Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "George Galloway" channel.

  1. I'm glad Pakistan is not taking this lying down and hope that the will of the people prevails. The people behind this attempted coup should be punished for treason if that is what it is.
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  2. But you forget... the United States is exceptional and can therefore bend the laws of physics, just like Neo in the Matrix.
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  3.  @Gudo-kv6ot  Indian non‐alignment (neutrality) has served the country well since independence and the Indians would be stupid to throw their lot in now with the USA; it would be against their long term interests.
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  4. A plausible deniability false flag designed to up-the-ante a little perhaps? The 'mildness' of the symptoms (no one died?) may indicate that it was intended for shock value more than anything. Possibly, it was used to test the efficacy and viability of the use of biochemical agents or as a dry run.
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  5. What a fiery speech, George!
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  6. For "The West" read several countries (notably Great Britain and the United States of America, together with France and a few other supporting actors), aka the US empire. And for the Taliban read the people of Afghanistan, aka the Afghan resistance movement who are fighting a war akin to the war fought by the allies against fascism. Afghans, whether 'fundamentalist' or not, whether 'terrorist' or not, still have a right to defend their nation, country, territory and ethnic group from invasion and conquest by predatory capitalism and fascist corporatism.
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  7. Common ownership to Keir Starmer means... public private partnerships.
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  8. The Aussies it would seem are as under the thumb of the USA as we Brits. I wonder if its any different in New Zealand.
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  9. Good luck George!
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  10.  @gazlives  Would you say the same about the native Americans just because it took 250 years to reduce their population from millions to what they number today? Or the Aborigine...? The Maori...? South Pacific islanders...? How fast would Hitler's policy of cleansing Europe of its Jews and gypsies had to have been to qualify as genocide? If you don't like the term genocide how about ethnic cleansing, a term used to stoke up support for Bill Clinton's war against Serbia/Yugoslavia? Is it a war crime, crime against humanity? Apparently it was back then so what's the difference now?
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  11. Seems ironic. Seems paradoxical. Seems divisive. The wordy McCarthyism comes to mind.
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  12. Nationalise, Nationalise, Nationalise. Embark on a crash programme of infrastructure building. Introduce price controls. Build public housing or requisition unused existing housing.
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  13. It is irrelevant where the Jews as a collective came from, or which country the Zionists originally intended as their national homeland. These questions are moot historical talking points. The irrefutable fact is that an ethnostate state – one that considers itself exclusively Jewish– exists presently on the land that was the national homeland of a pre-existing people, the Palestinians, and is currently in an existential struggle with them. The question is therefore one of how can there be a peaceful resolution of this most vexing of problems, one that involves an equitable and just compromise between the two groups such that they can live together without conflict. Thus far I see no resolution other than the utter extirpation of the indigenous people, either by genocide or by expulsion, unless there is some form of outside intervention, as the Israelis seem too intransigent and the Palestinians too weak.
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  14. Is China sending warships in the strait between Cuba and the USA? No. Then why is the USA sending warships into the Strait of Taiwan? — China's maritime disputes between its neighbours over territorial waters in the South China Sea are just that, disputes, and not provocations. They flare up from time to time but they are nothing that cannot be resolved by negotiation and diplomacy. The same goes for the land border dispute between India and China over the Line of Control (LAC) which also does not require the interference of the USA.
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  15. The answer to George Galloway's question is no. Because the game is rigged.
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  16. Better still if the people of each nation live according to their own social norms while happily borrowing what is good from the cultures of others.
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  17. Never had one to begin with.
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  18. And Putin! Don't forget Putin. He supports Trump who, totally unlike Biden, steals US elections.
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  19. And the Euro too unless the IMF extends it a line of credit or it starts its own QE.
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  20. It says there are 2 replies but I can't see them for some reason.
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  21. It's called in CIA parlance 'resource nationalism' - a country's government using its resources in the interests of its own economic development rather than that of foreign investors. Nationalising oil and gas is especially sinful to western corporations and as the Middle East is a hydrocarbon-rich region and the West is highly dependent upon it, naturally, Iran is a target for regime change.
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  22. And our coal is going to waste while we import gas from other countries. Like Germany, the British government is weakening Britain and making us vulnerable to economic blackmail by the USA and the EU.
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  23. China, Russia, Vietnam, Cuba and other countries that have, at one time or another, experimented with the types of socioeconomic system that fall under the broad term of socialism would like to disagree. Using various metrics their economies, and more importantly the overall well-being of their societies, usually improved in the years immediately following the introduction of socialist policies and, conversely, it can be argued deteriorated upon the discontinuation of such policies. Socialism is not monolithic either and every country that has introduced elements of socialism into its society has usually done so pragmatically, according to the specific needs of time and place rather than the one size fits all approach of neoliberalism.
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  24. Some form of socialism is and will continued to be needed for as long as there are avaricious capitalists, driven purely by profit and an insatiable desire for infinite growth, ruthlessly exploiting people and the environment in ways which are profoundly alienating, often grossly iniquitous and that may even have the potential to threaten the long term survival of the human race.
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  25. The US hypocrisy over alleged interference in its own elections is breathtaking (and those allegations are based on lies).
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  26. What's the latest news? Last I heard was that he was missing. I then heard he was okay but in hiding.
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  27.  @shayaan2354  That's sad to hear. I know about him only from having seen him once or twice on The Duran show.
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  28. Right you are but, unfortunately, nothing is ever that simple, especially when you have virtually the whole of the Establishment and the mass media they control against you.
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  29. More then that. The eight hundred million figure is taken after 1981 and doesn't take into account those brought out of poverty after 1949, when China was properly communist.
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  30. The same goes for French Polynesia and US Micronesia. Claiming islands just because they colonised them in the 19th century.
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  31. There is no alternative. Like in the USA there is a only a choice between two factions of the one‐party state, the brown shirts and the black shirts, the banks and the corporations.
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  32.  @rushshukla4636  — It's actually designed to decouple the world, especially Europe, from Russia and to decouple the world as much as possible from China and to make as much of the world economically dependent on the USA and its client states as possible for food, resources and other necessities. Basically the United States wants a re‐run off the cold war when these two giants were effectively cut off from the international system of the West led by them. This time around, however, it might not go quite according to plan.
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  33. China is pulling way ahead of Japan and will soon be pulling Japan into her orbit. Like the destruction of Iraq by default allowed Iran to dominate the Middle East, so the hobbling of the Japanese economy by the Plaza Accords has led by default to China becoming dominant in the region. Maybe the Americans thought it would be better to have just one super economy in Asia rather than two, especially as Japan and China might work together.
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  34. A reserve army of labour. Keeps wages down.
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  35.  @mystictraveler8642  The ICC cannot act without backing. If the major countries of the world aren't able or willing to compel the USA and its minions by political, economic or military means to obey international law (as defined by these self‐same countries) then the USA will remain unpunished, undeterred and a continued threat to peace.
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  36. The Labour Party (or is that, the Labor Party) twinned with the Democrat Party of the USA and the Labor Party of Israel.
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  37. The problem is with so-called representative democracy itself in that it doesn't represent the will of the majority, at least not on issues relating to private wealth and where it directly impinges on those who own most of the productive assets of the nation. Let's understand that modern parliamentary democracy is less than two hundred years old and evolved in an era of mass proletarianisation of the workforce and the trades union movement that grew out of it. First the middle, and then the lower, classes were able to slowly enter politics and effect decision making. Today, however, most manual jobs have been outsourced or automated/mechanised out of existence and the golden age of trades unionism and working class politics is long gone. Parties of the left have to cater to a much diminished constituency base which has itself undergone gentrification/embourgeoisiement; it's no longer a constituency of cloth cap and clogs wearing proles demanding a living wage as so much office and shop workers fighting over their perks.
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  38. The victor won the right to write the history books though.
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  39. It's been turned into the British equivalent of the Democrat Party of the USA. It's been 'liberalised' – and not in a good way. There was a reason the Liberal Party never won another general election after 1914(?) and that was because it didn't and never did represent the interests of the working class. The Labour Party has become another Liberal Party (Liberal Democrat) and we don't need two such parties as one is more than enough.
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  40. The US intelligence services together with their local accomplices have been all too successful in destroying the left in Europe these last 80 years.
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  41. India.
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  42. If you think that's bad just think about the austerity imposed on Greece by Germany.
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  43. Stormer is an intelligence asset and someone parachuted in from the top. From at least Tony Blair onwards the Labour Party has become Americanised and like the USA's own political parties and trade/labour unions docile and infiltrated from top to bottom by agents of influence and subversives. The Labour Party is now the British version of the Democrat Party of the United States — Tory-lite. Same for our media, eg. The Guardian, The Daily Mirror. What we are presented with as a democratic choice are the two fronts of the deep state (two and one-half if you include the Liberal Democrats): the Brown Shirts (labour, social democrat, socialist) and the Black Shirts (conservative, Christian democrat, liberal).
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  44. There needs to be an effective replacement first; a party that can absorb the rump of labour and incorporate it into a new party.
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  45. These three titans need to progressively integrate their economies so they can grow into a single trading block that will push the USA out of Europe and become Eurasia, the heartland.
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  46. Oh stop it with the holodomor crap and learn some history. The whole of Russia and the Soviet Union was undergoing food shortages and famine, not just Ukraine (which was a part of the Soviet Union). This was caused by war and climate and the actions of outside countries amongst other things and not the evil machinations of the communists. Also, the holodomor is a creation of Nazis and neo‐Nazis working for the CIA so every time you talk such crap you're actually simply regurgitating decades old propaganda.
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  47. World war? No! USA‐China war? Maybe... but unlikely. — China will pick off US allies and potential allies by coopting them economically and politically. The One Belt, One Road Initiative and the Shangai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and similar organisations will slowly encompass more and more countries both big and small and make it extremely difficult for the USA to, in effect, fight the whole world and certainly the greater part of it, a part that is already avital part of the global economy. That's why the USA is currently gearing up to using full‐spectrum information war and proxy war (propaganda, terrorism, sabotage) along with military intimidation (eg. South China Sea) because direct country‐to‐country conflict is not militarily advisable right now. — There is also Russian‐Chinese cooperation to consider, a cooperation that is de facto fast becoming, if it isn't already, a strategic alliance that will in time, I think, decisively preclude any realistic direct military intervention in East/ South East Asia, especially if they can get India to join them as well. Indeed, I'm sure Russia is very eager to play its role in European affairs as are France and Germany and if they can overcome historic animosities and current political realities these countries taken together could combine to form a Eurasian block.
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  48. Thatcherism is certainly not needed in the USA. Indeed, the economic policies of Margaret Thatcher are merely the same as those of Ronald Reagan (Reaganism) — neoliberal, supply-side *MMT/monetarism, the same policies that have seen the complete financialisation of the economy and the decline of industrial manufacturing. He's basically calling for more of what both we and they already have and have had for the last 30 years. *MMT = Modern Monetary Theory
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  49. Ever heard of the electoral college system of the USA?
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  50. Not going to happen I'm afraid; America's backyard and all that.
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