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War hawks' drive to expand NATO into Asia may destroy Western military alliance Geopolitical Hour, August 4, 2023 RADHIKA DESAI: Hello everyone and welcome to the Geopolitical Economy Hour, a program that discusses the political and geopolitical economy of our time. I'm Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I'm Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: And today we have once again Pepe Escobar, roving reporter extraordinaire. Welcome, Pepe. PEPE ESCOBAR: Thank you. It's an enormous pleasure to be with you guys again. RADHIKA DESAI: And today we are going to continue the discussion we started in the last Geopolitical Economy Hour, entitled NATO Out of Bounds, War Against Russia, War Against China. Last time we discussed where the Vilnius Summit had left NATO and the divisions within the alliance that the summit had exposed, how the proxy war on ...
Geopolitical Economy Report, July 28, 2023 NATO failed in Ukraine against Russia. Now it's targeting China By Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson. 93.1K subscribers Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are joined by geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar to discuss how NATO has shifted from its proxy war against Russia in Ukraine to targeting China in the Pacific. RADHIKA DESAI: Hello, everyone, and welcome to the 15th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the fortnightly show on the political and geopolitical economy of our times. I'm Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I'm Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: And today we propose to discuss NATO in the aftermath of its recently concluded Vilnius Summit, exploring a variety of questions about how its assault on Russia is faring and the prospects of extending its sphere of operations to what NATO leaders like to call ...
Demystifying Economics, June 30 2023 Youtube: https://youtu.be/XyybzneS0To (part 1) and https://youtu.be/pSBvXCwUQYQ (part 2) Dr. Michael Hudson is a professor of Economics at the University of Missouri Kansas City, political consultant, commentator, and journalist. His career has focused on the study of debt, both external and internal, with an eye on what happens when the exponentially growing debts of a society outstrip the profits from the real economy. In part 1 (https://youtu.be/XyybzneS0To) of this conversation, we talk about GDP as a false marker of prosperity, the growing influence of the rentier class, fantasies of joining the one percent, and why there’s never going to be another debt jubilee, even if it means the whole system has to fall apart. We continue the conversation about possible solutions in part 2 (https://youtu.be/pSBvXCwUQYQ), we talk about modern monetary ...
Ep. 232 Michael Hudson. Transcript Ep 232 Macro N Cheese - Hudson https://realprogressives.org/podcast_episode/episode-232-is-the-us-a-failed-state-with-michael-hudson/ Michael Hudson [Intro/Music]: America cannot re-industrialize without reversing this whole philosophy of post-industrial society as a class war against labor. You can't have both. You can't have a class war against labor and reindustrialization with the labor unionization that goes with it. Countries who let an oligarchy develop end up pushing their own economies into obsolescence and a kind of dark age. It's policy, and most of all, it's the policy of the Democratic Party's administration here. Geoff Ginter [Intro/Music]: Now, let's see if we can avoid the apocalypse altogether. Here's another episode of Macro N Cheese with your host, Steve Grumbine. Steven Grumbine: All right. This is Steve with Macro N Cheese. Today's guest is none other than Michael ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x13cSy8S8To RADHIKA DESAI: Hi, everyone, and welcome to this 13th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the fortnightly show on the political and geopolitical economy of our times. I'm Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I'm Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: And today, as last time, we are joined by Anne Pettifor to discuss the urgent issue of our time, the third world debt crisis. And as I said last time, we couldn't find a more authoritative guest for this show. Anne hardly needs any introduction, but I do feel I should remind everyone of what she's done, particularly in relation to the debt and also the fuller range of her contributions. Anne is a prolific writer on issues of debt, finance and development. And she has also been one of the most important activists on the issue of third ...
A new Third World debt crisis? The need for system change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uxyjIFqi4o RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to this 12th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the fortnightly show on the political and geopolitical economy of our times. I'm Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I'm Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: And today we are joined by Anne Pettifor to discuss an urgent issue of our time, that of the third world debt crisis. As we record this, this is the topic of the Summit on New Global Financing Pact called by Emmanuel Macron in Paris. And we couldn't find a more authoritative guest for this show. Anne Pettifor does not really need any introduction, and I'm only going to give one to remind ourselves of the range of her contributions. She's a prolific writer on issues relating ...
Discussion by Michael Hudson with Kin Chi Lau, Global University, Hong Kong, June 5, 2023 There's a big dam on the Dnieper River that supplies all of the water to Crimea and they blow it up. Thousands of homes have been flooded. Naturally, the Ukrainians said the Russians did it. The reason that Crimea was assigned to Ukraine by Khrushchev in the 1960s was because the water and electricity area all came from the dam in the north of Crimea. All of that was blown up and flooded. When you blow up a dam, imagine that was happening in China and how that would be blown up. That's what happened. They blew it up. The dam on the Dnieper River that supplies water as well as electricity to Crimea was blown ...
https://youtu.be/pEHrI_llP8I Patrick Lovell Hi, my name is Patrick Lovell, and I want to welcome you to our latest effort in this podcast that I find myself incredibly compelled to do considering the confusion that we're all in the midst of. I'm a producer of a five part docuseries known as The Con that is currently available at www.thecon.tv. It's going to be whitewashed from history here shortly because unfortunately, there's no market for truth, which has led me to try to do everything I can given the massive confusion in this world about how things actually operate, considering everything that has come down. Now, the working title of this, and we'll try to sort this out as we move forward, but I'm thinking to myself, this is either the mechanics of corruption ...
In this week’s episode of the Radio Sputnik New Rules podcast, host Dimitri Simes Jr. speaks with economist Michael Hudson about the Biden administration's 'class war' against working Americans, why US reindustrialization efforts are unlikely to succeed, the real purpose of sanctions, and de-dollarization. The podcast was written up on Sputnik Globe. For today's episode, we want to talk about what's going on in the US economy. Because when you look at the discussion that's going on, you see a lot of contradictory narratives. On the one hand, you have people like Bank of America's CEO Brian Moynihan, who said on Sunday that the country may face a mild recession later this year. You see a lot of major CEOs making similar predictions. By contrast, the Biden administration ...
