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This John Bew interview is essential viewing. He understands how power really works. A historian of grand strategy and realpolitik, and a former adviser to four successive UK prime ministers. No one understands the current world order better than him. Pay very close attention. Bew warns that we’re at... a "break glass moment" on a whole range of domestic issues, including energy. His warning to Westminster is very simple: if Britain wants to hold our own in a harder world, we must urgently rebuild the foundations of our hard power. In this new world order, productive force will prove to be decisive. As I have argued before, that means restoring Britain's domestic energy base, ditching Net Zero, rebuilding industrial capacity, and securing our supply chains. We are, he says, the last man left at the Davos bar. In my own view, we should have left it long ago. 2014 was when the illusion began to crack. 2022 was the final wake up call. Remaining at the bar in 2026 is unforgivable. The lights are off. The staff have gone home. The music has stopped. But Starmer, Miliband and Reeves are still nursing the same stale assumptions while the world outside hardens. A link to the full interview is posted below.show more

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Kyle Becker

104,422 views • 2 years ago

#WATCH | Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala | Congress MP Shashi Tharoor says, "The world is in flux. There are a lot of changes happening. I've been increasingly talking about not just a world order, but a world disorder that we are confronted with. In these circumstances, we must be agile and nimble. I think we have to be very alert to changes in currents, and keep as many options as possible. I am a strong believer in this concept of multi-alignment that we must make sure that our doors are open to everybody so that we don't have such vulnerability to any one country, whether that's America, whether that's China, or anybody else. We should not be so vulnerable that we become victims of other people's whims and fancies and decisions. So we must have the capacity, the courage, the strength to be truly able to stand on our own feet, whether one door is slammed in our face from one side or another, or a window is open on the other side..."

#WATCH | Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala | Congress MP Shashi Tharoor says, "The world is in flux. There are a lot of changes happening. I've been increasingly talking about not just a world order, but a world disorder that we are confronted with. In these circumstances, we must be agile and nimble. I think we have to be very alert to changes in currents, and keep as many options as possible. I am a strong believer in this concept of multi-alignment that we must make sure that our doors are open to everybody so that we don't have such vulnerability to any one country, whether that's America, whether that's China, or anybody else. We should not be so vulnerable that we become victims of other people's whims and fancies and decisions. So we must have the capacity, the courage, the strength to be truly able to stand on our own feet, whether one door is slammed in our face from one side or another, or a window is open on the other side..."

ANI

23,538 views • 10 months ago

Matt Damon participated in Howard Zinn's great "The People Speak" series, and read out a great speech by Zinn about the importance of civil disobedience, which is as apt today as when he first wrote it in 1970: "I start from the supposition that the world is topsy-turvy, that things are all wrong, that the wrong people are in jail, and the wrong people are out of jail. That the wrong people are in power, and the wrong people are out of power. I start from the supposition that all we have to do is think about the state of the world today, and realize that things are all upside down. If you don't think, if you listen to TV, read scholarly things, you actually begin to think that things are not so bad. Or that just little things are wrong. But you have to get a little detached, and then come back and look at the world, and you are horrified. So we have to start from that supposition—that things are really topsy-turvy. And our topic is topsy-turvy: civil disobedience. As soon as you say the topic is civil disobedience, you are saying our problem is civil disobedience. That is not our problem…. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. And our problem is that scene in All Quiet on the Western Front where the schoolboys march off dutifully in a line to war. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world, in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem."

Matt Damon participated in Howard Zinn's great "The People Speak" series, and read out a great speech by Zinn about the importance of civil disobedience, which is as apt today as when he first wrote it in 1970: "I start from the supposition that the world is topsy-turvy, that things are all wrong, that the wrong people are in jail, and the wrong people are out of jail. That the wrong people are in power, and the wrong people are out of power. I start from the supposition that all we have to do is think about the state of the world today, and realize that things are all upside down. If you don't think, if you listen to TV, read scholarly things, you actually begin to think that things are not so bad. Or that just little things are wrong. But you have to get a little detached, and then come back and look at the world, and you are horrified. So we have to start from that supposition—that things are really topsy-turvy. And our topic is topsy-turvy: civil disobedience. As soon as you say the topic is civil disobedience, you are saying our problem is civil disobedience. That is not our problem…. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. And our problem is that scene in All Quiet on the Western Front where the schoolboys march off dutifully in a line to war. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world, in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem."

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297,607 views • 1 year ago

MILEI's ECONOMY MIN.: THE WORLD ADMIRES OUR PRESIDENT, HE IS AN INVESTMENT MAGNET "We are [Argentina] at a unique turning point because we have the combination of economic orthodoxy, governability, and a society that supports our changes. And to this I would also add that we have a president who is a world reference. He's a beacon in the world. (...) This really attracts a lot of investments. 20 months ago, our president was this magnet due to his ideas and his personality. But today in our trips, I noticed another fact which is: admiration. Nobody in the world had imagined that these things could be done. Our president has proven it was possible." -Luis "Toto" Caputo, Arg. Economy Minister Source: Economy Ministry Javier Milei totocaputo

MILEI's ECONOMY MIN.: THE WORLD ADMIRES OUR PRESIDENT, HE IS AN INVESTMENT MAGNET "We are [Argentina] at a unique turning point because we have the combination of economic orthodoxy, governability, and a society that supports our changes. And to this I would also add that we have a president who is a world reference. He's a beacon in the world. (...) This really attracts a lot of investments. 20 months ago, our president was this magnet due to his ideas and his personality. But today in our trips, I noticed another fact which is: admiration. Nobody in the world had imagined that these things could be done. Our president has proven it was possible." -Luis "Toto" Caputo, Arg. Economy Minister Source: Economy Ministry Javier Milei totocaputo

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16,403 views • 8 months ago