a view on the russian election from abroad we have steve levine a schwartz fellow at the new america foundation and public policy institute and think tank mr levine thank you for being with us. now if looking at the results so far do you think the russian opposition lost because they don't really have one clear leader and you think it might be better to have a two party system like in the u.s. . the your. premise is correct i think that the opposition needed to coalesce around one person it was handicapped for some time and the ways that the way the laws are are handled in russia work against the rise of a candidate who might. more seriously challenge. and. i do think that that. if one wanted a more robust system then we would then then one would allow the rise of a stronger and more independent opposition. well it can be said that putin has conducted a western style campaign clearly outlining his agenda in fact some people have said that he's campaigned harder than he ever has before do you think he will follow through with his promises. she did at the end just to be clear i think at the end o

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according to a tally by the nonpartisan new america foundation, since 2004, there have been more than 260 u.s. drone strikes in pakistan, which the foundation estimates killed between 1,600 and 2,500 people. the strikes have generated strong protests from pakistanis who claim that many civilians, as well as militants, have been killed. the u.s. takes the position that those strikes are permissible as part of the war against terror. >> our principal adversary since bin laden has declared war on the u.s. in the mid-'90s and has been al qaeda. it is fully in cognizance with the laws of international armed conflict to pursue those individuals wherever they reside. >> i think they've actually been lulled into a sense that killing with drones is not extraordinary, that these are bad people as determined by our cia and we could just kill them. this is killing large numbers of persons who we would never allow to be killed in another geographic zone, if they were in the u.s., for example. >> reporter: wherever the technology goes, ethicists say the moral dimensions must be a significant part o

your nearest station, politely ask for the records, and then send the data online to the new america foundation, or to the organization of investigative journalists called pro publica. both have mounted campaigns to get the information online. we'll link you to pro publica and the new america foundation at that "take action" page on our own website, billmoyers.com. each one of them is pulling together all the information on political ads they can get from you and others -- crowdsourcing -- and making it available to the entire country via the internet. if you're a high school teacher or college professor of journalism, have your students do it and maybe give them some classroom credit for collecting the data democracy needs to work. next week we'll hear from carne ross, author of "the leaderless revolution: how ordinary people will take power and change politics in the 21st century." >> well, i think above all, we have to accept that government is no longer fixing things for us. we have to instead take on the burden ourselves. that is a fundamental cultural change. and i think it requires a rea

and a senior fellow at the new america foundation and eve smith, publisher of naked capitalism. we not only have copies of the atlantic for you to pick up outside, it's a great issue to get as james said, but thanks to the financial times and i belief in magnanimity, we have the ft out there, ed is an author of a forthcoming book called "time to start thinking: america in the age of decent," that shows where his thinking is going no mat where are the nasdaq is, ed, the floor is yours. >> not sure this is working, thanks steve, amazing audience here, which amounts to about 1% of your friends on facebook, i think you are a world record there a side from lady gaga. i'll not reintroduce our friends because steve just has and you have the bios we have an hour and a quarter to ask what caused this crisis in capitalism and how to fix it. i'm sure that it's too long. it's all very straight forward, but i will therefore get straight to the question and start with eve. a blogger well known to all of you, of naked capitalism with a well-known book that came out quickly after this crisis an

. >> yeah, at the new america foundation we looked at this issue for more than ten years. and generally came to the conclusion that it has to be part of the toolbox of addressing maintaining a quality of life and standard of living particularly in light of the trends of rapid productivity growth and manufacturing which shifts workers into long services, many of which for a variety of reasons don't db will be relatively low productivity and won't pay relatively good wages. the question has always been how you structure a much broader array of capital ownership that just doesn't mean people to save for retirement. we don't have to have a serious conversation. we had the flirtation of the ownership society in the '90s and it all got in the early george bush years. but it all got caught up with financial services liberalization. i think we have to go to the drawing board and have more serious ideas put on the table. thank you. >> i'm from research pays. i think you're doing a great job, by the way as a moderator. >> thank you. >> my question, i want to bring in a live wire her

speakers include media analysts and journalists in a forum hosted by the new america foundation is just under hour. >> we're now going to shift gears. i'm very excited for this conversation. george could not be here with us today due to a last-minute situation in new york. but we have representing deutsche jamie muta who i was told is natively digital. i'm very i guess trigged by that. i know you're a key part of the interactive division at deutsche. an advertising firm associated and represented clients such as microsoft, pnc, and volkswagen and many others. we also have with us michael hughes who is the president of the martin agency. mike has been hailed by ad week as one of the now nine best kree aift directors in america. his agency is one of the best creative agent jis in the world according to ad week and many others. his firm's clients include ge o geico, comcast, and walmart. i'm sure none of us have seen any geico ads recently. he played an ad orrer two if we're really, john that are quite different from the others that we've seen today. >> hello, i'm a mac. >> and i'm a pc. >

well steve levine from the new america foundation a public policy institute and think tank says that vladimir putin will maintain a hard line against outside threats he's going to maintain the image of an outside. tempting to have bad wishes for for russia but serve a purpose he serves a very constructive and productive purpose for putin meaning that he was able to say and do things. for credibility reasons and just because it didn't suit his personality. he would have been unable to say for example could you have a badge and. form into silicon valley and sitting down and having tea with a bunch of technologists going on to washington and sitting down for a cheeseburger you know in a greasy spoon in washington. and i think this closed door. will retain reasonable relations with the united states with nato and with the rest of the world but that in public he's going to he's going to be he's going to maintain this friction he's going to be a troublesome character. lashing out at the west in public for example he will continue to do this as regards to the arab spring. the election has b

the new america foundation recently looked at the adverti. two speakers at the event talked about the role of opposition research in negative campaigning. this is half an hour. >> we're going to go to michael and alan, who are the archaeologisifcoming up with so the raw dug up that goes into these commercials. and one of the things that i learned in reading their fantastic book, which is entitled, "we're with reveal th side of american politics." one of the things that i learned in reading the book is that often times a lot of the dueat y do is for their own candidates. sort of a presemiive scrubbing, i suppose. michael and alan just published this book and they are -- they have been the beneficiaries of the highest, the most agust stamp of approval in washington these days, which is to have been on john stewart's "daily show" this week. congratulations. they've both spent 20 years working at oppo-men for democratic candidates running state and national campaigns. they are partners in a research firm. michael has worked as a journalist in tex

executive officer at euro pacific capital, and finally sheryl, director of economic growth at the new america foundation. the name of this panel is the no nonsense prescriptions for jump-starting real economic growth panel. this does not suggest the panels before and after us are nonsense panels. merely that we hold ourselves to a higher standard of no nonensness. doug, i'm going to start with you. on the subject of nonsense, washington and tax policy. >> yes. >> both sides seem to agree that we need tax reform. number one. at the same time, number two, nobody seems to understand how to get to tax reform. when you get democrats and republicans sitting in the same room at the same time given a deadline they come up with a plan that always seems to have three variables. one is lower rates. two is reduced tax expenditures, tax spending, deductions. and three seems to be raise revenues slightly. at the same time, barack obama released a tax plan, it does not lower rates. mitt romney released a tax plan, it does not raise revenue. who is right? obama, romney, or democrats sitting in the room? >> this is wash

world's internet users so here to discuss with me is rebecca mackinnon senior fellow at the new america foundation and author of her newly released book consent of the networks the worldwide struggle for internet freedom thanks so much for joining us tonight thank you so much for having me first is tell me you know why it is that you decided to write this book that you have some kind of a revelation and realize there's something that we all take for granted when it comes to the internet yeah well that's absolutely true that i was noticing that activists policymakers and people in internet companies sometimes just make this assumption that the internet is kind of like freedom juice if you just have enough of it if you have enough of this technology somehow democracy is going to spread and people are going to be freed and it's not the case it's not that simple and i actually spent nine years working in china as a journalist and i've been following what's been going on with the internet in china and i was really initially inspired to write the book because i've seen how authoritarian regimes adapt to

. >>> more now from the new america foundation's forum on negative political advertising. up next, two advertising agency executives on how political commercials are different from other types of advertising. >>> we're now going to shift gears and talk about the commercial realm. this is entitled -- i'm very excited for this conversation. one note is greg, the primary xeef officer, could not be with us here today. due to a last-minute situation in new york. but we have representing deutsche jayme muta who i was told is natively digital. so i'm very intrigued by that. i know you're a key part of the interactive division at deutsche. an advertising firm associated and represented clients such as microsoft, pnc, and volkswagen and many others. we also have with us michael hughes who is the president of the martin agency. mike has been hailed by ad week as one of the nine best creative directors in america. his agency is one of the best creative agencies in the world according to ad week and many others. his firm's clients include geico, comcast, and walmart. i'm sure none of

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daniel levy is co-director of the middle east task force of the new america foundation.rse, is the foreign affairs columnist for "the wall street journal." an israeli-arab journalist who has also worked as an anchorwoman in italy and egypt. and elliott abrams was deputy national security adviser in george w. bush's administration. so elliott, tell us what you think netanyahu took back from his visit to washington. what do you think he -- how did he read the mood, and what did he tell his cabinet when he went back? >> i think he would have read a desire on the part of the president that he not bomb iran. but i don't think things changed much during the visit. he knew there was the president's view. certainly in the public discourse, the president did not offer him very much more than he had previously done. in terms of what the united states would do about iran. a slight toughening of the american rhetoric. but not enough, i would think, to change the fundamental israeli view that they're probably going to need to take care of themselves. >> but you don't think that by sa

, editor-at- large at the "atlantic" and director of the american strategy program at the new america foundation. first, we have the desecration of the corpses. then we have the burning of the koran. is this strike three in. >> i think it's strike three. i know there's a difference of opinion out there. it's hard to imagine an incident that could become more viral and not only in when the tragedy of what just unfolded but of being something that the taliban can exploit over time because there's such an immediate call now for justice against or from the person who allegedly committed these crimes. and our u.s. military system of justice will run right against the afghan expectation of how their justice system should work. so this incident will remain ripe and alive for a long period of time. i think be very substantial in souring a relationship and changing the dynamics of how president karzai makes his choices in the future and how he positions himself vis-a-vis the united states. >> ifill: can this single incident or the acculumation of incidents sour that relationship? >> i think it will be un

. >> i'm in the new america foundation sends more has been a board member of the new america foundation where i was also involved. jacob is a professor at yale, they're involved with the issue of the so-called public option and health care debate, and he's this kind of kennedyesque inspired progressive. but when i listen to jacob, and i'm often inspired listening to him, the world that he describes on the kind of commitment to education, the commitment to pension, the commitment to keeping -- it's as if everyone wants to keep all of the social safety net and all of the piece is not there but build it bigger in terms of redefining a next social contract. but we are looking at budget and are having to make our choices, i sometimes wonder, i guess i would like to ask, i will call on richard, but i would like to ask, what would you counsel those on the progressive left who want that return of the great society? what are they getting wrong? what our choices are they unwilling to make? >> well, another thing i heard today is related to this, is this issue of instead of focusing so much on wha

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they are among several speakers hosted by the new america foundation. it is about half an hour. >> they are some of the archaeologists with coming up with some of the raw data. one of the things i learned in reading their fantastic book -- they by the authors of "we're with nobody." they just published this book, and they have been the beneficiaries of the highest, most of us stamp of approval in washington, d.c., having been on "bill daley show" this week. congratulations. -- "daily show" this week. congratulations. michael has worked as a journalist in texas and mississippi, director of two occasions and political adviser for the office of the mayor of the city of jackson, and he has been a political adviser to the attorney general of mississippi. alan has worked as a farmer, newspaper reporter, aide the mississippi attorney general and mississippi governor bridge we are pleased to have you both. michael and alan will give a short presentation and we will continue the conversation. >> first, and thank you for having us today. we are the guys who are o

everybody, at least for the moment, not only on behalf of aei, but my partners in crime from the new america foundation, and from the center for a new american security. this is a joint project and multiplying think tank bureaucracies adds geometrical levels of complexities, but we've been working at three now for a while and very pleased to kick off what is a series of events examining the core issues of foreign and national security policy in this presidential year. the three of us are, obviously, institutions with somewhat different policy perspectives. what's brought us together in this case is a shared belief that this will be an extremely consequential election. voters may make their choices based on domestic concerns, but the outcome will matter to the world, and the world will be watching america come this november. the series is intended to frame what we've agreed are the four principle strategic concerns of our time; the future of the middle east, the effect of china's geopolitical rise, whether the american military can continue to sustain american global leadership in the years ahead and, r

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new america foundation. similarly, i am wondering if we can talk it a little bit about the extent to which the subject of america's rule in the world is being talked about on the campaign trail, and i wonder if any of you see the gop candidates of doing a particularly good job of thinking about for addressing this issue aside from putting out reactive comments about afghanistan and syria. >> the most comprehensive position is ron paul's. i think the republican candidates have a very consistent problem, which goes to what we have discussed already -- you can critique around the edges on afghanistan, but at the end of the day, there were 30,000 troops in afghanistan in 2008 and went up to 100,000 going down this year. what would you say? we are going to put 400,000 troops in, stay for decades? there's not much you can say to critique it. same with pakistan. obama tripled the number of drone -- obama quintupled the number of drone strikes. would the republican candidate in office quintuple the quintuple? no one

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. >> that the new america foundation we have looked at this issue for more than 10 years and generally came to the conclusion that has to be part of the toolbox of addressing and maintaining a quality of life standard of living particularly in light of the trends of rabbit -- rapid productivity growth, many of which for a variety of reasons don't, will be relatively low productivity and won't pay relatively good wages so it has to be part of the toolkit. the question has always been how do you structure a much broader array of capital ownership that just doesn't mean people trying to save for retirement because that really doesn't get you very far. unfortunately we haven't had a serious conversation. we had the flirtations with the ownership society in the '90s and the early george bush years but it all got caught up in this financial services liberalization. i think we are going to have to go to the drawing board to have more serious ideas put on the table because it has to be an inevitable part of addressing the quality in the future. >> thank you. >> tom from research pays. i think

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elizabeth with new america foundation. similarly i'm kind of wondering if you talk a little bit about the extent to which the subject of america's role in the world as being talked about on the campaign trail. and wondering if any of you see any of the gop candidates as doing i guess a particularly good job of speaking about or kind of addressing this issue, aside from simply kind offering reactive comments about afghanistan and syria? >> the comprehensive position is ron paul's. i think the republican candidates have a very consistent problem which goes to what we discussed already, which is you can critique around the edges on afghanistan but at the end of the day, you know, there were 30,000 troops in afghanistan in 2008 and one up to 100,000, we're drawing down this year, and to what do you say, what, we would've a 400,000 troops, state for decades? there's not much you can really say to critique it. similarly with pakistan. okay, so obama quinn tripled the number of drone strikes. should a republican candidate in offic