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24 Jun 2008

Zimbabwe: Trouble at Home (The Brian Lehrer Show: Tuesday, 24 June 2008)

Ongoing political violence in Zimbabwe has sparked widespread concern both abroad as well as within the U.S. Zimbabwe natives Peter Godwin , author of When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa , and Chaka Ngwenya, director of SARFM Radio in New York, talk about the latest in the Zimbabwe elections.

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[2:39]..." candidate into refuge at the Dutch embassy. And as the era un Security Council even Russia and China are usually not inclined. To vote on such things vote to condemn. -- and going is here he "...

[21:04]..." We just have thirty seconds left Peter the UN Security Council. Even Russia and China did stand against Mugabe yesterday so there it is unanimous unanimity among the powerful permanent members. What can "...

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18 Jun 2008

How Asian Rivalries Are Shaping the World (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 18 June 2008)

The growing rivalry between China, India, and Japan will shape not only the U.S. but also the rest of the world in the coming years, according to former Economist magazine editor-in-chief Bill Emmott . His new book is Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade .

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[17:12]..." that. I guess because it's not and it. Permanent member of the Security Council and therefore isn't held as a responsible for blocking action -- "...

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27 May 2008

Richard Clarke on US National Security Failures (The Leonard Lopate Show: Tuesday, 27 May 2008)

Former top counterterrorism adviser Richard A. Clarke believes that the Bush administration failed to protect Americans from the terrorist attacks of 9/11. In Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters , Mr. Clarke explains why these failures have continued and what needs to be done to rectify them.

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[4:40]..." the request the CIA what happens is that. The White House National Security Council stuff gets the book in the and they send it out to FBI's CIA State Department the Pentagon what. And the CIA "...

[5:22]..." of communication between the FBI and the CIA and then there's. National Security Council not cooperating with either of them is just the way it is and other countries. "...

[5:55]..." the organization that broke down in the last several years was national Security Council's system. It was set up in 1947 that was supposed to be on partisan. In fact there -- higher standards for nonpartisanship. At the National Security Council in the law that was passed than there is -- elsewhere in government. But it was supposed to make sure the department's "...

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26 May 2008

The Post-American World (The Leonard Lopate Show: Monday, 26 May 2008)

Fareed Zakaria says that post-Cold War America needs to accept that the rest of the world doesn’t revolve around us, and that our world will be re-shaped in the near future as other countries like China, India, Brazil and Russia become more and more powerful. His new book is The Post-American World .

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[27:45]..." are struggling they're struggling you know if you look at the UN Security Council the permanent members of the council. As the victors of Award that ended sixty years ago I say the victim as we "...

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23 May 2008

Interagency Conflict (The Brian Lehrer Show: Friday, 23 May 2008)

The report from the Justice Department's inspector general reveals conflict between governmental agencies ideas on handling detainees abroad. Washington Post reporter Carrie Johnson explains the internal strife.

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[3:15]..." because of this report Justice Department officials -- at the national. Security Council. In in policy meetings with high level officials representing State Department the CIA and other organizations. "...

[15:38]..." I'm issued their concerns and writing and informants regular meetings with National Security Council officials. Back in 2002 in 2003. We know -- those meetings took place. But what remains unclear to this day is who "...

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12 May 2008

JFK’s Trusted Advisor (The Leonard Lopate Show: Monday, 12 May 2008)

JFK called his advisor Ted Sorensen his “intellectual blood bank.” Ted Sorensen looks back on their work together, and tells us what he thinks JFK’s true legacy is. His new memoir is Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History . Event : Ted Sorensen will be interviewed by James Mustich Monday, May 12 at 7 pm Barnes & Noble Union Square 33 East 17th Street If you can't see the video click here var so = new SWFObject("http://www.youtube.com/v/h9sqp1GrMvo", "mymovie", "390", "321", "7", "#FFFFFF");so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");connect(window, 'onload', function() {so.write("ytcontent");});

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[1:26]..." 63 which used musing aloud to his visitors. About making any National Security Council after sending McGeorge Bundy his National Security Adviser to the White House. I had never heard of it before that historians said "...

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8 May 2008

Myanmar Update: Getting Help Through (The Brian Lehrer Show: Thursday, 08 May 2008)

As remote villages continue to struggle without food, water, and medicine, the death toll from the Myanmar cyclone is still climbing fast -- and the government is hindering aid organizations from sending personnel and supplies. Maureen Aung-Thwin , director of the Burma Project Southeast Asia Initiative at the Open Society Institute, checks in to update us on relief efforts and tell us the best way for us to help.

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[9:31]..." is it will but it has to be invoked by the -- Security Council. And what night I heard and that that there's even difficulty discussing it right now because two countries. Our against the even "...

[12:44]..." Pressuring the government to to to to do something about the UN Security Council that tactic is the only. Entity that can actually. Push the government into accepting -- "...

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8 May 2008

Underreported: Justice for Darfur (The Leonard Lopate Show: Thursday, 08 May 2008)

Last year, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for two people for their alleged role in war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. But Sudanese authorities have not only refused to arrest and hand over the two suspects, they have given one of them increasingly prominent public positions and released the other from prison. Richard Dicker of Human Rights Watch and the “Justice for Darfur” campaign talks about why it’s been so difficult to achieve justice for Darfur war crimes.

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[2:59]..." harper and Sudanese government is obstructing justice. As well as flat looking Security Council resolution which mandated -- to -- and assists this process. "...

[4:39]..." international criminal court will be making a report to the United Nations Security Council starting on June 1 and for the month of June the United States government. And the presidency of the Security Council and we you're looking. To Washington to meet -- on it's -- particularly deep commitment to the people of Star Wars specifically. In -- since. To see that the Security Council adopt a statement that he's critical. But seem to be obstruction of justice and essentially protecting those accused of the most serious "...

[6:33]..." to cooperate -- justice and not obstructing any effort by the Security Council to criticize the -- needs for their stone -- "...

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Speechwriters: White House Ghosts (The Leonard Lopate Show: Monday, 21 April 2008)

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21 Apr 2008

Speechwriters: White House Ghosts (The Leonard Lopate Show: Monday, 21 April 2008)

Presidential speechwriters can frame an era, define a presidency, and even shape world history. Robert Schlesinger is author of the new book White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters . Weigh in: Do you have a favorite presidential speech of all time? If so, why? And do you know anything about the people who helped write it?

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[16:07]..." there is a speechwriter who had been Clinton speechwriter. On the National Security Council and stayed on. On the Bush Administration -- political appointees so ism wasn't like you just to stay on -- we applied "...

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Speaking with Feith (The Brian Lehrer Show: Tuesday, 15 April 2008)

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15 Apr 2008

Speaking with Feith (The Brian Lehrer Show: Tuesday, 15 April 2008)

Douglas Feith , undersecretary of defense for policy at the Pentagon and now the author of War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism (Harper, 2008), offers an insider's view on the run-up to the war in Iraq.

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[8:57]..." concern. That Saddam Hussein was dismantling. The containment strategy that the UN Security Council had put in place after the gulf war. And was heading toward confrontation with the United States at a much higher level "...

[15:52]..." team to the White House and he brought it to a National Security Council meeting. And with the president and the other members of the National Security Council he went through it item by item. "...

[16:06]..." was grim reading. And yet none of these people on the National Security Council. Felt any obligation to the American people to publicly and prominently saying here's what could go wrong but it's worth the risk. "...

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