Te ofrezco -Jorge Luis Borges

¿Con qué puedo retenerte?

Te ofrezco estrechas calles, atardeceres desesperados, la luna de los suburbios derruidos.

Te ofrezco la amargura de un hombre que ha visto mucho tiempo la luna solitaria.

Te ofrezco mis ancestros, mis hombres muertos, los fantasmas que los vivos han honrado en bronce: el padre de mi padre muerto en la frontera de Buenos Aires, dos balas atravesaron sus pulmones, barbado y muerto, fue envuelto por sus soldados en cuero de vaca; el abuelo de mi madre—con tan sólo veinticuatro años—encabezando una cargada de trescientos hombres en Perú, ahora fantasmas en caballos esfumados.

Te ofrezco cualquier acierto que mis libros puedan encerrar, cualquier virilidad o humor en mi vida.

Te ofrezco la lealtad de un hombre que nunca ha sido leal.

Te ofrezco el centro de mí mismo que salvé de algún modo—el corazón central que no utiliza palabras, no trafica con sueños y está intocado por el tiempo, por la desdicha, por las adversidades.

Te ofrezco el recuerdo de una rosa amarilla vista al atardecer, años antes de que nacieras.

Te ofrezco explicaciones de ti mismo, teorías sobre ti mismo, autenticas y sorprendentes noticias de ti mismo.

Te puedo dar mi soledad, mi oscuridad, el hambre de mi corazón; trato de sobornarte con la incertidumbre, con el peligro, con la derrota.

Isabel Allende - Maya's Book

Author Isabel Allende will be in conversation with Berkeley professor Beatriz Manz about her novel, Maya's Notebook. In it, Allende narrates the tumultuous life of Maya Vidal. Raised by her Chilean grandparents in Berkeley, California, Maya steps off the straight and narrow when her grandfather dies and ends up addicted and on the run in Las Vegas. Eventually found by her grandmother, Maya is sent to Chiloe, a remote island off the coast of southern Chile, to hide from her pursuers. There she tries to rebuild her life, sheltered by a septuagenarian recluse still haunted by his years as a political prisoner.

The Lies That Will Kill the US

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Real Time with Bill Maher： Income Inequality

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"Prisoners of Profit": Despite Widespread Abuse, Private Juvenile Jail Firm Expands Empire

Democracy Now looks at a major new investigation into how Youth Services International, a private prison company that runs juvenile detention centers, is rapidly expanding its services, despite a record of abuse and neglect over the past 25 years. Despite allegations that include the neglect and abuse of young prisoners and the bribing of public officials to win contracts, Youth Services International has expanded its contracts to operate juvenile prisons in several states. More than 40,000 boys and girls in 16 states have gone through these facilities in the past two decades. This comes as nearly 40 percent of all detained juveniles are now committed to private facilities, and in Florida, it is 100 percent. We are joined by Chris Kirkham, business reporter at The Huffington Post, where he has just published his new two-part investigative series, "Prisoners of Profit: Private Prison Empire Rises Despite Startling Record of Juvenile Abuse." Kirkham explains: "When oversight is not as strong as it can be, companies are only going to be incentivized to do what the government that’s paying them makes them do. And so in these cases if the oversight is lacking, if there is not constant monitoring, I think there is an incentive to cut costs and services."

Hugo Chavez - Un transformador consumido por el poder

Ante el desgaste y el desprestigio que cubrían a la antigua clase política, Chávez apareció como una opción.  En su estancia en el poder polarizó a la sociedad, implantó políticas públicas dirigidas a los sectores populares, limitó los privilegios de los sectores más ricos, cambió la Constitución y se hizo de importantes medios de domunicación.  También maximizó el clientelismo e ignoró la corrupción de los suyos, instauró y lideró una “democracia autoritaria” en cuya cima se encontraba un “autócrata electo” (él mismo) y en cuya base estableció consejos comunales, enfrentó a Estados Unidos e ilusionó a diversos sectores de la izquierda, entre muchos otros aspectos de su controvertida actuación.

Chris Hedges - Let’s Get This Class War Started

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Sherry Turkle on Being Alone Together

If you think a lot of people are looking down these days, it’s because they are. We often see people focused so intensely on the latest text or tweet coming from their smartphone, that they seem virtually oblivious to the world around them. This week, Bill talks to MIT professor Sherry Turkle, who has studied our relationship with technology for over three decades, about what this constant engagement means for our culture and our society. Turkle, author of Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other, says our devices are not only changing the way we communicate and interact with each other, but also who we are as human beings. “What concerns me as a developmental psychologist is watching children grow in this new world where being bored is something that never has to be tolerated for a moment,” Turkle tells Moyers. “Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of people [they're] with and this ‘other’ reality.”

The Fifth Estate - Julian Assange

The film "The Fifth Estate" charts the relationship between Assange and Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl), a German hacker who joined WikiLeaks in 2007 and later wrote one of the books that Mr. Condon and Mr. Singer drew upon. Daniel is initially impressed by Assange’s courage and idealism and dazzled by his charisma. Leapfrogging from city to city, sleeping on couches and living out of a backpack, Assange is like a cyber-anarchist Joan of Arc, a clean-shaven, silver-haired wizard in the kingdom of the scruffy.

He is suspicious of authority, committed to truth-telling and instinctively drawn to the side of the underdog. He also shows tendencies toward paranoia, monomania and rudeness. 

Where a Bicycle Is Sweetly Subversive

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Girl with a bike: Haifaa Al Mansour's inspiring 'Wadjda' is first feature filmed entirely inside Saudi Arabia

Girl with a bike: Haifaa Al Mansour's inspiring 'Wadjda' is first feature filmed entirely inside Saudi Arabia

Single-Payer Prescription for What Ails Obamacare

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Tariq Ramadan -Violences en Egypte

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The Elegant Universe

Einstein's Dream

Brian Green on quantum mechanics and string theory.