You're making good progress, but may we suggest this: when comparing US GDP, instead of describing the US' use of "asset prices, or asset price increases," it might be better to say, "The FED pours out $$$trillions to the Financial Elites w/n the top 15% population including Big Insurance, Big Finance, Big Health/Others. Very little of that money filters down to common US citizens." Thank you, Ben and keep moving along!

Robbie Martin goes solo on the last episode of February 2022. Starting off Robbie talks about the under-reported warning about how a war in Ukraine might cause an accidental release of 'deadly pathogens' at (11) US DOD linked biological labs there. He then continues to explore the volatile frightening cluster-fuck with Russia's military entering Ukraine specifically by analyzing the cold reactions of the infamous neoconservative Kagan family. The episode concludes with Robbie playing parts of the new 60 Minutes segment on 'Havana Syndrome' and sharing reactions from sound designers and electronic musicians on the alleged audio recording of the 'Havana Syndrome' sonic weapon itself.

Intro/Outro Music:  Fabio Frizzi - Zombi 

Havana Music:  Zoviet France - Ascend A Fall & Caught in The Square

Havana Syndrome Sound Reviews by: @jessehamel_ @compostghoul 
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Ukraine & Georgia's Defense Department sponsored labs:
http://dilyana.bg/the-pentagon-bio-weapons/

US official: Russian invasion of Ukraine risks release of dangerous pathogens:
https://thebulletin.org/2022/02/us-official-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-risks-release-of-dangerous-pathogens/

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Revenge of the Kagans, DOD's 11 Ukrainian Bio Labs, 60 Mins Targeted Individuals, Havana Reviews

On today's episode John Prysner and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss how one year into the war in Ukraine, the U.S. government has committed $100 billion dollars to this bloody proxy conflict that is threatening the whole world with catastrophe. But while huge numbers of people suffer and die, some capitalists are focused on getting their share of this enormous sum of money. Who profits from war?

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Ukraine War Turns 1: A $100 Billion Giveaway to the Arms Industry

Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss the US banking crisis in this episode of their program Geopolitical Economy Hour.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=y1je89h1eIg

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Did Wall Street take over the Treasury? Bank crisis exposes public realities of private banking

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

Facebook censored a report by the world's most famous investigative journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh, on the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline between Russia and Germany. Facebook (a US government contractor) instead forces users to read a website funded and partially owned by NATO member Norway.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NXGUTcHgI8g

Links to all sources here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/04/24/facebook-censor-seymour-hersh-nord-stream/

More information about the Nord Stream sabotage here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/08/us-nord-stream-pipelines-seymour-hersh

Facebook censors journalist Seymour Hersh's report on Nord Stream pipeline attack

As the war drags on, Ukraine is selling off state assets in a big privatization spree. US fossil fuel corporations like ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Halliburton are in discussions to take over the country's energy industry.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LXXk0e-nbvg

Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/04/28/us-corporations-ukraine-oil-gas

Zelensky is literally selling Ukraine to US corporations on Wall Street: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/09/09/zelensky-selling-ukraine-wall-street

West prepares to plunder post-war Ukraine with neoliberal shock therapy: privatization, deregulation, slashing worker protections: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/07/28/west-neoliberal-recovery-conference

US corporations cash in on Ukraine's oil and gas

The EU sanctioned Russia and boycotted its oil, yet is still buying it indirectly from India, at a higher price. This is fueling both de-dollarization and inflation in the Eurozone, where workers' real wages dropped 6.5% from 2020 to 2022.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yuy6UvRbjNU

Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/04/30/europe-russia-oil-india-wages

Sanctions backfire: Europe pays more for banned Russian oil, resold by India - as EU wages fall

Economist Michael Hudson joins Ben Norton to discuss the collapse of four US banks in two months, giant JP Morgan Chase taking over First Republic Bank, and how regulators - and the government itself - are in bed with the bankers.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ImjdVxd09fo

Transcript here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/05/05/first-republic-bank-crisis-michael-hudson

4 US banks crash in 2 months: Banking crisis explained by economist Michael Hudson

To analyze the conflict in Ukraine, political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are joined by economic geographer Mick Dunford. They discuss the aggressive neoliberal reforms being imposed by the Ukrainian government and Europe's suicidal policies.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6bF3QkHIB7I

Transcript: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/05/15/ukraine-neoliberalism-europe-economic-suicide

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Ukraine's neoliberalism on steroids, Europe’s economic suicide

The elite European Council on Foreign Relations, which is funded by many Western governments, warned that the EU is becoming a "vassal" of the United States, losing its independence.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-xcVy-Fta1I

Read the original report here: https://ecfr.eu/publication/the-art-of-vassalisation-how-russias-war-on-ukraine-has-transformed-transatlantic-relations

Europe is becoming ‘vassal’ of US, EU-funded think tank warns

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

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

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