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Nov 27 2022 
Apple’s Rotten Core
By Larry Romanoff and posted with permission
Introduction
A few years ago, China’s CCTV aired its annual Consumer Reports program in which one of the topics was the products of Apple, Inc. Naturally, the Western media trashed CCTV for having the gall to challenge anything American, accusing the TV station of being “a government mouthpiece” wanting to… Continue reading
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Nov 22 2022 
The Richest Man in the World
By Larry Romanoff and posted with permission
The purpose of this essay is threefold: (1) to bring to the attention of readers the existence of a long-standing conspiracy about the identification of “The Richest Man in the World”, (2) to dismiss from contention the current list of candidates, and (3) to document that a small number… Continue reading -
Nov 19 2022 
New Zealand News
A wonderful gathering of people in New Zealand, contributed by our own Colin Maxwell
A HUGELY SUCCESSFUL PANEL DISCUSSION AT THE BRYNDERWYN SKYLINE VENUE LAST NIGHT
What a lineup of absolute superstar freedom fighters on this panel. This was a wonderful spine-tingling event with such a powerful and uplifting take-home message.
A huge bravo to Kelvyn and Hannah… Continue reading
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Nov 10 2022 
Democracy, The Most Dangerous Religion
By Larry Romanoff and posted with the author’s permission
Democracy, The Most Dangerous Religion — Part 8 – China’s Democracy Experiments
I have written earlier that the multi-party electoral system (“democracy”) is the only form of government designed to be controlled by outsiders, naturally leaving it open to corruption and fraud. The Chinese, listening to the Americans,… Continue reading
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Platypus interview on The Destiny of Civilization
Michael Hudson – Interview link and transcript and posted with permission.
Audio : Michael_Hudson_Interview 2.m4a
D. L. Jacobs
On July 15, 2022, Platypus Affiliated Society member D. L. Jacobs interviewed Michael Hudson to discuss his new book, The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism (2022). An edited transcript follows.
D. L. Jacobs: Can tell us about your background regarding… Continue reading
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No pain, no grain: Putin’s Black Sea comeback
By Pepe Escobar, posted with the author’s permission and first posted at The Cradle
So, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan picks up the phone and calls his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin: let’s talk about the “grain deal.” Putin, cool, calm and collected, explains the facts to the Sultan:
First, the reason why Russia withdrew from the… Continue reading
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Nov 02 2022 
Germany’s position in America’s New World Order
Germany’s position in America’s New World Order
Germany has become an economic satellite of America’s New Cold War with Russia, China and the rest of Eurasia. Germany and other NATO countries have been told to impose trade and investment sanctions upon themselves that will outlast today’s proxy war in Ukraine. U.S. President Biden and his State… Continue reading
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Comeback kid Lula in the eye of a volcano
Lula wins but his room for maneuver will be limited by powerful forces aligned against his Global South agenda
By Pepe Escobar and he describes this as A special for Asia Times in a very special day. Usually we use Pepe’s work with his permission.
Luis Ignacio “Lula” da Silva may be the ultimate 21st century political… Continue reading
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Oct 13 2022 
The Thin Red Line: NATO Can’t Afford to Lose Kabul and Kiev
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture.
Russia will not allow the Empire to control Ukraine, whatever it takes. That’s intrinsically linked to the future of the Greater Eurasia Partnership.
Let’s start with Pipelineistan. Nearly seven years ago, I showed how Syria was the ultimate Pipelineistan war.
Damascus had rejected the – American – plan for a… Continue reading
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Oct 10 2022 
How International Law Bears on Ukraine
by SaltyD
I kept wondering how Russia was breaking international law (according to western media). I found this essay that gives it fairly decent context. The essay is 25 pages but it gave context to my questions and it is worth reading. And Lavrov’s article quoted later rounds out the context.
BTW this is the only essay… Continue reading
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Oct 09 2022 
Life in a Failed State: Part 2
Part 1 / Part 2
By Larry Romanoff and posted with permission
The Crumbling of America
America the Shrunken
The World’s Richest Banana Republic
Abandoning the American Dream
The Crumbling of AmericaIn June of 2013 an Interstate bridge on a main commercial corridor between Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, Canada, collapsed and fell into the river below… Continue reading
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Oct 08 2022 
Life in a Failed State: Part 1
Part 1 / Part 2
By Larry Romanoff, and posted with permission of the author
The United States of Inequality
So Long, Middle Class
Poverty, The Great Equaliser
The Richest Country’s Empty Plates
Homes and Homelessness
Jobs and LaborIntroduction
In an earlier essay on the 1917 Jewish revolution in Russia,[1] I related this quote: “The [Jews] systematically… Continue reading
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The UK: hell-bent on economic and social Hari Kari!
By Colin, our very own farmer from downunder
So barely a month into office and new PM, Miss Trust [aka Chucky’s Bride], already has her country mired in a hellish debt spiral and economic crisis. And not the least because of her dogged support for the murderous neo-Nazi regime that Warshington/Natostan installed in Ukraine.
The UK/Ukraine flags… Continue reading
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Pipeline Terror is the 9/11 of the Raging Twenties
By Pepe Escobar, posted with permission and first posted at PressTV
There’s no question that future unbiased historians will rank Russian President Vladimir Putin’s address on the Return of the Baby Bears – Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia – on September 30 as a landmark inflection point of the Raging Twenties.
The underlying honesty and clarity mirror his speech… Continue reading
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