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)

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Ola Tunander joins us to talk about his recent article on the Nord Stream bombing. He is Research Professor Emeritus with the Peace Research Institute in Oslo. Ola Tunander earned his doctoral degree in 1989 with a thesis on US Maritime Strategy. He has written and edited 15 books on geopolitics, military strategy, European security, submarine warfare, and deception operations (aka psychological operations).

Today we focus largely on two of his articles:
     
    "After Seymour Hersh’s article"
     
    "'An Underwater U-2': Part I"

Ola Tunander is also the author of the seminal scholarly article on the deep state in the West: “Democratic State v Deep State”

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!

Music: "Payroll" by Mock Orange

Episode 118: The Mysterious Nord Stream Mystery

Economist Michael Hudson responds to the misleading arguments against de-dollarization that New York Times columnist Paul Krugman made, as part of an attempt to defend US hegemony and the dollar system.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=g9qjnl6jcx0

Transcript: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/05/10/ny-times-dedollarization-michael-hudson-paul-krugman-dollar

Here you can find episodes of Michael's show with Radhika Desai, Geopolitical Economy Hour: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP

NY Times is wrong on dedollarization: Economist Michael Hudson debunks Paul Krugman's dollar defense

Theo, Andrew, and Ben bring you: A ritual feast for seniors, the consequences of a failed ATM heist, the end of an illegal underwater wine operation, and a bean-centric hazmat situation.
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EPISODE 309: Beancident At Bunge

Bonus Episodes

You see kids, Israel needs to keep dropping bombs on buildings full of children and targeting civilians with siege warfare and murdering Palestinians in the West Bank and censoring the media and arresting dissidents and killing journalists, because if it doesn't, the bad guys will win.

No no you don't understand: if Israel stops killing children by the thousands in its relentless bombing campaign, the nation could be taken over by murderous terrorists.

Reading by Tim Foley.

If Israel Stops Murdering Thousands Of Children, The Bad Guys Might Win

US President Joe Biden regurgitated debunked propaganda from far-right Israeli officials disputing the Palestinian death toll from Gaza's health ministry, yet these statistics have a long history of being reliable and are used by the UN, humanitarian organizations, and even the State Department itself.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YXKNRwJ1D_c

US votes against peace in Gaza, defying vast majority of planet at UN: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vph4YDi17Ps

Biden echoes Israeli extremist disinfo in denying Gaza death toll

The US government has paralyzed the United Nations, voting against the rest of the world and preventing peace in Gaza by vetoing three different resolutions in the Security Council. Meanwhile, Washington continues selling weapons to Israel. Journalist Ben Norton explains the scandal.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mD9AQfperGc

Check out our related reports:

- US blocks peace in Gaza, supporting Israel's genocidal war on civilians: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/10/22/us-peace-gaza-israel-genocide

- US votes against world as UN condemns Israel's illegal settlements in occupied Palestine and Syria: https://youtube.com/watch?v=daKuVX1eQSM

- US votes against peace in Gaza, defying vast majority of planet at UN: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vph4YDi17Ps

US blocks Gaza peace proposal at UN for 3rd time, holding world hostage

Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss realistic alternatives to the neoliberal model of financialization, and tangible policies to build a productive, sustainable economy.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=o2HTc8yA4mI

Transcript: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/02/09/economic-solutions-neoliberalism-radhika-desai-michael-hudson

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

Economic solutions: How to go from financialized neoliberalism to a productive, sustainable economy

NATO's new cold war on Russia and China is destroying Germany's industrial base, devastating Europe's economy, and destabilizing its politics, fueling the rise of the far-right, as neoliberal austerity policies exacerbate the ongoing recession. Ben Norton analyzes the evidence.

Links:
- EU confesses ‘our prosperity was based on China & Russia’: cheap energy, low-paid labor, big market: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/10/18/eu-prosperity-china-russia-energy-market
- German lawmaker denounces Ukraine 'proxy war' and US 'terror attack' on Nord Stream pipelines: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/22/germany-ukraine-nord-stream-sevim-dagdelen
- How corporate profits are driving inflation, not workers' wages: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/06/26/corporate-profits-inflation-europe-imf

Topics
0:00 Crisis in EU's economic heart: Germany
5:04 EU admits "our prosperity was based on China and Russia"
6:51 German industry
8:09 US-NATO "vassalization" of Europe
10:09 Cheap Russian gas or expensive US LNG?
13:37 Corporations and speculators profit
17:08 Greedflation
19:08 Neoliberal austerity is back
21:24 US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)
23:52 Economic war on China backfires
27:01 Rise of far-right
29:46 Germany's leftist anti-war alternative
33:01 Environmentalist policies are not the problem
34:56 Outro

West's new cold war on Russia & China crushes EU's economic heart: German industry

Interview with the author of Dr. Mary's Monkey. How the unsolved murder of a doctor, a secret laboratory in New Orleans and cancer-causing monkey viruses are linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK assassination and emerging global epidemics. 

Aired July 30, 2014
http://doctormarysmonkey.com/

Dr. Mary's Monkey, Part One - Edward T. Haslam, #307

Economist Michael Hudson continues his discussion of Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire with a focus on US monetary imperialism; President Trump’s demand for lower interest rates undercuts America’s requirement for foreign investment to fund its domestic and balance of payments deficit, increases the carry trade and turns IMF and World Bank policies on the US; analysis of US economic domination of the world from its position as the world’s largest creditor post-WWI; analysis of US economic domination of the world from its position as the world’s largest debtor after the 1971 close of America’s gold window; emergence of the dollar-debt standard; how war has bankrupted the US; the difference between imperialism and super imperialism; US bribes foreign governments; China’s banking system; China and Russia stockpile gold as the world breaks out of dollar domination.

Aired:  June 26, 2019

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