they were trying to imperialize one another. they would enslave their war captives into labor and sometimes sell their own children. they tortured others as a past their religious rites and depending on which tribe you were in, cannibalism was part of the picture. before the europeans ever landed native americans routinely cannibalized one another, most notoriously among them perhaps was the aztecs when a spanish colonist arrives in mexico city they were greeted by piles of over 100, 000 skulls belonging to humans that had been sacrificed to the gods. in fact, in one archeological dig, they found remains of 42 children, all around the age of five, who were sacrificed to the rain god. special days required more sacrifice by the way. on the inauguration of aztec temple major, they sacrificed between 20, 000 and 60, 000 human beings in a single day. their ceremonies i'd like to paint a little clearer of a picture of the ceremonies, ceremonies were performed in front of large crowd, usually an adult male victim was held on a stone a

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 anti-war even a possibility for america well the 1st thing you have to ask any democratic candidate for president is where do you plan to go to war and your administration because that has been the policy of the democratic party. world war one of course republicans that's. their standard position as we love war we love the military will love the police we love military we're spending it spending it well yeah us the jobs program but the democrats always have to pretend like we love the women and children of afghanistan that's why we're going to go bomb them libya we love the people of benghazi we must save these people in benghazi now they don't think about them gabbert she always points out that we've been at war since 2001 she signed up because of right across the river here from brooklyn we see the twin towers used to be there now it's freedom tower she joined up to go fight in iraq she

they did not like many imperial reforms. but they acquiesced to them. years war with jamaica having served as a model, policies makers preferred the north american colonies. unlike the jamaican these colonies had the known backlash that would split the british empire in 1776. if the jamaicans direction help to shape imperial policy towards a colonies, they also offered a rationale for the reform of colonial slavery. fury for the idea of the security of the colony by limiting the independence and slave trade and rating the condition of being enslaved. ironically, perhaps perversely, the work of the story and center had an impact on a budding antislavery discourse. the principal threat to colonial slavery were african and insurgents, long promoted the idea that native born slave population will be more a tractable. planters could avoid working their slavers to death, attach them to us take, establish better tired of childrearing in christianity than slaveholders might be more secure in their possessions. they could also save money on the ever rising price

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a lot of the imperial activity that's gone on has also been directed against our own citizens for example we are in new york city and you can't fail to notice the tremendous level of prosperity in new york city right now i'm amazed actually compared to my childhood in the 1960 s. but remember what we're seeing is really the results of financialization of the economy and what we're seeing is that all of the asset stripping of the fly over states in the midwestern rust belt all that those assets have been removed financial laws and re centered and concentrated in a place like new york city so our own citizens have suffered as much from imperialism as the other people in the world that candidates who are anti-war get very hated by the media and i do notice if you tune into m s n b c is the democratic media you see ads for boeing or a lockheed martin the number one in 2 of the defense contractor is why do lockheed mar and boeing and raytheon advertise on the cable news or that's a good question it's a little hard to imagine because the average joe who's watching him as n.b.c. is not he's not

they did not like many imperial reforms. after the seven years war with jamaica having served as a mode model, policymakers preferred new legislation for the north american colonies these policies inspire the well-known backlash of the british empire 1776. if the jamaican insurrection hope to save the colonies after the rationale of reform of colonial slavery. the rebellion concerned of that pragmatic plan for the security of the colonies by limited dependence of the slave trade in ameliorating the condition of the enslaved and ironically the work of the historians had a significant impact on a budding anti- slavery discourse. not even the threats to colonial slavery for the insurgent long promotes the idea the slave born population would be more retractable and that they could just avoid working the slaves to death and continue to scatter them by sale establish better conditions for childrearing and encourage christianity that slaveholders might be more secure in their possessions and they could also save money on the crisi

one, i think the imperial college report is right. it's going to be 15 to 18 months and we're going to have to decide how we're going to live during that time, not just die from the virus. second of all, let me just say what the president did today in signing that act is largely cosmetic. and i resent the fact we're trying to sell to america we're doing something we're not. every company right now that makes respirators, makes ventilators, makes protective gear have been working full time with every machine running 24/7 for weeks. there's nothing new coming. you just don't invent these overnight. so we are going to be very short on these issues. as far as testing, i think we're going to see an implosion of testing in three, four weeks. we're running out of reagents. the world doesn't have enough reagents right now. we do not support drive-by testing right now. we need to focus it in hospitals where it will have its most important good and we're going to be rationing testing in a way that we haven't even thought about just within a few

doctor alex george from the mission hospital and professor myra mcclure from imperial college london.very much. hello, just in time for the weekend, week across england and wales marks by spring warmth and blue skies. set to change, and the first signs of that are coming across the border into cumbria during the course of friday. that was the shield of cloud associated with that when the front. that continues its journey further south through saturday stop a weakening band of cloud, but what it does do is introduce a much colder regime across all parts of the british isles as we move on into sunday. saturday starts dry and fine, away from that weather front, perhaps a touch of frost in the north and indeed in the south. the day marked by much more cloud across england and wales. it has got enough about it for that to be showers into the north and east of scotland, one or two into the eastern side of the pennines. the last of the warmth just about holding on, relatively speaking, across the south and across the west of wales. don't forget, as we move from saturday to sunday, we have to

the government of england had been up until the time of the imperial crisis.words, what this means is, the right to revolution is not absolute or unlimited. it has to be used prudently. the question you have to ask yourself is for instance, what would it have been prudent to launch a revolution against the british government in 1765 after the passage of the stamp act. i can tell you not one american revolutionary would have said yes to that question. nor would they have said yes to that question after the passage of the towns in, and the tea acts. by the time we get to 1774, now some americans are starting to think, yes, samuel adams, john adams, george washington, thomas jefferson are beginning to think we have grounds for establishing revolution. but still, prudence dictates that even in 1774 that may be too early. there is a real question about when revolutions are launched. it cannot beaches some radical yahoo who decides that he does not like the five-cent tax on his new can of soda that he will launch a revolution. that would be profoundly imprudent. i a

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wasn't simply the humanitarianism of the abolition movement it's that britain did not want other imperial rivals to have the benefit of slave labor when in fact they didn't. in $815.00 armed with its naval supreme a c. britain imposed the cessation of the slave trade on its commercial rivals as abolition took effect among the leading european slave powers the decision gradually shut down the northern atlanta slave trade routes but it also set off fresh deportations too and within countries where slave ownership was still prevalent by grouping together the captives born on its soil the united states was also about to enter a new era of slavery a fairly small percentage of the people brought over to the americas in the slave trade actually came to north america probably 345 percent and yet by the time you get to 190825838 very large percentage of the a slave population is in the united states because of natural population growth so that is a very important part of the story thomas jefferson for example who advocated closing the slave trade did so at least in part because he knew that the sl

the imperial college for one. it can be if things went down a certain path and the country opened too soon and went down a worst case scenario. which stuck with the president. yesterday as a final point here, joe, the reporting shows there are two things that really struck the president. there is that number the 2.2 million, the idea of even 100,000 is a huge number of deaths. certainly as we heard him say, it will be a far great improvement over that. also some of the images coming from his hometown in new york. it was the construction of make-shift hospital beds in central park. it was the site of a deliberate, what was it, a refrigerated delivery truck being loaded with bodies at hospitals here, that went around social media and made its way on the newscasts. yes, the particular scenes in emhurts hospital. they were so striking to him. and seeing to deliver to hit home, a scene happening in his hometown that could be created across the nation. that sort of fueled this decision when we slow down the reopening to

it's highlights include st stephen's cathedral and the imperial palace. i'm in vienna today for a very special reason. and 2020 use it lovers around the world are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the from b. to vince birth. who was born and born but spent most of his life in vienna. he lived here for over 3 decades and wrote his masterpieces today i want to see how visible loopy from beethoven still is in vienna what makes the city so attractive to musicians and why was beethoven so restless i mean during his time here he moved on average once a year as you can see have a lot of questions that need answering one day in vienna following the footsteps of the great. of course we will also give you an overview of the sights to see in vienna. and the killing there is special for which the city is famous. in addition we will show you how big this being honored in his native. one of the top addresses for music lovers in vienna is the sound easy and how still music it's all about the sounds and noises and the exhibition starts in the stairwell. was a clunk th

but that both the quality and quantity of imperial disaster relief was situational. it mattered what kind of a context disaster happened in. relief for jamaica and barbados was a political dividend colonists earned by their loyalty. interestingly, government-sponsored benevolence in disaster relief became the britishctice in empire after the war was over. americans who declared their independence in 1776 by contrast established political institutions that did not whoide relief to people suffered the ravages of hurricanes, fires and other calamities. response to the fever epidemic that killed in philadelphia in 1793, it affects pre-much the whole sadie. this epidemic is important for a lot of reasons. a lot of people have written about it. for me what's important was it is the first test of how the u.s. government would respond to a deadly disaster. at the time philadelphia was , home to three governments, federal, state, and local. all of them fled the city as soon as the epidemic happened. at the time, philadelphia was ,eserted by government types volunteers were le

this is a crucial graph from the imperial college report.ows icu bed requirements in different scenarios. the black line you see heris what would happen if very little was done. the orange line coming here and rising here shows a containment strategy incorporating isolatin anyone we virus, quarantine anyone in their household, and population-wide social distancing. you can see the number of cases stays, l at the suppression approach comes with major problems. it effectively requires shutting down parts of society, and there is not necessarily aexit strategy cases can still sore once the measures are eased. the green linth lower numbers of cases during the summer, but a sharper spike that could hap measures go further with school closures and othe more sere restrictions. that is the conundrum lots of countries are facing. china, for one, which has successfully reduced the rates of new infection. but what is going to happen when those restrictions are lifted? it's worth stressing these are mode. they have to make assumptions. they are not alwa

since he took part in the biggest global peace protest of the 21st century against the unchecked imperialism the destroyed iraq and destabilize the world plus as the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage europe what does it mean for capitalism kashmir and the future of the world's most famous publisher julian assange. also more coming up in today's going on the ground but let's go straight to one of the greatest living political activists and writers who has inspired antiwar figures were malcolm x. to john lennon tariq ali joins us from his north london home via skype thanks so much for coming on the program i have to declare an interest because you brought me to channel 4 in the 1980 s. and you were my boss but what would you say now to the millions who have been inspired by your work the fight for freedom and justice that you've undertaken in your life what would you say to them who are now profoundly pessimistic about the neo liberal response to a pandemic let alone gross inequality around the world well basically. we find. it's difficult to come out on the streets because the nature o

is don't let the press panic you the new york times for instance has been continuing to put the imperial college of london doomsday scenarios on our front page until well into last week when as a result of what i've been advocating follow dr pao to the advice of all the c.d.c.'s advice we will be fine it will be nothing like the doomsday scenarios that they're painting. now we are doing what we need to do we are following dr found shape and those ridiculous estimates are being proven to be wrong and based on false assumptions so i was just saying look the panic is going to be worse than the condition and now you've got the president saying something similar the treatment could be worse than the disease again i was just trying to get people to pay attention to the risk reward analysis of course we'll take care of this of course you listen to the c.d.c. and of course you listen to dr foushee but we don't have to have a press making us haneke you think the president over and over doing what true what are they over doing well it's like i said that there was that one if the logic study that c

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 anti-war even a possibility for america well the 1st thing you have to ask any democratic candidate for president is where do you plan to go to war and your administration because that has been the policy of the democratic party. world war one of course republicans that's. their standard position is we love war we love the military will love the police we love military. spending it is spending money well yeah the jobs program but the democrats always have to pretend like we love the women and children of afghanistan that's why we're going to go bomb them libya we love the people of benghazi we must save these people in benghazi now they don't think about them to gathered she always points out we've been at war since 2001 she signed up because right across the river here from brooklyn we see the twin towers used to be there now it's freedom tower she joined up to go fight in iraq she fough

well it's a national law in the united nations have always been a plaything in the hands of imperialism in the hands of the u.s. and junior partners so although there's the big headline. no precedent where the true war criminals whether it was for what the u.s. did in nicaragua in the 1980 s. or in el salvador or whether it's with what they did in iraq and later on in afghanistan more than a 100000 troops at its peak station in afghanistan still 13000 u.s. troops remain in afghanistan we've never seen any of these war criminals punished. why. well why because. the u.s. is the strongest economic political military power in the world 'd as you know trumps arrogance in the arrogance of power and pale and john bolton really catches the spirit of these imperial if they think that they are untouchable and should really be the people who get away with this kind of thing just because you feel you know untouchable surely that's not right well that's why we find for a non unocal or world a multi-polar world where the u.s. has track record u.s. foreign policy. has been guilty of so many crimes acr

well it's like i said that there was that one empty logic study that came out of the imperial college of london which predicted you know it was a doomsday prediction and that was on the front page of newspapers that was on the lips of every cable news reporter and it was based on faulty assumptions it was based on us doing nothing in response to this virus which of course was not going to be how we would respond and yet people kept pushing that as a narrative of what with what is necessarily going to happen now nothing like that has happened we have taken aggressive actions we are you know the world is responding very diligently to this and i again and for instance say you know what is the press doing calling me a corona denier for saying listen to the c.d.c. listen to dr found you don't listen to newspapers that idea how could that possibly be denying anything other than listen to the professionals that know how to do this and how to protect us so are you comfortable being placed in the category as sean hannity the eminent scientist or jerry falwell jr or cheryl adkins and i am comfo

rome and he said that in 1971 of course right when we went off the gold standard imperial rome when it once it started to collapse and you know it kind of went downhill pretty quickly the visigoths and the various other vandals on the barbarians here we have the magic of financialization and the magic of most of 40 is that the kids coming to the kids are coming to infect us right now this is the new it's a personal extinction event. ok we got it. right so this is the collapse of this empire which has been going on for near 40 years because of financial ization in the magic of a bond market rally so every single problem that. the romans didn't have the ability to simply print their way out of the barbarians invading because they had to rely on hard money to pay the soldiers and they were coin clipping and this type of thing so there was an endgame here because of the empire of american debt they can just print their way for decades without having to face the music but at some point if all interest rates go negative and you've got a corona weaponized children with the coronavirus look

of the fact that this action is highly political and really reinforces the notion of the us as an imperial power able to dictate policy able to order the arrest of world leaders heads of states as it wishes if it really was interested in dealing with drug issues it would actually look at some of its closest allies in latin america in all due to us one would love to have done this whose brother was indicted and found guilty and in new york courts for actually drug trafficking has also been implicated in drug trafficking so have many other political leaders in the region including leverage in colombia so this is very much a clearly a political more a moment a cruel inhuman action at a time in which the country is reeling not only from the pen demick but also from low prices for oil and also dramatic shortages created in part by the sanctions imposed by both the obama administration and now the trumpet ministration and what you brought up the sanctions because the the u.s. sanctions against countries like venezuela we know it's nothing new this is a tactic the u.s. has used on many states but

that's what they searched for over the years of the imperial crisis. now, in many ways, as john adams argued in a letter he wrote to thomas jefferson in 1815, the real american revolution was not about the war. in 1815 adams wrote, quote, what do we mean by the revolution? the war? that was no part of the revolution. it was only an effect and consequence of it. the revolution was in the minds of the people. this was effective from 1760 to 1775 in the course of 15 years before a drop of blood was shed at lexington. now think about that. adams is arguing that the real american revolution was not military. it was not constitutional. it was not political. it was not economic. the real, the deepest cause where we'll find the true meaning of the revolution was in this transformation that took place in the minds of the american people. then in 1782 thomas payne in a letter he wrote to france, he said this about the period leading up to the american revolution, quote, our style and manner of thinking have undergone a revolution. more extraordinary than the pol