On this episode of The Final Countdown, hosts Manila Chan and Ted Rall discuss breaking news, including the GOP debate.
Angie Wong-Journalist
Sourabh Gupta-Senior Asia-Pacific International Relations Policy Specialist
Mark Sleboda-International Relations and Security Analyst
The show begins with journalist Angie Wong joining The Final Countdown from Milwaukee to break down the winners and losers of the GOP debate and also to discuss Trump preparing to surrender at the Fulton County Jail.
The second hour kicks off with Senior Asia-Pacific International Relations Policy Specialist Sourabh Gupta who joins to share his perspective on the potential new members of BRICS.
The show closes with International relations and security analyst Mark Sleboda speaking to The Final Countdown about Prigozhin and the ongoing battles in the Donbass region.
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Ah, BRICS. In 1972, John D. MacDonald, one of the few pulp writers who succeeded, cranked out “The Scarlet Ruse.” Here’s the bit I want to show you. Meyer, one of the major supporting characters says to McGee, the main character:
“There is not enough material on and in the planet to ever give (the peoples of all the other nations of the world) what we’re used to. The emerging nations are not going to emerge–not into our pattern at least. Not ever. We’ve hogged it all. Technology won’t come up with a way to crowd the Yangtze River with (speedboats …). Communication by cinema, satellite, radio, etc. have been like a light being turned up on a rheostat control in a dark cellar where all of mankind used to live. Now it is blinding bright, cruelly bright. And they can all look over into our corner and see us gorging ourselves and playing with our bright pretty toys. And so they want theirs now. Just like ours.
That tuth, which we don’t dare announce to the world, is what gives us the guilt and the shame and the despair. Nobody in the world will ever live as well, as we once did. And now, as our materialism begins to sicken us, it is precisely what the emerging nations want for themselves. And can never have. Brazil might manage it. But no one else.”
That was 1972. MacDonald died in 1986, right before climate change hit the popular mindset. He was only 70. If he’d lasted another five years, he probably would have managed another two or three McGees, and he certainly would have covered climate change.