for all of these people to take action because if we only and this is kind of harkening on what howard zinn has said about the role of the individual the historian artist if we leave it up to the governments it's only going to reaffirm oppression and we have to take action ourselves and also throwing your bodies in the gears of the machine and what better machine in the military machine creating this perpetual warfare i mean where can people find out more about your work. i have a web site poetic injustice dot net also twitter and facebook been active on both of those mediums pretty constantly but those are probably the best ways to get in touch stay connected and at the end of the day it is about global activism and not just poets and celebrities and intellectuals but really about building a strong of a movement as possible so hit me up if you ever see me in person or online. that's it for today's show guys have a great night now leave you with running performing the song who just spoke about refuse. don't pull the trigger you don't have to go don't have to fight conquer kill beat torture

really helps you fund raise and then, you know, others havejo incredible people, the buffetts, howard zinn, mike bloomberg have given this money. john dorr, a technology gist again. and when i look about these people-- and bill at the top of the list-- what i love about them is it's like that yates poem where --s talks about a poem as cold and as passionate as the dawn. yaits. because i think i'm tough minded. you know, i -- but he's tougher. and i'm moved by all kinds of things, the way i see the world, my philosophy, my faith. he's -- when things get really serious, bill get mrs. serious. and he wants to know the data. he's unromantic about it. he wants to know what's going on >> rose: because it measures progress and therefore you don't make false efforts. >> yeah. and it's so powerful having a bill gates walk into a finance minister meeting and talk about value for money. >> rose: speaking of politicians bush in your judgment -- president bush 43 deserves enormous credit for pet far? >> oh, yes, he really does. and this is i think probably the -- the greatest ever fight, gathering of f

howard zinn, the biggest of all the leftist historians came on my show and i asked him point blank, it is in the book, i said with the world have been better had there never been a united states of america and he said he is agnostic on the issue. i wonder how many people who assign his book, it is the most widely assigned single most lively assigned history book in the united states by teachers, and i wonder how many would agree with that? may be the world would have been better had there never been a u.s.? >> host: the internet tweets in this guy wants big government to outlaw marijuana. >> guest: that is right. i am not an anarchist. that is correct. this notion that if you are for small government you are for no government i have never bought. there are things that i would like to continue to be, i don't want any new bands, but had marijuana been legal for the last 50 years i would have said nothing but to introduce it as a new innovation, it will only have a deleterious effect on society. a woman wrote to me from wyoming, i try to read my mail, she wrote a thoughtful letter, she wa

perhaps engage yourself in some of the works of howard zinn.n particular, "a people's history of the united states," where history is told from the vantage point of the oppressed, rather than those who were the victors. you learn about history in an entirely different way. read about civil rights. read about malcolm x. read about martin luther king. see how we have achieved as much as we have achieved over the years and what we still need to do. , hang out in bookstores, pay attention, and learn from the past. host: thank you for the call. you can check out all of our book coverage on c-span 2 cost booktv programming every -- c- span 2's booktv programming. tomorrow, our coverage of all nonfiction books. this morning from "the washington post" -- a retired member of the military and a lengthy piece in the military. we will share with you what -- what she had to say. first, the president's comments at the naval academy during which he addressed the issue of sexual assault in the military. [video clip] >> i say all this because you are about to a

the independent media, people like, of course, howard zinn and some others were criticizing the rush to war. but in the mainstream media, that houston chronicle essay by jenson was one of the rare ones. and then they installed the northern alliance warlords into the post-taliban government. if anyone questioned the wisdom of empowering these criminal warlords, they were counter with the the notion of we want peace before justice. and "the new york times" in particular, i remember, had this glowing piece about the northern alliance and their quest for women's rights, and painted them as feminist compared to the taliban. and we, of course, know how feminist they are today. but there was almost no coverage of what on-the-ground activists inside afghanistan were saying about the northern alliance, about these men that the u.s. was very happy to put into power. there were desperate appeals to not give them government positions. there was a statement put out by the revolutionary association of the women of afghanistan that i've worked closely with since 2000, and they put out a statement r