hello and welcome across the uk we're all things we consider non peter lavelle is the united states hell bent on self-destruction a pandemic a dramatic economic turndown and now massive civil unrest all point to decline could this have been avoided also targeting hong kong watching neil liberal force regime playbook in real time. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest marcus papadopoulos in london he's the editor of politics for us magazine and in budapest we have george so muley he is author of bombs for peace nato's humanitarian war and he was right gentlemen crosscut rules and effect of music in japan you know what and i always appreciate when i was going to george let's talk about what's going on in the united states because there are there's a lot of elements to address here 1st of all that the mainstream media want to say it's racism racism racism and of course there is racism in the united states and what happened in the george floyd in minneapolis is unforgivable though there are still information we need to learn about. jumping to conclusions too quickly as has been sho

hello and welcome to cross top where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle what is the meaning and worth of history why are there are those so determined to destroy cultural artifacts and rewrite history and sell their understanding of history a true and just bashing of understanding of history is really about 2 things reverence and a warning the culture side we are witnessing rejects both like. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest under i mean he made good on your own in moscow is a professor at the moscow state institute of international relations and in oslo we have learned these and he's an associate professor at the university of south user norway as well as author of russia's geo economic strategy for a greater eurasia gentlemen crossed up close and back i mean as you can jump in anytime you want and i was surprised ok i was going to also let you know in preparing for this program i was and were inside eden has ideas of orientalism started popping into my mind because orientalism was a way for christian west to define itself against the other other civilization

peter lavelle we are witnessing the rise of a new secular religion and it's called the focus them at the moment in that short history its goal is to end racism why well everything is now considered racists the believers in this cult demand obedience insult criticism but we're really never told how racism is to be eradicated or how it helps serve the interests of working people of all colors. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest john de bar in bristol she is the deputy leader of the workers' party of britain as well as of their own the drive to war against russia and china her forthcoming book is identity politics and class and in budapest we have george samuel he is author of bombs for peace nato's humanitarian war on you it was right across our girls in effect that music can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok let's go to bristol jody what do you do you make of this new secular religion because that it's kind of quasi christian you know a little bit of composers a little bit a bit eventually mentalists style. and you know it has on with this ritual wall

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered on peter lavelle rage of description fear and despair how has the united states found itself in such a state of turmoil growing income inequality and systemic racism or poison politics take your pick what is the difference between a protest and a riot and is it accurate to say the us is becoming a failed state. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest r.c. maxwell and being next he is the arizona director of the block conservative federation as well as a brand ambassador turning point usa and in mclean virginia we have the brown that he is the founder and national ordinator of the movement for people are actually cross means you can jump in and be what. ok nick let me go 1st oh you're you told one of my producers in preparing for this program that you believe that the united states is is a failed state and the recent events of the last week or so are is is evidence of that explain yourself please go ahead. the reason is that in the response to this crisis pandemic we have had a government that got him. within a we

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle speaking to west point graduates trying to say we're ending the air of endless wars 40 years ago on the campaign trail he said the same thing why is it so difficult for this president to make good on this promise why make the promise again if it can't be kept. to cross off endless war i'm joined by my guest james to address and watched and he's a retired u.s. diplomat and former foreign policy advisor to the u.s. senate republican leadership and in new york we have lighter he is a professor emeritus of political science at rector's university as well as an adjunct senior research analyst at the institute of war and he studies at columbia university all right joining us across an effect i mean you can jump in and you and i also appreciate it ok james let me go to you 1st on this you were on cross talk during the campaign essentially during the election and after the election and what caught our eye mostly about trams candidacy was his willingness to rethink some of the pillars of american foreign policy and

welcome back to cross not where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're talking about a new ideology and religion. in the u.s. . ok alex let me go back to you i mean if if if we were you know we're told by the mainstream media we're told by left wing groups and ideologues and this is obviously a great opportunity for them in so many different ways clicks ok their bottom line i mean you and me at c.n.n. is actually doing well for the 1st time in 19 years ok they know how to play a crisis but you know if they're if they're so determined to change the face of american politics the tone in the tenor and why the packing joe biden i mean i mean with his. bills and his record was supporting the police and the and military interventions around the world i mean it's really quite hollow isn't it because they made sure there'd be no change in the democratic party because after they got rid of bernie ok i mean i guess that seems so hollow to me and so empty and in going through this regime change process which i think i think as appropriate. if we're getting about the real p

welcome back to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing some real. game exchange gears here marcus let me go back to you let's talk about what's going on you know considering what's going on in the streets of america right now and what the united states is mentally and that's exactly what it is mentally so let me see if i get the logic correctly or so to the way the united states history unfold which i've heard is part of china so i see. post president xi of china should be commenting and sanctioning the united states how it treats its citizens in cities all across america huge civil rights and human rights violations but do we all know that's not going to happen what's going on in hong kong and say and and least make clear to our people our viewers here that the united states approach to china is completely beyond and outside of international law go ahead. well heaven forbid peter your shoes in implicitly issues in the american governance of don't stand it so i would see the last such an argument but in all seriousness states of the situa

hello and welcome across the uk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle the spiral downward depending on who you believe in the media the civil unrest in america is the result of systematic racism this explains protests and rioting but it does it the commanding heights controlling the financial system the media and the business world are loath to admit it it's the economy stupid for them race always trumps class. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest jason nichols in l. the cut city is a professor of african-american studies and in new york we crossed to margaret kimberly she is the editor and senior columnist at the black gender report as well as the author of the book prejudicial black america and the presidents are right cross up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok let's 1st go to margaret here in my introduction i said that race always trumps class and if you look at mainstream media particularly the liberal media that is the message you get over and over and over again now we're remarkably we actually are s

well the match across up were all things are considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing the state of the economy. and then you'll excuse me go to let's talk about what the government is doing and not doing you know you can call it a bailout you can call a stimulus package we can talk about the timing of it all. what is. stopped the free fall was that basically meaningless because they were bailing out people that have more money than god anyway and using that tax code i mean that's that's that's fine when you have high employment you can redistribute wealth only have so many people unemployed they're not paying payroll at all and we can talk about the derivative issue of health care if you don't have a job has the government done the right thing for the working people of america i'm not talking about the rich working people go well you know it's interesting you raise that issue because consumer confidence among the lowest quintile and the 2nd to lowest quintile has recovered at the fastest pace in fact we're seeing consumer confidence among those who may. between $759900

welcome back to cross up where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle to mind you but discussing social justice. goes go back to going here michael brought up the ugly in something that is. i want to go to anyway and demand something is not possible here because again i don't want to separate the political overtones a bit because it seems to me that there is an element out there that. will never be satisfied they want to burn it to the ground they want to destroy i don't see i see so much of that energy going into that kind of rhetoric and discourse and not really a positive agenda as i mentioned in my introduction oh well how do we get to that place and michael was alluding to that i mean 'd we've they're right there right now and we have any reasonable expectation that we can have a dialogue at this point go ahead a couple of things and go out with this agree with him on hong kong protesters i would argue this is a lot easier to have on specific demands when they're written for you by the u.s. state department but but from another perspective i would say this and that is that .

well the match across town where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle reminder we're discussing. ok let me go back to georgia right before the break you were making a point well what i think is really interesting in all this is that a most conservatives and people that are more interested in class like our guest in bristol you know i hear their refrain in really makes me worry say you know i'm not really interested in this but the problem is is that woke ism is interested in you and then kami for you. go ahead george yes absolutely because what happens. workplaces at workplaces of jamie diamond and the workplaces of these laws is that white workers and black workers are set against each other how do. you know that you're white and always be held to be racist and to be. had all kinds of new design things so you're going to have this constant tussle between the point where it was a work suppose a braces and rather than over the fact that both of. almost no pay work hours palling work conditions and all of the money is being siphoned off through the people at the top i mean it's no

hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle probably the greatest success of the civil rights movement was respect for human dignity all lives matter under the rule of law that was then but today the same concept has been turned on its head we were told to take a knee or face consequences social shany is being turned into a ruling ideology. degrassi compass and more i'm joined by my guests are there to clue in toronto he is a social commentator and editor and being libertarian and in chattanooga we cross it anthony ryan logan is a conservative political commentator i generally rules and think that means you can jump in and want and i always appreciate it ok and you let me go to you 1st did you notice i saw these images over the last few days of people being forced to take the knee and apologizing for their skin color or their ancestry or oh i don't know what particular groups they were blocked by it's matter of their groups it doesn't matter to me i think just that gesture in itself should be an affront to all of us i mean when i see those kind of i

hello and welcome to cross off we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle as the culture war rages on a baited the billionaire class is only getting well you know their wealth has skyrocketed 20 percent or i've 100 $84000000000.00 since the start of the pandemic slash law how will his back shape the coming recovery and is a permanent underclass the new normal. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest richard wolffe in new york he is a professor emeritus of economics at the university of massachusetts amherst as well as the author of the recent books understanding socialism and understanding marxism and in chicago or which he has a chief marketing strategist bubba trading all right gentleman rules in effect that means you can jump in time while i was appreciate todd let me go to you as you just heard in my introduction you know that we have an ongoing deep recession i think as of this morning the i.m.f. came out with their global projections and a contraction of about 5 percent globally the u.s. doesn't do much better the industrialized world is more or less in the same posit

welcome back to cross up were all things are considered i'm peter lavelle remind you we're talking about ending endless wars. ok right let me go back to you here i want to kind of extend with something that james said here and this is this interagency consensus here i mean does that really new your mind because then it really kind of says that it isn't really matter who the president is because the bureaucracy is already to determine the priorities of american foreign policy and while the president can say something because there's a necessarily mean it's going to happen is a matter of fact it's quite obvious i mean in a lot of terms problems of foreign policy are self-inflicted why in god's name to be a point all tim i mean it was just stunned me ok and you know saying with this the in the phrase ending and was hoarse i mean like any complex we should so when there are 2 going like north korea you know i have a lot of issues with president trump on all kinds of things but i thought it took a lot of courage to go and meet the north korean leader i thought it was something that was never