and through him brian crowe's you're a number of other. journalists were recruited to the column as one of the strangest in the book is a character named robert moss who. famously skipped down the corridors of the economist offices and in 1983 the day that. door and they ensure they took his life chanting my enemy is dead and moscow was deeply involved in the period leading up to that coup in in preparing western opinion as well it within chile it was a it was a sort of a clear cut case of propagandizing and. enjoy ties to the cia as well as to to to other western intelligence agencies and and so what i try to demonstrate is that in the cold war period in particular we see those close connections to the state manifesting themselves and in this kind of pushback against detente and against sort of not only left wing or communist governments in the 3rd world but even even even governments that that simply attempted to sort of nationalize land robert the fellow that i was just alluding to was also fascinating because in it at the end of the co

i'm brian thomas great to have you with us today the crow virus has reached one of the most secure structures in the world the white house people working with us president donald trump have been instructed to wear face masks that after 2 aides tested positive for covert 19 now the virus has so far killed more than 80000 people in the u.s. the new infections at the white house come as the president pressures state governors to relax and demick restrictions. a swift change in attitude as the white house scrambles to prevent the corona virus from spreading among employees everyone entering the west wing where the president works must wear a face mask that is almost everyone president donald trump has refrained from wearing a mask in public and private and says he still doesn't see the need. of their certain distance for mayor of there are certain distance from each other they do. in the case of me i'm not that i'm not close to anybody i'd like to be close to these 2 gentlemen they're hardworking great men but they just said frankly let's keep it this way so obviously in my case i'm very far away

everybody knew it jim crow sort of prettifies or turns what was really apartheid and, as kirsten pit, or the age of racial terror what brian stephenson calls it. vaguely knew about something called jim crow and, of course, i grew up in the middle of the civil rights, so we knew about that. but the depth to which slavery continued or the effects continued, i think, is something that we simply didn't know. is so if you actually look at, if you say that legal discrimination in the united states ended with the passage of the civil rights act, with the end of red-lining, certain things like that, -- this isn't to say that oppression and humiliation and murder as with the police doesn't keep going on to this day, but let's just say the legal basis ended -- well, that's 50 years ago, you know? and that was about the amount of time that it took for germany not the reparations that were paid just after the war, but the ones that were to be paid in the year 2000 really sort of with a full heart and a full recognition, yeah, this is what we need to to do to make up forr history. so i know people talk about the historical differences,