you take off for probably your 30th mission over north vietnam. you're leading your squadron and you come in for a for an attack, drop your ordnance and you start to pull out and you're thinking already thinking about a nice dinner in the wardroom. and you're at this point in the boardroom. there were linen, tablecloth and there were a mess. steward so you're thinking about that. you were thinking about a clean bed and a hot shower. all of a sudden your aircraft shakes, your wings on fire. you look at your instruments, you've got seconds to figure out what to do in those 3 seconds, you realize you have to do what no aviator wants to do. you have to punch out. you punch out your your arm your leg. it hit coming out of the cockpit. your response of the your chute opens and because you're low and just coming out of a dive you're on the ground and about 15 seconds. so this whole sequence of events from you being an invincible all american naval aviator to being on the ground in foreign hostile country takes about 20 seconds. imagine quickly that trans

>> you mean americans who went to north vietnam? mean like jane fonda and so many others who went to north vietnam? amy: and iraq before. i mean, even people like congress member mcdermott of seattle, reporters saying that they should resign? >> oh, people have gone to iraq. what about -- there's people in voices in the wilderness, americans who went to iraq and violating the u.s. sanctions, and bringing food and medicine, you know, and the whole business of being traitors. you know, i think there's a whole -- there's somehow some wrong-headed notion of what treason is and what patriotism is. and there's some notion that if you disobey the orders of your government or the laws of your government, you are being treasonous. but i believe the government is being treasonous and the government is being unpatriotic when the government violates the fundamental rights of human beings. when the government invades another country, a country that has not attacked it, the country that's not threatened it, when our government invades another cou

you take off for probably your 30th mission over north vietnam. you're leading your squadron and you come in for a for an attack, drop your ordnance and you start to pull out and you're thinking already thinking about a nice dinner in the wardroom. and you're at this point in the boardroom. there were linen, tablecloth and there were a mess. steward so you're thinking about that. you were thinking about a clean bed and a hot shower. all of a sudden your aircraft shakes, your wings on fire. you look at your instruments, you've got seconds to figure out what to do in those 3 seconds, you realize you have to do what no aviator wants to do. you have to punch out. you punch out your your arm your leg. it hit coming out of the cockpit. your response of the your chute opens and because you're low and just coming out of a dive you're on the ground and about 15 seconds. so this whole sequence of events from you being an invincible all american naval aviator to being on the ground in foreign hostile country takes about 20 seconds. imagine quickly that trans

and that would be much more of great deterrent to north vietnam than a settlement. of course, nixon's own advisers, the pentagon and state department and the cia said vietnamization would never make south vietnam capable of defending itself. so i think his his later claims with a grain of salt. but i think what nixon learned from that experience was that, you know, while have as president, he has this vast power to destroy world, but that doesn't turn into conventional power to influence parts the world to to make settlement with us that that we favor a turn back to aaron for a second we've been talking about nuclear weapons part of this triad of weapons of mass destruction and of the great virtues of your and pat's book is that you focus only on nuclear weapons. you also look at chemical and biological weapons as well. and i think even in an early draft of the book germ and gas in the bomb were part of the title, which i actually really liked, but i wonder if you could say a few words about that as well, because nixon had to the issue of what to do, chemical weapons

and eventually, he is taken to the capital of north vietnam.taken particularly to the prison, which as you all know, it's also called the -- it's one of the most famous presence all of history. and it was like that before the americans arrived because it was a colonial present built but the french and it used to house dissidents north vietnamese citizens. so, the americans who are in there said that you could just hear the screens on the grounds. 70 years of colonial injustice. it's a bad place to be. and a lot of the north vietnamese guards and wardens, who are in that prison, how actually been in the prison as prisoners themselves a decade or two before. so, as more americans begin arriving in that prison, they probably didn't even expect this. all of a sudden, american pilots are flying out of the sky and they had to do something. they put them in this prison. and they knew that they could communicate -- the first priority for the north vietnamese administration prisoners, keeping them separate so they couldn't communicate, they can form any

eventually he is taken to hanoi, the capital of north vietnam.taken to wallow prison, which as you all know is also called the hanoi hilton. one of the most famous presidents in all of history, one of most infamous. it was infamous before the american threat because it was a colonial present by the french and used to house dissident north yet mommies citizens. the north american fliers who were in there said that you could hear the screams and a groans and 70 years of colonial injustice, it was just a bad place to be. a lot of the north yet nominees guards and wardens we're in that prison had been in the prison as prisoners themselves a decade or two before. so, as more americans began arriving at the prison, which by the way they didn't even expect this. all of a sudden, american pilot starches falling out of the sky and they had to do something with them. so, they put them in this prison. they knew the that prisoners could communicate, they were prisoners who would not cooperate. the first priority for the vietnamese, guards that north yet mean

johnson gave the order to inflict, and the gift on the naval facilities of north vietnam has already become today. it is known that information about the second attack on the ship was deliberately distorted by the american the destroyer fought with a non- existent enemy in february 2003 , us secretary of state colin pavell demonstrated un security council test tube with some white powder. he presented this as evidence of the production of chemical and bacteriological weapons in iraq. the members of the security council refused to sanction the invasion, but george w. bush still started it. the regime created hussein was overthrown, but weapons of mass destruction were never found in iraq. the wreckage from the ukrainian air defense, which was activated during the russian attack on the ukrainian infrastructure, quickly cleared up. washington was restrained in its initial comments and then got involved in a direct there are no people willing to clash with russia, and kiev, who tried to provoke something like that, was unusually harshly ordered to stop the incident . jordanian asama hadz

incident in the gulf of tankin in early august, an american destroyer approached the coast of north vietnam and, according to the americans, the north was attacked twice by the vietnamese madeks received air cover with torpedo boats and fought back under this pretext, us president johnson gave the order to inflict, and the gift on the naval facilities of north vietnam has already become today. it is known that the information about the repeated attack on the ship was deliberately distorted by the american destroyer fought with a non- existent enemy in february 2003 , us secretary of state colin pavell showed the un security council a test tube with some kind of white powder. he presented this as evidence of the production in iraq of chemical and members of the security council refused to sanction the invasion of bacteriological weapons, but george w. bush nevertheless started it. the regime created hussein was overthrown, but weapons of mass destruction were never found in iraq. the wreckage from the ukrainian air defense, which was activated during the russian attack on the ukrainian infra

that longest bloody war, the task of the program is the recruitment of high-ranking officials of north vietnamnd also in case it is impossible to agree, the liquidation of the special services called it the tactic of a rifle shot, also agents viet activists and sympathizers were identified during the war years, the americans executed about thirty thousand people of a separate mention with a prefix. the work of the cia in west berlin deserves failures, agents of the organization were digging into the tunnel in the eastern part of the city. they wanted to connect to soviet telephone lines so that a spy for moscow or the jennifer project a soviet submarine with nuclear warheads sank in the pacific ocean the americans had a real opportunity to seize many secrets of the soviet navy, of particular interest were the cipher machine and nuclear missile warheads practical implementation. ideas for raising the deceased fashionable boats resulted in a cia operation under the code name project jennifer, an operation in which over 4,000 people were involved, began to be carried out in the early seventies wi

tremendous triumph in securing a piece with north vietnam as they see it. and they're also so they're going to screw the enemies and really as coulson says we're going to slash the bejesus out of them. then they start talking about how they're going to screw the washington post because they of course he hates the washington post. and so colson has a plan. to drive down the washington post share price. i think it was 38 dollars and colson has succeeded in driving it down to as he says 25 dollars. actually 28 dollars and so he's boasting about this to nixon. he's delighted to inform nixon that the economy was doing great. everybody's fortunes are up except those of the post. oddly enough their stock has dropped three more points since i told you last it's now $28. that's too -- bad. nixon replied sarcastically. isn't that a shame says colson? it was 38 dollars in december and had record earnings and has dropped 10 points. keep them busy nixon instructed. it was nearly 2 am finally time to go to bed. the president had to be up early the next morning for the in

he's about to conclude a peace treaty with north vietnam. he's had his big opening to china. he is being claimed as a great foreign policy president, and this little matter of watergate doesn't seem to be all that important. even the "washington post" have run out of leads to investigate and then suddenly in the space of just three months, or actually 100 days, it all falls apart. this very disciplined presidency unravels completely, and nixon is facing the greatest personal crisis of his life, and the country is facing one of the greatest political crises in american life. so i was interested in how this happened. it's an incredible story of joseph the unraveling of a presidency which you are able to witness from the inside, thanks to these tapes. okay, so i begin the story, it's 1 a.m. on january the 20th. at noon nixon's going to take the oath of office for the second time. he's in his, he had a favorite room in the white house, which is the lincoln sitting room. it's in the corner of the mansion on the second floor overlooking the washington monument. actually the smalles

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were already discussing the start of the de soto mission, and the sea sorties to the coast of north vietnamer the smadox incident and the attack in the gulf of tonkin was then a congressional resolution. she opened the door to the invasion of vietnam in documents declassified by the council there is evidence that johnson knew about kennedy's plans to leave vietnam. he did not agree with this and tried to win robert mcmanara over to his side. i always thought it was stupid to make any statements about the withdrawal of troops. this is harmful from a psychological point of view, the news was considered by the president, otherwise i was silent. in response to this attack, on the high seas, our troops attacked the bases used by the north vietnamese patrols. as followed due to the declassified bone memorandums, not 64 years old during his campaign against bari goldter johnson had already decided that he would escalate the war in vietnam; in fact, the directive that became the resolution on the gulf of tankin was written even before the incident. in this bay, 3 months before the election , johnso

for so many years and in so many conflicts, the american leadership and business, when parts of north vietnamst saigon and how the same american officials from the state department military know so boots pushed from helicopters. uh, officials and military from south vietnam who understand what awaits them physically have already literally clung to the skids of an afghan helicopter, yes, a fresh example, how they fled, leaving, how people fell planes the united states of america has only one interest of the united states of america and any zelensky zelensky there who believes that he is an ally of the united states is making the biggest mistake. they have no allies. they have vassals have their own interest as soon as tomorrow. you will not be needed by the americans, you will fly like a vietnamese over saigon. and this must be understood before it is finally too late one of the most interesting moments is, of course, the final conflict russia ukraine eastern ukraine will become an autonomous state with borders along the northern coast of the black sea from luhansk to odessa region, a puppet o

nixon you know he's feeling pretty good about watergate comes to a peace treaty with north vietnam andcclaimed as the great foreign-policy president and watergate doesn't seem to be all that important. the "washington post" had run out of leads to investigate. and then suddenly within three months or 100 days it all falls apart. this varied discipline presidency unraveled completely and nixon is facing the greatest personal crisis of his life and one of the greatest political . crises in american history. it's anor incredible story with thenc unraveling of a presidency which we are able to witness from the inside. thanks to these tapes. so i begin the story at 1:00 a.m. january the 20th at noon and nixon is about to take the oath of office for the second time. yet a favorite room in the white house which was the lincolnm. sitting room in the corner of the second floor overlooking washington's monument in the smallest and most intimate room. nixonn love to go there and he would go up there and his daughters like k to even in the height of summer on a day like this he would go to his cub

east germany was a democracy, too, so was north vietnam, and ethiopia, and albania. cracies all. in his first speech as leader of north korea in 1946, kim i will sung talked about destruction of opposition to his rule, killing of political opponents as democratic reform. almost 80 years later, kim jong-un continues to run north korea as a democracy, a soviet style democracy. so again, they're using a very different definition of the word. in their version of democracy all decisions are made by a shadowy oligarchy. front by a strong man. the point isn't to find out what the population thinks or wants, it is to lend aura of legitimacy to criminals already in charge. here is joseph stalin bragging about results of the 1937 soviet election where his party won 99.4% support. 89 million votes to 562,000 votes for the other guys, whoever they were. >> our elections stalin went on to say are the only free and democratic elections in the whole world. at the moment stalin spoke those words, he was busy murdering more than a million citizens for political crimes in what became k

the state department stripped him of his passport after he traveled to north vietnam in 1965.staughton lynd was a conscientious objector during the korean war and later supported u.s. soldiers who refused to fight in iraq. he appeared on democracy now! in 2006. >> the magic of this precedents is a soldier in iraq are like lieutenant and what taught a under orders to be deployed to iraq can say, i consider this to be a war cme even if my superiors tell me something different, i'm obliged to use my own judgment, my own conscience, and so i say no. amy: and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting from the u.n. climate summit here in sharm el-sheikh, egypt. we begin with a story we have been following closely. it's alaa abdel fattah's 41st birthday today. the imprisoned technologist, writer, and activist had a near death experience last week according to his family who were able to visit him in prison on thursday for the first time in almost a month. in a statement released last night

. >> 1970 per chris's honor david carey, shot down in north vietnam on august 31 , 67 brick. >> i wasst a fan at the time. i would say 50% of my junior high school was wearing the bracelets you did not have to be for the war or against the war. you could just be in support of these people who had been captured for quick spurred by a conversation with this wife about the bracelets and how they united the country during a divisive war but he decided to try to find lieutenant dave carey. >> i went down and pulled out a box and you're where it was, looked it up on like a lightning bolt i should see whatever happens to this guy. >> accounting in texas 80 years old and now an author and motivational speaker. kerry spent 5 and half years in the hanoi hilton some of it with john mccain who was shot down a month and a half after him. >> i sent him an e-mail and a picture of the bracelet in to my surprise within minutes he e-mailed it right back and said i would love to have it. >> i'm getting those periodically for all of these years. someone will find me on the internet i will get an e-mail a

the state department stripped him of his passport after he traveled to north vietnam in 1965.ghton lynd was a conscientious objector in the 1950's and later supported u.s. soldiers who refused to fight in iraq. as the london review of books writes -- "along with roslyn and howard zinn, and carol and noam chomsky, alice and staughton lynd belonged to a generation of radical married couples in the united states who took controversial, unpopular public stands -- on civil rights at home, on vietnam and subsequent wars abroad -- regardless of the consequences, and held fast to lifelong commitments." amy: in a minute, we'll feature part of his interview on democracy now! staughton lynd back years ago. but first, we hear from one of his contemporary radical academics. that's right, noam chomsky. the world-renowned political dissident, linguist, and author. he is a laureate professor in the department of linguistics at the university of arizona and professor emeritus at massachusetts institute of technology where he taught for more than half a century. he spoke to democracy now! this

during that longest bloody war, the task of the program is to recruit high-ranking officials of north vietnamis impossible to agree, the liquidation of the special services called it the tactics of a rifle shot also revealed the agents and sympathizers of the branch during the war years, the americans executed about thirty thousand people of a separate mention with a prefix. the work of the cia in west berlin deserves failures, agents of the organization were digging into the tunnel to the eastern part of the city. they wanted to connect to soviet telephone lines so that a spy for moscow or the jennifer project a soviet submarine with nuclear warheads sank in the pacific ocean the americans had a real opportunity to seize many secrets of the soviet navy, of particular interest were the cipher machine and nuclear missile warheads practical implementation. the idea of ​​raising the dead waterboat resulted in a cia operation under the conditional name project jennifer, an operation in which more than 4,000 people were involved, began to be carried out in the early seventies with the full support

well, and guatemala and mexico and cuba and even north vietnam. they said, no way, we're not going near that. and where is the democrat said the way to appeal to hispanic voters is through immigration. trump said, no, immigration is in the rear view mirror for them. they will insist it can be the 20, 30 or 40 years ago. what they care about is preserving america as a place to which you want to go. there's no other place left for them to go and and not change the hispanic vote completely. and we don't know yet. but the current polling suggests that republicans are going to carry carry, win the latino vote in this coming election, win. and you can imagine how central that is destroying the democrat dreams. they had looked at the population increase rate among latinos and said, hey, we're just going to write this demographic wave into permanent, long term dominance. but trump changed all of that and made the latinos increasingly republican and in favor of our values and in favor of our policies. extraordinary achievement. and then the democratic part

never fully went through because by the end of 1964 johnson was conducting reprisal strikes on north vietnam and then into 1965 more sustained strikes. would rolling thunder bombing and then by the middle of 1965 100,000 troops were going in that would rise to over half a million by 1968. but lbj is a fascinating character. not only with respect to vietnam, but with respect to power and bob caro's wonderful work. on lbj really is a study of power and i want to play a couple of clips from lbj that gives you a sense of how he wielded that power one of them comes from just 10 days or so after he became president. it's a conversation between johnson and jackie kennedy the late president's widow, and it's notable for a variety of reasons, but particularly for johnson, who knows that he is going to need to stay in the good graces of the kennedy family. he has picked up the mantle from the fallen present. he's trying to to pass kennedy's legislative agenda tax cuts foreign aid, and then eventually civil rights and then he's gonna need to go into a 1964 presidential campaign not alienating the candy