Police brutality and why it requires endless resistance all those more coming up in todays going underground 1st britain finally faces up to something of the alleged war crimes committed during the socalled troubles today as a Parliamentary Committee releases a report into the legacy of bloodshed in ireland its all been alleged that british Army Techniques employed in illegal british wars like the one in iraq were honed in the new book traces the past present and future of state coersion and its critical connection to Global Capital joining me now from los angeles is the author of the Global Police state Professor William i robinson thank you so much for coming on we got a hint arguably of the Global Police state from wiki leaks they released the iraq war logs 10 years ago this week this month what is the Global Police state the title of your book i mean 3 things by Global Police state but let me put that in context by saying the starting point. For the discussion of Global Police stat
Humanity that 2000000000 people in the world are at this point of what i call surplus humanity structurally marginalized unemployed that have to scratch out a living in an informal economy which is deteriorating and collapsing and then another 1300000000 workers in the world work in extremely precarious condition so we have one half of humanity is in this a misery disagreed and they probably think youre immediately talking about cost if you when this program suggested that class warfare may exist it made the model current Times Newspaper but you quote Warren Buffett claiming its been going on for decades class war and his class won tell me about this this. Connection between class and the Global Police state than more clearly. Sure well lets look at it global inequalities have reached unprecedented levels i mean we can barely wrap our minds around these inequalities one percent of humanity controls over 50 percent of the worlds wealth that we know because thats been broadly publicized
Crisis it only made it much worse and in talking about Global Police state theres 2 dimensions i want to highlight one is the structural technically we call it over accumulation but its a crisis of chronic stagnation in the Global Economy and the 2nd dimension of that crisis is is political this one of state legitimacy and capitalist henschel money so i mean 3 things but Global Police state and the 1st as we see the deepening the and the extension worldwide of transnational systems of social control of repression militarisation and warfare all around the world and we see that in order to contain the real and the potential rebellion of what i call in the book surplus humanity and the mess of the downwardly mobile and destabilized and concrete in the impoverished global working class and you know very quickly the International Labor organization has already reported that one 3rd of humanity that 2000000000 people in. World are at this point a what i call surplus humanity structurally mar
Their homes. And careers are essential workers in the United Kingdom but Delivery Companies are under fire for not looking out for their safety. As many countries across the peak coronavirus pandemic World Leaders are now being forced to make a decision open up the economy or reduce the risk of a 2nd outbreak thailand has announced itll be reopening Department Stores Shopping Centers and food courts as it winds down its restrictions however International Flights are still banned which is bad news for the countrys vital toll risen industry chinas economy is showing signs of improvement after its lockdown was eased its industrial our port is up by 3. 9 percent in april compared to the same time last year but manufacturers are struggling with cancelled and read. Joost orders from outside of china looking further afield to the u. S. A whistle blower has told a congressional hearing that the nation could be facing its darkest winter in multan history talk to rick bryant says he was fired as
Not acceptable that youre aljazeera as mike hanna has more from washington. Dr fox he has been making this comment for a period of time now warning against any premature opening up without the federal guidelines for opening up being followed among those guidelines incidentally is that a drop in the infection rate is shown over a period of 2 weeks in states that want to open up now a number of states have partially lifted restrictions even without meeting this particular guideline dr fox shes also expressed concern about the ongoing lack of proper Testing Facilities hes argued very strongly that unless complete testing is in place its very hard to track the course of the virus and that is something that would be essential data in terms of determining what areas could open up and when so certainly President Trump expressing surprise is comes as a bit of a shock but also a President Trump specifically taking issue with dr chee on the issue of schools now dr saying that we shouldnt be open