had experienced sexual harassment in some form at the hands (often literally) of colleagues or supervisors. A 2018 survey found that 81% of women in the U.S. According to the Centers for Disease Control, homicide ranks fifth among the most common causes of death for women aged 20 to 44, with a majority of us killed by intimate partners. One in five of us will be raped in our lifetimes (compared with one in 72 men). Women still earn about 79 cents on the male dollar (62 cents if you're a black woman). They, after all, are going to inherit this gender-unequal world of ours, presently ruled by our infamously pussy-grabbing president, a world that seems ever less hospitable, despite the heightened awareness that the #MeToo movement has brought to it. When I split that board, everyone clapped.ĭespite pride in that small achievement, I bit my lip in shame, knowing that I should have been at that march with my two children. "Imagine the board is Trump," he'd whispered to me, grinning, aware that not everyone in our dojo shared his views. The words of one of the black belts there echoed in my head. My fellow practitioners, ranging in age from five into their seventies, looked on as I hammered my fist through a two-inch piece of wood. Last month, as hundreds of thousands of people showed up for the Women's March in Washington, D.C., a few miles from my home, I was at a karate dojo testing for my first belt. Get Your FREE, Gold And Silver Precious Metals Investment Material.This piece originally appeared on TomDispatch.
With international outrage at China’s actions, the global financial community is likely to permit America to suspend its debt repayments without unduly damaging our credit rating. (China owns $1 trillion of US debt, about 4 percent of our national debt.) I pointed out that the US economy weathered quite nicely our drastic increase of about 50% in tariffs under Trump and even suggested that we might suspend debt repayment to China, an annual flow of about $20 billion. I mentioned to him - and he agreed - my belief that if China invades Taiwan or even if it is directly linked to Russian attacks in Ukraine that global condemnation of Beijing would rise to such a crescendo that more direct economic action against China would be politically feasible. But, above all, he emphasizes that Beijing is now the senior partner in their relationship.He credits the US with “good intell” about what China is doing to help Putin.He argued that our conventional military would be quite enough to directly confront Russia “bombing the hell out of their supply lines” and, as a first step, “wiping out their army in Syria.” But, he added, that If Putin moves, in desperation, to WMDs in the war, the US need not follow suit but would have to take on Russian troops directly.He noted that Obama believed that nuclear weapons were obsolete and stripped us of our tactical nuclear weapons, limiting our ability to respond by a step-by-step escalation matching Russia’s action should Putin use such battlefield nukes in Ukraine.He said that the chances that Putin might use nuclear weapons is “not zero,” describing Putin as “obsessed with Ukraine” and implying that he has megalomania.“Don’t just step on China’s toes,” he advised. He hopes that the upcoming NATO meeting will lead to a resolution to take economic action against China. and the EU to punish China economically for not opposing - and, in fact, subsidizing - Putin’s Ukraine invasion. and the EU to such action.įor the moment, he urges immediate action by the U.S. Citing its dependence on foreign trade, he said that China might not be able to survive a global embargo should its policies goad the U.S. “He truly believes in world revolution and wants, above all else, to topple the power of the United States.” Xi is quite willing to suffer negative consequences for his country to advance his global agenda.īut he emphasized that China is extremely vulnerable to economic sanctions. He likened Xi Jinping to a fascist and, at the same time, a Leninist who is intellectual leader of the emerging Putin-Xi mind meld. “Xi and Putin are joined at the hip, and it is foolhardy to believe that they can be separated,” he explained. In Ukraine.” So said a former top Trump Administration official in a private phone conversation with me over the weekend.
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