ในยุคที่มนุษย์ยังใช้ ‘เปลือกหอย’ เป็นสื่อกลางในการแลกเปลี่ยน ‘เงินกระดาษ’ อาจดูเป็นความล้ำสมัยที่ไกลเกินกว่าจะจินตนาการ
 
แต่โลกการเงินก็วิวัฒนาการมาจนถึงยุคที่เงินกระดาษกลายเป็นความยุ่งยาก สิ้นเปลือง และเสียเวลาไปเสียแล้ว
 
ท่ามกลางวิวัฒนาการทางการเงินของโลก จากเปลือกหอยสู่ทองคำ เงินเหรียญ เงินกระดาษ ควบคู่ไปกับระบบการจัดสรรทรัพยากรผ่านธนาคาร และตลาดทุน หรือแม้กระทั่งคริปโตเคอร์เรนซีที่คุณอาจเพิ่งเทรดไปเมื่อไม่กี่นาทีที่ผ่านมา...การเงินไทยพัฒนาเปลี่ยนแปลงไปอย่างไร วันนี้ ประเทศไทยอยู่จุดไหนเมื่อเทียบกับโลกทั้งใบ

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The Making of the Modern Thai Economy EP.6  เบื้องหลังโลกการเงินไทย ใจกลางพายุเศรษฐกิจ

30 Stunning and Vivid Rain Sounds

Vividly Rain, Pt. 11

Always Raining

Always Raining, Pt. 1

Heart of the Forest

1 Hour of Soft Water Streams, Pt. 29

“Germ and chemical weapons may often be weak in their battlefield applications but they are always strong in their emotiveness. Accusations of association with them have for centuries, even millennia, been used by well-intentioned as well as unscrupulous people to vilify enemies and to calumniate rivals. Can onlookers protect themselves against the possibility of such assaults upon their common sense today?”- Julian Perry Robinson

I interview journalist and geopolitical analyst for the Libertarian Institute - William Van Wagenen about his article covering the 2013 Eastern Ghouta alleged chemical attacks in Syria. Van Wagenen has done an incredible job of drawing all the threads together and demonstrating the collusion of Western, Israeli, Turkish and Gulf Intelligence agencies in the staging of events designed to provoke US/UK-led military intervention and to topple the Syrian government. 

His full article is here: https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/sarin-doesnt-slice-throats-the-2013-ghouta-massacre-revisited/

‘Sarin Doesn’t Slice Throats’: The 2013 Ghouta Massacre Revisited

We never really had a chance to build a healthy world. Our ancestors went from running away from monsters with sharp fangs to burning witches and heretics to fighting world wars to giving birth to us, and that wave of fear and chaos carried forward right into our own psyches and into the psyches of everyone else on this planet without skipping a beat. If you look at where we came from and how we got here, it's amazing we're even as functional as we are.

And that's what we're dealing with here. A heritage of trauma stretching back into an unfathomably vast expanse of time, incarnating in the current form of some eight billion homo sapiens. If you zoom out and look at the big picture with this understanding, it's difficult to find real guilt anywhere, in anyone. Even in the most abusive and traumatizing among us.

Reading by Tim Foley.

In This Disaster We Are All, Ultimately, Innocent

The trouble with "western values" is that westerners don't value them. They think they value them, but all that reverence for free expression and holding power to account with the light of truth goes right out the window the second they see someone saying something that sharply differs from what their rulers and their propagandists have told them to think. Then they want that person silenced and shut down.

In truth, the most forceful critics of the western empire actually embody these western values infinitely more than empire apologists do. It is the critics of empire who value free speech and holding the powerful to account. It's the brainwashed bootlickers of the US-centralized empire who are calling for censorship and shouting down anyone who directs fierce oppositional scrutiny toward the most powerful people in the world.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Trouble With 'Western Values' Is That Westerners Don't Value Them

A nuclear conflict could be sparked by either side making a calculated decision to use nuclear weapons (and you're fooling yourself if you believe the US is any less trigger happy in that regard than Russia), but it can also be sparked by either side due to a mistake resulting from a technological malfunction, miscommunication, misunderstanding or miscalculation, as nearly happened many times during the last cold war. The more things escalate, the more likely both such possibilities become.

And, clearly, things are escalating.

And that's just Russia; tensions are rapidly escalating between the US-centralized empire and China as well. In an article for Antiwar.com titled "There’s Little More Washington Can Do To Convince China To Invade Taiwan," Andrew Corbley describes the frighteningly extensive provocations the US has been pouring into another massive geopolitical powderkeg just in the past few weeks.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The US Empire Is Accelerating Toward Global Conflict On Two Fronts

The best western journalists are overwhelmingly despised while the worst are acclaimed millionaires. Western civilization is built on lies, dependent on lies, powered by lies. Don't seek widespread approval. It's worthless.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Best Journalists Are Persecuted And Despised

Someone who believes the US or its proxies sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines can tell you exactly what they'd stand to gain from it and how little it would cost them. Someone who believes it was Russia has to perform weird mental contortions about Moscow sending some kind of message to the world and Putin being insane, or entertain the absurd notion that Russia could only stop Europe from obtaining Russian natural gas by destroying Russian pipelines. This says a lot about whose arguments are stronger.

The west has blamed Russia for bad presidents, for western racism, for western political divisions, for inflation, for pretty much every bad thing western power structures are responsible for, but blaming Russia for attacks on Russian pipelines is probably going to take the cake.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Nobody Who Supports NATO Is A Moderate

Armed with a special guest co-host, our heroes dive into one of the more bizarre holiday specials to lurch out of the 80s.

We Just Watched... ALF's Special Christmas (With Jeff May)

Readings of all Caitlin Johnstone's articles, usually by her co-writer Tim Foley.