>> it is a melville quote.an epigram from a short story that people think melville wrote himself that i think is this denial of the obligation that people have to one another, the dependencies that justice being human they have -- again, going back to this fetish of individualism that is the united states. >> thank you for being with us, greg grandin. [captioning made possible by democracy now!]

>> it is a melville quote.an epigram from a short story that people think melville wrote himself that i think is this denial of the obligation that people have to one another, the dependencies that justice being human they have -- again, going back to this fetish of individualism that is the united states. >> thank you for being with us, greg grandin. [captioning made possible by democracy now!] >> [indistinct chatter] [captioning made possible by kcet television] >> my name is kim stringfellow. i'm an interdisciplinary artist. i work out of joshua tree, but i teach down in san diego at sdsu. i'm also working on a side project called "arid," which is a desert journal of art, design,

so you set them off in a different way melvill melville m up as of the america who doesn't actually lead the complexity of the drama and you are saying he's also an establishment in a way that he kind of represents -- it is interesting to no avail create this diabolical in a way that he likes them. >> he sets them up for a fool pretty blatantly as i read in the passage and he is a fool person. not so much an establishment i would figure him as an establishment but he certainly believes in institutionalism and in the memoir as a number of planes in the rights of property he has an encounter in the french revolution and in the indian ocean he has a clear understanding that of the institutionalism is important thabut if you are going to havee rights of man you have to have the strong institutions that guarantee property rights and he leaves in the obeying the van and he says that a number of times. at the same time he is blinded to the social world around him they capture them. >> that the rebellion on the ship we see as an extraordinary story and once he got a hold of it it captured the im

they're making their way to salty over the next week and how they write a hearty message with the melville unpick mountain village last but long as you're about he spoke about the security issues and how people including businesses i see feel about the atmosphere here in sochi take a look at that you did not just among hispanics in the menu of the athletes have been seeing the backroom liesl very negative media coverage of all the sochi olympics some are even afraid to come here but when they arrived the started wondering what all the bad press was involved which under very impressed by what's going on here they see there's much less hassle and discomfort is pressure when it comes to security checks compared to previous games given because as i said the opens on friday people are still fighting for a ticket for the opening ceremony. various that would see arrive here in sochi there are helicopters around us as we speak princess diana arrives earlier today and also r.t. spoke to the famous tennis star maria sharapova about the excitement surrounding the winter olympics twenty forty. two stu

athletes that making their way to salty over the next week and how they want to mess up with the melville unpick mountain village i spent long as you're about he spoke about the security issue. i help people including businesses i just feel about the atmosphere here in sochi take a look. that you did not just the latest but it's been a good many of their lives have been saying that back home they saw very negative media coverage of all the sochi olympics some are even afraid to come here but when they arrived they started wondering what all the bad press was about and are very impressed by what's going on here they say there's much less hassle and discomfort is pressure when it comes to security checks compared to previous games. but they lympics as i said to them because well as i said the opens on friday people are still fighting for a ticket for the opening ceremony we have various that would seize a ride here and such as there are helicopters around this as we speak princess diana arrives earlier today but also r.t. spoke to the famous tennis star maria sharapova about the excitement

the middle east fired the imagination of authors like herman melville and mark twain, freedom fighterslike frederick douglass and john f. kennedy. it had a huge influence on the middle east well before the advent of middle eastern oil. in fact, during the 19th century america was the main exporter of oil to the middle east. mostly in the form of kerosene. the united states also had a no less transformative impact on the middle east, mostly not through economics or oil, but through education. america built the universities in beirut, in cairo, american universities in turkey, through which american educators imparted american ideas. perhaps the most influential i encouraged george bush to las vegas.arry reid he did not. sessions do not change the fact that the senate was unavailable. planned 20-day no business break. it was gone. there was no forum to be had. the constitution, in my view exclusively grants the executive , both responsibility to determine senate availability and discretion to sign temporary commissions.

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hannah melville. the last chapter is about it. attended the, i write about the pt-109. action writing. get you revved up. then i write about being with the toughest job ever in my life which is working for tip o'neill. i lucked into the biggest job in politics for me, the top guy fighting reagan the great communicator. the great irony is i grew up with liking reagan. we all liked him. he of course was the gipper. the hero of the notre dame movie. speaking of catholic school, one thing they did in catholic school when you're in third grade they bring in the movie projector to show you knute rockne all american so they can begin the indoctrination. this is your orientation as a catholic. he got to know the importance of notre dame. it's all about that team. they are never changing the name by the way. it will always be the fighting irish, always. somebody said it makes it look bad. well, we do fight. i was going to call this book donnybrook about reagan and tip fighting each other. i thought two irish guys fighting wasn't very newsy. two irish guys want to fight? that's i

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