International relations lecturer likens US, TT insurrections
Friday 15 January 2021
Supporters of President Donald Trump are confronted by US Capitol Police officers outside the Senate Chamber inside the Capitol in Washington, on January 6. AP PHOTO -
INTERNATIONAL Relations lecturer Prof Andy Knight has drawn a comparison between the January 6 insurrection in the US and the July 27, 1990 attempted coup in Trinidad and Tobago.
Speaking at a webinar organised by the Movement for Social Justice titled Coup Attempt? Insurrection and What next for the US? on Wednesday evening, Knight said America has to stop pretending it is somehow exceptional.
“The attempted coup d’etat on January 6 shows that America is not an exceptional country. This notion of exceptionalism is very much on the centre of US foreign policy and gives the impression that these sort of things don’t happen in the US.”
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and a special guest.
British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, and Delta Airlines have agreed to test passengers on flights bound for New York City for COVID-19, after the discovery of a mutated, more contagious, strain of the virus in the United Kingdom led to a Christmas lockdown of that country. Governor Andrew Cuomo says ultimately, he’d like the U.S. to join 40 other countries that have imposed a complete travel ban on arrivals from Great Britain.
Cuomo is warning that the new strain might already be in the U.S. and could cause another wave of infection. He says he believes it may already have arrived with the several thousand passengers a day that have continued to fly between Heathrow airport and JFK and La Guardia airports in New York City.
Capital Correspondent Karen Dewitt has the latest.
All three airlines that fly from the UK to New York have now agreed to test passengers for the virus before they board the planes.
But Cuomo eased off on his call to halt planes from Great Britain to New York City, after he says he heard the federal government’s infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci say that he thinks a travel ban is premature. Fauci, who spoke on the PBS Newshour, did say that he, like Cuomo, suspects the mutated form of the virus might already be present in the U.S.
The governor believes that testing the passengers for Covid, then banning anyone who tests positive, will help, but is not the best answer.
The governor also says the first batch of vaccines continues to arrive in New York. 346,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine are on the way, and 120,000 more doses are coming from Pfizer, for a total of 630,000 shots so far.
He says 38,000 front line health care workers have already received the first of the two doses of the vaccine. Vaccination of nursing home residents and staff begins later this week, and is expected to take six weeks to complete.
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