The 5G Competition

I. 5G Competition
The Chinese firm, Huawei, generated a mind-boggling $107 billion in revenue last year. On May 15, the Trump administration placed Huawei on the Commerce Department's Entity List, meaning that American companies require a special license to do business with it. [1]

"This tech cold war matters because it could slow or dramatically alter the rollout of a technology that is likely to define the future of the Internet for the next decade -- the 5G networks in which Huawei has all but cornered the market." "China's edge is disorienting for the U.S., which is used to dominate new technology and the economic growth that accompanies it." Professor Lim Jong-in of  the School of Information Security at Korea University, warns that: "The 5G infrastructure will intertwine factories, power plants, airports, hospitals and government agencies." "Forty percent of the world's population uses telecoms that pass through Huawei equipment, according to the firm."

"The U.S. feud with Huawei risks bifurcating 5G's rollout into two distinct blocs -- nations that embrace Chinese 5G and those that reject it wholesale == hampering global connectivity and hurting  the bottom line of companies forced to choose."

II. Wounded Knee's Heartbeat
For David Treuer, the author of "The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee," Wounded Knee is at once a monument and a still-living space, a pivot in the history of Native Americans. The U.S cavalry killed at least 150 Native people, more than half of them women and children. The Dawes Act then came along and broke up tribal lands into individual tracts in order to divide and uproot Native communities -- a strategy that would continue for decades. "For the most part, the American legal system has not been a force for good in Native lives. It was and still is, a land base for 'white settlement.' "  [2]

III. Destabilizing War With Iran
"With Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Afghanistan already plagued by conflicts, a war with Iran would destabilize virtually all southwestern Asia, sending each of these ongoing wars into higher gear." This wide destabilization described by Bob Dreyfess was complemented by what a former U.S. intelligence official described to him as the Pentagon's classified plans for attacking Iran. There would be fully six to eight weeks of heavy bombing sorties and missile strikes, with many civilian deaths, including two weeks aimed at crippling Iran's air defense and command-and-control centers, followed by continuous and repeated strikes at more than four dozen Iranian facilities involved in nuclear and scientific research. [3]

Dreyfess condemns the unsuccessful try by Congress to end U.S. support for the Saudi-UAE war in Yemen, and he demands it must stand up to claim its authority over war and peace.

Footnotes:
[1] Charlie Campbell, "The Battle for 5G," TIME, June 3-10, 2019.

[2] E. Tammy Kim, "We're Still Here," The Nation, June 3/10, 2019.

[3] Bob Dreyfess, "Coalition of the Killing." The Nation, June 3/10, 2019.

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