Long waits and disappointment for air travelers. Coping with a heat dome ahead of summer's arrival. The government is rolling out two COVID vaccines for young children. Correspondent Steve Kathan has the CBS World News Roundup for Monday, June 20, 2022:
In the wake of the Uvalde massacre, Emmett Till’s name is again at the forefront of a national conversation, this time about gun control. Till was the 14-year-old boy lynched by a group of white men in 1955 in Mississippi. Images of his mutilated body shocked the country and galvanized civil rights activists.
As people inside and outside newsrooms struggle with whether showing brutal images of slain children might move people and politicians toward collective action, Emmett’s family talks about power and pain, and the impact and limitations of an image.
Today, in honor of Juneteenth, we kick off a week of episodes about the Black experience with the question: Is this country in the middle of another “Emmett Till” moment?
We dive back into chapter 10 – Why the State Has No Origin – of The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow. And finish up our discussion of how different forms of social power based on violence/sovereignty, information/administration, charisma/heroic politcs all come together in different combinations at different places and points, with some features exaggerated over others, to produce radically different forms of states throughout human history.
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resident Emmanuel Macron has lost his majority in France’s National Assembly as voters flooded both to the far right and far left. A second term filled with confrontation and compromise awaits him. The shadowy world of corporate spying is broadening to far more than just cola or fried-chicken recipes. And when scare-tactic road-death statistics lead to more deaths, not fewer. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer
The boys are joined by comedian Rafe Williams (@iamrafewilliams, Young Grandpa) to discuss the music and poetry of Guy Clark. Specifically, they discuss the career-making gem "LA Freeway," plus Guy's history, his similarities to Mark Twain, and how he may have inadvertently created the Americana genre.
New to Guy Clark? Here are some other recs from Rafe, Danny, and Tyler: Desperados Waiting For a Train The Last Gunfighter Dublin Blues She Aint Going Nowhere My Favorite Picture of You Tornado Time in Texas Heavy Metal Cold Dog Soup Homegrown Tomatoes To Live is To Fly Stuff That Works The Cape The Randal Knife The Carpenter
Food preservationist and cultural historian Jordan Wimby — aka ‘Melanin Martha’ — is addressing access, trauma, queerness and self-care through cooking.array(3) {
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Linda Kinstler’s Latvian grandfather disappeared after WWII and the family never spoke about him. But as she delved into Boris Kinstler’s life she found he had been a member of a killing brigade in the SS linked to the ‘Butcher of Riga’ Herbert Cukurs, before becoming a KGB agent and then vanishing. She attempts to uncover the truth in Come To This Court and Cry: How The Holocaust Ends, but also interrogates the uncertainties of memory, family, nation and justice.
Although Herbert Cukur’s name came up frequently at the Nuremberg war crime trials for the killing of tens of thousands of Jews, he managed to escape and find refuge in South America. It was there he was murdered by Mossad agents who left a note from Those Who Will Never Forget saying ‘the condemned man has been executed’. The Israeli investigative journalist Ronen Bergman has uncovered his country’s most secret activities in Rise and Kill First: The Secret History Of Israel's Targeted Assassinations (translated by Ronnie Hope).
The Nuremberg trials in the aftermath of WWII mark the birth of international law and set the framework of modern human rights law. The barrister and writer Philippe Sands has appeared frequently before international courts, and has been involved in many of the most important cases of recent years from Yugoslavia to Rwanda to Guantanamo. He explains what can be done when countries – like Russia – refuse to recognise the jurisdiction of international law.
For over 2,000 years, stories have been passed down about the famous and infamous people from ancient Rome.
While many of these names still are familiar to most people today, it doesn’t really tell us much about how the average person lived back then?
What was life like for the regular person whose names didn’t make it into the history books?
Learn more about the life of the average person in ancient Rome, and how we know what we know about it, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.