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Arsenal transfer news: Unai Emery privately knows signings he wants to make - Nicol - Duration: 2:27.
That is the opinion of ESPN FC pundit and former Liverpool full-back Steve Nicol
Arsenal's defence has once again come under severe criticism this season despite the change in manager last summer
The Gunners have kept just four clean sheets in 23 Premier League games, conceding more goals than the likes of Newcastle, Leicester and promoted side Wolves
Emery revealed earlier this month that Arsenal cannot make any permanent signings in the current window, only loans
But Nicol says the Spaniard will know improvements are desperately needed to be able to compete with the top teams in England
"Unai Emery will know, Unai Emery will know," Nicol said. "He'll be saying the right things to his players and the board and everybody else
"When he gets back in his room, his office, and shuts the door he'll be like 'where am I going to get these players from?'
"That's exactly what he will be doing. He knows." Meanwhile, former Arsenal midfielder Steve Sidwell has labelled Arsenal's inability to buy players as "outrageous"
"What is going on with Arsenal, first and foremost, is that the transfer policy is just outrageous," he said on The Debate
"They have gone in to this stadium to generate money and compete with the top teams in this league and to go into this window and only getting loans is just, I mean it is just ridiculous
" Arsenal were dumped out of the FA Cup by Manchester United on Friday. They return to action on Tuesday when they host Neil Warnock's Cardiff in the Premier League
Arsenal are currently fifth in the table, four points behind Chelsea in fourth.
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The January transfer window is now coming to an end with clubs racing to get their deals done with less than a week to go
Ahead of Thursday's deadline, managers across the Premier League and the rest of Europe are looking to add to their ranks for the final months of the campaign
Here, Sportsmail keeps you up-to-date with all the latest moves and done deals from England's top flight, the EFL and around Europe
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US NEWS | Opinion The Real Wall Isnt at the Border The New York Times - Duration: 1:04.
US NEWS | Opinion The Real Wall Isnt at the Border The New York Times
Its everywhere, and were fighting against the wrong one.
By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Ms. Abrahamian is the author of The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen.
President Trump wants dollar 5.7 billion to build a wall at the southern border of the United States. Nancy Pelosi thinks a wall is immoral. The fight over these slats or barriers or bricks shut down the government for more than a month and may do so again if Mr. Trump isnt satisfied with the way negotiations unfold over the next three weeks.
But lets be clear: This is a disagreement about symbolism, not policy. Liberals object less to aggressive border security than to the walls xenophobic imagery, while the administration openly revels in its political incorrectness. And when this particular episode is over, well still have been fighting about the wrong thing. Its true that immigrants will keep trying to cross into the United States and that global migration will almost certainly increase in the coming years as climate change makes parts of the planet uninhabitable. But technology and globalization are complicating the idea of what a border is and where it stands.
Not long from now, it wont make sense to think of the border as a line, a wall or even any kind of imposing vertical structure. Tearing down, or refusing to fund, border walls wont get anyone very far in the broader pursuit of global justice. The borders of the future wont be as easy to spot, build or demolish as the wall that Mr. Trump is proposing. Thats because they arent just going up around countries — theyre going up around us. And theyre taking away our freedom.
In The Jungle, a play about a refugee camp in Calais, France, a Kurdish smuggler named Ali explains that his profession is not responsible for the large numbers of migrants making the dangerous journeys to Europe by sea. Once, I was the only way a man could ever dream of arriving on your shore, . But today, migrants can plan out the journeys using their phones. It is not about this border. Its the border in here, Ali says, pointing to his head — and that is gone, now.
President Trump is obsessed with his border wall because technology has freed us from the walls in our heads.
For people with means and passports, its easy to plot exotic itineraries in a flash and book flights with just a glance at a screen. Social feeds are an endless stream of old faces in new places: a carefree colleague feeding elephants in Thailand; a smug college classmate on a babymoon in Tahiti; that awful ex hanging off a cliff in Switzerland; a friends parents enjoying retirement in New Zealand.
Likewise, a young person in Sana, Yemen, or Guatemala City might see a sister in Toronto, a neighbor in Phoenix, an aunt in London or a teacher in Berlin, and think that he, too, could start anew. Foreign places are real. Another country is possible.
If you zoom out enough in Google Earth, youll see the lines between nations begin to disappear. Eventually, youll be left staring at a unified blue planet. You might even experience a hint of what astronauts have called the overview effect: the sense that we are all on Spaceship Earth, together. From space I saw Earth — indescribably beautiful with the scars of national boundaries gone, Muhammed Faris, a Syrian astronaut, after his 1987 mission to space. In 2012, Mr. Faris fled war torn Syria for Turkey.
Ones freedom of movement used to be largely determined by ones citizenship, national origin and finances. Thats still the case — but increasingly, people are being categorized not just by the color of their passports or their ability to pay for tickets but also by where theyve been and what theyve said in the past.
This is what is happening on that front already:
A 2017 executive order barred people from seven countries, including five with Muslim majorities, from entering the country. An older rule put in place during the Obama administration compelled anyone whod even just visited seven blacklisted nations to obtain additional clearance before traveling to the United States. Even as the Trump administrations policy has met with legal challenges, it means that the barrier to entering the United States, for many, begins with their data and passport stamps, and is thousands of miles away from this country.
The Trump administration would also like to make it harder for immigrants whove received public assistance to obtain citizenship or permanent residence by redefining what it means to be a public charge. If the administration succeeds, it will have moved the border into immigrants living rooms, schools and hospital beds.
The walls of the future go beyond one administrations policies, though. They are growing up all around us, being built by global technology companies that allow for constant surveillance, data harvesting and the alarming collection of biometric information. In 2017, the United States announced it would be in their permanent file, ostensibly to prevent Twitter happy terrorists from slipping in. For years, Customs and Border Protection agents have asked travelers about their social media, too.
The these practices can chill and deter the free speech and association of immigrants to the United States, as well as the U.S. persons who communicate with them. In other words, its no longer enough to have been born in the right place, at the right time, to the right parents. The trail of bread crumbs you leave could limit your movements.
Its possible to get a glimpse of where a digital border might lead from China. Look at its continuing experiment with , where a slip of the tongue or an unpaid debt could one day jeopardize someones ability to board a train or apply for a job. When your keystrokes and text messages become embedded in your legal identity, you create a wall around yourself without meaning to.
The Berkeley political theorist Wendy Brown diagnoses the tendency to throw up walls as a classic symptom of a nation states looming impotence in the face of globalization — the flashy sports car of what she calls a waning sovereignty. In a , Professor Brown told me that walls fulfill a desire for greater sovereign control in times when the concept of bounded territory itself is in crisis. They are signifiers of a loss of a national we and national control — all the things weve seen erupt in a huge way.
Walls are a response to deep existential anxiety, and even if the walls come down, or fail to be built in brick and stone, the world will guarantee us little in the way of freedom, fairness or equality. It makes more sense to think of modern borders as overlapping and concentric circles that change size, shape and texture depending on who — or what — is trying to pass through.
Its far too easy to imagine a situation where our freedom of movement still depends entirely on what has happened to us in the past and what kind of information were willing to give up in return. Consider the expedited screening process of the Global Entry Program for traveling to the United States. Its a shortcut — reserved for people who can get it — that doesnt do away with borders. It just makes them easier to cross, and therefore less visible.
That serves the modern nation state very well. Because in the end, what are borders supposed to protect us from? The answer used to be other states, empires or sovereigns. But today, relatively few land borders exist to physically fend off a neighboring power, and countries even cooperate to police the borders they share. Modern borders exist to control something else: the movement of people. They control us.
Those are the walls we should be fighting over.
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is the author of The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen and an editor at The Nation.
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