the fate of western capitalism and globalization i'm joined by john laughlin the director of studies at the institute of democracy in cooperation he's a lecturer in politics at the university of kent and allan friedman he's a former economist working for the greater london authority and i'd like to point out predicted the second wave of this great contraction all right gentlemen let's look at capitalism as it stands today we have china we have brazil we have india we have russia lecturing the west now west lecturing the united states and the european union john is a case where the west says do what we say but don't do what we do budget deficits fiscal policy the mess in gridlock all around well the reason why these countries are lecturing america is that for forty years america has had an exorbitant privilege in the international financial system the dollar is the dominant reserve currency and moreover since a decision taken by president nixon exactly forty years ago in august nine hundred seventy one to close the gold window in other words to cut all links between the dollar. and gol

director of studies at the institute for democracy and cooperation in paris thank you for those thoughts. well after you spoke to russia's envoy to the u.n. says the libyan experience is helping determine my position on syria you can see the full interview later this hour has a pretty. good if you want to protect civilians the worst thing you do is start a civil war and this is what happened let's face it concern is there any sanctions resolution. on syria in the security council might do seem the structure of elements of syrian opposition and sort of encouragement and looking at libya something similar to what happened in libya may be happening in syria. very. destructive consequences or western colleagues are swearing to us this is not their intention to use military force well incidentally we have to remind them of the statements and assurances from the various sorts when we're working on the resolution of libya which they will very quickly forgotten in the heat of the. political season may have just got underway but the scandals already arrived the party run by russia's richest man h

introducing our special guest is mark marshal who is director of policy studies and also religion and civilinin society but also oversees the welfare marriage family and religion and civil society. all so our online catalog related to family and religious practices. prior to joining us here, she worked on a cultural policy issues at tha empower america and was a senior director of family studies at the family research council.je please join me in welcoming jennifer marshall. [applause]ok >> thank you for being here at for this book the event on "black and tired" essays on race, politics, culture, and international development" by anthony bradley a few days ago hurricane irene pushed back the official dedication of the new memorial to dr. martin luther king but the silver lining is the delay appropriately extends k our focus on the civil-rights legacy and the work of since then have strive to make all god's children truly free at last. dr. bradley is one of those freedom seekers. as the title conveys, "black and tired" he is not satisfied with the progress. although for reasons you may

darling almost of human events contributed red state dot com and big government dot com and director of government studies of the herd foundation. let's get right into it the president gave a speech last night and he kicked it off by saying basically it wasn't all politics here's what is. this past week reporters have been asking what will this speech mean for the present. will mean for congress i will affect the polls and the next election. yes how will it affect their polls the next election what's at stake here was doesn't it seems to me this was the opening speech of the two thousand presidential election. i mean president obama is the one who has the very negative cruel rating you know he has a lot to prove a negative approval rating in washington oh yeah but you know he's he's the incumbent he's the incumbent and he's trying to demonstrate to people that they should continue to support him i mean he's got a long road ahead of him and you know last night was supposed to be about jobs and how to create jobs and we didn't see a plan he said it was a bill we haven't seen your bill so you know the public

marshall is director of domestic policy studies and our richard and helen devos center for religion and civil society. she also manages family facts.org, our online catalog of social science research related to family and religious practice. prior to joining us here, she was -- worked on cultural policy issues at empower america, and before that she was a senior director of family studies at the family research council. please join me in welcoming jennifer marshall. jennifer? [applause] >> thank you, john, and thanks, all of you, for being here for our book event on "black and tired. essays on race, politics and international development by dr. anthony bradley. a few days ago here in washington, d.c. hurricane irene pushed back the official dedication of the new memorial to dr. martin luther king. but the silver line anything that hurricane -- lining in that hurricane is that the delay appropriately extends our focus on dr. king's civil rights legacy and the work of those who since him have strived to make all god's children truly free at last. well, dr. anthony bradley is one of those

place a financial transaction tax i'm joined by sara anderson director of the global economy economy project at the institute for policy studies sarah welcome great to be here thank you thanks for joining us. first of all it looks like the president actually was in favor of a step tax or an f t t or would you however have. it do you know any details of what he particularly i mean he actually campaigned on that journey he did not campaign on it and we've always wondered what he did think it. because he's been quite silent on the issue we knew that the administration was not supporting it even though many other countries around the world are right now and so the book really for the first time confirms that at least at one point he was supported this idea that they have a quote which i suppose is through second hand information but saying in one meeting we are going to do this and then saying that larry summers oppose state and the idea was dropped and i think it's an important story especially for progress those who have held on to the spanish see may be that obama deep down is much more progressive than we really see him being

and brian darling columnist of human events contributor to red state big government and director of government studies at the heritage foundation bryan thanks over there because both of those let's get started the c.b.o.t. congressional budget office you should a warning to the gang of twelve super committee yesterday literally a warning to the gang saying that the nation is on the verge of another recession and that their actions could make it worse in fact these are their exact words put on the screen here paul. the makers wanted to achieve both a short term economic boost and medium and long term fiscal sustainability which are these are both things present then they would have to put in place quote changes in taxes and spending that would widen the deficit now but narrow it later in the decade as in the economy needs a jump start means a stimulus right now austerity down the road you can establish both and a lot no problem but that has to be the order earlier in the show we examine the outrageous poverty numbers but it seems to me that the republicans are determined to go the herbert hoover route

of human events distributor and contributor to red state dot com and the governor and director of government studies at the heritage foundation gentlemen welcome. just to start out the joint session of congress was supposed to be held and was a wednesday of next wednesday of next week and the first day the congress is going to be back the president has been talking for some time he is going to lay out his jobs program you apparently clear this with. john boehner john boehner says no he didn't say yes he simply was informed three different quarters now have said that he has confirmed that he further said this is bipartisan we basically bottom line boehner said we're not going to do this it's the night of the republican debate and besides that even if it wasn't we want you to do it thursday instead because that's the night a book football season and nobody will watch the president. the house he enters a letter to the to the to the president says the house will not be in session until wednesday september seventh with votes at six thirty this evening like they just can't put off these votes to hear from

james peterson, director of africana studies and professor of lehigh college.d to have you with us tonight. >> thanks, ed. >> rush limbaugh telling the speaker openly on american airwaves, this is what you need to do and then he does it. what do you think of that? >> there's no question the republican party has been influenced by folk like rush limbaugh, glen beck and other members of the tea party. figures like rush limbaugh who are not actual political figures but more like politically charged figures have had this kind of influence on politics maybe for too long now, but certainly in the recent past. the republican party has been hamstringed by these kinds of maneuvers. >> here's what i take out of it. boehner has shown no leadership. he has done nothing on yobjobs. examine now he shows no leadership and no backbone, and i think it shows he tips over when limbaugh puts a little public heat on it. what about his character, what about his leadership kills, what about his toughness? >> i don't knowç speaker boehn personally. the tea party dominating the republ

brian darling columnist of human events contributor to red state government dot com and director of government studies at the heritage foundation right welcome. good to see you. i don't get this this this is bush and you know. revisited how is this anything different than what george w. bush was promoting would similar and it's good i mean in two thousand and three between two thousand and three and two thousand and seven the bush administration helped to create jobs i thought you were going to get drips no no it doesn't get out of the way the private economy and allowed through tax cuts for the private economy to create jobs that we borrow to get our government i don't really in dollars that's that's not getting the government out of the way the debt and i think that that was a bad thing. the federal government borrowed too much money obama's standing on president bush's shoulders and he's put us in depth of the tune of one point six trillion this year we're expected to be another one point three trillion in debt next year he's continued the bush tax cuts for the two years i mean that's good we want

to his left is john horgan legal director of the study of terrorism at pennsylvania state university and to is left is jarret brachman, who used to be director of research at combating terrorism center at west point and is now heading up one of those start ups that i will not say in -- in operations. a casualty terrorism consulting firm. what we agreed is i would start you off by answering that question. what do we know about radicalization now that we did note ten years ago? maybe arie kruglanski wants to have the first stab. >> i believe in the recent decade we have learned a lot about radicalization. some very good people have done some very good work. john horgan has done some important work on leaving terrorism behind. clark mccollie has done work and mechanisms of organization. scott mcswan has done work and sacred values and how they enter into radicalization and leaving radicalization behind. we have done work -- empirical work -- facilities with insights into radicalization. there is a very important work that has not been done before. the challenges at this point are twofold

of life. you can call on our expertise and get guarantees for the if in life. after all, we're metlife. >>> new study i referred doctor sharon levine, from san francisco, associated executive director of kaiser permanenty. that new study refers to schizophrenia and the new drug it was found is better than the existing drug, right? >> yes, that's right this. is a very important studdy and it demonstrated in a large population that the older antipsychotic drug, heldol, was more affective than the newer category called a typical antipsychotics. and it really speaks to the fact that we have a buys, all of us, consumers, physicians, we assume that new means improved. and in fact, what is really true is that needs to be established by solid evidence and not just assumption. this is a very important study for the federal government. very important study for state government. because this category of drugs is a substantial expense for the medicaid program. >> what's the cost between haldol and the new drug that came out? >> it's a difference between haldol and a entire category, the a typical antisigh cotics. it's a many expense. that doesn't mean haldol is the right drug for every patient

the director of africana studies at lehigh university. t wearing too much jewelry here tonight. why the vicious double standard in the treatment of michelle obama? >> it seems they are grasping at straws here. we should bear in mind they've had a sort of have angry approach to michelle obama for a very long time. you might remember the new yorker time cover was sort of a manifestation of that. the bottom line is she borrowed the jewelry. is this something we should be talking about right now? i would love to see this attention paid to the good works that michelle obama does, including her efforts to sort of create and cultivate gardens in inner cities and efforts at the white house. her efforts with nutrition and feeding our children in public schools. she's done so many good works don't get this kind of attention. i wish that we could just once in the political sphere, focus on the positive instead of the negative. >> let's look at a catalogue of some of these unjust assaults. the first lady was after the 9/11 ceremony, there was lip read

mike eric dice is a professor and msnbc analyst, and james peterson is the director of the studies atand a "huffington post" blogger. gentleman, thank you so much. michael, you first. where do you stand in trying to survey or being able to sort of get a gut sense, if you will, a gut check on the african-american community's feelings toward this president's performance? >> well, i think that african-american people divide an assessment of the president's performance versus whether or not they are inclined to still support or vote for him. the slippage was in the strongly favorable category of the overall and general favorability is still there in 86% of african-american people say that they are somewhat favorable toward the president. of course, that's linked to decline in jobs, the inability of the policies of the government to be able to stimulate this economy to such a degree that african-american people can enhance their employment prospects. 16.7%, which means it's probably closer to 20% of african-american people are unemployed and not working. of course, people vote with their p

t cairo and i don't let's get some more details on this are from phyllis bennis director of yesterday for policy studies it's a u.s. based peace and human rights group good to see you so do you think that washington is aware of the impact that its support of the of the arab spring has had on israel and will continue. well you are aware of the complications in the sand for so many years unable to handle. support by the u.s. military means an economic means of warning arab dictators and we're seeing on them a certain regional role this is particularly of course true in egypt and. jordan where very unpopular peace agreements with israel were imposed essentially by the u.s. suddenly those options are now up for grabs in a whole new way the question of what the impact will be of a u.s. veto of palestinian statehood at the united nations very uncertain what that impact will be across the arab world is a new consideration for the u.s. they never have to worry very much about popular opinion in the arab world because our government pays no attention but that's to say that it's very important to come to the upco

currently, in israel stud scompiss director of the -- israel studies and director of the institute for israeli studies of the university of maryland, again, on a personal and professional level, i was able to follow his work as an academic and a political advisor to prime minister yitzhak rabin. and set up some very important institutes of media and politics and a professor of sociology and communication at tel aviv university. was teaching in jerusalem. and he was editor-in-chief of the israeli daily. i can go on and on. he was educated at hebrew university and received -- and at the london school of economics. in addition to his academic work, he was a very prominent journalist and political commentator. and during golda meir's term as prime minister was a spokesman. labour party, for the different labour party than it is today but at any rate, published extensively on many of the issues that we're going to deal with. so please, it's all yours. >> thank you, yona. thank you for inviting me to take part in this interesting meeting. it's the first time that i've participated in this in

. >> reporter: scott appleby is director of the kroc institute for international peace studies at the university of notre dame. >> there developed a variety of initiatives around the country, interfaith dialogue groups meeting together in parishes or in synagogues or in mosques. >> reporter: in syracuse, betsy wiggins says she feels like she was living in a bubble before 9/11. she was raised presbyterian and attends a united methodist church. after the 9/11 attacks, she was disturbed by reports of a backlash against local muslim women. betsy's husband, jim, had been active in interfaith efforts. at his encouragement, she called the imam at the local mosque. >> and i said, "i am ignorant about islam, far more ignorant than i want to be, and i want to do something, and i'm especially concerned about muslim women. can you tell me someone i can talk to?" >> reporter: the imam put her in touch with danya wellmon. wellmon had grown up methodist, but after a time of spiritual searching converted to islam in 1992. she says the days after 9/11 were difficult for members of her mosque. >> we di

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let's discuss the latest developments there with eric and he's the director and founder of the french center for intelligence studies so cameron sarkozy out there in libya making statements in support of the m.t.c. and democracy and clearly enjoying an element of popularity but there you are in france. because he is rating at home now well you know both leaders want to appear to reach winner of this military operation mainly. for in town of political objective for instance in france is the next presidential election in two thousand and twelve but also we should not forget that for a kind of a christian can say mean all now and reckon struction contracts and in what way will france benefit from this eric looking at the economic point of view the agenda behind what's going on a moment. we don't know yet because it's very complicated there are a few weeks ago there are a lot of promises but we have to know that all is always in the background it is not the main reason you know libyan already is not so important when you consider the world production but it's very close to the european countries so it's one of the reaso

from the center for immigration studies said 81% of the jobs created in the star state were taken by illegal foreign workers in the country. mark krekorian is the director for centers of immigration studies. thank you for joining us. >> glad to be here. >> your report was intriguing. i saw it justice you say that most of the jobs have gone to undocumented workers or people in the country illegal legal. how did you come up with the numbers? >> we found that the working age population from '07 until now grew mostly through native-born americans turning 16 and they are part of the working age population. most of the growth in the pool of people for employers to hire was americans. 81% of the job growth went to recent immigrants. not even long-term, but recent immigran immigrants. half were illegal and half were legal. the question is if governor perry is boasting about his record, he apparently has something to do with it. that's a plausible thing to say. somebody needs to ask, are the americans who live in texas benefiting for this? not as much as you would think. >> interesting you would say that because the other reporting out there and numbers indicate

to his left is john, the director of the international center for the study of terrorism, and to his left is the former director of research, who is now heading one of those start-ups. what we agreed with was that i would start off with that question. what do we know about radicalization now that we did not know 10 years ago? maybe you want to go first. >> i believe we have learned a lot about radicalization, both theoretically, and imperial leave. john has done some important work on leaving terrorism and behind, the radicalization. .e hasn't done outstanding work scott has -- he has done outstanding work. scott has done tremendous work. michelle and myself to work with the tamil tigers, and we have gain some insights into the properties of radicalization, so there is important work out there that has not been there before. i think the challenges are to fall. one is to bring together various pieces of research from different parts of the world with different terrorist organizations and integrate them into an in here -- a coherent theory of radicalization, to understand the basic prin

i'm director at international center for the study of radicalization at kings college in london. if you want to learn more about it, go to icsr.info. i'm saying that partly, mostly in fact because i want to advertise the center but i'm also saying that because i think it's a testament to s.t.a.r.t.'s efforts of the past almost decade to stretch out beyond the united states and construct an international network we're proud of. kings college and start is happy to be part of this s.t.a.r.t. consortium. i know quite how contentious this very concept of radicalization is. if you define radicalization as process where someone become as political extremist, that immediately raises question what kind of extremist? there is ex-timism of the mind, extremism of the word or extremism of the deed or indeed, violent extremism. depending what kind of outcome or result that process has, has important, political and also research implications. so the next hour we'll be spending talking about some of what we have learned over the past 10 years in terms of what that process involves, what we know,

neither russia nor international it may as well be a unique case the first case of such an in-depth study. as a director i cannot imagine that it would be possible to produce small of tourists or the sun and keep them on the shelf during all these years waiting for files to come out. is a separate film but you can also view it as the last chapter of the technology that . well it's not the first time we talked to you in over the years so i have come to know you a bit. what i mean is that i know you don't like the high life it's hard to imagine your magazines covers or gossip columns but then all of a sudden your the talk of the town the festival's hero the golden lion in your hands standing right there in the center of that celeb gathering what do you feel at the moment. well not much i'm afraid would be similar to what you have just cried because when our television channels broadcast the news. i was still in venice. then i travelled back to st petersburg and wasn't very much affected by the whole thing. the only reason something really happened was a string of phone calls with congratulations from my f

thomas donnelly is the director of aei center of defense studies and is the moderator for this event. this is live coverage on c-span. >> so much of the true implication of september 11 has been the military operations of the past 10 years. people keep talking about how september 11 changed the world. more profoundly, i think it has been the actions, particularly of the united states military, that have changed the world more profound, more lasting, and more than theore durably september 11 attacks ever could or certainly have. it is altogether fitting and proper that we talk about not only what we have done over the last 10 years, who has paid the real costs of american policy since september 11, but more importantly, where we are going. mr. mckeon speaks to us at the moment, even after the super committee, the so-called, created by the budget control act recently passed, has had its first organizational meetings. that, if nothing else, is a large caliber loaded weapon at pointed directly at the u.s. armed forces. the u.s. armed forces have gone through a lot of reductions since the

chris edwards to is currently the director of tax policy studies at the cato institute and editor of the web site. he's the senior economist for the joint economic committee in the tax foundation from 1992 and 1994 bear he has done extensive research and writing on a variety of economic topics. it is the high inflation countries. with the specific focus is on how to best reduce inflation. he is currently a research associate at the national bureau of economic research. he was previously elected at the imf institute a member of the federal reserve board's academy advisory panel and a consultant on the international monetary fund outlook. he told a be a in economics -- a ba and phd and economics. it is great to have the odd here today. >> my association with this committee is back to the days is senator paul douglas. he prodded them to stop holding this and hold monetary policy to do much more. today i will answer the question that they seek to answer. i will introduce my answers with my explanations of why policy is misguided and mistaken and inappropriate. there are several reasons.

joined by ruth wedgwood in washington she's director of international law and organizations program at john hopkins school of advanced international studies in new york we have thomas weise he is presidential professor of political science at the city university of new york's graduate center is also author of what's wrong with united nations and how to fix it and in birmingham we crossed him and i started pretty he is the c.e.o. of the cordoba foundation right folks this is crosstalk that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it but first marcia every time the united nations is mentioned it's never a dull moment especially when it comes to its flaws one of the largest international organization founded to facilitate world peace and uphold humanitarian causes the united nations has run up an ample record of criticism over sixty six year history mira craddick inefficiency failure to avert conflicts as well as deployed city and disproportionate influence over decision making are only a few of the charges being made against it. from the dark for crisis to the genocide in rwanda and the tragedy at srebrenica the orga

the head of one of our programs, darrell west, vice president and director of governance studies, will lead a discussion once we have heard from our guest of honor. but now, rich, the podium is yours. [applause] >> thank you, strobe, for that very kind introduction and thank all of you for coming here this morning. i guess i would start off by saying for almost a century the brookings institute has provided independent research and innovative recommendations and solutions to problems that the country and quite frankly the world were experiencing. i think that's why president franklin delano roosevelt commissioned a brook kigs study to understand the underlying causes of the great depression. well, here we are today, we're discussing the causes and the cures of the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. and it seems crystal clear to me that we don't have a debt crisis, we have a jobs crisis. america isn't broke but america's basic promise on ever-rising, ever-widening prosperity is being broken. counting all the casualties on the jobs crisis our real unemployment rate is over 16% right

chief for the comcast network and a formerer republican adviser resident james paterson, director of africana studiesng us from philadelphia this morning. good morning to both of you. robert, let me start with you. you heard the answer president obama got about weren't of the criticisms he's been receiving, why he's not specifically targeting help for the african-american community. now, the bottom line is, while jobless number, unemployment rates have always been higher for blacks in america, the spread has increased under his administration, which is ironic. do you think he answered the question well about whether things should be done differently for black america than america as a whole? >> no, i don't. here's the reason why. look, i admire this president for saying what he believes and believing what he says, refreshing in american politics when a president speaks with his head and heart and speaking unfiltered, however, you can't have this argument that, you know, all of the largest votes, look at national unemployment, 9.1% across the country, but in the black community, 16% or 17% which tells