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May 30 2026 
Michael Hudson: Energy Wars Strategy as the U.S. Economy Is No Longer Competitive
with Glenn Diesen
Again a MUST LISTEN TO! Superb! Thank you Michael. Much appreciated.
Prof. Michael Hudson, a world-renowned classical economist, discusses the US strategy of energy wars as it can no longer compete against China. Yet, in Iran, the US has run into a dead end.
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May 25 2026 
Michael Hudson: Iran War Ignites Global Financial Armageddon
With Glen Diessen
Supporting article: https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/04/20/postponing-the-worlds-financial-winter-but-for-how-long-irans-mad-standoff-with-the-rest-of-the-world/
“Michael Hudson: It would rather crash the whole economy, the world economy and itself than give up its dominance. It’s willing to crash everything. And then you have the personality. Trump wants to be famous. And how can you be more famous than ending civilization and pushing and taking a thousand… Continue reading -
May 18 2026 
Michael Hudson : The 2026 World Financial Crisis
The future will call for thinking about the unthinkable. It requires recognition that debts that can’t be paid, won’t be.
Interest rates are rising as if this will simply compensate investors for the risk of inflation. The reality is that it will increase the economy’s inability to cope with the breakdown that already is in progress.How… Continue reading
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May 16 2026 
‘Argentina Stopped’: Unions Hold Second General Strike Over Milei Austerity
A family sleeps in front of a closed office building in Buenos Aires, Argentina, next to posters calling for a general strike against President Javier Milei’s cuts and privatizations. (Photo: dpa)
Common Dreams
“It is a day of resistance and demand,” said trade groups that organized the action “in defense of democracy, labor rights, and the living… Continue reading
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May 12 2026 
Michael Hudson & Radhika Desai : Geopolitical Hour
Swap Lines, Gulf Debt and the Unraveling of Dollar Primacy
GEH April 28, 2026, US swap agreements with Emirates
Radhika Desai: Hello and welcome to the 64th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the conversation that illuminates the fast-changing political economy and geopolitical economy of our times, and does so from a socialist and anti-imperialist point of view. The point… Continue reading
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May 05 2026
Professor Michael Hudson – in discussion with Ian Proud, 1 May
(AKA, its the money honey! my note)
IP – I was talking about the old adage that “wars are won by economies not armies”, and I think the war in Iran has slightly refined that phrase, that “wars are won by economics not military force”. What’s your view?
MH – my view is probably in agreement with… Continue reading
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May 01 2026 
Special for Labor Day : Value of Labor: Islamic Economics vs. Marxist Economics
[Imam Musa Sadr Translation Series]
This is the second installment of Basira Press’ translation series of Imam Musa Sadr’s profound work on Islamic economic theories, an important task in challenging the prevailing capitalist and Marxist doctrines of the day.
The original Arabic text can be found here. The previous installment of the series can be read here.
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Apr 25 2026 
Michael Hudson with Glenn Diesen : Iran War Ignites Global Financial Armageddonon
Prof. Michael Hudson, a world-renowned classical economist, discusses why the war against Iran has changed the global economy permanently.
There is such a wonderful word used within the discussion and I will certainly add it to my vocab. Enshittification = simply, making things worse! A companion for AI Large Language Models that are… Continue reading
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Apr 24 2026 
The Oil Shock and the Coming Reset: A Dire Forecast
User Request
Sean Stinson
In 1973, the world learned a terrible lesson. A 7 percent cut in global oil supplies, lasting barely six months, triggered a decade of economic agony. Stagflation—that crippling marriage of high inflation and high unemployment—took root across the industrialised West. Factories closed. Workers walked the streets. Governments lurched from one emergency to… Continue reading
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Apr 20 2026 
We need an economics primer! Here it is.
Few of us ever studied economics. And even then, I threaten to today that I am going to sue my economic professors of time past (many years ago), because they only confused me with pretty charts. If I could do a pretty chart, I would pass my course. I only learned economics when I sat… Continue reading
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Apr 19 2026 
Michael Hudson : Postponing the World’s Financial Winter – For How Long?
This article was first published by The Democracy Collaborative at democracycollaborative.org
Announcing that “A whole civilization will die tonight,” Donald Trump threatened on April 7, 2026 to destroy “every bridge in Iran” and “every power plant … burning, exploding, and never to be used again.” His intention to continue committing war crimes is driving the world… Continue reading
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Apr 09 2026 
The price of silence: How India’s grand ambitions got lost in the Gulf
If you listen to Michael Hudson this morning, this would form an ideal practical study to Michael’s question .. Is the World in a state of denial?
This article is from The Cradle but was first posted at DD Geopolitics.
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India’s push to anchor itself in West Asia through the IMEC corridor… Continue reading
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Apr 08 2026
Michael Hudson: We Are Headed for a New, or Even Worse, 1929!
A Conversation between Michael Hudson and Dimitri Konstantakopoulos
Political leaderships, the media, and even the stock markets (the “markets”) are trying to downplay the significance of the events unfolding in the Middle East, as well as in Ukraine. But if global leaders do nothing, if current realities do not change, then we are headed for an… Continue reading
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Apr 07 2026
Finance, Sovereignty, and Colonial Histories
Michael Hudson, Anne Pettifor, Françoise Vergès
David Graeber Institute
1. Introduction
Lika (host, David Graeber Institute): Hello, David Graeber Institute is here, and we are very honored to introduce Michael Hudson, Anne Pettiford, and Francoise Vergès in conversation about finance, sovereignty, and colonial histories. So two series of lectures that we were doing about colonial histories and the… Continue reading
