Understanding how the spectrum of left-wing governments in Latin America are responding to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the impact of US/NATO sanctions on socialist movements in the global South & China's emerging role in the region. With Ben Norton of Multipolarista.

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Latin American Left Shift Over Ukraine War

Economists Radhika Desai and Prabhat Patnaik analyze India's 2024 general election and why Prime Minister Narendra Modi's far-right Hindu-nationalist party BJP lost its majority. They discuss the state of the economy, rising unemployment and inequality, and Modi's neoliberal model.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4xfHMkIPJ4

Transcript here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/06/27/india-modi-2024-election-economy/

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Why so many Indians rejected PM Modi: 2024 election was a 'revolt of the farmers'

Abby and Robbie Martin talk about the release of Julian Assange from prison and Tucker Carlson's interview with Alex Jones where he explains his worldview that demons requiring mass child sacrifice are what drives murder and war.

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Assange Freed, Tucker's Satanic Panic Plunge

Abby and Robbie Martin talk about Joe Biden dropping out of the race, the disastrous presidential debate and ensuing political chaos, wrapping up with the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

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Democrat's Palace Coup, Trump Assassination Attempt

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.

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Debt is political: Why wealth flows from poor to rich

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Walz With Bashir + Venezuela Coup 6.0

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RFK Jr Elite Depravity, Peter Thiel Infrastructure For Genocide

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Climbing the Glass Mountain of Conflict

This is the story of an April Fool’s Day joke that got wildly out of control.

In 1991, a columnist for InfoWorld claimed that he learned of a hyper-advanced computer virus called “AF/91” that disabled Iraqi air defense systems during the first Gulf War. This virus had allegedly escaped Iraq and threatened every computer that used a windows-based graphical interface. The last line of the column revealed the truth: the story of the AF/91 virus was a fun bit of fiction for April 1st.

But shortly afterwards, a journalist for U.S. News & World Report reported on a virus that sounded suspiciously similar to AF/91, based on confirmation from two government officials. Though the report was clearly based on the joke virus from InfoWorld, the publication refused to retract. So for more than a decade the story was repeated as if it were true in newspapers, magazines, and even in a report by a major think tank.

The boys walk through the evolution of the strange tale of this virus hoax and speculate about why it spread so widely for so long.

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REFERENCES

Meta-Virus Set to Unleash Plague on Windows 3.0 Users
https://books.google.com/books?id=0FAEAAAAMBAJ

Computer Virus Story Proves To Be a Twice-Told Tale
https://www.newspapers.com/image/532416866/

Russian Views On Electronic and Information Warfare
https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/International_Security_Affairs/14-F-0564_DOC_01_RUSSIAN_VIEWS_ON_ELECTRONIC_AND_INFORMATION_WARFARE_vol_1.pdf

Taking a byte from Baghdad: Information War could hobble Iraq, but might become a two edged sword
https://www.newspapers.com/image/775197909/

One printer, one virus, one disabled Iraqi air defense
https://www.theregister.com/2003/03/10/one_printer_one_virus_one/

Attack Of The Trojan Printers
https://www.infoworld.com/article/2285234/attack-of-the-trojan-printers.html

The AF/91 Virus Hoax (E293)

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