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The Global Police State: Dr. William I. Robinson

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News, News Commentary

5763 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 186 minutes

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Summary

Once upon a time...right-wing conspiracy theorists warned us about a coming police-state ran by the global elites. They were right... But...ironically, now they're cheering on that same police state. How is this possible??? Branding.


We will be slowly rolling out a series of episodes on the subject of revolution and how we can actually make it happen. But first we need to lay out the basic contextual framework of how we got here and why revolution is absolutely necessary for our survival.


To help us do this, we're bringing in the professionals.


www.instagram.com/dr.williamrobinsonofficial


William I. Robinson is an American sociologist and professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, specializing in political economy, globalization, and social theory. He’s widely recognized for his work on global capitalism and transnational class formation.


In the 1980s, Robinson worked directly with the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in Nicaragua during the revolutionary period after they overthrew the Somoza dictatorship in 1979. He was involved in political education, journalism, and solidarity work, helping to support and defend the Sandinista revolution both inside Nicaragua and internationally. His experiences during that time deeply shaped his later academic work on imperialism, social movements, and the global capitalist system.


Robinson remains an outspoken advocate for anti-imperialist movements and often draws on his Sandinista-era experiences in his critiques of U.S. foreign policy and neoliberalism.




List of William I. Robinson’s books:


https://www.plutobooks.com/author/william-i-robinson/

https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/william-i-robinson/343812/?srsltid=AfmBOooh12-4XUQXtI7tBsRYTctS9tGv6XX5HuaaPJ-nqWoIWzey07VT

https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1264

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/110422.William_I_Robinson


David and Goliath: The U.S. War Against Nicaragua (1987)


A Faustian Bargain: U.S. Intervention in the Nicaraguan Elections and American Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era (1992)


Promoting Polyarchy: Globalization, U.S. Intervention, and Hegemony (1996)


Globalization and Postmodern Politics: From Zapatistas to High-Tech Robber Barons (2001)


Transnational Conflicts: Central America, Social Change, and Globalization (2003)


A Theory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class, and State in a Transnational World (2004)


Critical Globalization Studies (2005) (editor)


Latin America and Global Capitalism: A Critical Globalization Perspective (2008)


Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity (2014)


We Will Not Be Silenced: The Academic Repression of Israel’s Critics (2017) (co-editor)


Into the Tempest: Essays on the New Global Capitalism (2018)


The Global Police State (2020)


Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic (2022)


Can Global Capitalism Endure? (2022)


#police #politics #capitalism #blackrock #iran #elonmusk #trump #israel #saudiarabia #uae

Transcript

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0:00.0

It doesn't take an educated scholar to realize that we are in a tyrannical crisis,

0:04.0

especially under the ruling class as new poster boy Trump.

0:07.0

But in order to understand how we got here, at the very least, let's go back a few decades.

0:12.0

The Obama administration bypassed public bidding and secretly gave the private prison giant

0:17.0

Corrections Corporation of America, or CCA, a billion dollar contract to detain asylum seekers.

0:22.6

The reason why Obama was able to ravage our liberties and massacre thousands overseas with a secretive drone program

0:27.6

is because the right didn't stand up to Bush when he kicked off the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

0:32.6

and pushed the Patriot Act.

0:34.6

This new law that I signed today will allow surveillance of all communications

0:38.7

used by terrorists, including emails, the internet, and cell phones. This bill met with

0:44.9

the overwhelming, overwhelming agreement in Congress. It will help law enforcement to identify,

0:50.6

to dismantle, to disrupt, and to punish terrorists before they strike.

0:56.0

And to keep the blame balance, the leftists didn't unite with the right-wingers who were warning that Obama was building a police state.

1:01.0

The reason we got Biden is because we didn't stand up to Obama.

1:05.0

And the reason we got Trump is because we didn't stand up to Biden.

1:08.0

Trump is simply the ancestral offspring of Bush, Obama, and Biden's imperialist policies,

1:13.8

and decades of our apathy to the dangers of capitalism.

1:17.2

Of the world's 85 richest people is equal to the 3.5 billion poorest people.

1:23.3

It's fantastic.

1:24.4

And this is a great thing because it inspires everybody.

1:27.1

Gets the motivation to look up to the 1%.

1:29.4

This is fantastic news.

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