A timely geo-political summary from an objective perspective.

“Michael Hudson, the superbly clarifying economist, had an hour-long interview the other day, also with Glenn Diesen, under the headline “The Economics of Civilizational Conflict.”

In it Hudson reminded us that BRICS members typically harbor well-developed capitalist elites, often educated in American institutions, often adherents of market-fundamentalist ideologies, and thoroughly invested in the neoliberal order. “