moved to a private residence made available by a donor. >> they are good people, kind people, people who care about their community. they are obviously worried about their own health, concerned about your health as well, and

our hope is they can have some peace and that they can be left inne for a few days at least that undisclosed location and the hope is the people that live around the apartment complex that they were in, that their lives can get back to normal. >> thomas eric duncan had flown in from liberia last month to be with his family in texas. meanwhile an american cameraperson who contracted ebola while in liberia is expected to return to the u.s. today. he will reportedly be treated in nebraska. pro-democracy protesters have pulled back after more than a week of rallying in hong kong. demonstrators camping out in front of government buildings ease their blockade today allowing workers to pass through and cars to drive. the move follows a government threat to use appropriate force to break up the sit in. student taking part have also

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and players from a soccer club. six people were killed in the initial attack but survivors loaded into police vehicles. 30 people were detained in the case including 22 police officers. prosecutors say they conspired with gang members to kill the code testers after a wave of protests. students were protesting a limp government complicity, calling for their call the to be released. brazil's presidential race is headed to a runoff after sunday's vote failed to end the race. placerousseff took first with 41%, not enough to avoid a second round against aecio dennis, who took 33%. marina silva to we 1% of the vote. become the first european country to recognize the state of palestine. in an interview, the swedish foreign minister margot

wallstrom said recognition of palestinian statehood will help advance the cause of peace. >> we believe this is an important step towards a two state solution. we hope this will inspire and give new energy into the will engage and we in a dialogue and in talks with our partners and other countries , from both camps. on theee our interviews issue of palestine, you can go to our website democracynow.org. the move was one of the first announced by the news centerleft government. ferguson, missouri, protesters calling for justice in the case of michael brown had taken their cause to the st. louis symphony.

activists interrupted a symphony performance saturday night to unfurled banners and perform a version of the protest song which side are you on" they dubbed a requiem for michael brown. ♪ >> protesters inside the st. louis symphony singing which side are you on from their seats saturday night. those are some of the headlines, this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. i am juan gonzalez. welcome to our listeners and viewers from around the country and world. jon kyl duvalier has died at the age of 63. , he ruledaby doc

haiti from 1971 until 1986. he took power after the death of his father who had ruled since 1957. his death came months after a portion -- haitian court ruled that he could be charged with crimes against manatee and could be held responsible for abuses by the army and pillar military forces under his rule. watch,ng to human rights his rule was marked by systematic human rights violations. hundreds of political prisoners held in a network of jails died from their pro-treatment. his government repeatedly closed independent newspapers and radio stations. journalists were beaten and tortured and forced to leave the country. one of his most vocal critics in the 1980's was a priest known as jean bertrand aristide who would later become the first democratically elected president. >> despite his human rights record, duvalier was a close ally of the u.s.

after years of exile in france, baby doc return to haiti in 2011 and became an ally of the current president. in messages posted on twitter, he called baby doc an authentic son of haiti. aere is now talks about possible state funeral for duvalier. s regime haveof hi spoken out against it. >> it is a crime against humanity. you are talking about torture, executions,es, starving people in jail. you are talking about genocide. whole families have gone even to the point of having children two years old be thrown in the air and come down on bayonets. these are the types of crimes that his regime has committed.

he was the head of it for 15 years under the regime of duvalier. , wella very well known documented, 60,000 people have perished under these conditions i tell you about. man a national funeral, that would be a slap to all of the victims and to the nation in general. >> to talk more about baby doc's legacy, we are joined by jean saint-vil, and ottawa-based writer. his website is godisnotwhite.com . us, anentz is also with award-winning writer and journalist, the author of several books on haiti, including "farewell, fred "oodoo: a letter from haiti which received the national book circles critics award. she is also the author of "the

rainy season: haiti since duvalier." she teaches at the university of california irvine. welcome to you both. let's start with jean saint-vil. ofr response to the death jean-claude duvalier in his significance in haitian history? >> i think the first thing that came to mind is some people are saddened by this. they should send their condolences to the cia into the french government because they are the ones who supported duvalier over all the years of that dictatorship, both the father and the son. alsof course, it proves that the regime we currently have in haiti, where there is a pop-up government that is pretending to be running the country, is not one where you

can have justice. duvalier returned in january, he1, and he did so because knew that it was safe for him to return to the country where you had 7000 yuan troops occupying the country and that the regime that was going to be elected was one of the duvalier supporters. >> what about that return, what was the reason, from what we you can tell, from being out of the country for so long, and what impact did it have on the local clinical situation in haiti? >> i don't think it had an impact on the political situation because the elections that were being organized in 2010, 2011, were controlled by the united states and the organization of american states

and they had established that the most opulent party could not purchase of eight. so there were only two right-wing candidates who were allowed to go into the second round of elections by hillary clinton, who went personally to decide who could go into the second round. however, the return of duvalier, for him, meant that he was going to be able to continue to live a lavish life because he had spent all of his money in europe with his european supporters when he divorced michelle duvalier. a lot of them money was transferred to his wife, the money he stole from haiti when he left in 1986. so you have some of his birth -- supporters reporting that taxi drivers in paris were collecting money to support him and he was running away because he could

not pay his bills because of the lifestyle he was living. so he returned because he was broke, in essence. when duvalier was rich, he was protected by the french government and he spent his .oney in the french economy when he was broke, they returned him to haiti. >> we are also joined by amy wilentz. your reaction on hearing the death of baby doc? my initial reaction is it was terribly sad for the haitian people who will not be denied their time to see him brought to justice for the crimes he committed against humanity and individual haitians. that saddened me. i am still concerned when i hear the president wants to offer duvalier a possible state funeral. that is scary. what i was hoping for was, even

though the man who ran the government that was so cool in google was dead, at least haps there could be a moment in court where the victims of duvalier could say what had been done to them, offer testimony to what they had to bear during his regime so that at least the haitian people would have a chance to understand their history. a lot are too young to hundred -- remember duvalier, but he is still an important person. >> you mentioned the trial, whether it would go forward. i wanted to turn to comments made by the head of the national human rights defense network in haiti. he said he hoped the trial would still go on without him. >> jean-claude duvalier is dead.

however, the case against him continues because the victims had a case not only against john kline duvalier but against all , inlved from far or near torture, execution, disappearance, rate, and plunder of public funds. jean-claude duvalier is dead. we all regret the fact that the dictator died at 63 years. he could've lived longer and allow the haitian people to discover the truth about the duvalier regime. now we are waiting to see if the power in place will give a national funeral to an old dictator. don't forget that anywhere in the world where there were dictators, they do not benefit from that. head of the haiti national human rights defense network. amy wilentz, the possibility of this trial happening even with baby doc dead?

>> it is unlikely. michel martelly made sure that the trial would not go forward while baby doc was alive. i do not see him standing up and saying we have to have this moment of closure, we have to look at the people behind duvalier doing his bidding or acting on their own. i do not see martelly being that kind of a patriot. >> when we come back from break, we will come back and play a short clip from "haiti: killing the dream." we will also discuss jean-bertrand aristide, who has been put under house arrest, and what this means. our guests are amy wilentz, a number -- the author of a number of books, including "the rainy season: haiti since duvalier." is also with us from ottawa.

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>> cornell west will be joining us to talk about "black prophetic fire." this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. to turn to an excerpt from the 1992 documentary "haiti: killing the dream." this focuses on the successive duvalier regimes and mentors works of the tontons macoutes. >> united states propped up the

regime of haiti's most feared president runs one duvalier. he was a country doctor who became a desperate. to ensure he would not be overthrown by the army of his predecessors, he built up his own vigilante militia, the infamous tontons macoutes. volunteers were paid by having free license to steal and extort from the people they tortured, raped, and murdered. toward the end of h life, duvalier cemented his ties to washington and arranged for his son to him. after his death in 1971, 19-year-old baby doc took over

as president for life. he plunder the national treasure and was honored support and turned haiti into a major drug transport stop. 1986, the popular uprising ended the decades of duvalier dictatorship. was flown into exile aboard a u.s. government jet, taking a vast fortune and leaving behind a devastated country. after years of living in fear, the haitian people exploded, taking revenge on the most ,busive tontons mous uprooting the duvalier oppression. some who committed capital crimes suffered the popular justice called necklace thing.

a tire filled with gasoline was placed around their bodies and burned. ." "haiti: killing the dream the film was written by juan gonzalez. ,ur guest star jean saint-vil haitian writer and activist in ottawa. amy wilentz has written extensively about haiti. among her books, "the rainy season: haiti since duvalier." , you have just listened to this excerpt about the documentary. if there were a state funeral, your response? >> it would definitely be an outrage but i would not be surprised. what is missing from this discussion so far is the explanation of why duvalier was

able to survive and oh press the haitian people for so many years . for instance, in that excerpt that you played in "haiti: killing the dream," they mention the tontons macoutes, but they were trained by u.s. marines who went into haiti and trained them. this is not speculation. toear people speculating as who has trained isis in syria. in the case of haiti there is no confusion about it. and that u.s. marines when in and created the tontons macoutes, equipped them. there are no weapons produced in haiti. it all came from the united states. happenedtransition with jean-claude duvalier taking , theyrom his father created another group called the leopards. again the cia who had a subcontract with a company that

went into haiti and it is the people who participated, the president of our trade, who gave an interview explaining how they went into haiti to train those groups. today, if you were to have a funeral, a state funeral for jean-claude duvalier, it would make sense. whereas a lot of people were surprised to find out that jean-claude duvalier returned to haiti in january 2011, one year later the second anniversary of the earthquake in haiti, some of us were shocked to watch tv and we saw on the podium jean-claude duvalier with michel martelly and bill clinton, the former u.s. president. amy, you know how protocol functions. bill clinton cannot claim that he did not know jean-claude duvalier was not going to be there.

it was a clear signal from the current u.s. government that they are standing with jean-claude duvalier. >> amy wilentz, there is news had jean-claude aristide been placed under house arrest. your reaction to that news? >> it is just astounding. duvalier -- men would come in pickup trucks and surround ex presidents house, and to put him under your legal .ouse arrest is very shocking i fear that he is very vulnerable right now because of the death of duvalier. in a sense, there is a protection move away from

aristide. in not going after duvalier, they could not will go after aristide although they have been trying. now that duvalier is not there, i'm afraid that will unleash the anger of this government against aristide, who really is the national hero who helped coalesce the movement against duvalier. 2011, jean-bertrand aristide and his family were flown by the south african government back to their homes in haiti after aristide was in exile in south africa for seven years. he had been flown out of haiti in a u.s. military jet to the central african republic but then a small group of activists and congress people, congress member maxine waters, the former founder of transafrica, as well

as others, flew to the central african republic to pick him and the first lady of haiti up, mildred. i accompanied them on the flight, covering it. we also traveled with aristide when he flew back from south africa to haiti. i asked him about the 2004 coup that led to his ouster. >> it becomes obvious to toryone what happened and those who can see the truth. those who cannot see it, i cannot oblige them to see it. when you make a mistake, it is a mistake. if you decide to continue to make the same mistake, then it is worse. a mistake was made. that was jean-bertrand

aristide on the plane. jean saint-vil, can you talk about these two ouster's of aristide? the first one, after the first and thenas elected, the second one, in 2000 -- 2004. >> first of all, let me say that i was born and raised in haiti. in fact, i left for the first the, three years before fall of duvalier, in 1983. when jean-bertrand aristide became president in 1990, i was astounded by the fact that, for the first time in my life, i saw patients go to the polls and choose their own president, which is something that was amazing to us in terms of the

ability of the marginalized population to finally have their say against the oligarchy that controls things in haiti. so i was among the thousands of haitians who returned to haiti in 1991. the first crew happened when i was in haiti. i was so proud, my university inree, where i studied canada, was received in haiti. our dream was to live in our country. there were haitians coming from all over the planet, returning after years, thinking that everything is possible now. only seven months after he was sworn in, the military conducted supportp with full u.s. , so aristide was overthrown. a lot of people were killed,

especially in the impoverished near bernards were there was -- neighborhoods where there was a group that was organized as a paramilitary to basically make sure that as they did the crew, they could murder a bunch of people in the capital city of port-au-prince. of course, that led to a lot of the people who had returned to go back to europe, north america, and other places. so when aristide was able to return to haiti and compete again, it was no surprise he was going to win the elections in 2000. but even before he was sworn in, we were receiving threats that it aristide became president, he would not be able to complete his mandate. that came to me in a personal way, on december 31, 2003.

i was in haiti, naïve of the bicentennial, the celebration of 80's independence, at hotel montana. the head ofnted by the organization of american , "the real said problem with haiti is the international community is so screwed up and divided, they are actually letting haitians run haiti." less than two months after he said that, the crew of 2004 took place. so it is a tragedy that what we are observing here is that they are trivializing electro democracy, making an equivalence between someone who has been elected by the people, with a who was named president

for life. it is an aberration. unfortunately, this is the type of world that we live in today. live in there, we want to thank you both for being with us. jean-claude duvalier took power when he was 19 years old. he died at the age of 63 in haiti without trial. i want to thank jean saint-vil for joining us, writer, activist, from ottawa. his website is godisnotwhite.com . amy wilentz is an award-winning author and journalist, author of "farewell, fred voodoo: a letter from haiti." she is also the author of "the rainy season: haiti since duvalier." she teaches at the university of california irvine. when we come back, professor cornel west. [♪]

>> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. >> we spend the rest of the hour with renowned scholar, act or, activist, dr. cornel west. numerous author of oaks, his latest out this week is "black prophetic fire." he engages with a german scholar and thinker, christa buschendorf . even as the united states is led its first black president, dr. west says he is fearful that we could be witnessing the death

of black prophetic fire. welcome back. >> always a blessing to be here. , want to salute both of you the work that you are doing. i wanted to it knowledge sister mostta, who is one of the in the u.s.e people and europe. the book would not exist without her. >> what do you mean by black prophetic fire? >> it is about a deep love for black people, justice, but connected to the four questions that give voice rustles with. what does honesty do in the face of deception? what does decency do in the face of insult? in the face of terror and

trauma, 400 years of black people, what are we producing? a love train. love of justice. love of poor people. it is the weekend people -- the week and people trying to bounce back. , theyou look at ferguson dream defenders, the ,rganization of luck struggle you see this magnificent renaissance. that brings joy to my heart. >> the book begins with frederick douglass. andonly as an activist scholar but as an incredible writer and his importance in 19th-century america. >> certainly the most eloquent exclave in the history of the modern world.

he connects wisdom with the .nbelievable courage to act there is simply no one like him. we need his spirit these days because we live in the age of the sellout, those who are willing to sacrifice integrity , selling their souls. tall in the heat of the struggle, the matter what hilarity was to be sacrificed, he told the truth about the viciousness of white supremacist slavery. >> give us a sketch of who he was. >> he made his way up to new england, underground, with the help of his wife. abolitionistshite .

brothers, be vanilla who, indeed solidarity with the black trouble for freedom, like christopher hedges, noam chomsky, a number of them, dorothy day, on the vanilla side of town, americans saying we would focus on these particular black folk. of course, a rich tradition of latinos. >> talk about frederick douglass' struggles, who he was recognized by? recognized bye william lloyd garrison. he had to say that he had written this book because at the time an african-american writing

a book was under suspicion. it is not just terror but torture, to generate high levels of productivity for-profit. when we talk about american and terrorists, no matter what strike or color, they are gangsters and bugs. but american terrorism we do not like to talk about. first of pressing need indigenous people and then enslaving for 80 years under the u.s. constitution, being a proslavery, pro-terrorist document. wonderful words on paper, but when it came to black folk, it was a rationalization of slavery. s was keeping track.

he was not only a revolutionary in terms of the struggle for emancipation of african-americans. newspaper, in his one of the fiercest critics of the u.s. war against mexico, and advocate for women's suffrage, the equality of women. >> absolutely. integrity requires more consistency, what jane austen called constancy, being willing to follow through on your moral convictions, regardless of the cost, regardless of the risk you have to take. most importantly, he was willing to die. anyone in america who tells the truth about the barbarity of white supremacy and its legacy must be willing to die. you have got to recognize, you become a target, not just a fellow citizen with character assassination, but literal

assassination. the most dangerous thing in black rage to take the form of love and justice among everyday people, among the black masses, that then invite human beings of integrity. that is a major threat to the system, why our young black people are being so targeted with the educational system, incarceration. we have called for mass incarceration. one of the reasons why you see this massive unemployment and no serious attention to it, the level of genocidal attack on our precious young people is really beyond the language. >> some have talked about the killing of michael brown as a modern-day lynching. can you talk about ida b wells?

she is probably the most courageous of all of them and that is hard to say. which booker t. washington and the vvd the voice -- the bb the boys are arguing about civil rights, struggle versus subservient to the power, she looks at ral violence in the and says, i want to talk about jim crow lynching that is at the center of american life which has been trivialized in so many ways. course, she has a bounty on her head. she was born in 1862. >> she was born a slave in mississippi. both parents died quickly.

she had to raise her brothers and sisters and went on to become one of the great freedom fighters, intellectuals. >> championed the campaign against lynching. >> a lot of people do not realize that the lack freedom movement is an antiterrorist movement. it is in the face of american terrorism. extension of it, in the face of american terrorism. uan, you also write about ida b wells in your book. >> she began reporting about the killing of three of her friends in memphis, was run out of town, her press destroyed, but then she went around the country exposing lynchings throughout the country. she was really one of the original muckrakers, but not really talked about.

before lincoln stevens and the others. >> this is important with the current moment. rose demonized malcolm x, he came out against the empire of vietnam. we are living in a time where there is a ruin is asian of blog journalism. people weren tv, activists if they were critical. at 1960's,k back very few people talk about car ruining. especially the peace that he wrote in 1967 about how martin luther king jr. had lost responsibility and integrity. manyame is true for so black journalist today on tv, thee in the mainstream, black independent press is being

lost like independent radio. this is simply an attempt to say, when it comes to our youth, music, culture, politics, we need a renaissance of integrity, vision, willingness to serve, and willingness to sacrifice. other subjects in the book is the bb the boys. you call him, along with john dewey, one of the two towering intellectual figures of the early 20th century. you can just say his name and you want to be silent for a while. 95 years of struggle. and what did he say after 95 years? you must catch your struggle in on an international stage. i am going to africa. i remain tied to the best of america but recognized it may be the case that america needs a revolution but does not have the

capacity for revolution, only counterrevolution, but we can go other places, latin america, asia, africa. >> a civil rights activist, historian, dies in 1963. we want to play a clip of w.e.b. dubois speaking in 1951 about african americans and worker's rights in an audio recording preserved by the pacifica archives. have long since oversupplied their problem and try to separate it from all other social problems. they conceive that their fight is simply to have the same rights and privileges as other american citizens. they do not for a moment stop to question how far the organization of work and distribution of will in america is perfect, nor do they for a

moment conceive that economic organization of america may have fundamental injustices and shortcomings which seriously affect not only negroes but the whole world. speaking inbois 1951, the 10 africanist, sociologist, civil rights leader. talk about how he was represented and how he is remembered and how you feel he was sanitized? what has been whited out of his history? >> it's amazing to hear his voice. i salute you both for keeping his presence alive. he had just emerged from a court case, was part of the piece information center. he was viewed as a representative of a foreign government. he was under arrest. married shirley two

dubois. is still strong as ever, a threat to the system, a threat to the black middle class, attempting to become more part of the status quo. he is determined to follow through on the love of poor and oppressed people, but he begins on the chocolate side of town. he starts the black people and loves brown, red, yellow, white across the board. after the fall of the american empire, his voice will be there among herman melville, toni morrison, among others. >> in terms of his major works, how he shaped how modern

scholars deal with history of african-americans -- >> absolutely. he put capitalism at the center of america. at the center of that, slavery, and at the center of that, black agency. what kind of creative responses. you heard curtis mayfield say that we are a winner. where does this hope and joy come from? you have to keep track of the creativity, the sense of community, the we consciousness. his famous essay, the damnation of women, highly sensitive to patriarchy. i think he would say something similar about our gay brothers and lesbians. he started as a socialist and ended as a communist. recognized a

certain kind of freethinking. at certain moments he is critical of stalinism, at other moments, not critical enough. he is very critical with his concern of all press people's and understood the centrality of -- areprimera chile merrily the spirituals for him. >> i wanted to ask you about ella baker. some ofed a key role in the most influential organizations, including the naacp, southern christian leadership. this is a let baker speaking in 1974. >> brothers and sisters in the struggle for human dignity and freedom, i am here to represent the struggles that have gone on for 300 or more years.

a struggle to be recognized as citizens in a country in which we were born. >> that was ella baker speaking in 1974. her importance in the struggle over all? >> she is the central figure in this text and in the american tradition when it comes to democratic theory and practice. more importanten than brother martin because he is still tied to that one charismatic figure at the top. ella baker understood that leadership comes from not just below, but from within the weative capacity, those that call every day people, ordinary people. she is always highly suspicious of the charismatic messianic figure at the top.

she is doing the work and understands that leadership --es from among the interacting with the everyday people, and most importantly, understanding the "we" consciousness. occupy, in that sense, is an extension of the best of ella baker. anytime we talk about martin luther king jr., we must talk about malcolm x, we must talk about ella baker. all three go hand-in-hand. >> talk about malcolm x and martin luther king in this book. >> we just do not have the language or that brother. he is such as enacted. -- jazz enacted. love white folks.

his intensity, authenticity, sincerity in telling the truth and bearing witness is, in many ways, unprecedented. is ae beginning, he gangster malcolm, and then he takes on the world with his love, his willingness to die and struggle for the people. >> martin luther king jr., the only one of these figures that have been adopted by american society as part of the lexicon of our history. >> of course, he is perhaps the closest to a christian. the weight of the cross is unapologetic love. allow the least of these sufferers to be heard. that means that you end up not just loving your neighbor, but your enemies. it is tied to a cross of

palestinians and jews and jesus. something that allows you to say,death in the face and where is their victory? where does president obama fit into this picture, or does he? obama is at neo-central librettist, a imperial president. he is brilliant, charismatic, but he is the head of the american empire, sitting at the center of the status quo. it is a profound critique of the system he has and a profound disappointment in the priorities of wall street, drones, mass surveillance, which we have seen in his administration. but we say it with love. i always pray for him. west, "black

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(music playing) ♪ hello. i'm hubert keller and we're here in the kitchen of fleur in las vegas, and we're having a huge pride on keeping all our shellfish and seafood the freshest you can. it never goes over one day in our refrigerators. in fact, we have special refrigerators to store the fish, for example over here, that's the drawer with the shellfish, and you can see i have some beautiful oysters here. they sit on a bed of ice; there's even a drain in the drawer so the fish never sit in the water, which is extremely important. over here i have a beautiful piece of tuna, and that's a piece that probably keeps us only for one night at the restaurant, and the next day we have something freshly delivered. in fact, today i'll be cooking with tuna, and the first dish will be a salad nicoise, typical from provence where we're using that tuna.