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
Times you were going on the road 2 days to go before an election in a country which has been militarily involved in 1008 percent of all countries on earth having invaded 84 of the uns 193 countries coming up in the show will trump lose in tuesdays president ial election thanks to coded killing hundreds of thousands of u. S. Citizens go to the white house to speak to one of the only 2 men in the u. S. President apparently listens to the pandemic white house going to virus possible survives a professor atlas he tells us why he thinks lockdowns testing and mosques hold up all of them all coming up in todays going on the ground 1st with just days ahead of the u. S. President ial election which will have a Global Impact as a global coronavirus pandemic continues to take lives not least in the United States itself lets go straight to the white house and speak to one of President Trumps closest coronavirus advisors professor scott thank you so much going for coming on you interpret the data.
Fearful and those reasons are very important for people understand 1st of all the cases number the case number is not the most important matter whats important to understand is that the vast majority of people that are getting these cases are lower risk healthier people were doing a better job protecting the elderly and its you know the high risk people diseases that really really only to the elderly and high risk people and what i mean by that is not that 0 people die but the risks to younger people is extremely low for any serious illness this is the data you know i mean 99. 997 percent of people do fine at r. s 018 for instance and so we we have we have a lot of good things happening here 1st of all we see the case the taliban rate is much not just much lower than what we thought it was in the beginning but it is decreasing for every age thats sile and i look at the data from that thats sile of age and even for people 80. 5 and older 7584652741 extension 1 the fatality rates are dec