We also have the oil wars going on allegedly some oil wars we have russia versus saudi arabia the price crash you know kind of started with when the opec plus when they met you know saudi arabia essentially and russia and russia decided not to cut any production based on the decline in demand out of china and elsewhere but also right after that saudi arabia offered up to a 10. 00 discount per barrel just because i guess. Theyd been solomon got a little bit upset and threw a temper tantrum so thats what happened there but you know that seismic sell off a 30 percent and then followed by a like 101213 percent rise and boom bust and boom bust i thought this was an interesting tweet to kind of look at the whole situation is from royce we went to the last episode and he was so prescient about this pandemic situation when he predicted sort of a pandemic basically that negative rates were signaling that he predicted that last june or july he says i think we have just witnessed the end of the p
698. 00 per 100000 americans locked up 37 percent of those prisoners are black is this a Racial Justice issue. Definitely i think even when you look at the time line that you gave another key indicator is when you started seeing the Civil Rights Movement changing so desegregation and then the addressing of how we deal with this now integrated society a lot of it had to do with incarceration so again in my neighborhood no one had a visa or a passport but somehow crack ok to my neighborhood so in a real way were looking at the issue that its definitely been a continuity in the way of how do we do with the Racial Disparities in our country and i think with politicians and this is even with the black politicians there are some fallacies you know that the broken glass a book broken paying theory and that and again some of the things about the disparities between. Crack and cocaine and how we over criminalize folks you know my older brother was a victim of this. Consequence and he said when
Broadcasting live direct from our studios most of this is our to International Thomas certainly glad to have you with us. Because in 1000 corn on a virus continues to wreak havoc with the worldwide death toll now over 6000 consequences are impacting businesses and jobs with events being canceled and people told to stay home marty as he goes john off comments. Fear is growing fear is that someone discovered an actual jumanji aboard the real world in an almost biblical like game of. Europe and locusts actually swarming the middle east and africa as you watching this but one crisis is of course overshadowing all of this the coronavirus. And the World Health Organization is confirming our worst fears in the plants 2 weeks the number of cases of. Include is certain fall. And the number of affected countries has tripled we have that for many of the our system and that quoted 19 can be kind of. A pandemic its been a nightmarish shock week for stocks to the worst plunge in decades wiped trilli
To front running 2025 minutes ties are where Stacy Herbert and were taking a forensic deep dive into all the candidates and their positions stacey i think today were going to take a close look at what we call antiwar yes because we actually had a candidate in these democratic primaries who is antiwar this is one of the really radical positions in u. S. Politics because usually we always have a prowar canaday and you actually have to show your credentials constantly about how prowar you are remember Hillary Clinton was her famous line was we came we saw he died ha ha ha ha ha ha cackle cackle cackle and that was referring to khadafi and libya and joining us to talk about anti war is James Howard Kunstler and dr Michael Hudson you are the author of imperialism so you know about the role of war in exerting this imperialism 1st of all tell us a gabbers position on anti war has incurred the wrath of the entire political and certainly of the media spectrum is antiwar even a possibility for a
A very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. The u. S. Is boosting its defensive capabilities in iraq the head of u. S. Central command said this was in response to the threat posed to american troops by neighboring iran in the process of bringing their Defense Systems Ballistic Missile Defense Systems into iraq in particular to protect ourselves against a bit another potential a track. For all the details we crossed live to r. T. As caleb mop and so it looks like theres going to be more American Military kit in the middle east what exactly has prompted this well just when many thought the tensions between the United States and the Islamic Republic of iran were starting to cool we have the u. S. Central command telling us the opposite take a listen. This is no easy task iran is persistent and is growing its arsenal Ballistic Missiles despite International Condemnation iran remains the Worlds Largest state sponsor of terror