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So i mean 3 things by Global Police state and the 1st as we see the deepening the and the extension worldwide of transnational systems of social control of repression military zation 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 congressionally 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 the world are at this point a 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 and misery deteriorate i think over the fate youre immediately talking about cost if you went. This p
Watching the weekly here on our team a recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days im donald quarter thanks a lot for joining us. Now peru has decided not to buy doses of a potential Coronavirus Vaccine being developed by the british firm astra zeneca lima cited a lack of data from the company after the death of a trial volunteer reports claim a 28 year old male doctor in brazil died while taking part in advanced stage 3 trials run by astra zeneca and Oxford University its not known whether he received the actual drug or a placebo meanwhile the us has now permitted trials to resume after they were temporarily halted and other countries have also restarted them in recent weeks oregons d. S. Has more on the race for the cure. There is always the risk with any vaccine any Clinical Trial that statistical improbability that would point to nor one percent risk that someone dies at someone reportedly was a brazilian doctor he was part of an Oxford University Vaccine Trial Group and is b
British Army Techniques employed in illegal british wars like the one in iraq were honed in all star 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 state needs to be this severe crisis of Global Capitalism the pandemic didnt create the 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 that accumulation but its a crisis of chronic stagnation in the Global Economy and the