In this March 2022 patrons-only seminar, Brian and Nicole discuss and  answer questions about the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, including  Biden's call for Putin to be removed from power in Russia, what a nuclear war would really mean, and more. They also discuss the struggle for women's liberation and the wider "New Cold War" against China. 

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Brian Becker Seminar #14: Ukraine, Biden Calls For Regime Change In Russia, & More (Preview)

Multipolarista host Benjamin Norton and journalist Robbie Martin discuss how neoconservative US imperialists like Fox News host Tucker Carlson (a CIA applicant) and Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis cynically tried to rebrand as "right-wing populists," while pushing war on China, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, and Palestine.

These bogus "populists" portrayed Donald Trump as an "anti-war" president, while he killed top Iranian and Iraqi officials, imposed suffocating sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela, waged a hybrid war on China, bombed the hell out of Afghanistan, expanded the war on Yemen, strongly supported apartheid Israel and Saudi Arabia, militarily occupied Syria and Iraq to take their oil, and tore up arms control agreements with Russia.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_QHoW8Vf8wg

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Exposing the neocon 'right-wing populism' scam, from Trump to Tucker Carlson

Economist Michael Hudson explains the inflation crisis and the US Federal Reserve's "austerity program to reduce wages." So-called experts are openly calling to boost unemployment. A depression is coming, in which the poor will suffer so the rich can get richer.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-AJwMvCxwm0

Read Prof. Hudson's article "The Fed’s Austerity Program to Reduce Wages": https://michael-hudson.com/2022/06/the-feds-austerity-program-to-reduce-wages

Economist Michael Hudson on inflation and Fed plan to cut wages: A depression is coming

Two former US diplomats admitted that 87% of the world's population has refused to enforce the West's sanctions on Russia, showing neutrality over the proxy war in Ukraine. They said "the outbreak of Cold War II" has led countries "to become increasingly multi-aligned," especially in the Global South.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OG7UPNGRWH4

Read more here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/09/21/global-south-west-cold-war-russia

87% of world doesn't support West's new cold war on Russia

A sociological analysis of capitalist criminality and the imperial US deep state, based on the concepts of the "higher immorality" and "crackpot realism," introduced by scholar C. Wright Mills in his book "The Power Elite."

This is PART 9 of the Empire and the Deep State series Multipolarista editor Ben Norton is co-hosting with historian Aaron Good and producer Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast.

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

You can support American Exception at https://patreon.com/americanexception

'Higher immorality' of US ruling class: Criminality of capitalist elites (with historian Aaron Good)

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In the final chapter of CONTRA VII, Dimitri and Khalid explore how Creedence Clearwater Revival went from the #1 chooglin’ rock band in the world in 1970 to having their entire fortune stolen by Burt Kanter’s notoriously shady, mafia and CIA-infested Castle Bank and Trust.

SIDE A: THE ASSASSINATION OF CCR BY THE COWARD BURTON KANTER
How CCR’s Woodstock headlining set got sabotaged by the Grateful Dead, the silk topper inspiration for “Fortunate Son”, not getting respect from the “cool” rock media, providing material support to the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz, renegotiating their contract with Fantasy Records bigwig Saul Zaentz, Saul convincing CCR to put all their earnings offshore in Castle Bank and a grapevine of shell entities, Tom Fogerty’s painful departure in ’71, John’s revenge on Negative Stu and No-Shuffle Doug with “Mardi Gras” in ’72, the end of CCR, Tom’s underrated solo career/chooglin’ with suslord Jerry Garcia, Tom subtweeting John on “Sign of the Devil”, John’s stint with David Geffen and the scrapped lo-fi “Hoodoo” album, realizing that ALL of Creedence’s money has vanished into a “Bahamian abyss”, years of seclusion and lawsuits, getting even with Burt Kanter, Zaentz’s new role as serrrious Hollywood producer of “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Amadeus”, John realizing he’s Zaentz’s Pinocchio puppet, his 1985 return with “Zanz Kant Danz” and “Mr. Greed”, Tom’s new “best friend” Saul Zaentz, more lawsuits and fighting, Tom’s tragic death from AIDS in 1990, his dying wish that the other three Creedence guys choogle together one last time, and John’s NOT-on-haqq refusal to play with Stu, Doug, and Tom’s son Jeff at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction in 1993.

SIDE B: EFFIGY
Donald Trump’s purchase of Resorts International in 1987, cocaine trafficking in 1980s Bahamas, Medellin Cocaine Nazi Carlos “Joe” Lehder making Norman’s Cay his castle and garden, US Ambassador to the Bahamas/Slava Ukraini Banderite/WACL suslord Lev Dobriansky telling the CIA station chief to “find another job”, Kanter’s relationships with international oil man Bruce Rappaport and Bill Casey, Indonesian oil schemes in the 1960s, the Bank of New York, the ill-fated Aqaba oil pipeline project in Iraq, looting the Soviet economy, Antigua as training ground for Contras, IDF machine guns for Colombian drug cartels, BCCI/Rappaport overlaps, “left-leaning wealth advisor” Josh Kanter’s Alliance for a Better Utah and Kanter Family Foundation, Linda Pritzker aka Lama Tsomo’s Namchak Foundation in Montana, Nick Pritzker bankrolling Gavin Newsom’s career, Tom Pritzker running the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Nick and Tom Pritzker’s multiple phone numbers in Epstein’s black book, Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s allegations against Tom Pritzker, the Kanter law firm of Neal, Gerber, & Eisenberg’s continuing services to the Pritzker family, and last but not least, some thoughts on how it doesn’t whip ass when left-leaning media influencers try to meme Big Boy JB Pritzker into the White House, especially when one’s uncle happens to have been a Burt Kanter protegé/Pritzker family attorney for the last 50 years.

[PREVIEW] #125e - CONTRA VII, Part Five: The Assassination of CCR by the Coward Burton Kanter/Effigy

Brazil-based journalist Brian Mier discusses the importance of Lula da Silva's victory in Brazil's October 30 presidential election against far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. Lula has vowed to strengthen Latin American regional integration and expand the BRICS system, while fighting poverty and hunger at home.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HuDWw5l-yoU

Follow Brian at https://twitter.com/BrianMteleSUR

Check out Brasil Wire at https://brasilwire.com

Lula wins Brazil election: Game-changer for BRICS and Latin America

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513: Happy Christmas

They rained terror and destruction on Christian lands across Europe as far as Spain and Constantinople, before turning their attention away from raiding towards permanent settlement and the founding of new societies, from Ukraine to Normandy to Greenland.  There has never been an explosion of exploration and aggression quite like the Viking expansion of the early Middle Ages -- we discuss the motives behind the expansion, which are rooted in the religious mismatch between Scandinavia and mainland Europe, the technologies that made it possible, the prizes and targets at which they aimed, the victories and setbacks that they encountered, the imprints that they left behind, and the winds of change that ultimately brought an end to the Viking adventure.

Music:  "In the Hall of the Mountain King," from the Peer Gynt suite, by Grieg, performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, published by Musopen

Image:  The "Lindisfarne Stone," a gravestone from Lindisfarne Monastery, Holy Island, 9th Century

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The Vikings, pt. 2 -- Into Distant Realms

A ragtag gang of Beltway misfits discover how to start a proxy war in CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR (2007), a lighthearted look at American intervention from the combined forces of Tom Hanks, Mike Nichols, and Aaron Sorkin. We discuss how this celebration of the Reagan Doctrine from the very heart of "liberal Hollywood" offers a, shall we say, sanitized version of the end of the Cold War. PLUS: We discuss matters Pablo-matic and not.

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Preorder "Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality," the new Ed Broadbent memoir coauthored by our own Luke Savage - https://ecwpress.com/products/seeking-social-democracy-ed-broadbent

"Fake News" by our own Luke Savage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crSeqJafFt8&ab_channel=JusticeDemocrats

"With Hannah Gadsby’s ‘It’s Pablo-matic,’ the Joke’s on the Brooklyn Museum" by Jason Farago - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/arts/design/hannah-gadsby-brooklyn-museum-picasso.html

"The True Mystery in James Comey’s Crime Novel" by Jacob Bacharach - https://newrepublic.com/article/172553/true-mystery-james-comeys-crime-novel-central-park-west-review

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#432 - America Would Never

We've been talking about a lot of soulless, big-budget IP movies that represent a rot in our culture... so how about a how about a hand-crafted, achingly personal movie that exists as a wart on the back of that rot? We discuss Kevin Smith's CLERKS III (2022), a harrowing vision of Gen X culture trapped in amber.

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"Awkward Americans see themselves in Ron DeSantis" by Ben Terris - https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/08/17/ron-desantis-awkward/

"Talk is Cheap" by Nick Pinkerton - https://nickpinkerton.substack.com/p/talk-is-cheap

#453 - Arrested Development

Geopolitical Economy Report is an independent news outlet that provides original journalism and analysis to understand the changing world.

Economist Michael Hudson on inflation and Fed plan to cut wages: A depression is coming

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