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The Larry Elder Show
"professor anthropology" Discussed on The Larry Elder Show
"Certainly. And this is the consequence of, as we talked about here, this the neo marsh's victim culture that is being spun up at many of these institutions where these folks are, even if you're not like majoring hardcore in, I don't know, late critter anthropology or something like that. The general baseline of the subculture is going to be affected by that ethos nonetheless. These are folks that you're going to be in your dorms and cafeteria and at parties and social gatherings with. So the general, you know, we're social animals so the general climate will be affected by these ideas. And I think what will essentially happen to a lot of folks is that that will rub off on them and rather than thinking in terms of taking own self ownership and responsibility and agency in their own lives rather there's this default attitude of I'm a victim. I'm entitled the world. I'm being oppressed by the world the world owes me something. As opposed to just sort of American value of pull yourself up by the bootstraps and trust that you have the own your own resourcefulness to get the job done and to fix your own problems. And that is not that's not going to be solved with an anthropology degree. That's the type of thing that will get solved with real world labor. Actually knowing how to go out in the world run into challenges and to overcome them. As opposed to expecting the state to save you in all situations. I have a couple of quick questions and then I just want to get on quickly to some of the solutions that you guys offer in the book and again, I'm talking to one of the authors of don't go to college, a case for revolution. This is Michael robel art and it's a fascinating conversation. And I encourage you parents, those of you that are listening to this podcast, also grandparents that will be listening to this podcast. I have some people that will offer advice and so on, et cetera. I'm always fascinated at the different age ranges of people that will listen to podcasts. But if you have grandchildren, get them ready to go into college. I would say give this to your grandchildren or give this to your children before they send their children to college. I really do think these are the type of questions these are that we have to we have to start talking about this. Obviously, I think college produces a lot of smart people, but it seems to also produce a lot of dumb people too. And we've got to figure this stuff out. Don't go to college, is a book that helps you to do that. A couple of quick well, one is a mention. I want to get a quick take from you on this. And then I got another quick question that I want to ask. But one of the things you talk about is when people are sending their kids to conservatives or sending their kids to college, hoping and praying that they'll be conservative professors there while a lot of these conservative professors are saying adios to college campuses. So then the kids are left there on their own where they don't even have this person that they can look up to to say, listen, he's in, he's in academia. He survived. He or she kind of has a conservative worldview, not so much anymore on these college and university campuses. Yeah, yeah, certainly. We do a numbers breakdown. And I think in the literature department, I think it's 32 to one is the demographic breakdown of liberal to conservative political landing professors. Anthropology, 20 to one. Sociology was up there as well. And then in terms of activism and donor funding, I think it was like 95 to one is that you would have much more activist and folks that are donating to political parties as liberal versus conservative professors. The other issue too is that a lot of people will say, well, what about tenure? Tenure, I think, to a large extent is a myth. I've had several conservative professors say to me quietly and hushed tones over beers while looking over their shoulder that they're oftentimes scared of their students because the act of his students that they're out for Nazi scalps, so to speak, right? So they're hunting for any conservative professor that crosses the line so that the professors are scared of the students. And they know, okay, sure, tenure might protect you, but they could spin up some title 9 and thing out of thin air and say that they were harassed one way or the other. And now they can leverage that to get these professors fired. So the professors, even if they're conservative and even at their tenured, they are walking on eggshells and absolutely paranoid that the student mob is going to deplatform them and ruin their lives and ruin their reputations. Such a good point. Yeah, so it's not as. Simple as the tenure will just protect the conservative professor. And then the consequence of this, of course, as you mentioned, is that young conservative students are getting there, and they don't see any exemplars. They don't see any counter position to the monolithic woke ideology that they're seeing in every other class. Man, that's such a good point. Such a good point. I was going to say, I feel like some of these institutions that have these large endowments, maybe we could get rid of this stuff by making sure if they're going to have these sociology departments on anthropology that instead of getting these federal government subsidies that universities need to pay for them themselves. I think pretty quickly we'd see some of these majors die down these unnecessary majors going on these college campuses. Certainly. Yeah, the fact that so many of these state schools, taxpayer money is going to support any of these programs is absolutely ridiculous..
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"professor anthropology" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"The indo pacific this will include gra corporation through rotational deployments of all types of us military across to australia during the same news conference the u. s. defense secretary. Lloyd austin focused part of his remarks on china. We spoke in detail about china's destabilizing activities in beijing's efforts to coerce and intimidate other countries contrary to establish rules norms in a constructive results oriented relationship with the pr. See we will remain clear eyed and our view of beijing's efforts to undermine the established international order china's denounced the new us. Australia britain alliance saying the countries are quotes severely damaging regional peace and stability intensifying an arms race and damaging international nuclear non-proliferation efforts for more. We go to oakland california to speak to david. Vine professor anthropology at american university who tracks u. s. military bases overseas. He's just written a new article for responsible. Statecraft titled not just about subs aucas expands. Us military footprint. Australia to his recent book. The united states of war a global history of america's endless conflicts from columbus to the islamic state so david vine as biden pulls u. s. troops out of afghanistan. Is he ramping up. A cold war with china. And one of the first examples were sea of this of this multibillion dollar deal with australia to sell them nuclear powered to sell them nuclear powered submarines. If you can talk about what this all means i. It's a pleasure to be with. You thank you so much for having me is a tremendously disturbing dangerous reckless and ultimately racist announcement and alliance that three governments have announced the answer to your question about whether this is a new cold war i think this announcement of the triple alliance does ultimately is an announcement of a near formal declaration of new cold war that that leads us can lead us down a path toward a war. That could be not only cold but it really should be unthinkable. Hot possibly nuclear war between the two most powerful nations on earth china and the united states. Most of the focus has been on the sub deal which has buried disturbing elements. But but i'm glad you are calling attention to the military buildup that the deal represents. I think it is helpful for people in the united states in particular to think. How would we feel if china last week had announced that it was entering in alliance with russia and cuba to build up military bases and military forces air naval and land forces in cuba to also be engaged in weapons development including hypersonic weapons development extra electromagnetic weapons development to engage it increased cyber intelligence gathering spying and space activities with cuba to also have a mining deal in place and to be building nuclear powered submarines that were involved a transfer of weapons grade nuclear weapons grade highly uranium to cuba. How would we feel if the shoe was on the other foot if we were if faced with allow alliance in our backyard. That is what. The united states announced last week with australia and the uk that they are building up a already massive us military presence in china's back yard with additional bases forces weapons development spy capabilities and the transfer of nuclear weapons technology to a non nuclear power that really undermines the nuclear non-proliferation regime meaning. It sets us back in our efforts to abolish polish nuclear weapons on earth. David let's go to president biden speaking a tuesday at the united nations where he explicitly said the. Us is not seeking a new cold war. Who stand up for our allies and our friends and oppose attempts by stronger countries dominate weaker. Ones whether through changes to territory by force economic coercion technical exploitation or disinformation. But we're not seeking say again. We are not seeking the new cold war or world divided in the rigid blocks. So david could you respond to what biden said and also the fact that he seems now to be fulfilling the promise or initiative that obama had a suggested twelve years ago. Which is this idea of a us. Foreign policy pivoting to asia. In a way. I'm a bit tired of biden's words so he said some nice words that the un about diplomacy about humanitarian aid about not wanting a new cold war with china but his actions are very different. And for those of us like myself who supported his withdrawal from. Afghanistan is absolutely the right thing to do and the withdrawal was long overdue. He's turning his back on diplomacy with this announcement. This is far more significant than you know any words. He uttered the un about diplomacy and not wanting new cold war. That is what this represents. He is aligning these three powers against china. And i think we have to again. Ask how we're chinese leaders. How do we expect chinese leaders to respond china. This really risks setting off a increased arms race and we shouldn't be surprised if china looks to line up an alliance of its own again Resembling the cold war and in so many ways this is really cold. War era thinking and in many ways nineteenth century thinking and i i really hope and think biden administration can be much better than that. We are in no position to be building to be spending any time any energy building military alliances at this moment when we have such graves security threats facing us from global warming global pandemics to hunger to inequality global poverty. Those are the kinds of alliances. We should be building and those are the kinds of alliances that the united states can building really we. We have a choice now. We have a choice whether we want to firmly and finally turn our backs on war or more engaged diplomacy and a different kind of alliance-building focused on on the real security threats facing us or whether we want firmly and finally commit to new cold war with china that could be catastrophically damaging to the world. I mean it could make the catastrophe in the last twenty years of war where biased mid four point. Five million people died in the us led wars where we spent eight trillion dollars train with a t on war. This new cold war will strip even more fines from the the needs. They're actually facing us and plough more money into the military. Industrial congressional complex. This is the choice. Where facing so david vine e you have this amazing map in your new piece for the quincy institute highlighting every country where the us hasn't overseas military base around eight hundred us spaces including eighty in south korea. One hundred nineteen in japan. Take us on a tour in this last minute. We have and also talk about africa. Sure but by our estimate there now about seven hundred fifty. Us military bases abroad in eighty countries and colonies. Seven hundred and fifty. This is more than any other country in the world and in fact it's probably three times. The number of all the other countries in the world combined probably the largest collection of foreign military bases in world history and as you mentioned there seven bases in australia. In total in the asia pacific region the united states easily has a almost three hundred foreign military bases surrounding china already and now calling for an increased build. There's been a growing collection of us military bases in africa as you mentioned Since around the early days after the attacks of nine eleven and it's a collection of basis that touches every continent except except an article. There is no reason to be building new military bases in australia or any part of the world biden administration needs to move in the other direction and it was moving in that direction. By closing bases and withdrawing troops from afghanistan. It should be building on that by closing more bases that are undermining us and global security. But it's not and again we face a choice between a path toward permanent cold war erasing endless war or diplomacy and peace building. We have to leave it. There david vine author of the united states of war. I mean he goodman with nermeen shea stadium..
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"Types of us military across to australia during the same news conference the u. s. defense secretary. Lloyd austin focused part of his remarks on china. We spoke in detail about china's destabilizing activities in beijing's efforts to coerce and intimidate other countries contrary to establish rules norms and while we seek a constructive results oriented relationship with the pr see we will remain clear eyed and our view of beijing's efforts to undermine the established international order china's denounced the new. Us australia britain alliance saying the countries are quotes severely damaging regional peace and stability intensifying an arms race and damaging international nuclear non-proliferation efforts for more. We go to oakland california to speak to david. Vine professor anthropology at american university who tracks u. s. military bases overseas. He's just written a new article for responsible statecraft titled not just about subs aucas expands. Us military footprint. Australia to his recent book. The united states of war a global history of america's endless conflicts from columbus to the islamic state so david vine as biden polls u. s. troops out of afghanistan. Is he ramping up. A cold war with china. And one of the first examples were sea of this of this multibillion dollar deal with australia to sell them nuclear powered to sell them nuclear powered submarines. If you can talk about what this all means i. It's a pleasure to be with. You thank you so much for having me is a tremendously disturbing dangerous reckless and ultimately racist announcement and alliance that three governments have announced the answer to your question about whether this is a new cold war i think this announcement of the triple alliance does ultimately is an announcement of a near formal declaration of new cold war that that leads us can lead us down a path toward a war. That could be not only cold but it really should be unthinkable. Hot possibly nuclear war between the two most powerful nations on earth china and the united states. Most of the focus has been on the sub deal which has buried disturbing elements. But but i'm glad you are calling attention to the military buildup that the deal represents. I think it is helpful for people in the united states in particular to think. How would we feel if china last week had announced that it was entering in alliance with russia and cuba to build up military bases and military forces air naval and land forces in cuba to also be engaged in weapons development including hypersonic weapons development extra electromagnetic weapons development to engage it. Increased cyber intelligence gathering spying and space activities with cuba. Also have a mining deal in place and to be building nuclear powered submarines that involve the transfer of weapons-grade nuclear weapons. Grade highly enriched uranium to cuba. How would we feel if the shoe was on the other foot if we were if faced with allow alliance in our backyard. That is what. The united states announced last week with australia and the uk that they are building up a already massive us military presence in china's back yard with additional bases forces weapons development spy capabilities and the transfer of nuclear weapons technology to a non nuclear power that really undermines the nuclear non-proliferation regime meaning. It sets us back in our efforts to abolish polish nuclear weapons on earth. David let's go to president biden speaking a tuesday at the united nations where he explicitly said the. Us is not seeking a new cold war. Who stand up for our allies and our friends and oppose attempts by stronger countries dominate weaker. Ones whether through changes to territory by force economic coercion technical exploitation or disinformation. But we're not seeking say again. We are not seeking the new cold war or world divided in the rigid blocks. So david could you respond to what biden said and also the fact that he seems now to be fulfilling the promise or initiative that obama had a suggested twelve years ago. Which is this idea of a us. Foreign policy pivoting to asia. In a way. I'm a bit tired of biden's words so he said some nice words that the un about diplomacy about humanitarian aid about not wanting a new cold war with china but his actions are very different. And for those of us like myself who supported his withdrawal from. Afghanistan is absolutely the right thing to do and the withdrawal long overdue. He's turning his back on diplomacy with this announcement. This is far more significant than you know any words. He uttered the un about diplomacy and not wanting new cold war. That is what this represents. He is aligning these three powers against china. And i think we have to again. Ask how we're chinese leaders. How do we expect chinese leaders to respond china. This really risks setting off a increased arms race and we shouldn't be surprised if china looks to line up an alliance of its own again Resembling the cold war and in so many ways this is really cold. War era thinking and in many ways nineteenth century thinking i really hope and think biden administration can be much better than that. We are in no position to be building to be spending any time any energy building military alliances at this moment when we have such graves security threats facing us from global warming global pandemics to hunger to inequality global poverty. Those are the kinds of alliances. We should be building and those are the kinds of alliances that the united states can building. I think really we. We have a choice now. We have a choice whether we want to firmly and finally turn our backs on war or more engaged diplomacy and a different kind of alliance-building focused on on the real security threats facing us or whether we want firmly and finally commit to new cold war with china that could be catastrophically damaging to the world. I mean it could make the catastrophe in the last twenty years of war where biased mid four point. Five million people died in the us led wars where we spent eight trillion dollars train with a t on war. This new cold war will strip even more fines from the the needs. They're actually facing us and plough more money into the military. Industrial congressional complex. This is the choice. Where facing so david vine e you have this amazing map in your new piece for the quincy institute highlighting every country where the us hasn't overseas military base around eight hundred us spaces including eighty in south korea. One hundred nineteen in japan. Take us on a tour in this last minute. We have and also talk about africa. Sure but by our estimate there now about seven hundred fifty. Us military bases abroad in eighty countries and colonies. Seven hundred and fifty. This is more than any other country in the world and in fact it's probably three times. The number of all the other countries in the world combined probably the largest collection of foreign military bases in world history and as you mentioned there seven bases in australia. In total in the asia pacific region the united states easily has a almost three hundred foreign military bases surrounding china already and now calling for an increased. build up there's been a growing collection of us military bases in africa as you mentioned Since around the early days after the attacks of nine eleven and it's a collection of basis that touches every continent except except and article. There is no reason to be building new military bases in australia or any part of the world biden administration needs to move in the other direction and it was moving in that direction. By closing bases and withdrawing troops from afghanistan. It should be building on that by closing more bases that are undermining us and global security. But it's not and again. We face a choice between a path toward a permanent cold war racing endless war or diplomacy and peace building. We have to leave it. There david vine author of the united states of war. I mean he goodman with nermeen shea stadium..
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"Types of us military across to australia during the same news conference the u. s. defense secretary. Lloyd austin focused part of his remarks on china. We spoke in detail about china's destabilizing activities in beijing's efforts to coerce and intimidate other countries contrary to establish rules norms and while we seek a constructive results oriented relationship with the pr see we will remain clear eyed and our view of beijing's efforts to undermine the established international order china's denounced the new. Us australia britain alliance saying the countries are quotes severely damaging regional peace and stability intensifying an arms race and damaging international nuclear non-proliferation efforts for more. We go to oakland california to speak to david. Vine professor anthropology at american university who tracks u. s. military bases overseas. He's just written a new article for responsible statecraft titled not just about subs aucas expands. Us military footprint. Australia to his recent book. The united states of war a global history of america's endless conflicts from columbus to the islamic state so david vine as biden pulls u. s. troops out of afghanistan. Is he ramping up. A cold war with china. And one of the first examples were sea of this of this multibillion dollar deal with australia to sell them nuclear powered to sell them nuclear powered submarines. If you can talk about what this all means i. It's a pleasure to be with. You thank you so much for having me is a tremendously disturbing dangerous reckless and ultimately racist announcement and alliance that three governments have announced the answer to your question about whether this is a new cold war i think this announcement of the triple alliance does ultimately is an announcement of a near formal declaration of new cold war that that leads us can lead us down a path toward a war. That could be not only cold but it really should be unthinkable. Hot possibly nuclear war between the two most powerful nations on earth china and the united states. Most of the focus has been on the sub deal which has buried disturbing elements. But but i'm glad you are calling attention to the military buildup that the deal represents. I think it is helpful for people in the united states in particular to think. How would we feel if china last week had announced that it was entering in alliance with russia and cuba to build up military bases and military forces air naval and land forces in cuba to also be engaged in weapons development including hypersonic weapons development extra electromagnetic weapons development to engage it. Increased cyber intelligence gathering spying and space activities with cuba to also have a mining deal in place and to be building nuclear powered submarines that involve the transfer of weapons-grade nuclear weapons. Grade highly enriched uranium to cuba. How would we feel if the shoe was on the other foot if we were if faced with allow alliance in our backyard. That is what. The united states announced last week with australia and the uk that they are building up a already massive us military presence in china's back yard with additional bases forces weapons development spy capabilities and the transfer of nuclear weapons technology to a non nuclear power that really undermines the nuclear non-proliferation regime meaning. It sets us back in our efforts to abolish polish nuclear weapons on earth. David let's go to president biden speaking a tuesday at the united nations where he explicitly said the. Us is not seeking a new cold war. Stand up for our allies and our friends and oppose attempts by stronger countries dominate weaker. Ones whether through changes to territory by force economic coercion technical exploitation or disinformation. But we're not seeking say again. We are not seeking the new cold war or world divided in the rigid blocks. So david could you respond to what biden said and also the fact that he seems now to be fulfilling the promise or initiative that obama had a suggested twelve years ago. Which is this idea of a us. Foreign policy pivoting to asia. In a way. I'm a bit tired of biden's words so he said some nice words that the un about diplomacy about humanitarian aid about not wanting a new cold war with china but his actions are very different. And for those of us like myself who supported his withdrawal from. Afghanistan is absolutely the right thing to do and the withdrawal long overdue. He's turning his back on diplomacy with this announcement. This is far more significant than you know any words. He uttered the un about diplomacy and not wanting new cold war. That is what this represents. He is aligning these three powers against china. And i think we have to again. Ask how we're chinese leaders. How do we expect chinese leaders to respond china. This really risks setting off a increased arms race and we shouldn't be surprised if china looks to line up an alliance of its own again Resembling the cold war and in so many ways this is really cold. War era thinking and in many ways nineteenth century thinking and i i really hope and think biden administration can be much better than that. We are in no position to be building to be spending any time any energy building military alliances at this moment when we have such graves security threats facing us from global warming global pandemics to hunger to inequality global poverty. Those are the kinds of alliances. We should be building and those are the kinds of alliances that the united states can building. I think really we. We have a choice now. We have a choice whether we want to firmly and finally turn our backs on war or more engaged diplomacy and a different kind of alliance-building focused on on the real security threats facing us or whether we want firmly and finally commit to new cold war with china that could be catastrophically damaging to the world. I mean it could make the catastrophe in the last twenty years of war where biased mid four point. Five million people died in the us led wars where we spent eight trillion dollars train with a t on war. This new cold war will strip even more fines from the the needs. They're actually facing us and plough more money into the military. Industrial congressional complex. This is the choice. Where facing so david vine e you have this amazing map in your new piece for the quincy institute highlighting every country where the us hasn't overseas military base around eight hundred us spaces including eighty in south korea. One hundred nineteen in japan. Take us on a tour in this last minute. We have and also talk about africa. Sure but by our estimate now about seven hundred fifty. Us military bases abroad in eighty countries and colonies. Seven hundred and fifty. This is more than any other country in the world and in fact it's probably three times. The number of all the other countries in the world combined probably the largest collection of foreign military bases in world history. And as you mentioned there are seven bases in australia. In total in the asia pacific region the united states easily has a almost three hundred foreign military bases surrounding china already and now calling for an increased build up. There's been a growing collection of us military bases in africa as you mentioned since around the early days after the attacks of nine eleven and it's a collection of basis that touches every continent except except and article. There is no reason to be building new military bases in australia or any part of the world biden administration needs to move in the other direction and it was moving in that direction. By closing bases and withdrawing troops from afghanistan. It should be building on that by closing more bases that are undermining us and global security. But it's not and again. We face a choice between a path toward a permanent cold war racing endless war or diplomacy and peace building. We have to leave it. There david vine author of the united states of war. I mean he goodman with nermeen shea stadium..
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"Types of us military across to australia during the same news conference the u. s. defense secretary. Lloyd austin focused part of his remarks on china. We spoke in detail about china's destabilizing activities in beijing's efforts to coerce and intimidate other countries contrary to establish rules norms and while we seek a constructive results oriented relationship with the pr. See we will remain clear eyed in our view of beijing's efforts to undermine the established international order china's denounced the new us. Australia britain alliance saying the countries are quotes severely damaging regional peace and stability intensifying an arms race and damaging international nuclear non-proliferation efforts for more. We go to oakland california to speak to david. Vine professor anthropology at american university who tracks u. s. military bases overseas. He's just written a new article for responsible. Statecraft titled not just about subs aucas expands. Us military footprint. Australia to his recent book. The united states of war a global history of america's endless conflicts from columbus to the islamic state so david vine as biden polls u. s. troops out of afghanistan. Is he ramping up. A cold war with china. And one of the first examples were sea of this of this multibillion dollar deal with australia to sell them nuclear powered to sell them nuclear powered submarines. If you can talk about what this all means i. It's a pleasure to be with. You thank you so much for having me is a tremendously disturbing dangerous reckless and ultimately racist announcement and alliance that three governments have announced the answer to your question about whether this is a new cold war i think this announcement of the triple alliance does ultimately is an announcement of a near formal declaration of new cold war that that leads us can lead us down a path toward a war. That could be not only cold but it really should be unthinkable. Hot possibly nuclear war between the two most powerful nations on earth china and the united states. Most of the focus has been on the sub deal which has buried disturbing elements. But but i'm glad you are calling attention to the military buildup that the deal represents. I think it is helpful for people in the united states in particular to think. How would we feel if china last week had announced that it was entering in alliance with russia and cuba to build up military bases and military forces air naval and land forces in cuba to also be engaged in weapons development including hypersonic weapons development extra electromagnetic weapons development to engage. It increased cyber intelligence gathering spying and space activities with cuba. It's also a mining deal in place and to be building nuclear powered submarines that involve the transfer of weapons-grade nuclear weapons. Grade highly enriched uranium to cuba. How would we feel if the shoe was on the other foot if we were if faced with allow alliance in our backyard. That is what. The united states announced last week with australia and the uk that they are building up a already massive us military presence in china's back yard with additional bases forces weapons development spy capabilities and the transfer of nuclear weapons technology to a non nuclear power that really undermines the nuclear non-proliferation regime meaning. It sets us back in our efforts to abolish polish nuclear weapons on earth. David let's go to president biden speaking a tuesday at the united nations where he explicitly said the. Us is not seeking a new cold war. Who stand up for our allies and our friends and oppose attempts by stronger countries dominate weaker. Ones whether through changes to territory by force economic coercion technical exploitation or disinformation. But we're not seeking say again. We are not seeking the new cold war or world divided in the rigid blocks. So david could you respond to what biden said and also the fact that he seems now to be fulfilling the promise or initiative that obama had a suggested twelve years ago. Which is this idea of a us. Foreign policy pivoting to asia. In a way. I'm a bit tired of biden's words so he said some nice words that the un about diplomacy about humanitarian aid about not wanting a new cold war with china but his actions are very different. And for those of us like myself who supported his withdrawal from. Afghanistan is absolutely the right thing to do and the withdrawal was long overdue. He's turning his back on diplomacy with this announcement. This is far more significant than you know any words. He uttered the un about diplomacy and not wanting new cold war. That is what this represents. He is aligning these three powers against china. And i think we have to again. Ask how we're chinese leaders. How do we expect chinese leaders to respond china. This really risks setting off a increased arms race and we shouldn't be surprised if china looks to line up an alliance of its own again Resembling the cold war and in so many ways this is really cold. War era thinking and in many ways nineteenth century thinking and i i really hope and think biden administration can be much better than that. We are in no position to be building to be spending any time. Any energy building military alliances at this moment when we have such graves security threats facing us from global warming to global pandemics to hunger to inequality global poverty. Those are the kinds of alliances. We should be building and those are the kinds of alliances that the united states can building. I think really we. We have a choice now. We have a choice whether we want to firmly and finally turn our backs on war or more engaged diplomacy and a different kind of alliance-building focused on on the real security threats facing us or whether we want firmly and finally commit to new cold war with china that could be catastrophically damaging to the world. I mean it could make the catastrophe in the last twenty years of war where biased mid four point. Five million people died in the us led wars where we spent eight trillion dollars train with a t on war. This new cold war will strip even more fines from the the needs. They're actually facing us and plough more money into the military. Industrial congressional complex. This is the choice. Where facing so david. Vine you have this amazing cap in your new piece for the quincy institute highlighting every country. Where the us hasn't overseas military base around eight hundred us spaces including eighty in south korea. One hundred nineteen in japan. Take us on a tour in this last minute. We have and also talk about africa. Sure but by our estimate there now about seven hundred fifty. Us military bases abroad in eighty countries and colonies. Seven hundred and fifty. This is more than any other country in the world and in fact it's probably three times. The number of all the other countries in the world combined probably the largest collection of foreign military bases in world history and as you mentioned there seven bases in australia. In total in the asia pacific region the united states easily has a almost three hundred foreign military bases surrounding china already and now calling for an increased. build up there's been a growing collection of us military bases in africa as you mentioned since around the early days after the attacks of nine eleven and it's a collection of basis that touches every continent except except an article. There is no reason to be building new military bases in australia or any part of the world biden administration needs to move in the other direction and it was moving in that direction. By closing bases and withdrawing troops from afghanistan. It should be building on that by closing more bases that are undermining us and global security. But it's not and again. We face a choice between a path toward a permanent cold war racing endless war or diplomacy and peace building. We have to leave it. There david vine author of the united states of war. I mean he goodman with nermeen shea stay..
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"Nuclear powered submarines. Liz led australia to cancel. Its submarine deal with france. They were building non nuclear powered submarines for australia. And this has sparked a major diplomatic rift. Four less attention has been paid to another aspect of the aucas partnership how it'll hope. The united states increase its military presence in australia where the us already has at least seven military installations. This is australia's defense minister. Peter dutton speaking last week on proud to announce the destroyer and the united states will be significantly enhancing air force posture corporation increasing interoperability and deepening alliance activities in the pacific. This will include. Gra corporation through rotational deployments of all types of us military across to australia during the same news conference the u. s. defense secretary. Lloyd austin focused part of his remarks on china. We spoke in detail about china's destabilizing activities in beijing's efforts to coerce and intimidate other countries contrary to establish rules norms and while we seek a constructive results oriented relationship with the pr see we will remain clear eyed and our view of beijing's efforts to undermine the established international order china's denounced the new. Us australia britain alliance saying the countries are quotes severely damaging regional peace and stability intensifying an arms race and damaging international nuclear non-proliferation efforts for more. We go to oakland california to speak to david. Vine professor anthropology at american university who tracks u. s. military bases overseas. He's just written a new article for responsible statecraft titled not just about subs aucas expands. Us military footprint. Australia to his recent book. The united states of war a global history of america's endless conflicts from columbus to the islamic state so david vine as biden pulls u. s. troops out of afghanistan. Is he ramping up. A cold war with china. And one of the first examples were sea of this of this multibillion dollar deal with australia to sell them nuclear powered to sell them nuclear powered submarines. If you can talk about what this all means i. It's a pleasure to be with. You thank you so much for having me is a tremendously disturbing dangerous reckless and ultimately racist announcement and alliance that three governments have announced the answer to your question about whether this is a new cold war i think this announcement of the triple alliance does ultimately is an announcement of near formal declaration of new cold war that that leads us can lead us down a path toward a war. That could be not only cold but it really should be unthinkable. Hot possibly nuclear war between the two most powerful nations on earth china and the united states. Most of the focus has been on the sub deal which has buried disturbing elements. But but i'm glad you are calling attention to the military buildup that the deal represents. I think it is helpful for people in the united states in particular to think. How would we feel if china last week had announced that it was entering in alliance with russia and cuba to build up military bases and military forces air naval and land forces in cuba to also be engaged in weapons development including hypersonic weapons development extra electromagnetic weapons development to engage it. Increased cyber intelligence gathering spying and space activities with cuba to also have a mining deal in place and to be building nuclear powered submarines that involve the transfer of weapons-grade nuclear weapons. Grade highly enriched uranium to cuba. How would we feel if the shoe was on the other foot if we were if faced with allow alliance in our backyard. That is what. The united states announced last week with australia and the uk that they are building up a already massive us military presence in china's back yard with additional bases forces weapons development spy capabilities and the transfer of nuclear weapons technology to a non nuclear power that really undermines the nuclear non-proliferation regime meaning. It sets us back in our efforts to abolish polish nuclear weapons on earth. David let's go to president biden speaking a tuesday at the united nations where he explicitly said the. Us is not seeking a new cold war. Stand up for our allies and our friends and oppose attempts by stronger countries dominate weaker. Ones whether through changes.
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"And gentlemen the new iraq to one we building although he weren't nation-building where we where we or weren't we iraqi historian abdullah co. She'd kadar has been working in the field of archaeology since two thousand when he started procuring his master's degree at the saleh uddin university in urban northern iraq went on to become a professor at the university department of archaeology as a scholar and the director of the iraqi institute for the conservation of antiquities and heritage. He's elated. His country is going to get back a bunch of ancient treasures iraqi ancient treasures from the google us. Hey how did they get here. Stuff happens freedom is untidy. You know. I'll go all rumsfeld on your but this is from deutsche avella's well quote feeling great and hopeful because of the positive responses from the us. He said this week The united states announced it's returning seventeen thousand architectural sorry archaeological artifact to iraq the objects around four thousand years old is that all and from the sumerian period. Guess that's what. They called their summertime. They were returned on thursday on board a flight of the iraqi prime minister mac from his meeting with the president of the united states. Who is just checked. Joe biden calling the restitution. Unprecedented iraqi culture minister hasan z. Said it was quoted the largest return of antiquities to iraq and the result of months of efforts by the iraqi authorities in conjunction with their embassy in washington. Couple three years ago the british government returned ancient objects that were similarly looted The word appears took awhile looted after the us invasion which then appeared presto. Change o in england stuff happens. Freedom is untidy most of these artifacts were part of the materials that were looted. No second appearance of the word from the iraqi museum in baghdad during the us invasion said elizabeth stone and archaeologist professor anthropology at stony brook university of new york stone has been a part of various archaeological expeditions to iraq including one in two thousand twelve thirteen or team excavated close to the site of the home of the biblical figure of abraham is all she still has to get to a martin and john according to stone these objects iraq through illegal trade in antiquities. It was clear to everyone that these had been stolen from the museum since they had catalogue numbers on them. Here's your tip right there and so could not have come from illegal excavations unquote. Some objects were confiscated by customs officials. Others were bought. Mike cornell university and hobby lobby the arts and crafts chain hobby lobby in the news. Recently for another transaction the business acquired a rare tablet in kuna form script in spy inscribed with a portion of the epic of gilgamesh. The object was brought to display at the museum of the bible in washington that institution funded by the family of david greene. Who by the nuttiest of all coincidence says is the founder of hobby lobby. This life is just too nutty. Isn't it a couple of days ago. A new york court ordered the forfeiture of that object which is reportedly purchased by an american antiquities dealer from the family of london. Coin dealer according to the department of justice the antiquities dealer in the us cuneiform expert ship the tablet into the united states by international post without declaring the contents as required after the tablet was imported in cleared experts in cuneiform recognize it as belonging to A portion of the gilgamesh epic tablet measures approximately six by five inches and is written in the acadian language. Sumerian poem is considered one of the oldest works of literature so of course it belongs to the hobby lobby. The other with several thousand other objects comprises one of the largest cache of archaeologically important artifacts that were stolen from iraq while we were saving it. Hey you want a Scrambled egg you gotta break a few eggs. The new iraq ladies and gentlemen followed closely by the story of the war. We skedaddle away from both resource and attention. Wise to have our way with iraq. America's longest war.
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"Jobs, app. White House wants to make vaccines mandatory, but we want to give people a sense that they have the freedom to choose sense. Monday on the Chris Plante Show nine AM on WLS Am 8 90. Mm. Now back to the best of the John Howell Show on the big 89 wls. This will intersect politics and psychology. Researchers have long documented the link between threats, sensitivity and conservatism. People who are generally conservative, tend to react more strongly to threats. Ready to go. Conversely, those who are more socially liberal, tend to be less sensitive to threats until it came to Covid 19 and the pandemic and that seemed to be turned on its head. He's a professor anthropology at U. C. L A and one of four or five people that conducted the survey. I don't recall where I read about this, but I have the piece in front of me. I think it came from real clear politics, originally published by newsroom That U C l a dot e d u doctor? I'm sorry, Professor. I guess Dr Daniel Fessler is here, Professor. Good to have to welcome to Chicago radio. How are you? I'm well, Thank you, John. Thank you for your interest in our research. Well, I thought it was really interesting because generally conservatives the way I grew up with conservatism, essentially a law and order people follow the rules in between the lines, that sort of thing. And yet there's been a visceral dislike of Dr Fauci and all the experts over the past year where they're dismissing science and math. And That seems to be 180 degrees different than what it used to be The conservatives in the town I grew up in, and it was a very conservative town. It literally grew up across street from Betsy DeVos, the former education secretary. You know, essentially they believed in science, and they believed in keeping calm and carrying on what happened during the pandemic, where conservatives are running from the experts. So first, it's important to point out that, um, uh, political orientation how liberal or conservative, someone is and their party affiliation. Whether they're Democrat, Republican or independent. Those things are not the same. And and there are more conservative Democrats and more liberal Democrats. There are more conservative Republicans and more liberal Republicans and what we find when we look at the Democrats as we find the usual pattern. Which is that the more conservative someone is the more seriously they take the threats. And in this case, the more precautions they take about about avoiding covid 19 so washing hands social distancing wearing a mask all the things that the public health folks are recommending. When we look at the Republicans and the independence, we don't see that relationship between being more conservative and taking more precautions until we take account of a couple of other things, and that is How much people trust science as you mentioned how much they trust, moderate and liberal media and how much they're exposed to those media sources. So what's going on here is that, uh, distrust in science and distrust of much of the media is leading more conservative Republicans and independents. To do not follow the public health recommendations. Unfortunately for them and those around them, So, doctor, you are what you consume, whether nutritionally or as far as the media is concerned. Absolutely, you know, I think the the analogy would diet is perfect. And and the big challenge that we have in the world today is is. We're just not, you know, being discriminating in our information consumption that is You know, anybody can say anything on the Internet, and, um, we have lost For for many, folks, Unfortunately, we've lost, you know, confidence in the authoritative voice is the professional journalists, the professional scientists, the people who really, um you know are are getting to the cold facts of the matter. And this isn't Something that happened overnight. It's not unique to the pandemic. So when we look at Republicans trust in science, it's been declining for over a decade. Um, and that's very unfortunate. You know it, it puts lives at risk. I like the line out of your piece. As we flatten the information highway. It undermines the authority of professional journalists and scientists. And that's your quote. In other words, there's no editors. There's nobody verifying anything. There's no fact checking anymore. Just get it out there. Yeah. You know, the great promise of the Internet was was that you know, we can connect the people anywhere in the world. That knowledge is free, right? You know, anybody can learn anything online, and that potential is still there and is enormously important. At the same time, you know, we have this this, you know, cacophony of voices where everyone, um, gets there or in the water, even when they simply don't have access to accurate information, And that's really unfortunate When people aren't discriminating, you know, we're careful about what we eat. You know, we're careful about the air we breathe and the water we drink. We need to be just as careful about the information that we consume. And you know, you and I are able to talk right now, thanks to the remarkable progress. Of science and technology, Right? Well, you know exactly the same progress is what has produced the vaccine and what has produced the public health recommendations that are necessary to get this pandemic under control. I think the most disturbing implications of this study and it's It's a very comprehensive study and went to the methodology here. I won't go through that on the air, but it is that we may have poisoned the well at this point. You know where half the country believes one version Not even a version one truth in the other half of the country believes what they proceeded the other truth. I think this is a really sizable challenge. It's a sizable challenge. You know, in a democracy, so if you have a democracy essentially you have to have some common ground. They're going to be things about which You know you and I disagree, frankly and and that's we're just going to have to find a way to reach common ground if we're going to get anything done, But we have to agree on the same set of objective facts about the world and those facts have to be generated through the rigorous process of scientific investigation. And not through. You know what? Somebody heard from a friend of theirs? Whose cousins who is next door neighbor posted a thing on Facebook, Right? You know, the thing is that, uh Americans united against external threat whether it was a Soviet Union or Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, Whatever, Uh, now the parties, they just they come up with perceived threats to stir their own base. And, you know, never do these, uh, we have. We don't have any sense of then diagram here politically anymore. We have two distinct worlds never show the streams cross to quote Ghostbusters, and that's a problem. It's a huge problem. I think there's a there's a very apt comparison to national crisis of the past. Um uh, you know, in in in recent memory, September 11th so look at the way the United States Responded to September 11th. The country really came together. People are very different political views. Um, you know united in recognizing the threat that Al Qaeda opposed to the US Um, uh And, um, there was enormous patriotism. You know, if you you mentioned World War two, if you if you go back to World War two, you know, everyone put their shoulder to the wheel. Right? Um, Victory gardens and And, you know, women leaving the home to join the workforce to, you know, to produce. Um, the incredible Industry that protected the free world, right. We united in the face of a common threat, and the pandemic is a common threat, and, frankly, it's not just a common threat to everyone in the United States. It's a common threat to everyone on the planet. And, um and we really need to have the same spirit of shared enterprise. And, um, you know, commonality both patriotism and global citizenship. Otherwise, you know, we're just not going to ever get back to normal and none of us is going to be safe in the end. People just get drafted for four years Now. They can't get a needle in the arm, Doctor. Thank you for your time. Much appreciated, sir. Well, read more. I think it real clear politics dot com. I think that's where I found this. And I appreciate your time. And your analysis, sir..