All Things Considered im Peter Lavelle the world is struggling in different ways to cope with the pandemic and governments are taking the heat for their actions and inactions well the coronavirus be a referendum on globalisation. Cross talking some real news im joined by my guest here in moscow Dmitri Bobbitt hes a political analyst and editor in a steamy internet media project and in london we cross to Marcus Papadopoulos he is editor of politics 1st magazine. In effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was a preacher let me go to markets 1st in london. Continues and there is no end in sight Different Countries are experiencing different levels. This pandemic and theres been pointed out by the media and by people around the world what actions work and what dont work but theres a much broader discussion that needs to be taken in that its the nature of globalization and how globalization has allowed a pandemic like this to spread become a pandemic itself here and when i say globalization im talking about the nature of trade borders the very nature of the nation state and even talking about sovereignty again which is for bowden on both sides of the spectrum but its something that has to be talked about because at the end of the day the nation state is required to take care of its own citizens your reflection there go ahead marcus. Indeed thats one of the consequences of the emergence of the coronavirus as beings who shine a light on the dangers olf globalization and that is something a cool spots a western media can simply american major and british major is not going to discuss because globalization is a very they are so nominal and at the same time the coronavirus as demonstrates it the importance of borders of security all nation states and incidentally in britain and america the worst. Along with the worst coach are and religion are regarded as dirty words which is not just idiocy but it is absolutely laughable now with a coronavirus results in the downfall of globalization in the downfall of the new world order which is being in existence since the end of the soviet union and the soviet communism i believe not why firstly because a shim in because there is an assumption that the ordinary man or woman in the west principally britain and america has made the connection between the emergence olf and the spread of the coronavirus and globalization and in the in the case of the European Union without without borders so that is a dangerous assumption the 2nd reason why i do not believe it will result in the ends of globalization is that there is no alternative to globalization ever since the end of soviet communism capitalism has a math test itself that has evolved in itself today to corporate capsule ism and one of the mentions of corporate capitalism is of course globalization so there is no alternative in the well i know but a bit of if thats it. Very interesting comment de mint i mean i i im im not suggesting that globalization is going to go away because of the corona virus im not saying that what im saying is taking on board what mark has just said is that we have to take note of its weaknesses and how it needs to be adjusted i dont think we can turn the clock back 40 years but at the same time this this horrible event that is affecting the world on a scale that is only increasing and were going to later in this week on this program were going to talk about the economic consequences of it but it does beg the question is it really working that well and what needs to be adjusted so we can we can avoid such a pandemic because it will be other pandemics this is a test case and how to leverage what we have now and what needs to be done in the future go ahead while i agree with a marker of. The nature of Northern Cape that is an easy expansion expansionary to not only territory for example a lot of people blame for their coronavirus they had been so they chaneys but didnt we hear from the western experts that we should consume insects we should change our food patterns you know we should expand and expand you know their sphere where humans interfere with nature basically its becoming more or less clear that they survived was a result of human interference in nature it did not it was not produced by nature itself so we see how the system is fragile because not all only. Is it effected by destruction you know the story in the spread the story but you know expansion is already a good tragedy and all people losing money in history is still the system is vulnerable to go back to markets like i guess maybe to fine tune my comment introductory comments that is is that we have glow. It was ation and that is a thats a very broad brush but i think kind of demons kind of teasing a little bit of what im talking about here i mean this is a corporatization globalization because when countries have to react to this pandemic they they they have all of them have a different tool box and theyre not necessarily connected and the end weve seen today is the the inability to contain it i mean globalization in a very broad sense would have seemed to suggest that but we dont have that because its war of a corporate driven globalization go ahead marcus or let me let me make a case in point look at russia russia has borders and leader asleep dispended its board says look at the decisive steps the russians for instance took to confront and conceal the corona virus once once its threats from china straight away the russian authorities took the responsible decision and loose it to slaughter and if the European Union and its written that britain is out of the year you know how bold as if they had totally secure and defended borders then maybe maybe there would not be the situation that there is for example its early and germany and britain were guarding the coronavirus so i believe that the russian authorities are demonstrating the absolute necessity or have always markets let me get let me ask you a question then so youre telling me and im extrapolating from what you just said is that western elites and their vision of globalisation their ideology trumps Public Safety is that what youre telling me. Oh absolutely well good thats what im thinking as well resolutely expand on that its us who has been one of the beneficiaries or the corona virus western media because western media should have to create an atmosphere of awareness and calm about the coronavirus they should have told the British Public the American Public that a news virus has the most it is potentially so its all it could become and dammit you must remain calm and you must put it into perspective because year in year out for well over 100 years now the world has been livin with a pandemic in the school of influenza that would have been the actions of a response major but the last british Mainstream Media and the american Mainstream Media did not do that they deliberately creates it and say a claim didnt yap enflamed it and on what has happened in christmas for example the sale of newspapers has increased the amount of clicks on newspaper websites that are advertised since i live in it has a let me go to deeming answers so. Exactly how to do it so even though even the Business Model for media for media trumps Public Safety ok we could go on and on and on go ahead well i can just give you an example of the heel an American Publication they published an article us play in some murky picture over russian disinformation of coronavirus so russia did liberally misinformed the us public about coronavirus would article on itself is misinformation well the article called assistant secretary of state for europe and youre a sheffield precursor seign rushes in to intent is to saw discord and undermine us institutions and their why answers from within including through covered and courtesy of malign info. And skin pain by spray disinformation about coronavirus russian maligned. Vine is a gauge that one example cited in the article that you could find of that misinformation as usual with a side report which is classified the public cannot cede they are not providing any evidence of any fact but thats not an individual case thats not a separate case in Europe Spiegel magazine they published an article headlined one coronavirus need sporter got a crisis put it on a supporter in and out of got so the kewl sportin and they are gone or weaponized and made gratian you know all driving coddled macias to europe it immediately it reminded me of an headline in their corner just a few years ago and that their hard old monsters in and now youre speaking to us its put in and out of the same get all of the water but theres really no market so if youve been listening to that i mean there is no self reflection of the malign foreign intervention into arab lands muslim countries they created these migration waves in the 1st place this is just how my optic western media is that their countries create these problems their media blames the these problems on a 3rd party that wasnt involved in the 1st place i mean it is so circular so sound satisfying and again a Business Model that praises ideology over the Public Welfare of people go ahead marcus. Absolutely the world is the emergence of a new virus it can be followed so it could become. What we have. Since the beginning of 2020. 1000000 americans. In a few years ago in britain in the. Us and sensing 6008. 1000 british people dying from the sleuth so we have to be. Aware about the drug its all a risk we have to teach you basic hygiene. If for example washing your hands really often when you come back from the shops or from a ball a restaurant i have not got it suit lets british Mainstream Media which is a local outfit create. All these are the people who claim that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction these are the people who claimed mass murder into mrs olson and in libya and in kosovo they all compulsive lies and they do it deliberately in who would do it shes a financial windfall themselves they are despicable creatures you know and we you know i did biggest loser is we in this segment here is Public Confidence in the end in the media itself and again its a circular vicious circle here marcus welby topless thank you for joining us on line and were going to go to a short break and after that short break well continue our discussion on some real news stay with our king. Was initially published to the estimate that. Of president bushs remarks. To the truck to prove. The chairman up and. Left the truth of the bush critic from the. Books. Because the global was going to have the full truth needs it in your voice you. Have. This is for. You but what. About. The 4th of march because of the. Welcome back across top where all things are considered peter bell to mind you were discussing real news. And now to nicosia were joined by alex kristof hes the director and writer for the duran dot com welcome to the pros program alex. We see how in the 1st part of the program which i know that you listen to when we had Marcus Papadopoulos we talked about the globalization in the pandemic and how we have to reassess globalization at least we should i opinion but lets bring it a little bit closer to the u. S. Domestic politics here donald trump up for reelection the democrats have anointed their all but annoying to their nominee joe biden and it looks like to me that the democrats and theyre applying it media are going to make this entire election go past the going to the conventions and to the general in november as a referendum on trumps handling of the corona coronavirus is not a good play on their part because lets be honest here trump has not presented his best face when it comes to talking about how his administration is dealing with this pandemic hes good at rallies hes not good with the teleprompter alex and they. Yeah i agree with that i think that the trumpet mr creation started very very slow to handle this and the big sign was with the testing that was just a lack of testing kits and people arent getting tested now i think theyve got everything ramping up now and a little bit more into control that wednesday oval office teleprompter speech to the American Public if you peter was absolutely awful that was terrible in the markets reacted and the people reacted i think we saw a lot of panic because that environment for trump is not beneficial to trump trump needs to interact with people he is not good at talking in front of a machine trump wants interaction even negative interaction even the press going adam is where he thrives so i think that latest press conference he gave at the white house with the media there with his team behind him i think we saw a much more confident and a much more secure trump and we saw a little bit more leadership and we saw trump in an environment that suits him i think he needs to stay away from the oval office period as this crisis unfolds interact with people speak with people have some give and take with the press answer their questions push back and i think people will start to feel a little more secure and theyll be a little less panicked because the United States in the world now needs to see some leadership and god knows were not going to get it in europe thats for sure so the only leader that i can think of right now in the western world is trouble and i think he really needs to deliver on this he started out very very poorly but hopefully after that press conference in the white house things will start to get under control that well i hope you know you have to see this unfold yeah i mean and of course the i mean i think well all of us have to step back i mean theyre watching American Media there unfortunately theres so many people that want to score points and not really address the real issue and its a pandemic ok and then. Why its very frustrating watching American Media because its all about politics for them its not about people as usual ok thats why i got elected in the 1st place you know. The medias presentation of it just from what we just heard from alex and when we heard from marcus in the 1st part of the program here theyre doing a huge disservice to the public because theyre they have weapon dies this issue in a way that is to their own benefit that serves their own ideological interests and its not addressing the real problem but one of the real problems is here is the patchwork of american medicine ok there is no National Medicine and in its basically individual corporations so no wonder its very difficult for this administration because they have to talk not to officials in the administration but officials in the administration that are talking to the corporate world theyre not all on the same page and they all in the corporate world will never move away from their bottom line thats one of the difficulties alex brought up the lack of testing thats thats from a corporate point of view go ahead well again just a few facts weeks before they spend them extent that. Asked for 740000000000. 00 for what you know we read the newspapers the primary targets are russia and china so a tiny fraction of these money could have provided that thousands you know millions of tests you know and the coronavirus would not be such a great danger right now and no one is talking about that and pentagon will most likely get get thats something i will go away too with you deem the pentagon every year waste more money than all of the money times 10. 00 that will be spent on dealing with demick in the United States when you bet and we see we see that basically. There is no universal health care in the United States and this system so. To be walking now we see that its not what can you know wealthy people get in fact it because they go to bars more often you know the meat moral from working people are sometimes just glued to their walk by he says and who gets infected you know the wire for the canadian Prime Minister you know what sort of people in the media world lots of people in this case to quote we see how unprotected the reach have become simply because they were so greedy that they provided no Health Service you know if so thats a really good point to go back to alex and nicosia i mean again this is this this pandemic its poor people its elderly people in the case of the United States people that are not insured are under insured and you know so people are going to stay home you know the rich and powerful the. You know the all of silicon valley. And theyll bring in their food bring in their dry cleaning but what about the overdrive are ok in the dry cleaner and all that see this you know again watching how the administration react to this you know and you know i suppose if you own a lot of stocks youre going to be really worried about the stock market but the stock market exists because there is an economy and an economy exist because it has to serve the people youve got all of their priorities all out of order and this pandemic shows it glaringly go ahead alex. Yeah i mean i think you know when the pen demick runs its course however long thats going to take absolutely the United States to stop and reflect are they going to do it most likely not because they dont stop and reflect when it comes to regime change wars and like demas said the military spending the military budgets so i doubt when this pandemic runs its course the u. S. Will have an open and honest debate about health care now you know it doesnt matter where you lie on the spectrum with health care theres no doubt that the United States should reassess and discuss their Health Care Structure but peter the the whole idea here is that this pandemic is shutting down everything in the United States but its playing into the medias hands and its playing it to bidens hands the its perfect for them to not have biden speaking its perfect them to have biden hidden away and it goes against trump to not have trump at rallies and speaking so Going Forward in a hall of this what youre seeing right now is a pandemic that the media is going to utilize and capitalize on that biden is going to utilize and capitalize on because biden now can just give 5 minute internet speeches and internet life streams and he can disappear and even there hes shaky and trump cant go out to those rallies into those big events and play up to his base so the optics right now really work towards biden and really work against trump the Health Care Debate is something that sanders could have capitalized on if sanders wasnt so weak. Thats the main issue this plays into sandras hands as well but sandra says god now hes god hes out of it biden like you said was even had to one even has to wonder and i think its a serious question to ask is it well theyre even be conventions will they just be you know avatar conventions ok were well they will they be done through skype i mean i mean youre bringing up a very serious point here because it in its actually controlling the media has the ability now to can completely control the narrative they can turn people on and they can turn other people off in an instant by i dont want to talk about health care i mean people think that bidens going to do something with health care hes already said hes going to not hes already said he would have. Well its just a lawful you know this week the American Media was full of concern about rush or you know going to chance to run another time when he was going to be the president for life for Goodness Sake by then theres 11 years all of the. States is perfectly happy with him being the next president and if you read the media 90 percent of the media wants this guy 11 years all of those on board in the in the next president of the United States so its just absurd its laughable you know the problems that these people in the media invent like russian influence russian mending and they miss the really big problem that coronavirus what they believe and what they really miss is the elites meddling in the American Election and thats where the real meddling is here you know alex thats just it for me and its its its fascinating is that well the primaries are over we should cancel the rest of image joe biden you know this is just this they snow their snow balling you ok they are gaslighting you are saying its all over ok its a its if we know well because a tribe administrator did such a bad job he should just resign and we should just annoying to biden and leave that up and everything will go back to 2015 and everyone will be happy again i mean they have gotten everything wrong for the last. 4 years and again we should step back a little bit everything will gambit they have played against they have failed well they succeed this time its hard to say but they have enormous resources mobilized around the story and its the wrong story theyre not focusing on the pandemic there but theyre focusing on the politics of the pandemic go ahead alex. Yeah and you know theyre going to get the pandemic wrong as well theres no doubt about that and no matter what trump does peter its not going to be good enough no matter what he just we open the borders hes a fall close the borders hes at fault stop flights from coming in hes at fault open all the flights hes going to be at fault so trump needs to just block all that stuff out and i think hes very good at doing that he needs to focus right now on the short term the next month or 2 he needs to flatten that curve the pandemic we now see from china from south korea from italy at this pandemic definitely has a very steep bell curve he needs to figure out a way in every country to figure out a way to flatten that curve out the pandemic going to run its course but they need to flatten that curve out they need to delay the spread of the virus and they need to work on getting people the care that they need for the short term and then after that we really really need to have a discussion in the United States about health care is anyone going to do it no unfortunately i dont think so but in an ideal world in a Perfect World that would be the course of action that health care would be a big topic going into the president ial election with biden its not its a fools errand to believe that the elites will learn from their mistakes 20 seconds to finish well talking about these statements you know now people in the United States can feel what we felt and what people in iraq felt what people in there with a lot of felt when the u. 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