barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. for each of us, there are days that are turning points. a day that changes our personal life, or a day that changes the nation. sometimes, very rarely, it's one and the same day. just such a day happened to me on wednesday, august 28th, 1963. i was 29 years old, the deputy director of the peace corps, with offices one block from the white house and a short walk from the lincoln memorial. that morning, largely on impulse, inspired by a friend, i joined the quarter of a million americans, people of every age and color, who had come for the march on washington. the event is now most famous for martin luther king, jr.'s "i have a cream "dream" speech, but like many of the others there, i was first transfixed by one of the other speakers, the youngest on the platform. >> brother john lewis. >> his name was john lewis. he

barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. i'm phil donahue. bill moyers is away this week and i am pleased to be sitting in for him. our subject is syria. what began there two and a half years ago as part of the arab spring has turned into an all-out civil war. now has come the shocking evidence of poison gas attacks. a fatal escalation that has led president obama to ask congress to authorize the limited use of military force. and if we take action, where and when does it stop? historian and analyst andrew bacevich is here asking those questions.[ a graduate of west point and vietnam veteran, he served in the military for 23 years before becoming a professor at boston university. his books include "the limits of power" and "washington rules." his latest, "breach of trust." andrew bacevich, welcome. >> thank you very much. >> well, i'm pleased to have this c

barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. odds are you know of robert reich. perhaps as the public servant he was under three administrations -- for his work as president clinton's secretary of labor, "time magazine" called him one of the best cabinet secretaries of the 20th century. he's written thirteen books, including his latest, "beyond outrage: what has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it." but you're about to see professor reich who teaches public policy at the university of california, berkeley, in a wholly new light. as the star of a dynamic, witty, and entertaining new film to be released next week in theatres across the country. it's called "inequality for all,' and was directed by jacob kornbluth. here's the trailer. >> now the thing you want to know about this mini cooper is it is small. we are in proportion, me and

barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. let us now praise common sense. once again a president was about to plunge us into the darkest waters of foreign policy where the ruling principle becomes, "when in doubt, bomb someone." strategists in the white house, militarists in the think tanks, the powerful pro-israel lobby aipac, and arm-chair warriors of all stripes, neo-conservatives and liberal humanitarians alike, were all telling barack obama to strike syria, no matter the absence of any law or treaty to justify it, no matter the chaos to follow. do it, they said, to show you can, or what's a super power for? but they hadn't reckoned on public opinion. the people said no, not this time. not after more than ten years of soldiers coming home broken in body, screaming nightmares in their brains, their families devastated. not when our politics is an egregiou

barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. we begin with drama on the high seas. several days ago, environmental activists from greenpeace international tried to climb a russian oil platform in the arctic. they were there to protest drilling for fossil fuels in this fragile ecology at the top of the world, but they were confronted by gun-carrying members of the russian coast guard, who fired warning shots dangerously close to the protesters and their inflatable boats. the next day, a russian helicopter dropped armed troops onto the deck of the arctic sunrise, that's the greenpeace command ship. she was seized and towed to the port of murmansk and the crew held for questioning and possible charges of piracy. greenpeace has often dared to confront governments and corporations head-on, and this wasn't the first act of civil disobedience against the drilling rigs