view governments all around the world but they are proud of one thing and that is a massive increase in militarism during the coronavirus spend 24000000000 from the boris johnson government the democrat g.o.p. congress buzzing 700 $21000000000.00. on militarism and this while certainly here there's one in 3 children in poverty this christmas and in the united states it's been for quite a while 40000000 people in the u.s. won't be able to eat tonight without food in the announcement in parliament recently water in just 25 minutes of by the transformers to one of only from one of the richest families in this country of what is clearly going to be the most devastating so called austerity program i mean those those poverty figures you've quoted us $1.00 and $3.00 children but i would suggest that only increase rapidly once the vaccine

a started to work and things are back to kind of norm normality. you will see then and the stirrer t.v. . program in this country but will the we'll leave whole tracks of the country. in dire straits when journalists are asked the authorities here or in the united states where is johnson here doesn't like to use the word austerity and says we have put more money into public service is than ever before the troubled ministration officials say they are i mean some people say this obvious izing it by pouring government refinancing into a mess of companies to make them basically tax. tax subsidized household names let alone the public services being well why have they have the certain area of the economy they have to keep afloat that's that's that's quite clear. here but. i mean

the fact that. the as you mention something like 24000000000 the greatest increase in so-called defense spending in recent years is announced at the height of the pandemic when johnson is boasting that we're going to have as i think. the the most powerful navy in europe when he's sending this great 3000000000 pound wide elephant h.m.s. queen elizabeth the aircraft carrier 6 and a hop 1000 miles away to the south china sea so up to the coast of thailand to enforce freedom of navigation. the distortion of resources is is is is something that the an equity the fact that you have in this extraordinarily rich country

a country that can not only you afford a 3000000000 pound new a craft carrier but as revealed a couple of ways weeks ago. effectively military bases in some 42 countries around the world that we can do that and yet tolerate one in 3 children in poverty that is the issue at the moment getting over the covert of course is the immediate issue and what is what has struck me is the the brilliance of silence and so we can look back we can stand back and from society and say what is progress will there is progress medical science clinical signs it's quite extraordinary mind to that said we have to ensure that it's in the service of public health not in not for the for the kind of huge profits that we've seen the drug companies and global global health because of gross will rake in but

then there is the progress but the regression in the political life the destruction affectively of a rather modest reform movement within the labor party on specious charges against especially against the leader of anti semitism the destruction of the labor part struction of any reform movement the demonizing of reform movement the the closing off of spaces of dissent that is regression that is what. this otherwise sophisticated society should be addressing. just water is being done to the very fabric of society you mention cooperation and little is really told to us in nature

elations of the sino anglo corporation over the astra zeneca so-called oaks would vaccine but when you talk about the waste of money other aircraft carriers deployment to the south china sea you'll have noticed that in the press lately we've been hearing about human rights abuses in china we've been hearing about chinese attempts to destroy the fabric destroy the fabric of our society i'm not sure. it reminds me of growing up i grew up in the cold war. they was they was i didn't know as a kid the expression the other but they was the other there was a dark force on the other side of the world and we they were the bad people and we were the good people but putin is killing people the chinese will how many millions are in labor camps in china yes well you see you know you had you had. constantly saying about the way goes in china now i've no doubt because the way

goods. produced a number of groups that have opposed the chinese state in fact the u.s. state department declared one of the weaker groups a terrorist organization they've just taken that off the terrorist list. for obviously for the convenience of ensuring that it starts tech again the chinese that but the whole idea of millions of people in internment camps where does this come from where are the reliable reports of this telling us it's often put against the u.n. that hasn't been a me. you win awards the viewer has to see a u.n. report there was a committee report and most of it came from one member of that in america and the point i'm trying to make us suppose is that we are not allowed to understand other societies isn't that extraordinary in

a time of great information when we have these wondrous tools of understanding each other we're not on the we're not able to understand the achievements of other societies the fact that the chinese of effectively ended real poverty in that country and they've done that in a generation probably the greatest turnaround in a society in it certainly if not immoderately as in modern history so my point is that everything is seen through this narrow western and i would say deeply prejudiced lens of the world we can see other societies what they are also saudis have iniquities the chinese societies has multiple the nicotine surges the russian by god so does this one in the how many.

bars johnson's government has just poke a to sell this the celebes arms again those are the the saudi saudi planes that are bombing the life out of one of the most impoverished countries on earth yemen and they logistics and targeting is supplied by. british experts. that's an inequality i would have thought also saudis have those and they need to be solved and addressed politically both but it is a demonizing of other societies age is what britain does that's what the made it that's what we're told in the middle east usually with the poorest country in the middle east yemen aid the yes yes they've aid will you tell that to. a man or is wife holding a dead child who tell spain. it's just

become the victim of a rampage raid. and the. raid probably could north of taken place had to not been for them or just to support supplied by this country will stop you there from john pilger after this break. because there is this huge gusher of money printing bedsteads coming out of the central banks and because. nothing working against it because it's not. producing anything like gotye yoga or afford or some other company where you could look at the actual products in a meaningful context of the global economy and ascribe a value to it you can simply say that well we think that tesla is a mean boy just mostly a me. and money isn't me so we're going to make it worth $600000000000.00 today and

it could be worth it could drop 90 percent tomorrow. and she should move you to those who didn't just sit in japanese and i. don't mind it just because. you know how long to name the knot of. the month i don't know who's. going to. look at what the money went. the man in the morning.

welcome back i was still there with john pilger the cultural bigotry xenophobia that's all associated with the trump of ministration already making of these by pics we had said the trial about investment from didn't invent xenophobia the 3rd think it is the story of noah the but he did he did he didn't read xenophobia we we've been living with this ludicrous term which american academic call exceptionalism which means that american human beings are apparently different the rest of us the lot better and the system is a lot better when listening ought. you know the county even hold a proper election here idea of this that we should be constantly comparing

ourselves favorably with the society is about whom we. almost chew to know was a little about as possible and i'm speaking about china russia. latin america african countries. do we understand that i mean while we take a get out of vaccines for this covert that most of africa probably people suffering covert won't ever see a vaccine. understanding how the world works it is the most crucial it. of the 21st century that we all understand and if we understand them we're able to counter the propaganda there's like a tsunami almost like a pandemic there are internationalists some say globalist initiatives for the

developing world as regards the vaccines and companies like astra zeneca are saying there are trade secure vaccines for poor countries but it was some people are saying we are getting a more sophisticated regime or stuff coming in to the white house when joe biden becomes president in january what do you make of people that are not so uncaused the politician the lloyd austin from raytheon the syria walk and painters tony blinken and jake sullivan they will continue this creation of the other in the mindset of need 2 peoples yes of course the democrats not the republicans and i don't have any of the tunes with either of them the democrats have been the source of most of america's repurchase activity in the world since 945 not the republicans. so we should be really

nervous now that we have a democratic. administration covering your were nervous enough having the trumpet administration what we're going to have is another american administration basically no different trump was a character true of a system biden is probably the embodiment of the inside of the system otherwise there's no difference if we had 2 of the drumhead and studying new was this is you one in western sahara now but actually given that you said you didn't you were part is that in us politics you are astray and scott morrison at least australia did come out with a report into war crimes committed by australian servicemen why would scott boras be saying all but declaring war on china even at the cost of economic prosperity why why would scott morrison. be. declaring that

australia over the next 10 years will spend $270000000000.00 on the. military. including missiles that reach china reach the one country that has underwritten the is straight in the economy in that zone region why would he be doing that there is no evidence the china is and then they have all at ole chinese students. flooding to straighted because they like it they like the the education the. up to 5 years ago there was quite a benign relationship between the 2 countries a stranger follows everything the united states stands. morrison has followed basically what trump what what what this happened in washington basically.

but there is this is almost an unhinged policy that you distort your economy to spend billions of dollars. building in the coma dating misao the can be verified at the major world power that is within your region aunt and is your biggest trading partner. i as it is i have no entry about military keynesianism some somebody will say of course of the bank of england here and they say it's not their fault it was the government was holding on to venezuelan reserves that actually they needed for meds and so the village where the government said 40000 dead from sanctions. a storm and didn't look. at the code or the flavor of the venezuelan government's way of here so they are going marbles

or or top of the face of the courts here did judge that it was business as one way to is appealing the decision by the court over the gold but this power of sanctions as we enter 2021 i mean viewers from around the world watching us will know that they're maybe their country is under some form of sanction from a nato country is this just more of what we are going to see or is it the fact that venezuela has vive the attacks and wedo is with boris johnson in downing street is it merely does it mean the show that they need military power nato countries sanctions are not good enough to destroy adversaries you know the there is i hate to use the rather asinine term good news but there is good news here that venezuela has survived that's a solved further north and north asia we have just seen or though it was barely recorded here the biggest strike in world

history 250000000 people in india went on strike well that if those people were a country they'd be the fricken 5th biggest country in the world they went on strike they were farmers they will workers they were people standing up for. the inequities in and and and theft of. their lives really by extreme governments such as the government that is in delhi at the moment 250000000 and that that strike is still going on i think often you know people ask me if i'm at. a meeting all this is all very well all this information but walk can be done. i think those people are a model for us it was covered here on our t.

why was it looked a headline across the world if as you say it others of claimed it was the greatest . show of work of power in human history why is it not considered to a journalist working at a major publication or broker so hard as a hard one because all media that is corporate media whatever you want to call it mainstream media looks from as the great american journalist month ago or used to say looks from the top down never from the ground up. in other words it looks through a telescope provided by great power it looks through that lens. that's why you have b.b.c. executives and i've interviewed them. quite sincerely

protesting well we we report we reported what mr blair said but. mr blair was why. well that's not our job to question that we reported what he said so that is top down. so any movement from the bottom up from the ground up the view from the ground was guildhall used to call it the movement from the ground. if it isn't big ignored if it isn't trivialized it's marginalized it doesn't count it's what harold printers said famously it didn't happen it doesn't matter it's a there's a it's part of what i would call a kind of invisible propaganda. or censorship by a mission

a few lar you just you just leave it out because it doesn't have the credal a bit the credibility of of power but just windy there is one journalist who died this year who did question that more people didn't always agree with him he certainly cussed out of the reasons for our a.f. bombing of syria and the alleged chemical weapons chemicals atrocity in syria robert fisk. why do you think when he made so many in the media said he was controversial that's a badge of honor i think fisk will be lying in his grave thinking. isn't a good call me controversial my life my working life was worthwhile that is an all or to be called that because what that means translated that it's

a euphemism it means that he went against the grain. he was it was the view from the ground it was he challenge power he was an excellent reporter of course he wasn't perfect he was a one man reporter but i remember. but fisk would go places he was a reporter at such an honorable thing to do not worry the p.r. and he quite rightly disparage others as being who tell reporters he made enemies by saying that because so many hotel reporters all the reporters with the p.c. but he was an eyewitness reporter he would be among the crowds in tehran or in cairo war or in the country where he lived in in the in lebanon on. he didn't know where his get a prize to ride but. as

a reporter he was. an extraordinary figure so i think i think journalism there are a great loss with without it when we want more of his work in the future we're going to get it but the character assassination did it have shades of the character assassination just briefly of julian a son choose chordates on january the 4th that anyone who tries to as you say look at the world differently. there are there is calm raids in the workplace has journalists go raids will will damn well yes i mean you know i know in my own career when i made a number of films on cambodia that probably helped to alert the world to the suffering of the cambodian people on the committee rumors. they were highly pro is as journalistic initiative and so on but when i.

when i describe the why why this happened that it was. nixon and kissinger and their illegal bombing of a peasant country that acted the boming act as a catalyst the created this monstrous organization become a rouge and the americas other adverse saree which would just kick them out of the country vietnam that went to the assistance of cambodia. i came under a barrel. of attack seymour hersh seymour hersh we've been here all day describing his many his many triumphs in journalism but seymour hersh has designed the standard i may be wrong but as i understand it it has difficulty getting his work he says he said so in this show yes the

connection between the controversial fisk and the controversial julian the song is direct. both of them very different people doing different things but both of them went against the guy grain and both of them were truth towboats do i expect the court to go against them i'm not a future and start car toll i feel i'm slightly superstitious therefore if i make a prediction. something the the opposite will happen. i just hope justice just spoke prevail because if it goes against him it will be one of the greatest miscarriages of justice of my lifetime job pilcher thank you thank you that's over the show and for this season we'll be back on wednesday january the 13th to speak to the former guardian editor who published the

revelations of julian it's not just wiki leaks i would rusbridger about his new book news and how to use it what to believe in a fake news world until then we'll be playing that we have favorite shows from this season just a tuna deal that's a scribe to the channel on you tube and join the other guy lives with a facebook instagram sound. as the u.s. economy was booming numbers of people were made homeless. you can work 40 hours in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still has the lead up to the reality of it we're not financially quantity and the lack of fordable housing or living minimum wage give many people new choice. that's been a problem with the city always turn. away oh miss. the food if there is no answer because you're still requires resources the most

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as are simply not accountable and we're just adding more and more to the. totally destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get insured watched hazard. it. was a pandemic no sick you know blood is just lying to nationalities. has emerged the truth we don't have the facts in the whole world needs to be. judged as common every crisis with this system since. we can do better we should. everyone is contributing each of our own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges created the response has been so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. with.

the. u.s. food and drug administration reveals its and now approaching 5 allergic reactions to the pfizer beyond tech vaccine including 3 alaska health workers. the u.k. raises and the alarm over a deadly new strain of covert 19 and unveils that drastic new restrictions across london and much of the southeast england over the christmas period. in the u.s. secretary of state blames russia for a cyber attack on government agencies although security officials admit they do not know who is behind the breach.