US elections | Michael Hudson

In a struggle between oligarchy and democracy, something must give

By Michael Tuesday, February 25, 2020 USA Trump, US elections Permalink

The Democrats’ Quandary To hear the candidates debate, you would think that their fight was over who could best beat Trump. But when Trump’s billionaire twin Mike Bloomberg throws a quarter-billion dollars into an ad campaign to bypass the candidates actually running for votes in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, it’s obvious that what really is at issue is the future of the Democrat Party. Bloomberg is banking on a brokered convention held by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in which money votes. (If “corporations are people,” so is money in today’s political world.) Until Nevada, all the presidential candidates except for Bernie Sanders were playing for a brokered convention. The party’s candidates seemed likely to be chosen by the Donor Class, the One Percent and its proxies, not the voting class ...

Election Choices

By Michael Monday, October 31, 2016 Interviews US elections Permalink

An interview on Meet the Renegades with Ross Ashcroft.

Post-Convention Candidates

By Michael Tuesday, August 16, 2016 Interviews US elections Permalink

August 4 SHARMINI PERIES: It’s the Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries coming to you from Baltimore. Now that the Democratic and the Republican Party conventions are over, the U.S. presidential campaign is entering its last phase before the actual vote in November. Normally this should the point at which each party is very internally united and focusing on presenting its own program and attacking the opponent. However this time around, it seems each party continues to be more divided than ever. More and more Republicans are defecting from Donald Trump. And on the Democratic side, the debate is still raging about who supporters of Bernie Sanders should vote for in November. With us to present his analysis of the post-conventions and the U.S. elections, is Michael Hudson. Michael is a distinguished ...

Presidential Wanna Bees

By Michael Tuesday, August 9, 2016 Interviews Clinton, Max Keiser, US elections Permalink

An interview on Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert's new podcast Double Down. Of the citizens of the declining Roman empire, it was said: “Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.” So true is this of all such citizens of declining empire that every four years American presidential wannabes even promise revolution but know that the voter will ask only for more bread, circuses and… taco bowls. Dr. Michael Hudson joins Double Down to talk about the economic reality behind the Trump voter and about whether or not, as it is claimed, Hillary Clinton is the ‘most progressive’ candidate in Democratic history. Listen here

US Presidential Election 2016

By Michael Tuesday, August 9, 2016 Articles, Interviews Clinton, US elections Permalink

Michael Hudson on the Gary Null show, where a number of covert issues are discussed in detail including Hillary's military risk-profile, what the Democratic Wikileaks package revealed and the Iranian EMF agenda. Visit Gary's site for more.

Obama said Hillary will Continue his Legacy – Indeed!

By Michael Sunday, July 31, 2016 Articles Clinton, US elections Permalink

Leading up to Monday’s Democratic Party convention, Hillary chose Blue Dog Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia as her VP. This was followed by the Wikileaks release of Democratic National Committee (DNC) e-mail files showing it acting as the Clinton Campaign Committee even to the point of using the same lawyers as her own campaign to oppose Bernie Sanders. The response across the Democratic neocon spectrum, from Anne Applebaum at the Washington Post to red-baiting Paul Krugman and the Sunday talk shows it was suggested that behind the Wikileaks to release DNC e-mails was a Russian plot to help elect Trump as their agent. Former US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul lent his tattered reputation to claim that Putin must have sponsored the hackers who exposed the DNC dirty tricks against ...

Trump the Neocons

By Michael Sunday, July 24, 2016 Interviews US elections Permalink

“Trump Policy Will Unravel Traditional Neocons,” TRNN, July 23, 2016. SHARMINI PERIES, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, TRNN: It's the Real News Network. I'm Sharmini Peries coming to you from Baltimore. On Friday, just after the Republican National Congress wrapped up with its presidential candidate, Donald Trump, Paul Krugman of the New York Times penned an article titled "Donald Trump: The Siberian Candidate." He said in it, if elected, would Donald Trump be Vladimir Putin's man in the White House? Krugman himself is worried as ludicrous and outrageous as the question sounds, the Trump campaign's recent behavior has quite a few foreign policy experts wondering, he says, just what kind of hold Mr. Putin has over the Republican nominee, and whether that influence ...