Money Talk RTHK Radio Three Hong Kong October 31, 2024 Program host James Ross asks Barry about the presidential election–who’s ahead, and how Microsoft and Google earnings reflect big capital investments in artificial intelligence. Listen here to the segment, fourth down from the top. Continue reading View From America
Money Talk, Radio 3, RTHK Hong Kong, October 23, 2024 In this week’s 11-minute segment host Steven Filby asks Barry about US-China relations and how they might change after the presidential election. There is also discussion of the Boeing strike and the latest polls showing a virtual tie between Harris and Trump. The segment is the fourth entry on this audio link. Continue reading View From America
Two-hundred-fifty years ago, on October 10th 1774, 2,500 Virginians defeated Chief Cornstalk’s mostly Shawnee warriors at Point Pleasant, WV on the Ohio River. It was the only significant battle in a six-month-long war named after Virginia’s last colonial governor, the Earl of Dunmore, who himself led one of two columns that crossed the Allegheny Mountains into Indian country. The Virginians sought to end Shawnee, Mingo and … Continue reading When the Virginians Defeated the Shawnees
It’s the cliché with the ring of truth—cultural change in America begins in California. And so it was with our cultural revolution. Not the destructive class struggle of Chairman Mao, but a revolution in consciousness—a new way of thinking, activism and questioning. Ironically from today’s perspective, it began with the free speech movement at UC-Berkeley in 1964. Fresh from the Mississippi Summer freedom project, student … Continue reading America’s Cultural Revolution: A Magical Time
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