catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. 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.

catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. 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. maya angelou's death late this spring at 86 sent me back in time. we had first met in new york city 45 years ago, soon after she had published her phenomenal, best-selling memoir, "i know why the caged bird sings." she was already a presence -- civil rights activist, singer, dancer, songwriter. but that first night, we discovered that we had both grown up in small, segregated towns just so, we talked about my childhood in marshall, texas, and hers in stamps, arkansas. born marguerite johnson in st. louis, she was sent to stamps to live with her grandmother and hadn't returned for years. let's go back together, i said. she wouldn't have it. too many demons, sh

catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. 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. once again, we are remembering the author and poet maya angelou, who died three months ago at the age of 86. at the time of her death, one of the cable news websites proclaimed that "a literary voice revered globally for her poetic command and her commitment to civil rights has fallen silent." well, not exactly. because we'll be hearing maya angelou's voice for a long time to come. she left seven autobiographies, three books of essays, volumes of poetry and many recorded appearances on stage, television, and at public readings of her work. here she is in 1993, reading her poem "on the pulse of morning," written for bill clinton's first inauguration as presiden

catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. 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. here's something to make you really, really mad. our country's infrastructure is crumbling. potholes are becoming sinkholes, axle-killers, tire-busters. our cities struggle to pay for services. the powers-that-be in bankrupt detroit even cut off the water to some residents. schools and libraries are closing. public parks decay. and the war party in washington clamors for billions of dollars more for foreign interventions -- bombs, rockets, drones, even troops. 20 million americans who would like a full-time job still can't get one, yet corporations are sitting on more than $2 trillion in cash while revenue from corporate income taxes are down from 40% in 1943

catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. ore information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. 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. there are roughly 80 million evangelical christians in america, and for years a majority of their ranks have refused to take global warming seriously. many were swayed by the likes of rush limbaugh, who said, "if you believe in god, then yi6 ñ intellectually you cannot believe in manmade global warming. you must be either agnostic or atheistic to believe that man controls something he can't create." then there is the powerful republican james inhofe of the senate committee on the environment and public works, who said, "god's still up there, and the arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what he is doing in the climate is,

catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. 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. here we go again. >> as i -- as i report to you, air attacks are underway against military targets in iraq. president bill clinton on december 16, 1998 -- -- good evening. earlier today, i ordered america's armed forces to strike military and security targets in iraq. -- my fellow citizens, at this hour, american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger. -- to stop the advance on erbil, i've directed our military to take targeted strikes against isil terrorist convoys should they move toward the city. >> over 23 years, four consecutive presidents have ordere

catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. re information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. 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. even if you're in denial, and i hope you're not -- you know about climate change. everyone can see the wildfires and drought in california. the fatal flash floods in arizona. the punch of a hurricane pounding mexico's baja coast, the strongest in nearly 50 years, battering locals and trapping tourists in their hotels. these disasters are made more powerful by global warming, and it's only going to get worse for us and for future generations. unless we act now. that's why more than 120 world leaders are coming to new york city next tuesday for the u.n.'s global summit on climate -- trying yet again to provoke governments to get on with it -- reduce those carbon

catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information is available at macfound.org. additional support is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. at fordfoundation.org. the wyncote foundation. and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. and additional support from millicent bell through the millicent and eugene bell foundation. >> narrator: jiro ishimaru is a journalist trying to expose what kim jong un's regime wants to hide: the secret world of the north korean people. he has an undercover network which covertly films life inside the country. >> (translated): obviously, it's an extremely dangerous thing to do. in north korea, even filming everyday life is considered a form of political treason. if they are caught filming, they'd be locked up and may never be let out again. >> narrator: even filming on the chinese side of the border is

catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information is available at macfound.org. additional support is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. at fordfoundation.org. the wyncote foundation. and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. >> narrator: in sierra leone, west africa, a catastrophe is unfolding: the world's deadliest outbreak of ebola. sebastian stein is part of the team at an emergency field hospital that's been built by the relief group doctors without borders. >> you see patients in the most horrible states, and you can have patients who come in one day, and the next day i'm packing them in a body bag. people are dying left and right here. >> narrator: another patient has just died. sebastian, who's in charge of the morgue, must enter the isolation tent to recover the body. >> you need to be covered everywhere, so you have

catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. 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. >>> this week on "moyers & company." >> it's time for everybody across this country to ask of their senators, to ask of their congressman or congresswoman, whose fight are you on? are you there for the folks who are out there trying to work for a living or are you just there for the millionaires and billionaires? >> funding is provided by -- -- encouraging the renewal of democracy. carnegie organization of new york. democratic engagement and the advancement of international peace and security. at carnegie.org. the ford foundation. working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. the herb albert foundation. supporting organizations whose mission it i

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catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. 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. >> garrison keillor: seamus heaney grew up the eldest of nine children on a 50 acre farm in northern ireland, his father a cattle dealer, his mother's family worked in the linen mills. when he was 12, he won a scholarship to a catholic school, learned latin and gaelic. over the years, his poetry has become enormously popular, especially since he won the nobel prize in literature in 1995. >> blackberry picking. late august, given heavy rain and sun for a full week, the blackberries would ripen. at first, just one-- a glossy purple clot among others, red, green, hard as a knot. you ate that first one, and its flesh was sweet like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it lea

catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. 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. garrison keillor: kwame dawes was born in ghana and grew up in jamaica. he has published 13 books of poetry, many books of fiction, nonfiction and drama, and he's the author of the first in-depth study of the lyrics of bob marley. he teaches at the university of south carolina. he says of his poetry, "often i am not writing to describe what i have seen, but trying to voice what the work is stirring in me." "tornado child." tornado child, tornado child. i, i'm a tornado child. i come like a swirl of black and darken up your day; i whip it all up into my womb, lift you and your things, carry you where you've never been, and maybe, if i feel good, i might bring you back, all

catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. 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. this is jotunheim, "home of the giants." it's a high plateau that feels like it's the top of the world. these are northern europe's highest peaks, and they're steeped in norse legends and folklore. this is the land of thor and odin, whose spirits still inhabit the misty peaks. for centuries, villagers trekked across this pass to reach the coast. it was an arduous journey, but today, crossing it is a pleasure. at 4,600 feet, the sognefjell road is norway's highest pass. at this latitude, even these modest altitudes take us high above the tree line, with snow through the summer. norway's lunar-like mountainscapes and deep fjords were shaped by glaciers that covered most of

catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. 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. steves: pause at any street corner to enjoy a vivid slice of neapolitan life. and don't forget to look up. with no yards, families make full use of their tiny balconies. this is basso living. basso living. what does that mean? it can mean "low." so, literally, low? this is like a small apartment -- two, three bedrooms for five, six, seven, eight, nine people to a family. the traditional, sort of romantic life in the streets. life in the streets, yeah. many people might have money to go away from here, but they still stay here. steves: no taste of naples is complete without a pizza. antica pizzeria da michele is a favorite. baking in just the right combination of fresh dou

catherine t. macarthur foundation. a more peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to public issues. barbara g. flashman. and by our your retirement company. >> welcome. you could not have watched television the last few months without seeing senator elizabeth warren talking about her book, "a fighting chance." and that's a good thing. because it's a terrific book. about how a little girl from oklahoma, her parents struggling to make ends meet and keep a roof over their headsp how this little girl grows up to teach at harvard, becomes the nemesis of wrongdoers on wall street, gets elected to the united states and in record time becomes the leading voice of the progressive wing of the democratic party. but right now, let me show you something she said to me when i first interviewed her ten years ago. >> middle class has been pushed right to the edge. they are on a cliff. and increasing numbers are falling off every single day. families live in a much more dangerous economic world than they did a generation ago. there are moms and dads who wo

catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. 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. steves: the best look at ancient constantinople is at church-turned-mosque that's been considered among the greatest houses of worship in both the christian and muslim worlds -- hagia sophia, the great church of constantinople. built by the byzantine emperor justinian in the early 6th century on the grandest scale possible, it was later converted into a mosque by the conquering ottomans. today it's a museum. hagia sophia, which marks the high point of byzantine architecture, is the pinnacle of that society's 6th-century glory days. this church was completed in 537, just about when europe was entering its dark ages. for four centuries after that, christians in europe looke

catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world.e information at macfound.org >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. targets at islamic state again this evening with a new wave of airstrikes hours after president obama addressed the united nations general assembly and appealed for action against both islamist terrorists and russian aggression. margaret warner is in new york for the u.n. gathering. >> we come together at a crossroads between war and peace; between disorder and integration; between fear and hope. >> warner: that stark statement headlined the president's address on a raft of major dangers facing the world. starting with the renewed confrontation between russia and the west. mr. obama accused moscow of endangering the post-war order with its aggressive actions in ukraine. >> this is a vision of the world in which might makes right. a world in which

obama administration did not expect such scrutiny over that case -- and the john dean catherine t macarthur foundationas announced its list of 20 when jean grant winners for 2014. among the grantees are filaker joshua oppenheimer and aijen poo, director of the national domestic workers alliance. the winnerthe winners will recee $625,000 to spend however they choose. to see our past interviews, you can go to democracynow.org. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we turns the latest on the plan to expand will intense -- to fight the militants. >> these american forces will not have a combat mission. we will not get dragged into another ground war in iraq. >> president obama speaking a week ago, vowing not to send ground troops into iraq to fight the islamic state. on tuesday, the most senior u.s. military officer revealed ground troops may be needed. general martin dempsey, chair of the u.s. military's joint chiefs of staff, testified before the senate. >> our military advisors will help the iraq's conduct campaign plan