for mexico it's very interesting discussion manwell her as roche associate fellow at the institute for policy studies thank you so much for your time think you can go thank you very much with nafta talks up in the air many canadian businesses are considering moving their operations south of the border to the u.s. in fact some companies in canada are saying that they're already being affected negatively because of nafta talks and thinks setting up shop in the u.s. could cushion the blow artie's alex mahila bettors in toronto with more for us alex how serious is this i mean are there that many canadian businesses that are actually thinking about making the move. well you know just think about what you just said it's the talks alone that are affecting businesses here in canada so if nafta was actually to go the way of the dodo they wouldn't be a very good thing a for canada at least for these businesses that's the way that they see it look like canada seventy five percent of our exports from canada go to the u.s. so obviously the u.s. is our biggest market by far and for many companies a lot of the busi

for for mexico very interesting discussion manwell her as roche associate fellow at the institute for policy studies thank you so much for your time thank you thank you very much what nafta talks up in the air many canadian business says are considering moving their operations south of the border to the u.s. in fact some companies in canada are saying that they're already being affected negatively because of nafta talks and thinks setting up shop in the u.s. could cushion the blow artie's alex mahila vectors in toronto with more for us alex how serious is this i mean are there that many canadian businesses that are actually thinking about making the move will you just think about what you just said it's the talks alone that are affecting businesses here in canada so if nafta was actually to go the way of the dodo it wouldn't be a very good thing for canada at least for these businesses that's the way that they see it look canada seventy five percent of our exports from canada go to the u.s. so obviously the u.s. is or biggest market by. far and for many companies lot of the business that they do so

he currently leads the program on inequality and the common good at the institute for policy studies the author of the book, born on third base and billionaire bonanza 2017, the forbes 400 and rest of us. chuck, good to have you on the program. >> great being here. >> take me back to your story of being born on third base. >> i'm the great grandson of meat packer oscar mayer. bringing home the bacon had a different meaning. i basically won the lottery at birth. i was working with low income tenants and mobile home parks and i could start to see the inequalities that we're living with start to open up. i guess i didn't want to be part of it. i had this, like, front row seat of what was happening to low-wage workers, stagnant wages. but i also had this intimate front row seat to wealth creating wealth at the top of the economy, among wealth holders. >> yeah. >> it just seemed broken to me. >> when you are an heir to the oscar mayer fortune and you give it away, how did your family respond to that? >> i did have intense conversations with my family, but mostly i thanked them for having

associate fellow at the institute for policy studies many well it seems like nafta has sort of fallen off the media map because we know so much has been going on in washington recently to say the least so can you just give us a refresher first i mean where are we at in the point of negotiations well it's difficult to know where we are because in there was stations are being done in secret behind doors behind the public behind the pris i'm behind the legislators this world we know though that they're very delayed there's only a couple of chapters that are like the low fruit the tough being back to the ready for their most controversial chapters are completely late they wanted the new was shares to finish their negotiation by the end of the year they haven't been able to do so so the negotiations will be carried out on to the mix. here what they wanted was to avoid. the you was so soon mexico and as time passes the negotiations start getting closer to those elections so it sounds like there is a lot of uncertainty a lot of uncertainty well recently there was a house subcommittee hearing

phyllis bennis the director of the new internationalism project at the institute for policy studies welcome to you all my first question to mr hunter i would like to ask you this was it worth to take the fight to the united nations when everyone knew that this is going to end with an embarrassing outcome for the united states of america well apparently the president didn't care nor does mrs faily the u.n. ambassador care they're both appealing to a domestic u.s. audience which is composed both of. number of leaders of the american jewish community and a number of leaders of the of the christian. evangelical community they don't really care about world opinion in this or in most other things so you have to see it i think almost entirely in u.s. domestic terms miss bennis from a purely american perspective i mean i can see the rational here for a president to take a decision based on an attempt to appeal to a domestic base when the outcome could be devastating for the u.s. foreign policy that's been absolutely consistent for this administration the notion i think robert hunter is absolutely r

associate fellow at the institute for policy studies many well it seems like nafta has sort of fallen off the media map because we know so much has been going on in washington recently to say the least so can you just give us a refresher first i mean where are we at in the point of negotiations well it's difficult to know where we are because in there was sufficient are being done in secret behind doors behind the public behind the pris i'm behind the legislators as well we know though that they're very delayed there's only a couple of chapters that are like the low fruit that have been back to the ready for there are the most controversial chapters are completely late they wanted the newest shooters to finish their negotiation by the end of the year they haven't been able to do so so the negotiations will be carried out until the next year what they wanted was to avoid spoke from the you was in mexico and as time passes the negotiations start getting closer to those elections so it sounds like there is a lot of uncertainty a lot of uncertainty well recently there was a house subcommi

the exception to the rule in fact according to a recent report by prosperity now in the institute for policy studies black americans median wealth is expected to fall to zero you heard me zero by two thousand and fifty three and if that wasn't wasn't enough just a week.

the exception to the rule in fact according to a recent report by prosperity now in the institute for policy studies black americans median wealth is expected to fall to zero you heard me zero by two thousand and fifty three and if that wasn't wasn't enough just a week before the boston globe story a headline in the guardian asked the question why are america's farmers killing themselves in record numbers yes according to a study conducted last year the centers for disease control and prevention found that the suicide rate for agricultural workers in seventeen states was nearly five times higher when compared to the general population. but now experts fear the c.d.c.'s numbers may actually be wrong the suicide numbers may end bagby higher because the original study left out some major agricultural states like iowa for example and it's been revealed that an unknown number of farmers have been disguising their suicides as farm accidents in order to collect insurance payouts i looked at the bill salesman two distinctly different segments of the population one a little city one a little country but both

israel phyllis bennis says the program director of the new internationalism project of the institute for policy studies she says the u.s. has never been an honest negotiator in the middle east peace process. i think this is a long overdue recognition by the palestinian leadership of a position long held by the majority of palestinian people which is that the united states has never been an honest broker it wasn't twenty five years ago it wasn't twenty years ago it hasn't been under any of these administrations and it isn't now so the deal that was being proposed by the u.s. included explicitly a noncontiguous statelet the the capital would be probably outside of jerusalem in a in a little village called outside of the city of jerusalem it would not have any kind of sovereignty over its air over its water over landing rights over control of its own borders it would not be a state at all that was going to be the u.s. parameters it would never have been accepted and going through the motions of it simply kicks the issue down the road i think what we're looking at here is a moment when the palestinian lead

the exception to the rule in fact according to a recent report by prosperity now in the institute for policy studies black americans median wealth is expected to fall to zero you heard me zero by two thousand and fifty three and if that wasn't wasn't enough just a week before the boston globe story a headline in the guardian asked the question why are america's farmers killing themselves in record numbers yes according to a study conducted last year the centers for disease control and prevention found that the suicide rate for agricultural workers in seventeen states was nearly five times higher when compared to the general population but now experts fear the c.d.c. is numbers may actually be wrong the suicide numbers may and back be higher because the original study left out some major agricultural states like iowa for example and it's been revealed that an unknown number of farmers have been disguising their suicides as farm accidents in order to collect insurance payouts i looked at the bill salesman. two distinctly different segments of the population one a little city one a little country but b

and the palestinian people phyllis bennis directs the internationalism project of the institute for policy studies and she thinks the summit declaration was strong on rhetoric but low on action. i think the notion of strong language has always been a feature of oh i see events strong action has never been i'm not sure this is going to be very different with only a couple of exceptions i would question whether any of the countries in the oh i see intend to do anything to for example downgrade their own relations with the united states would saudi arabia cut its military ties and stop buying hundreds of billions of dollars of arms from the united states would cut her agreed to two and the us use of qatari soil for its base for fighting wars in the middle east would other countries do anything to cut their ties with with the united states i don't see any evidence of that there was no call for such things in the declaration and i think this is likely to be one more example of very strong words and very weak action well solved group's president is in beijing for talks with his chinese counterpart xi ji

phyllis bennis is the program director of the new interest internationalism project at the institute for policy studies and she joins us live from washington d.c. thanks very much for joining us on al-jazeera i just ask you first of all about the point that the palestinian president has said now they're not listening to any kind of peace plan that the u.s. might be bringing in of course the one jarrad christian is supposed to be about to unveil in the new year i guess is the will now talking about it's a real chance they could be shooting themselves in the foot here with that because of course with so much international backing almost has the u.s. on the back votes. no i don't think that they're shooting themselves in the foot as you put it i think this is a long overdue recognition by the palestinian leadership of a position long held by the majority of palestinian people which is that the united states has never been an honest broker it wasn't twenty five years ago it wasn't twenty years ago it hasn't been under any of these administrations and it isn't now so the deal that was being proposed by the

a fellow spanish directs the new internet nationalism project the institute for policy studies she works the right activist and list on middle east and un issues and joins us now live from washington d.c. thanks very much for coming on al-jazeera to discuss this and just listening to some of the strong words by members of the. how much do you think they are all lining up behind the palestinians on this or how much do you think vested interests are actually going to come into play here are probably thinking quite a lot about saudi arabia. well i think it's not only saudi arabia they are certainly the lead in this but i think the notion of strong language has always been a feature of oh i see events strong action has never been i'm not sure this is going to be very different with only a couple of exceptions i would question whether any of the countries in the oh i see intend to do anything to for example downgrade their own relations with the united states would saudi arabia cut its military ties and stop buying hundreds of billions of dollars of arms from the united states would cut her a

raskin was the founder of the -- raskin was the cofounder of the institute for policy studies, one of washington's most influential liberal think tanks. he is the author or co-author of more than 20 books on civil rights, the national security state, and foreign policy, including his 1965 book "the viet-nam reader," which helped spark a wave of teach-ins at college campuses nationwide. he was also a member of the boston five, a group tried in 1968 for conspiracy to help people avoid the draft. in the early 1970's, he was placed on president richard nixon's enemies list. and in 1971, he reportedly helped connect pentagon papers whistleblower daniel ellsberg with "the new york times." he is surved by his wife and four children, including maryland democratic congress member jamie raskin. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. juan: and i am juan and zealous. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. begin today's show looking at how president trump is shaping

no to dispense who's a fellow and the director of the new international project of the institute for policy studies in washington d.c. joins us now from the fellows welcome to the program though the troops can be speaking of course of national security a bit to what degree has do you think has national security been home since trump has been in power. oh i don't think national security has been enhanced at all i think that this notion of america first has been translated in the trunk era to a very direct choice of war over diplomacy i think what we're seeing now and what we can anticipate in the speech which will be in the next couple of hours is a renewed focus on defining strategic competitors particularly russia and china in the context of exerting domination over them this is not about protection of people in the united states this is about using economic power really as part of a war strategy in this choice of war over or over diplomacy we're also talking about economic more the cause for isolationism that were a little bit part of the trunk campaign rhetoric is long gone the only the only rea

away but speak tomorrow in kabul and he joins us on set he's the director of policy analysis institute for graduate studies imo and this is the thing is that we've had condemnation for many many years we've had red lines crossed before and this apparently is the ultimate red line. what can the palestinian authority do to take this on. and i think yes we still need to see actions accompanying the very strong words we have been hearing from muslim leaders over the couple of weeks since the president announced. actually did guys just see them as a capital of is about you but i think what we are witnessing is important in my view number one is not. we have and the reaction from the arab and islamic or even develop strong words we have been hitting actually we he did not. i may have expected them to been strong but actually the reaction on the street although we're seeing some some tensions flare up again though it hasn't been as much as one might have anticipated right about this but i think this is a very this is an ongoing. sort of process too that will build up in my opinion as the leaders of the islamic an

. >> ellen is the president of the families and work institute, a research and policy think tank. for decades, she has studied the impact of child care costs on the workforce. >> businesses say they have gotten involved with the exception of emergency care that you only have a few days a year. have you seen a real shift in corporate america? >> the only benefit that we've seen increase is helping parents pay for child care with their own pretax dollars or dependent care assistance plans. >> at least 50% of companies say they offer some form of help to their workers, whether it's tax-deferred options for employees to pay for child care or referral services. but only 7% say they actually provide child care options at or near the work site. >> 35. >> 26. >> oh, is that a 2? >> for parents, it's all about changing people's attitudes toward child care needs and finding a reasonable solution that will help families. >> i think that somewhere in congress or in government it would be good for people to take into consideration that parents, you know, are struggling to try to manage work/life balance. >> yeah, they are

he received a master of science degree in us foreign policy at the institute for the study of the americas at the university of london and earned his bachelor of arts degree in international history. please join me in welcoming robin his cox. robin. >> thank you, john and welcome. welcome everyone to the heritage foundation. it's a great pleasure to be invited back today. her brunette serves as the street-- chief strategy officer, he's a scholar, diplomat, policy practitioner with special focus on digital strategy, counter violence extremism. haroon ullah most recently served on secretary rex tillerson's and teaches at georgetown university and is a member of the council of foreign relations and served a senior harvard university fellow with an ma and phd in international political economy and was a william j fellow to harvard university presidential scholar and it would grow wilson public service fellow. what else is there to say and easier today to speak on his fascinating new book, "digital warld war", so with no further ado. haroon. [applause]. >> thank you, robin and thanks to the her

we have more when rabbani is senior fellow at the institute for palestinian studies in washington d.c. we have j.d. cotton he's a former foreign policy adviser to donald trump's presidential campaign and in london we have you're see he's a professor of international relations at regents university if i were welcome to all of you j.d. if i could start with you why has trump made this very inflammatory. well i think that he's following up on things said during the campaign trail you know i think it's a smart political move on his part in the united states we have about thirty percent of the population who are evangelical christians to them this is very important to make jerusalem the capital to recognize it as such and so i think the president trump has made a very smart political move to appeal to his base. ok so it might work domestically but it's going to have severe repercussions internationally did he really take that on board. i think so because i think that president trump understands that israelis have been targeted by radical islamic terror groups americans have been targeted by radical islamic terror groups there's really no

. >> ellen is the president of the families and work institute, a research and policy think tank. for decades, she has studiede workforce. business say they've gotten involved but the exception of emergency care that maybe you on the have a few days a year, have you seen a real shift in corporate america? >> the only benefit we've seen increase is helping parents pay for child care with their own pretax dollars or dependent care assistance plans. >> at least 50% of companies say they offer some form of help to their workers, whether it's tax deferred options for employees to pay for child care or referral services. but only 7% say they actually provide child care options at or near the work site. >> 35 -- >> i thought it was 26. >> oh, is that a 2? >> for parents it's all about changing people's attitudes towards child care needs and finding a reasonable solution that will help families. >> i think that, you know, somewhere in congress or in government it would be good for people to take into consideration that parents, you know, are struggling to try to manage work/life balance. >> ellen galanski joins me no

are basically a continuation of a lot of times policies where we leave in the finale for the meant. from the security studies to pop to the doha institute thank you. let's move to a pox on without the people in the city of rawalpindi offer testing against the u.s. declaration that it recognizes jerusalem as israel's capital this is the fourth friday that people have been demonstrating across pakistan the demonstrations organized by a charity group linked to the main suspect in the two thousand and eight mumbai attacks saying come on had a correspondent joins me now from pinney where those protests are taking place i mean what's the message that people want to send globally kemal. said they want to change across the. the guy that had been arrested a danish you and therefore the people you write speaking in addressing the crowd you are trying to rally mode up or down you go north on war not on the americans who will then be theater during the night they're also saying that they have been very sacrifice on the ballot i don't know if it is a fraud that the budget there was a great deal. that they are very engaged. i don't find a different o

institute for international policy first let's get the thoughts from a u.s. based colleague on the news our jim walsh is in boston he's a senior research associate at mit's security studies program welcome to you both gentlemen jim first donald trump is talking about a drift away from american values going back one or two or three presidencies is he factually correct. well no you know you mentioned both the bush and the obama national security strategies i actually took time out today and went back and read both of them hadn't read them in a while read them and really i would say values play a much larger role in both those earlier national security strategies strikingly in george w. bush's strategy remember this is after nine eleven you expect it looking back to lead with terrorism as the big thing but it actually begins by talking about human dignity and so in some ways it sounded themes they got overwhelmed by events in the bush administration but nevertheless had a values focus as did obviously president obama this one and i think you had now both kimberly and kathy both used the word fit in normally national security strategies aren't very substantive but this reall

institutions and policymakers have been looking that ever since. the study that will talk about today looks at the impossible outcomes of what they mean for our economic policy and preparation. i'm delighted to see many friends of the wilson center here today and i will introduce our expert panel. my idea is that we will hear from charlie about the results of the study and turn this over to michelle for comment and then ask fran and howard to weigh in. who are these people you ask? charlie is the vice president of international a brand and he's a former us ambassador to greece and was a distinguished state department career including postings as possible deputy assistant secretary for europe, minister for affairs in london in the european union. in iraq e-service quinine or for economic transition from 2007 to 2008. fran is at a staff member at the rand corporation. she's also a distinguished fellow at the atlantic council and senior advisor at laguardia associates. until january 2017 she served as vice president for european union and special initiatives at the council. howard is senior economist at rand corporation, director of brand initiated research and

policies director and david wessel, the economic studies senior fellows with the brookings institution. also the director of the hutchings center on fiscal and monetary policy. thanks to both of you fore've seen this rush at the year end to prepay these property taxes there's a whole lot of nuance for who qualifies and whether it will even count. do you see this as the sole moment of chaos in the rush to implementation >> well, it's certainly a moment of chaos, and, no, i don't see it as the sole moment of chaos i think that there are a lot of provisions in the new tax law that we're going to have to figure out how they work and what they mean for households and businesses it's going to be great business for lawyers. there is going to be some irs guidance that has yet to come, of course. the treasury department will have to weigh in some of this is ultimately going to have to be settled by the courts i would point out that i don't think that this is anything really unusual for a bill of this scope and this magnituking for there to be how the bill will be implemented. i think the fact that people are trying to get their checks in before december 31st, just a few days after the tax has

institutions and policiesmakers have been looking at this ever since. rand's study we are going to talk about today looks at possible outcomes and what they mean for economic policy and our cooperation. i'm delighted to see many friends of the wilson center today, introducing an expert panel, the idea is we will hear from charlie, the result of the study, turn this over to michelle for some comment and fran and howard to weigh in. and vice president at rand. including postings in europe, and from 2007 to 2008. at the rand corporation, robin quinville is a distinguished fellow at the council and the senior advisor, and served as vice president for european union and special edition at the council. howard -- howard shatz is the director of rand, initiated research, and the party rand graduate school specialized in economics and national security. and so many varied studies i'm hard-pressed to find something he had. michelle egan is our non-rand expert, one of our own at the wilson center, fellow in global europe program, professor at american university school of international service and coordinates european and russian studies program. with that, you are waiting,

institutions and policymakers have been looking at this ever since. rand's study that we're going to talk about today looks at some possible outcomes and what they mean for our economic policy and for our cooperation. so i'm delighted to see many friend of the wilson center here today and of rand. i'm going to introduce our expert panel and my idea is that whether he here from charlie about the results of this study. turn this over to then michelle for some comment. and then ask fran and howard to weigh in. who are these people, you ask? well, charlie, vice president international at rand. he's a former u.s. ambassador to greece and with distinguished state department career, ncluding for europe. minister of counsel for economic affairs in london and at the european union. in iraq he served as coordinator for economic transition from 2007 to 2008. fran is adjunct staff member at the rand corporation. she's also a distinguished fellow at the atlantic council and senior advisor at an association. until january, 2017, she served as vice president for european union and special initiatives at the council. howard, senior economist at rand corporation, director of rand initiated

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institutions and policiesmakers have been looking at this ever since. rand's study we are going to talk about today looks at possible outcomes and what they mean for economic policy and our cooperation. i'm delighted to see many friends of the wilson center today, introducing an expert panel, the idea is we will hear from charlie, the result of the study, turn this over to michelle for some comment and fran and howard to weigh in. and

businesses, institutions and policymakers have been looking at this ever sense and rands study that we are talking about today looks at some possible outcomes and what they mean or our economic policy and for our operation so i'm excited to see many friends of the wilson center here today and that rand. i'm going to introduce our panel and my idea is that we will hear from charlie about the bulkof this study . turn this over to then michelle for some comments and then have fran and howard way in. who are these people, you may ask? charlie reese, vice president international at rand, former us ambassador degrees and with a distinguished state department career including hosting the secretary for europe. mister council for economic affairs in london and the european union. in iraq he served as coordinator for economic transition from 2007 to 2008. fran bobo's staff member at the rand corporation, also is distinguished member at the atlantic council and senior advisor at the guardian associates so january 2017 she served as vice president for european union and special initiatives at the castle. howard shatz is senior economist at rand corporation, director of rand initiated research and a pr