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Aug 07 2024 Debt is political: Why wealth flows from poor to rich
How does the structure of the international financial system cause a drain of wealth from the poor to the rich? Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss the politics of debt.
Transcript
RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 31st Geopolitical…
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Aug 07 2024 BRICS and the IMF Debt Traps. What Can the Contingent Reserve Arrangement Do for the Global South?
An “alternative” monetary fund to the IMF has been created, but, ironically, it needs the IMF’s blessing to be used. It was created in a different context than today’s, in which we had yet to experience such a sharpening of…
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Aug 07 2024 Pepe Escobar: TG snippets
Psy ops, strategic ambiguity, waiting game.
Iran’s application of Sun Tzu is faultless.
It’s driving the Talmudic psychos and the Exceptionalists absolutely nuts.
The killer Ryabkov interview. ABSOLUTE MUST READ, transcript included. https: //sovereignista.com/2024/08/06/the-time-for-moscows-concessions-is-in-the-past/
Pepe Escobar, [8/7/24 4:11 AM]
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Aug 07 2024 The Conditioning
By Nico Cost for GlobalSouth.co
Children believe in fairy tales and adults appear to do the same. We are gullible. When something is repeated often enough or told by people we trust, it must be true. When the fairy tale is…
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Aug 07 2024 Venezuela: CNE Turns Over Electoral Data to Supreme Court, US Walks Back González Recognition
And now González, who was president last week according to the US State Department, is not president this week. A major strategy fails.
From Venezuelanalysis.com
Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) President Elvis Amoroso delivered the electoral evidence requested by the country’s Supreme…
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Aug 07 2024 Detonation
Yemen is “… richer than all of us!” &, because of them, we are richer, beyond our wildest dreams. The Pyre was lit. Civilizations fight irredeemable Barbarism.
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Aug 06 2024 What’s going on in Bangladesh?
From Brian Berletic who has been keeping us up to date on the Myanmar situation from time to time.
He writes:
The short answer is I don’t know.
To accurately and responsibly research and report on a political crisis like this requires deep…
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Aug 06 2024 A Yemeni offer one can’t refuse
The Yemen deal: Riyadh capitulates, Washington loses leverage
by Khalil Nasrallah at The Cradle.
Sanaa’s brash threats have compelled Saudi Arabia to make significant concessions to Yemen, showcasing not only Sanaa’s sharp regional ascent but also the US and Israel’s rapidly shrinking… -
Aug 06 2024 Ruminations by the Litani River
Laith Marouf meets Ali Jezzini, alMayadeen TV military and weapons analyst, in a rest stop at the side of the Litani River in south Lebanon, and they discuss the importance of this river, the coming retaliation by Iran, Lebanon, Iraq…
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Aug 06 2024 The Time for Moscow’s Concessions is in the Past
🎙 Excerpts from Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov’s interview with “Rossiya 1” TV channel:
📍 August 4, 2024
📝 In accordance with the Gorbachev-Reagan agreement, the USSR and the US destroyed all their ground-based intermediate and shorter-range ballistic and cruise missiles,…
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Aug 05 2024 Iran: The West wants War
The messianic madmen remain hellbent on raising their Moshiach. And what did Russia lend to the Iranians?
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Aug 05 2024 The Dollar System: Up in Smoke
“The Quality of Debt Counts” — Things are coming to a head, because the Federal Reserve can neither lower interest rates because of inflation, and if it doesn’t lower them, then the financial crisis will come, and nor can it…