Joining us to discuss the pharmaceutical company Pfizer are two guests. In our first half hour, Professor Michel Chossudovsky talks about the bombshell release of information about Pfizer’s secret report on impacts of its vaccine, as well as giving us more background not only on its criminal record but on its attempts to subdue its own medical adversaries. Then in our second half hour, we hear more about Pfizer’s background of escaping accountability through the investigative reporter Johnny Vedmore.

Medical Marvel or the Second Coming of Al Capone? The Sins of Pfizer

Japan's longest serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe tried to rewrite the genocidal history of the fascist Japanese empire. And he and his Nazi-collaborating grandfather enjoyed staunch Western support.

After World War II, the US government pardoned and recruited many of the fascists who had led imperial Japan, like Abe's grandfather Nobusuke Kishi, putting in power war criminals who had committed genocide in China, Korea, and Southeast Asia, carrying out biological warfare, human experimentation, and mass sexual slavery.

Benjamin Norton discusses how Japan's political system still today is a one-party right-wing regime run by descendants of these fascist war criminals.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5WWJ3EOmPkY

SOURCES: https://multipolarista.com/2022/07/09/fascism-japan-shinzo-abe-empire

US-backed fascism in Japan: How Shinzo Abe whitewashed genocidal imperial crimes

As Russia escalates attacks on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine following the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines and the Ukrainian attack on the Kerch bridge, diplomacy is nowhere to be found. Scholar and author Richard Sakwa on the latest in the Ukraine crisis. 

"The human losses are appalling," Sakwa says. "And yet, the language of peace cannot find an adequate expression."

Guest: Richard Sakwa. Emeritus Professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent. His books include “Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands” and his latest, “Deception: Russiagate and the New Cold War.”

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Ukraine war escalates as diplomacy disappears

Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss the evolution of the US dollar system after it was taken off the gold standard in 1971.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dRlOfxWR-qE

Check out other episodes of their show Geopolitical Economy Hour here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP

The dollar system's contradictions after de-linking from gold, with Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson

Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss Russia's economic transition away from the neoliberal West and integration with what it calls the "World Majority" in the Global South.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cc-L7c2ISig

Transcript here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/04/14/russia-neoliberal-west-world-majority

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Russia leaves neoliberal West to join World Majority

Political economist Radhika Desai discusses how capitalism is inherently imperialist, what the class struggle looks like at the international level, and how "the dominant ideas are the ideas of the ruling classes of the dominant nations".

This is a discussion of chapter 3, "The geopolitical economy of capitalism and socialism", from Radhika's book "Capitalism, Coronavirus and War: A Geopolitical Economy".

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hhYsynUTc30

Other episodes in the series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNZoKp0XsLFwSxxlMQu6ye8

You can download Radhika's book for free here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/17/capitalism-coronavirus-war-geopolitical-economy-radhika-desai

Why capitalism is inherently imperialist: Class struggle at the international level

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.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2q6Usko4x6s

Transcript: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/07/28/nato-ukraine-russia-china-war

NATO failed in Ukraine against Russia. Now it's targeting China

Biden plays with fire sponsoring the Gaza genocide, as US troops get hit with blowback, reinforcements rush to the Middle East, and the Pentagon escalates by bombing Iranian forces. Iran, Hezbollah, and other armed groups have a red line; how far can the US push before it's crossed? This episode includes critical information for soldiers about why and how they can resist being party to this genocide, and prevent themselves from being sacrificed by Washington.

Refuse to Fight for Israel's Genocide in Gaza

Western media outlets have absurdly claimed China's economy is collapsing, due to a crisis in the real estate sector. But in reality, this is part of an intentional transition away from infrastructure, toward more investment in technological production. Ben Norton explains.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VlXUy65hqv4

Check out our related video "How China became the world's industrial superpower - and why the US is desperate to stop it": https://youtube.com/watch?v=BT7Th2aV0wM

China's economy is not 'collapsing'. It's transitioning.

Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss the massive explosion of debt in the US and around the world, and how neoliberal economics leads to large bubbles based on speculation and asset-price inflation.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=A63afuvkbmk

You can watch other episodes of their program Geopolitical Economy Hour here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP

The debt explosion: How neoliberalism fuels debt crises (with Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson)

Why is the United States waging economic war on China? Ben Norton discusses how China became the world's industrial superpower and a leader in important technologies, why the US is unable to compete, and the clash between Western neoliberal capitalism and Chinese socialism.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=c3ngd__0ok0

China is now the 'world's sole manufacturing superpower': https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/01/31/china-world-manufacturing-superpower-production/

Topics
0:00 Bipartisan US economic war
2:19 China is world's #1 manufacturer
4:28 Clash of systems
6:29 Elon Musk laughed at Chinese competitors. Now they're beating him.
9:27 TikTok: Why US wants to ban it
10:56 EU threatens tariffs on China
11:20 West's hypocrisy on climate change
12:25 Solar panels: China installs more than rest of world combined 
13:46 Clean energy is top driver of China's growth
14:56 China leads world in green transition
16:57 Neoliberal West can't outcompete China's state-led industrial development
18:27 The death of "free market" dogma
20:31 The myth of "free trade"
23:23 US opposes industrial policy when China does it
29:10 "Washington Consensus" failed, Washington admits
38:01 Ronald Reagan's trade war on Japan
43:25 Outro

US can't compete with China's technology, so it wages economic war

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