A Few Good Men
- Michael Folk
- Oct 7, 2022
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All Things Co-op: Shifting to a Cooperative International Order
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Democracy At Work 286K subscribers [S6 E12] Shifting to a Cooperative International Order In this special All Things Co-op season finale, Kevin traces a brief history of international relations, discusses the rise of international law and the failure of the UN to address our current global dilemmas, and speculates that a cooperative, rather than competitive, international order is necessary to create a sustainable, peaceful world.
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in describing Marx's theory of
1:34 historical materialism one describes the
1:37 hitherto history of humanity in the
1:39 following stages in the evolution of
1:41 different modes of production in Europe
1:43 at least the Primitive communist the
1:46 ancient or slave the feudal and then the
1:49 capitalist
1:51 they're not much discussed in Marx the
1:53 first the Primitive communist is often
1:55 seen as existing before the Neolithic
1:57 Revolution and the Advent of agriculture
2:00 it is thought of as being made up of
2:03 small family groups bands or tribes of
2:05 hunter-gatherers
2:06 this Society is often viewed as being
2:08 highly egalitarian and Cooperative owing
2:11 to Humanity's kin-based group tendency
2:14 the egalitarian prehistory is contrasted
2:17 with post-neolithic revolutionary
2:19 Societies in which there becomes a
2:21 division of labor in the first class
2:23 divisions in which there are those who
2:25 do the majority of the labor usually
2:27 slaves or indentured laborers and those
2:29 who do not
2:31 in Guns Germs and Steel Jared Diamond
2:33 argues that as groups become larger
2:36 growing over 1500 people or so the
2:38 ability to maintain General egalitarian
2:41 structures becomes less and less tenable
2:43 thereby explaining the emergence of
2:45 social hierarchies in class divisions
2:48 while a recent book by the late David
2:49 Graber and David wengro the dawn of
2:52 everything casts significant doubts on
2:54 this formulation it shows that there's a
2:56 sort of dichotomous way we view the
2:58 potential ways in which Humanity has and
3:00 can form itself at scale either through
3:03 strict centralized violence in forced
3:06 authoritarian hierarchies on one side
3:08 and open distributed social enforced
3:11 communitarian organizations on the other
3:14 a sort of competitive versus Cooperative
3:16 dynamic
3:18 while neither of these systems are
3:19 inevitable as we see in the course of
3:21 human history we see large civilizations
3:24 in Mesopotamia Egypt Greece China Africa
3:27 India and Rome
3:29 we see that these states engaged with
3:31 one another in the same way that
3:33 individual human beings do sometimes
3:35 cooperatively as in trade and
3:37 philosophical and scientific transfers
3:39 and also competitively as in economic
3:42 sanctions blockades and of course War
3:46 this interaction sometimes is mutually
3:48 beneficial sometimes leading to the ruin
3:51 and genocide of other groups and it
3:53 gives rise to a situation still present
3:56 in our current day international
3:58 relations
4:00 while the field of international
4:01 relations is a fairly new area of study
4:04 the fact of international relations goes
4:06 back to time immemorial
4:09 there's been a long-standing aspect to
4:12 the way large groups at the state or
4:14 civilization level relate to one another
4:16 and that's conflict
4:18 even today we're well aware of the
4:20 near-constant nature of war between
4:22 among and even inside States
4:26 the use of physical Force War has been a
4:29 feature of humanity for as long as there
4:31 have been humans
4:32 but it was not until we created class
4:34 societies and large Empires that we saw
4:37 the kind of warfare that is present in
4:39 the common imagination large land and
4:42 sea armies battling it out on the plains
4:44 mountains and oceans in Grand historical
4:47 conflagrations that would decide the
4:50 fate of monarchies ruling classes and
4:52 entire nations
4:55 though for much of human history war was
4:57 a short seasonal Affair armies would
5:00 form they would engage in a campaign
5:01 fight a battle or two and figure out a
5:03 resolution based on the conclusion
5:05 it wasn't until the Industrial
5:07 Revolution and the move away from
5:09 feudalist thieftims to capitalist nation
5:11 states did we see the Advent of truly
5:14 unending total and worldwide Warfare
5:18 [Music]
5:19 along with the development of
5:20 international competition came
5:22 International Cooperative Ventures
5:24 diplomats and return members created
5:27 connections and fostered economic
5:29 scientific and intellectual interactions
5:30 something like the Silk Road furthering
5:33 and allowing cooperation among different
5:36 groups of people
5:37 indeed major ideas and ethical
5:40 philosophical technological spread from
5:43 all areas of the globe through these
5:45 interconnected Networks
5:48 from early on great Empires would engage
5:51 in both cooperative and competitive acts
5:53 and what developed was the notion that
5:55 stability necessitated a sort of balance
5:58 of power between and among these groups
6:01 but there was as there is internally an
6:04 inequality among these International
6:06 actors and so the notion of the quote
6:08 unquote great power came unto the world
6:11 stage
6:12 these great Powers could act with
6:14 impunity and use their economic and
6:16 Military might to subsume encircle or
6:19 snuff out competitors
6:21 it was between these great powers that
6:24 the balance of power was to be
6:25 maintained
6:26 however stability never lasted forever
6:29 and as these Powers switched priorities
6:31 and alliances what popular podcaster
6:33 Mike Duncan called the stately quadrille
6:36 after an 18th century dance style where
6:38 parties would continually switch
6:39 partners
6:40 the balance of power would be
6:42 interrupted and the result would almost
6:44 always be War
6:46 the situation totally broke down in the
6:48 blood bass of the earliest 20th
6:50 centuries in World War one and World War
6:53 II
6:55 after the end of World War One a
6:58 consultative body the League of Nations
7:00 attempted to break down this system and
7:02 prepare a new wage of international
7:04 relations
7:05 but coming at the heels of the victory
7:07 of some great Powers over others it
7:10 sought not to tear down the rule of the
7:12 few of the many primarily in the form of
7:14 great power imperialism but instead
7:16 enshrine it
7:18 and so it was totally unsuccessful and
7:21 the world fell back into war just 20
7:24 years later
7:37 out of that conflict was the second try
7:40 the United Nations
7:43 and while the United Nations still
7:44 stands the jury is out on whether it has
7:47 fulfilled its role of protecting
7:49 International Peace and security
7:51 indeed soldiers on both sides of the
7:53 Ukrainian war and Wars across Africa and
7:56 the Middle East would probably tell you
7:59 no
8:01 and why is that
8:02 because the United Nations and
8:04 particularly the United Nations security
8:06 Council that's tasked with literally
8:08 ensuring International Peace and
8:09 security allows for permanent membership
8:12 and veto Power by you guessed it the
8:16 great powers
8:18 just as the league did in 1919 the U.N
8:21 enshrines the continued unfair unequal
8:24 distribution of world power and gives
8:27 the keys to the world to France the
8:30 United Kingdom China Russia and the
8:33 United States
8:34 these groups have authorized acts of War
8:37 like in Libya and Yugoslavia and failed
8:40 to prevent others like in Yemen Iraq and
8:43 Ukraine
8:45 this inability for the security Council
8:47 to do its job owes to the fact that the
8:49 United Nations system assumes that in
8:52 order to ensure International Peace and
8:54 security it must empower the great
8:56 powers to do so
8:58 and in this sense it relies more on the
9:00 competitive aspect of international
9:01 relations than the cooperative
9:05 so is another world possible
9:07 is it not merely idealistic to think
9:10 that there could be a truly Cooperative
9:12 United Nations which is not dominated by
9:15 a few of the great Powers but instead by
9:18 a world Community engaged together in a
9:20 common Pursuit
9:22 the so-called realist perspective of
9:24 international relations suggests the
9:26 answer is no and this perspective has
9:29 dominated thinking going back to the
9:31 Treaty of Westfalia the traditional
9:33 starting point of quote-unquote
9:35 international law
9:37 but this perspective has not diminished
9:39 the potential for War and the great
9:41 consequences thereof in fact it's caused
9:45 it
9:46 as such it behooves us to counteract
9:49 this realist perspective of
9:50 international politics and to propose a
9:52 different Theory a Cooperative theory of
9:55 international politics in which the
9:57 basic premise is not the maintenance of
9:59 peace and security via the enforcement
10:01 of great military and political powers
10:04 but instead to provide mechanisms for
10:06 states to work with one another and
10:08 among one another in recognition of
10:10 their intertwined and interconnected
10:12 nature so as to actually tackle the
10:15 greatest threats to International Peace
10:16 and security such as climate change
10:21 the irony is that in international
10:23 relations the state is the main actor
10:25 yet it's the state itself that is the
10:28 greatest threat to International Peace
10:29 and security
it was always the dream of the
11:41 international working men's association
11:42 and the following socialist
11:44 Internationals to create a unified
11:47 system of international organizations of
11:49 working people to facilitate a worldwide
11:51 revolution in topolis system which
11:53 maintains this great power dynamic both
11:56 within and outside of Nations embodied
12:00 most obviously by the capitalist mode of
12:02 production itself
12:03 however given a series of historical
12:06 political economic and social
12:07 circumstances these Internationals
12:09 either broke apart or became the tools
12:12 of a new kind of imperialism
12:16 but the assertion of a possibility of a
12:18 genuinely Democratic participatory
12:20 egalitarian international organization
12:22 is the right and proper goal of a future
12:25 International order
12:27 especially in the age of nuclear weapons
12:29 and of climate change
12:31 this organization would unlike the
12:34 United Nations not allow individual
12:36 states to have a veto power over the
12:38 others or to enshrine a disproportionate
12:41 Power Balance and influence based
12:43 primarily on wealth and Military might
12:46 in some consultative body
12:49 instead it would provide a measure of
12:50 equity to allow nation-states who've had
12:52 their wealth and power removed by
12:54 Imperial Endeavors the ability to recoup
12:57 and find a form of recompense for the
13:00 theft of a previous epoch
13:04 this idea is not impossible and it is
13:07 desirable
13:09 in the second decade of the 21st century
13:11 as a war rages in the Bread Basket of
13:13 the world and as a new cold war between
13:15 the United States and China
13:18 and a global threat to International
13:19 Devastation via climate change threatens
13:21 the entire world
13:23 the wholesale inability of our current
13:26 system to properly deal with these
13:28 problems presents us with a mandate
13:30 a mandate to move away from this
13:33 precarious realist position a system led
13:36 by corrupt selfish and short-sighted
13:38 national interests and instead move into
13:41 a new dynamic in which International
13:43 interests and the will and desire of the
13:45 world's full population takes precedent
13:48 over the simple self-interest of
13:50 powerful nation-states
13:53
a Cooperative International order based
13:55 on the principles embodied in say the
13:57 Rochdale principles
13:59 and even those idealistic principles set
14:00 forth by previous communist
14:02 Internationals is the only possible way
14:05 to claw our way out of the whole we've
14:07 dug ourselves in by an inherence to this
14:09 real politic or realist perspective
14:12 in how our nation-states deal with one
14:14 another
14:15 indeed as capital has torn down National
14:18 barriers in order to allow itself to
14:19 flow freely so too should we break down
14:22 these International barriers between us
14:24 and create a new world not based on
14:26 imaginary lines drawn on maps but
14:29 instead on one linked by our United
14:30 common interest to live in peace and
14:33 Harmony and cooperation
14:36 with one another
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20:52 oh David (A.S.)
20:58 we are hereby appointing you establishing you
21:04 as Khalifa on Earth I'm going to come back to the word Khalifa
21:15 when we appoint you and establish you as Khalifa
21:20 you must establish governments governance sorry you must establish your
21:26 rule you may establish your law on the basis of Truth so now we know Khalifa
21:34 is one who establishes government law rule over a people
21:41 and it must be based on truth and Truth does not come from Washington
21:47 it doesn't come from United Nations organization it doesn't come from
21:52 conferences truth comes from the one who created us
21:58 all and who has it in his hand like this
and peace cannot be established without Justice and to oppress a people is
46:29 Injustice that's what Modi is doing in Kashmir and the Hindu people must wake
46:36 up and understand that the religion of Hinduism does not accept oppression
46:42 the people the Jewish people must understand that Judaism does not accept oppression and that's what Israel is
46:49 doing to the Palestinians and this is what Ukraine had been doing in numbers
46:55 so here's the verse
47:04 and know that the Lord God invites mankind unto the world of peace and
47:11 guides those who are willing to be guided unto the straight way
47:16 and then finally the last verse of the Quran I want to share with you
47:23 is it uh the Quran reminds us for those who have forgotten in the
47:30 modern West the Musa Islam announced to the Israelite people
47:37 in the little uh the Earth below
47:43 to Allah if the Earth belongs to Allah that it is
47:49 Allah who decides how the law should be established to
47:55 regulate Affairs on the earth they believe as though they own the Earth
48:01 that they are the chosen people of the Lord God they have come with a
48:06 civilization which is dazzling the world with their scientific and technological
48:12 Revolution they have they have mountains of bread all the
48:19 wealth of the world is in them and they've impoverished all the rest of mankind with riba and
48:27 they're the words policemen and we must all submit to them and bow to them
48:33 but they're forgotten that the Earth does not belong to them
48:40 the Earth belongs to Allah
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Interesting, hard to rationalize and understand...morally bankrupt and irrational capitalism and confusion in today's world gone mad ->
Words......so many words and self-righteous putrid demeaning stuff. Nasty (I'm like with Jimmy, is like okay, shut your mouth and talk about the actual policies and what the person is about and trying to do, not about what student organizations they were apart of years ago etc. ...and I don't know much of anything about politics and these politicians in Italy, etc. but is interesting...) When did all these words come to be so in everyone's minds and consciousness in these times...right...because. Trust in Allah --> Wake Up.
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Warning - cursing:
4:45 of the Father Son and Holy Spirit (Muslims don't believe this of course)
4:49 we have worked in behalf of mankind
4:55 it's the day of creation
5:00 I knew it would be a tug of war
5:04 from the time of Adam
5:07 all the way till now
5:11 I have made a promise that I will never
5:14 leave you
5:15 I won't even forsake you
5:19 thus
5:21 I have created
5:24 these moments
5:28 a transition of power
5:31 of at least four years
5:38 and then
5:42 the revelation
5:46 so you can understand
5:51 what has been transpiring
5:55 that if
5:59 the New World Order had happened
6:05 you would never have the perspective
6:09 that you have now
6:15 have a vested
6:18 in my creation
6:21 I would never leave you
6:24 I will never forsake you
6:28 my word has to go forth
6:32 and it has to be given a chance
6:36 with every generation
6:40 and this generation
6:42 is no exception
6:45 no matter how bad
6:48 and how Wicked
6:50 the world has become
6:53 this final seed
6:57 needs to hear
6:59 my voice
7:03 and after that
7:05 the judgment
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the claim that you know we are the greatest and so on and we have a liberty and
1:00:29 democracy and so on i think the people who are naturally most skeptical of this uh
1:00:35 black people in this country for i guess understandable reasons and
1:00:43 in the 1930s uh
1:00:48 langston hughes the african-american poet of the harlem
1:00:54 renaissance wrote a poem entitled colombia colombia representing
1:01:01 the united states and uh
1:01:07 now this is the 1930s and the united states had not yet gone as far as it has since then but by
1:01:14 the 1930s it had already gone into cuba and taken puerto rico and taken hawaii and taken the philippines
1:01:21 and sent marines 20 times into central america and woodrow wilson the
1:01:26 great idealist had bombarded the mexican coast and and sent an occupying army into haiti
1:01:32 and the dominican republic so there was already a record for langston hughes when he wrote uh
1:01:39 colombia my dear girl you really haven't been a virgin so long
1:01:45 it's ludicrous to keep up the pretext you're terribly involved in world assignations and everybody knows it
1:01:53 you've slept with all the big powers and military uniforms and you've taken the sweet life of all the little brown
1:01:59 fellows in loin cloths and cotton trousers being one of the world's big vampires
1:02:06 why don't you come on out and say so like japan and england and france and
1:02:11 all the other nymphomaniacs of power
1:02:18 so yeah honesty that's what we need we need a
1:02:24 some forthright acknowledgement i mean people are apologizing all over
1:02:29 the place for ridiculous things let's apologize for the really important
1:02:35 important things and uh you know
1:02:41 don't uh isn't that what they do in alcoholics anonymous don't they get up and on and
1:02:46 just tell the truth about themselves right so why can't
1:02:52 why can't we have imperialist synonymous and uh
1:02:57 you know and have you know have the people in the white house and so on they'll get up before the world and
1:03:03 yeah confess so
1:03:10 when you
1:03:15 looking at my watch to pretend that i care
1:03:26 when you when you talk the way i'm talking which of course is nasty
1:03:33 you know it's really it's it's hard to take because we're not we're not accustomed to talking this way
1:03:40 or to listening to stuff like this and uh
1:03:45 and when you when you when you are so critical of the policies that our government has followed
1:03:51 and what happens you you immediately called unpatriotic
1:03:58 un-american right you you don't like america wait a while
1:04:05 you mean bush is america you mean those people in the white house are america
1:04:10 uh uh they say well you're putting down our country our country
1:04:16 uh no not our country you see these young fellows and all
1:04:21 young women going off to iraq and television cameras on them and they're asking them why are you going to iraq
1:04:27 and they say well i believe i owe this to my country no they're not going there for their
1:04:33 country they're not going there for the good of their families and their community and the people of this country they're going
1:04:39 there for a bush they're going there for halliburton they're going there for bechtel that's who they're going there
1:04:45 for but there's this confusion between the government and the country
1:04:51 we shouldn't be confused because we should be reading the declaration of independence and that's our founding philosophical
1:04:57 document the declaration of independence makes the distinction clear that governments are artificial creations
1:05:04 they are set up by the people to ensure certain rights and equal right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness
1:05:11 and when governments become destructive of these ends those are the these are the words of the declaration it is the
1:05:17 right to the people to alter or abolish the government that's serious
1:05:23 but that's the declaration of independence that's why it's put up on the classroom
1:05:28 wall not to be read but to be looked at
1:05:37 so uh when you criticize the government uh you're not criticizing a country
1:05:43 you're not criticizing america and when a government is acting against the interests of the people when the
1:05:49 government is not fulfilling its obligation to bring equality life liberty to the
1:05:54 positive happiness to its citizens then the government is being unpatriotic
1:06:00 so it's i think it's very important to to get that clearly
1:06:14 of course our capacity to think clearly about all this becomes distorted
1:06:20 when a climate of fear is created when when some
1:06:26 horrible menace is declared to uh threaten us
1:06:34 uh and different points in the in history you know the menace changes but in the
1:06:40 1950s and during the cold war it was communism now there are real threats there are
1:06:46 realities and then there are exaggerations of those threats to the point of hysteria and sure there
1:06:53 was a soviet union and there the soviet union had occupied countries in eastern europe but the communist threat was
1:06:59 magnified to the point where any revolution any uprising taking place
1:07:05 anywhere uh in the world was part of a world communist conspiracy and so millions of
1:07:10 people died in vietnam because people were made hysterical about
1:07:16 communism and this country has spent trillions of
1:07:21 dollars on war for the purpose of defending ourselves
1:07:29 against a menace that was enormously exaggerated
1:07:35 and that fear communism now is fear of terrorism
1:07:43 and terrorism is used as a way to make people stop thinking and uh and as a justification for
1:07:50 everything that is done to us as justification for stealing the wealth of this country and justification to taking
1:07:56 away our liberties and our justification of going to war again and again
1:08:01 and not giving people a chance to think
1:08:07 about war and the war on terrorism and how can you make war on terrorism
1:08:14 when terrorism itself is war and war is terrorism
1:08:22 war is the greatest terrorism are the terrorism of small bands of people who blow up and
1:08:28 buildings and who are suicide bombers i mean that's terror bad and that is terrorism but
1:08:35 that's very small compared to the terrorism of governance governments have enormous capacity to
1:08:41 kill millions of people and they do but that is
1:08:46 concealed from us by making us focus focus on these bands of people who are
1:08:51 terrorists we need to think about the way terrorism
1:08:57 is used we need
1:09:03 and we need to think about war itself i don't mean just this war i don't mean
1:09:09 just the war in iraq because we will the war in iraq will come to an end i
1:09:15 don't know when but it will come to an end at some point who knows at what cost but
1:09:20 it will come to an end it has to because we we don't belong in iraq this
1:09:26 our presence there is already crumbling and crumbling and we are not going to
1:09:31 stay in iraq and so the war in iraq may be over at some point but then what about the next
1:09:37 war and the next war and the next war are we going to have anti-war movement
1:09:42 after anti-war movement after anti-war movement it seems to even we must and i know this
1:09:48 is a big big job you must think about the abolition of
1:09:54 war itself war war is the enemy
1:09:59 war you know
1:10:05 and uh we have to come to a recognition that war solves no fundamental problems
1:10:11 i say this as somebody who is in a war uh and uh no not the spanish-american war
1:10:19 uh but i was in the good war the best of wars
1:10:26 uh i'm the war which has probably the greatest claim to any kind of moral center
1:10:31 and yet that war was accompanied by atrocities of all kinds whether it's
glow on every ugly war we have fought since world war ii
1:11:27 i mean war has reached a point with the technology of war where
1:11:33 it cannot be accepted as a way of solving any problem in the world whether there's a dictator somewhere whether a
1:11:39 border has been crossed it cannot be accepted because war by definition is the massive and indiscriminate killing
1:11:45 of innocent people war has become more and more the killing of civilians
1:11:51 in world war one the ratio of military to civilians uh ten to one
1:11:57 in world war ii about fifty fifty fifty percent civilians fifty percent military in vietnam seventy percent of
1:12:04 those millions who died were civilians now it's more like 80 and 90 percent
1:12:09 civilians men women and children war is inevitably
1:12:14 a war against children and therefore cannot be accepted uh and therefore we must
1:12:21 even if it's a long-term long long-term goal we must think about its abolition just as people in the
1:12:28 1830s in this country although the end of slavery was far off they began to think about the abolition of
1:12:34 slavery so
1:12:43 what shall we do
1:12:50 well i think we we uh learning from history
1:12:56 being honest about the past and about what's going on today we have to come to the conclusion that
1:13:03 we kind of depend on on the government for justice we cannot depend on the press
1:13:08 for justice we cannot depend on the opposition party because there is no
1:13:15 not much of an opposition party
1:13:21 and you know whatever there are some possibilities for
1:13:27 opposition in that party if if the democrats win the house john conyers will be head of
1:13:33 the judiciary committee and he has been a leading force for impeachment so that's good
1:13:39 but in general no we can't depend have to depend on ourselves and historically this is what you see when
1:13:46 any serious injustice had to be remedied it was not initiated by the government
1:13:51 or the president or congress of the supreme court it was done by the people themselves
1:13:57 organizing protesting sacrificing risking
1:14:03 the labor movement did not win the eight-hour day because congress passed the law or the president and edict or
1:14:08 the supreme court the labor working people won the eight-hour day because they did it themselves there was nothing
1:14:14 in the constitution there was no economic bill of rights in the constitution
1:14:20 although roosevelt in 1944 asked for an economic bill of rights no bill economic bill of rights on the constitution
1:14:27 working people had to do it themselves when they did they went out on strike and they faced the police and the national guard in the army and and they
1:14:34 won uh and the same thing was true of people in the south black people in the south they knew they
1:14:40 learned very soon they could not depend on on the constitution oh sure the 14th and 15th amendments no president
1:14:46 enforced the 14th and 15th amendments every president for almost 100 years violated his oath of office
1:14:53 which is to see that the laws are faithfully executed and no president enforced and up to johnson and kennedy
1:15:00 no none of them enforced the 14th and 15th amendments until black people went out into the streets
1:15:06 all over the south and created the kind of commotion and went to jail and some of them were
1:15:12 killed and created a kind of commotion that aroused the nation and aroused the world and embarrassed the american
1:15:18 government into finally passing some legislation so that the 14th and 15th amendments could have some meaning
1:15:26 at those moments democracy came alive and that's what we need today we need
1:15:31 democracy to come alive today and it's possible and we generally people feel powerless but
1:15:37 keep this in mind the people in power only hold their power because of our obedience
1:15:43 really when the obedience of the population disappears
1:15:48 the people in power no longer have their power
1:15:54 corporations need workers to work if the workers stop working the corporation is helpless
1:16:00 if they declare a boycott of grapes the however powerful farm growers are they
1:16:06 will give in if people stop buying grapes when soldiers begin to rebel as they did
1:16:12 in vietnam in the last few years of the anti-war movement then the government has to take
1:16:17 a cognizance of that yeah they depend on our obedience and our job is to begin
1:16:25 withholding our obedience and declaring that we ourselves are
1:16:30 going to be the agents of democracy that we ourselves are going to bring democracy all alive in this country and
1:16:42 and you will hear them say people in power will say well no we will never submit
Haven't watched all - but, yes, we know it won't end, Ukraine will not negotiate and Russia is at war with the West - The West is at war with Russia:
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he knows this is it
14:24 and that's where we're at
14:28 we're at a point where no more back and
14:31 forth
14:33 it's so far out of hand and so raggedy
14:37 it's off the cliff
14:42 but remember what I said in the
14:43 beginning
14:45 God said I will never leave you
14:48 I will never forsake you
14:54 now
14:56 acceptable time
14:58 to receive Christ as king of kings and
15:02 Lord of lords
15:04 he has a vested interest in his creation
15:10 and by grace are you saved
15:13 thy Grace and love
15:17 he bought his time
15:21 and it's time
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I want to remind you again that the United States is a nuclear power, but so are the Chinese.
0:09 The United States has 330 million people. The Chinese have four times that.
0:15 Do you really want to go to war? Ukraine is important here, not in the ways you might imagine,
0:26 not about the battlefield that is destroying the people and the land of of Ukraine-
0:32 the tragedy that that obviously is. No, here's what I want you to see. The United States went in
0:41 around the principle they said that big powerful countries should not be allowed to invade much
0:50 smaller, much poorer countries. Good principle. Most people in the world would support it,
0:58 and they appealed to the world therefore to support the United States, the United Kingdom,
1:04 Western Europe, Japan who lined up with and behind the United States.
1:12 The People's Republic of China is allied with Russia. So the two of them together appealed
1:19 to the world as well, saying that the American version of what happened there wasn't correct,
1:26 and they gave an alternative version having to do mostly with NATO expanding right to
1:33 the borders of Russia and threatening Russia and all the rest. I'm not here interested in
1:38 the value of each of these arguments, but here's what I want everyone to understand.
1:46 In the effort to speak to the many countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America, the overwhelming
1:55 bulk of whom are poor, relatively small countries who ought to line up real quick behind the
2:03 principle that big, rich countries should not invade them didn't do that. In case you're not
2:10 aware, the vast bulk of African, Asian, and Latin American countries are continuing their trade with
2:18 Russia with China [and] refusing to line up behind the United States. And that ought to be a sign,
2:27 if nothing else I've told you is sufficient, that the wind is changing, the climate is changing.
2:41 Okay. What do we do? Are there some examples? Well first I want to start out with something
2:51 we shouldn't do and are doing, and then tell you about something we should do and we aren't doing.
2:58 Here we go. If you are contemplating a major confrontation
3:07 with the world's only closely, maybe, superpower China. If you're the United States and your allies
3:15 who together are richer and more powerful than China and its allies are, at least at the moment,
3:25 still in all it's a very dangerous row to hoe. If you're really going to put your Navy in the South
3:34 China Sea right next to them, if you're going to arrest executives in their companies, if you're
3:40 going to ban Chinese companies from listing their shares on the stock market (or at least talk about
3:47 it), if you're going to hit them with tariff wars and trade wars and you know all the rest,
3:53 you're waging economic war. And you're smart enough to know that in the past economic wars
4:03 have a nasty habit of disintegrating into military wars. You have to know that. And you have to know
4:12 that if you're going to go into any kind of war situation, especially a big one, you need
4:19 your people unified. You need your people all or nearly all agreed on the rights and wrongs here:
4:33 solidaristic, trusting one another, prepared, and able, and willing to present a united
4:39 front to whoever the enemy ends up being. The United States isn't a unified country. It's
4:48 more divided and more deeply divided than it has been in a long time. Here in the United States,
4:55 we are talking about Ukraine and China, and we'll do this and we'll do that- no effort to deal with
5:03 these divisions or maybe worse, efforts to deal with them that are clearly not working.
5:10 Very strange. By contrast in China, the popularity of the government given the
5:16 rise in the standard of living of the working class is no surprise,
5:21 but they don't face anything like the levels of disunity we do. They are a rising economy.
5:31 They can bury the tensions and they have them, and the differences and they have them,
5:37 and the inequalities and they have those too. But they can wrap them up in a sense
5:44 of an emerging empire that will no longer allow the Hundred Years of Humiliation to continue.
5:53 Wow, wow. It would be a great catastrophe obviously if instead of working out a way
6:04 to live together on this planet, the private capitalism of the United States and the mixed
6:12 capitalism of China and the great likelihood that other countries: Russia [and those in] Asia,
6:20 Africa, Latin America are going to follow the Chinese model because of what it has achieved.
6:27 A war approach, an aggressive approach, an attempt to stop the development that's
6:32 underway is fruitless and dangerous. Britain and the United States came to an understanding.
6:40 The United States and China have to do that too. The alternative is so unthinkable
6:49 and so tragic that I appeal to everyone who understands the enormous stakes of
6:58 where we are to become an advocate of resolving these kinds of tensions not in military ways.
7:09 But to do that with the intensity and the creativity we need, you have to understand
7:14 where we are. We are at the passing of one empire and one system and the emergence of another.
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Cpt. Oblivion 3 hours ago Brilliant and eloquent as always. Professor Wollf is the kind of man we need as our #1 news anchor, not the willingly ignorant fluff clown they have on the world news every night. Mister Methuselah 4 hours ago Professor Wolff, you're a *STAR * STAR * STAR *
Casey Czarnomski 1 hour ago The US will never be taken seriously when they say superpowers can't invade small countries. That's how the US works, which is why no counties could believe that claim from the start. Tracie Smith 1 hour ago Without a doubt Dr. Wolff these nations we've sanctioned see the golden opportunity in front of them. I am proud of them for stepping up to free themselves. sherriinolywa 40 minutes ago I wish this speech could be heard nationally. vanessaalien 57 minutes ago Couldn't agree with Professor Wolff more. Hope more people in the West and the rest too can listen to his message seriously. It's our lives, our future, our everything.....
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norm robichaud 34 minutes ago Thanks for your tireless commentaries, Alexander. Without your perspective I, like many of your followers, would be rudderless and ignorant of what is truly happening in Ukraine. Navneet Vats 51 minutes ago A very good day to you Sir. Thankyou for your fair and deeply analytical insights on a daily basis. Great job Rufus Shinra 56 minutes ago Thank you for your report once again Alexander! mw3516405 55 minutes ago (edited) G'day Alexander 🇬🇧Political theater stay safe everybody ! Thank you for your daily commentary ! Peace and blessings everybody Have a good day everyone! Ricky Spanish 58 minutes ago Thank you for your work Alexander
Feeling this after watching the above video. Imagine...(PEACE!). If the U.S. would just admit defeat. There are winners, there are losers. Get on with it. Be gracious and humble in defeat or victory. Isn't that what we as Americans are about (think of sports and our sports teams?) Yet...here we are...
Is total evil.
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