. >> you ge-- was from eugene deb. orville was. he had supported the exhibit gration of the colleges and the university in arkansas. they were already integrated. when the dispute over integration of the public schools, the high schools in arkansas, turned ugly in the northern arkansas town of hoxy in 1956, falbus the consume mate politicians decided to sit that one out. at his very core, that was orville. consummate political opportunist. he possessed this, an uncanny ability to devine the strategy and objectives of his opponents and devise ways to take advantage of those strategies to achieve his own ends. after the crisis had bubbled on for a while, we can't do the whole crisis in the time allowed. you will remember that eisenhower sent personal emissaries down to falbus, particularly senator brooks -- congressman brooks hayes of arkansas, and he sort of played his trump card. still, moderation, low key. he asked falbus to come to newport. here is ike, this is eisenhower, yeah? the general. the president. calling falbus to him.

os the arab league to refer the crisis to you and but beirut based political science professor eugene debsboost believes the regime is strong enough to withstand the opposition's attempts to topple it is opposed to a lot of the other arab regimes which were caught off guard by the arab spring syria has been preparing for this for decades they knew when they came to power that they were minority government and they knew they had to expect this sooner or later i would say that she. is nor surprise that it took so long for this rebellion to take place so they're very well prepared their power structures are intact it's crumbling on the edges slightly but i would say from a pure power perspective syria's regime is not threatened but both sides would recognize each other i.e. the best government recognize the opposition in the west recognize that the bath regime is here to stay at least for the foreseeable future i think we have a chance at some serious negotiations. you without your life from moscow coming up just a little bit later in the program here when the rose tinted glasses of revolutio

of sweden, from helen keller who was, in fact, a member of the industrial workers of the world, eugene debswas flynn who especially did great work in organizing the support for hill. and, john, you want to come up and sing -- yeah. hill wrote a song for elizabeth flynn called the rebel girl, and he was inspired by flynn, and he dedicated it to flynn, so let's hear that one. >> i have to say the last time i performed this i was 9 years old -- [laughter] and i was singing at a may day rally right before elizabeth flynn spoke. and i had trouble with it then, i'll probably have trouble with it now. [laughter] um, and this is a very, you know, most of the wobbly songs are to tunes you're familiar with, but this one is a really kind of complicated chord progression. ♪ there are women of many descriptions in this queer world as everyone knows. ♪ some are living in beautiful mansions and are wearing the finest of clothes. ♪ there are blue-blooded queens and princesses who have charm made of diamonds and pearls. ♪ but the only thoroughbred lady is the rebel girl. ♪ she's a rebel girl, a rebel girl,

i have compared him recently to eugene mccarthy in 1968 and eugene debs back in the 1920's.is position, you know what it is if you listen to him. he has got a lot of young people backing him. not so much of hemp which is what this guy was talking about on our foreign entanglements, i disagree with dr. paul's position. there is a bunch of negative responses when i suggested last week he is a dangerous man because of his views. because of the way the country has handled the iraq situation and the afghanistan situation, a lot of people, young people especially, are fed up. they don't see why we are there. they are drawn to ron paul. the problem with ron paul's foreign policy position is not so much on those two issues as it is with iran where he compares it to the old soviet union and says the soviet union had 20,000 nuclear missiles pointed at us and they never use them so why should we care about iran. that, in my mind, is really crazy talk. the soviets were not looking for 70 vestal virgins when they went to the next world and did not have any religious passion whatsoever wh

i have compared him recently to eugene mccarthy in 1968 and eugene debs back in the 1920's.ou know what it is if you listen to him. he has got a lot of young people backing him. not so much of hemp which is what this guy was talking about on our foreign entanglements, i disagree with dr. paul's position. there is a bunch of negative responses when i suggested last week he is a dangerous man because of his views. because of the way the country has handled the iraq situation and the afghanistan situation, a lot of people, young people especially, are fed up. they don't see why we are there. they are drawn to ron paul. the problem with ron paul's foreign policy position is not so much on those two issues as it is with iran where he compares it to the old soviet union and says the soviet union had 20,000 nuclear missiles pointed at us and they never use them so why should we care about iran. that, in my mind, is really crazy talk. the soviets were not looking for 70 vestal virgins when they went to the next world and did not have any religious passion whatsoever where iran does.

the radical and populist movements which were very popular and the syndicates and the old cio, eugene debs, a socialist, pulled almost 6% of the vote, 900,000 votes. and socialist publications had wide circulations appealed to region was the fourth most widely read periodical in the country. at the time before the war. and we had about two or three dozen socialist mayors. well, what happened was the war itself. and wilson had run for re-election in 1912 on a slogan he kept us out of the war. but with the collapse of the eastern front, with czarist russia, the collapse of czarist russia and the bolshevik reservation there was a capacity of germans to send 100 divisions to the western front and the bankers on wall street who had lent tremendous sums of money to the british and the french were terrified that if the british and french lost the war they'd lose their money. so there was heavy pressure on the white house aided by the kaiser's decision to begin to try to create a naval blockade around britain which sunk some ships had no popular support and we created -- and i spent a lot of time