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Feb 04 2025 Ben Norton and Michael Hudson: Trump’s tariffs could cause huge global crisis
Donald Trump’s tariffs could destabilize the global economy, warns economist Michael Hudson. US protectionist policies could cause financial crises, as many currencies depreciate and countries can’t earn the dollars needed to pay their foreign debts. Ben Norton hosts the interview.
The transcript is on Ben Norton’s site: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/02/04/trump-tariffs-global-crisis-economist-michael-hudson/
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Feb 04 2025 Daily Chronicles
Today, we find ourselves resisting the First War on BRICS in its various salients. We are in madness, in a strategy of chaos from the side of the empire who cannot fight but are singularly talented at fomenting chaos in order to swoop in, brutally kill, grab and gain benefit. The strategy of empire going… Continue reading
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Feb 04 2025 FM Lavrov article: The UN Charter as the legal foundation of a multipolar world
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s article for Russia in Global Affairs magazine, «The UN Charter as the legal foundation of a multipolar world»
Eighty years ago, on February 4, 1945, the leaders of the victors of World War II − the Soviet Union, the United States, and Britain − opened the Yalta Conference to determine the… Continue reading
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Feb 03 2025 Welcome to the gaslighting jungle
Let’s start with USAID. There is rejoicing all around because it is going to be closed. Musk thunders his ‘victory’. (Let me say at this time that I am no fan of USAID or NED, and it should be dismantled – on the other hand, economic dependency on the US must be broken). No, no,… Continue reading
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Feb 03 2025 A few site notes: Short and Sweet
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Feb 03 2025 Medvedev hopes US deep state won’t swallow Musk
MOSCOW, February 3. /TASS/. Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev commenting on the situation surrounding the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) expressed hope that the US deep state won’t consume Elon Musk.
Earlier, Musk, who leads the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), said that USAID had been closed down.
“Smart move by @elonmusk,… Continue reading
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Feb 03 2025 US Hegemony 2.0
Trump was brought to power to create “30 Ukraines” out of a united Europe
One of the key areas of activity of the new owner of the White House has become an extremely strange, at first glance, fight against globalist projects – that is, against everything that was so dear to his predecessors from the US… Continue reading
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Feb 02 2025 Wolff Responds: “It Should Be Called A Purge”
Dr. Richard Wolff
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Feb 02 2025 Fascinating: Russia and DeepSeek
DEEPSEEK: THE GHOST OF THE SOVIET UNION HAUNTS SILICON VALLEY
Turns out DeepSeek, the AI titan shaking up the tech world, wasn’t born in Beijing boardrooms or Silicon Valley labs. It was built on the forgotten code of the Soviet Union.
“I won’t lie, our AI was created on the basis of Soviet developments – the OGAS… Continue reading
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Feb 02 2025 Trick or Tariff: Four NO’s in a Row
For those that still wonder, a tariff is a tax on imports. The importer pays the tax and increases the price of the product to the end user to compensate, and the tariff is paid over to the government coffers. The imported product in certain cases becomes too expensive, the exporter cannot find buyers for… Continue reading
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Jan 31 2025 Into the storm – Open Thread: grappling with the chaos reshaping our world today
Let us sit back for a moment and observe and reflect. It is too early; it is premature, to claim solutions or control.
Most of the commentators are assessing the supposed results of Trump’s first week in office. Let them do it. Let us sit back for the next day and… Continue reading
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Jan 30 2025 Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson: Israel’s Dead End – US Empire’s Collapse: Losing Touch w/ Reality
Transcript is not out yet but we will post it up when available.
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Jan 30 2025 Vovan and Lexux score big
Bundestag Hawk Caught Admitting the Harsh Truth About Ukraine By Russian Pranksters
Johann Wadephul, a top CDU warmonger, just got exposed in the best way possible, tricked by Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus, who posed as Zelensky’s right-hand man, Andriy Yermak. And what did Germany’s loudest anti-Russia hawk reveal?
❗️There will be NO German boots on the… Continue reading