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Mar 06 2025 
Why Banking Isn’t What You Think It Is
KARL FITZGERALD: Welcome everyone to our quarterly Patreon Q&A gathering here with Professor Michael Hudson, author of just so many books and contributor to so many long interviews. Michael, three hours plus is becoming a normal for you.
Good to see people turning up, our Patreon supporters.
Make sure you throw your questions in the Q&A, it… Continue reading
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Mar 06 2025 
Jeffrey Sachs: Understanding the Ukraine conflict (minidoc)
A mini-documentary on the background of the Ukraine conflict follows Jeffrey Sachs’ lecture at the Cambridge Union. The journey begins in the early 1990s and continues to the present day. The documentary features interviews and statements from world leaders along the way, shedding light on significant historical geopolitical events and questioning the narrative created.
However,… Continue reading
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Mar 05 2025 
The State of Play against the Double Helix Before the Ides
In this interview with Nima Alkhorshid, geopolitician Pepe Escobar provides a comprehensive wrap-up of our moment in time, after one full month of Agent Orange Chaos, from his oasis in the heart of ASEAN. Focus is on Russia-China and the evolving hybrid world war. This is the Calm before Storms
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Mar 05 2025 
The Two Engines Of America (Part 2: Imperialism)
By Indi.ca
The Two Engines Of America (Part 1: Colonization)
Remember that America, like their flagship Boeing 737-MAX, has two engines of growth. Colonization is the first engine, sucking labor (ie, energy) into their stolen continent. Imperialism is the second engine, sucking labor, resources, and energy from across the world. Donald Trump has thrown a bald eagle… Continue reading
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Mar 05 2025 
Key statements of Russia’s Security Council Deputy Chair Dmitry Medvedev
Key statements of Russia’s Security Council Deputy Chair Dmitry Medvedev:
🔹US President Donald Trump’s temporary suspension of military aid to Ukraine is a symbolic gesture;
🔹Supply of US weapons to Ukraine is likely to resume immediately after the conclusion of a resource agreement between the US and Ukraine;
🔹Stopping the war in Ukraine will mean an inevitable end… Continue reading
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Mar 04 2025 
FM Lavrov’s interview with Krasnaya Zvezda media holding
Excerpts from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Krasnaya Zvezda media holding, March 2, 2025
[Note: All content bolding is mine.]Sergey Lavrov: We were not blind. As far back as 2007, at the Munich Security Conference, President of Russia Vladimir Putin warned that while we were working with NATO, the European Union, and the G7 (as… Continue reading
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Mar 04 2025 
Mexico responds to Tariffs: Trade War
Mexico City. Mexico will respond with tariff and non-tariff measures to the “unilateral” imposition of tariffs imposed by Donald Trump on our country’s exports, said President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.
Notes: Presidente Claudia has an approval rating of 80%. Her approval rating rivals or exceeds that of President Putin. She carries her nation with her. We can… Continue reading -
Mar 04 2025 
Do you see it? Denial Strategy
Featured Image: The military band of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army performs at the opening meeting of the third session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 4, 2025. (Xinhua/Pang Xinglei)
—This has been our prediction of… Continue reading
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Mar 04 2025 
Rebuilding Ukraine for the Ukrainians and Gaza for the Gazans – as a Trump “Deal”?
By Peter Koenig
Ukraine
Many of us have seen videos of the Press Conference in the Oval Office, the spectacle Trump – Vance – Zelensky last Friday, 28 February 2025. Essentially, it appeared that President Trump was ready to make a deal with Zelensky, unelected President of Ukraine, for Peace in the Ukraine-Russia war.
The deal consisted… Continue reading
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Mar 04 2025
The Two Engines Of America (Part 1: Colonization)
By indi.ca
America, like their flagship Boeing 737-MAX, has two engines of growth. As a colony, America requires constant immigration to suck in labor, ie colonization. As an empire, they require global immiseration to suck in labor and resources, ie imperialism. America’s two engines of growth are colonization and imperialism, but now it’s sucking bald… Continue reading
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Mar 03 2025 
Richard Wolff & Michael Hudson with Nima: The Horizon Nears on America’s Free Financial Ride
Transcript
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi everybody, today is Thursday, February 20, 2025, and our friends Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson are back with us. Welcome back.
RICHARD WOLFF: Glad to be here.
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Let’s get started, Michael, with your recent article about the price of gold and how the United States is trying to manage that. What’s your… Continue reading
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Mar 03 2025 
Why Chinese models are stunning Americans in the tech catwalk
All’s set for a do-or-die U.S.-China tech duel ahead. The Middle Kingdom is unfazed – and ready to rock’n roll. The Chinese drive to totally redefine the rules of tech innovation. Liang Wenfeng is adamant: “We’re done following. It’s time to lead.” It’s about the common good, not about a Wall Street killing.
By Pepe Escobar… Continue reading
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Mar 03 2025 
China is going to END the trade war
We always say that Russia will end the SMO on their terms.
China is taking the initiative and will END the trade war on their terms. China prepared for new tariffs from the Trump administration, and it is devastating. They have started playing on a whole different level and will brutally and without mercy… Continue reading
