November 11 is six days after this most feared of all modern U.S. elections. Perhaps the most divisive election since the Civil War. What might be the implications of what happens on November 5 for the country and, specifically for the wars in Ukraine and Gaza? What do we need to know about the actual background to these wars as well as the meaning of present events in order to effectively exercise our responsibility as citizens to bring them to an end given the new lay of the land on which we will now be walking?
Monday, November 11, 2024 @ 7:00 PM
Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning author and foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents. His articles and books have led the Washington Post to place him “among the best in popular foreign policy storytelling.” He was Latin America correspondent for The Boston Globe, and then spent more than 20 years working for the New York Times, with extended postings in Nicaragua, Germany, and Turkey. He is a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. His numerous books include Overthrow, All the Shah’s Men, The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles and Their Secret World War; The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain and the Birth of American Empire and Poisoner in Chief. He is now a Boston Globe columnist, providing deep insight into U.S. foreign policy.
Sponsored by the MAPA peace campaign, Ukraine: A Time for Peace.