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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Guns and Butter 408

De-Dollarizing the American Financial Empire - Dr. Michael Hudson, #408

Christopher Bollyn in NYC on 9/11; companies hired to do ground zero "clean-up"; hot spots; analysis of nuclear footprint at ground zero; analysis of smoke and the particle effect that caused debilitating illnesses in NYC; the mysterious "final load" moved out of ground zero; same criminal network behind 9/11 and Jeffrey Epstein; Ronald Lauder; privatization programs; Ehud Barak; University of Alaska Fairbanks study on WTC 7; Commissioner of the Franklin Square and Munson Fire District calling for a new investigation; government officials conduct the cover-up; Khalid Sheikh Mohammed; surveillance state; dystopia created by 9/11 attacks; motivation of 9/11 to create the war on terror; Bollyn's new book.

Aired: September 11, 2019

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Guns and Butter 412

Exposing the 9/11 Deception - Christopher Bollyn, #412

We discuss the broader geopolitical ramifications of the September 11th terrorist attacks, including the attack on Afghanistan, the Global War on Terror, and the Western Military Alliance support for the terrorists; attack on Afghanistan prepared long before 9/11; Osama bin Laden an intelligence asset; Bushes, et.al., business partners with the bin Ladens; earlier history of Afghanistan before the Soviet intervention; Afghanistan becoming a modern nation; US imperialism the destroyer of countries; assassination of the leader of the Northern Alliance, Ahmad Shah Massoud; the cultivation of opium poppy; Afghanistan a major transport corridor for oil and gas; mineral resources; Islamic fundamentalism a strategy of US intelligence to indoctrinate and recruit jihadists; extension of al Qaeda worldwide; US losing control of Afghanistan and Pakistan to China; pre-emptive nuclear war doctrine.

Aired: September 18, 2019

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Guns and Butter 413

The Post 9/11 Era - Michel Chossudovsky, #413

Christopher Bollyn’s new book, “Solving 9/11: The Articles Volume II”, includes all of his research since 2012; extended discussion of CIA Executive Director on 9/11, A. B. “Buzzy” Krongard, his ties to 9/11 and the 9/11 wars, his thirty years with Alex Brown, the likely origin of the United Airlines put options and its ties to Israel; Deutsche Bank; Press Secretary to George W. Bush, Ari Fleischer, crafts Bush’s message to the nation; Fleischer’s brother Michael heads privatization of Iraq; International Consultants on Targeted Security (ICTS); ICTS and the Betar Brigades in China; the Odigo Instant Messaging System; Comverse and Amdocs; control software on US airport computers; FBI put in charge of Pentagon site on 9/11; LVI Services; peculiar similarities between 9/11 and the assassination of RFK and JFK; Henry Crown family; why first responders are dying.

Aired:  December 25, 2019

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Guns and Butter 415

Exposing the Ongoing Cover-Up of 9/11 -  Christopher Bollyn, #415

Dr. Jack Rasmus discusses the last three chapters of his new book, “The Scourge of Neoliberalism: From Reagan to Trump” with a focus on the growing contradictions within the Neoliberal policy regime in the 21st Century; the deep technological and material forces undermining and driving the contradictions; and why the 2020s decade will require yet another, fourth restructuring of US capitalism that may fundamentally differ from the Neoliberal experience of the past four decades. Also discussed is how the material forces and Neoliberal policy are behind much of the decline and demise of US democracy form and political restructuring underway in the US since the mid 1990s.

Aired: January 29, 2020

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Guns and Butter 418

After Trump and Neoliberalism What's Next? - Dr. Jack Rasmus, #418

Before he became a conservative warrior, John Rambo was just a mixed-up vet. We're joined by Jacobin deputy editor Micah Uetricht to parse the ambiguous politics of FIRST BLOOD (1982), where Sylvester Stallone is just as frazzled by right-wing cops as he is by left-wing protestors. We also situate the film among other Vietnam War movies, and compare the Vietnam canon to Iraq War cinema. PLUS: Luke has been reading Obama's autobiography and has some thoughts.

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Michael and Us

#189 - JOHN RAMBO INNOCENT!!! (w/ Micah Uetricht)

Retired defence analyst Patrick Armstrong discusses US-Russia relations, the Arctic, that NATO is really a "Paper Pussycat", and how Russia's military is extremely well prepared for conflict. He gives his thoughts on the reactions to COVID19 by Russia and China which seems to say they initially may have thought it to be a bioweapon, tied into their fear of the propensity for declining empires (e.g. United States) to start wars as they collapse. He also gives his take on the elections and internal discord paralyzing the United States which he takes to signal the end of empire, a "race between imploding and exploding, fusion or fission."

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Show Notes
RUSSIAN FEDERATION SITREP 3 DECEMBER 2020 https://patrickarmstrong.ca/2020/12/03/russian-federation-sitrep-3-december-2020
The U.S. Election Is Not Over https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/12/04/the-us-election-is-not-over
An Epitaph for the West https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/11/20/an-epitaph-for-the-west
Goodbye: Has Russia Had Enough Insults? https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/11/04/goodbye-has-russia-had-enough-insults

Website
Russia Observer https://patrickarmstrong.ca
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About Patrick Armstrong
Patrick Armstrong was an analyst in the Canadian Department of National Defence specialising in the USSR/Russia, having started in the time of Chernenko.

He was a Counsellor in the Canadian Embassy 1993-1996, retired in May 2008, and has been writing on Russia and related subjects on the Net ever since.

He has written for various websites and discussion groups – some since departed and some still there, and started his own website with the intention of it becoming a repository for his writings.

Generally speaking, the predominant theme of his career was that we had a great opportunity when the USSR disappeared to make a more cooperative world. Instead, we have steadily turned Russia into an enemy – and a much more capable one than we casually assumed in the 1990s.

So here we are today. Paying for our arrogance, incompetence and maybe worse. But he hasn’t given up hope.

More information here https://patrickarmstrong.ca/2017/10/26/how-i-got-here

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Patrick Armstrong: Russia, the NATO "Paper Pussycat" & End of U.S. Empire #177

We discuss the career of the most famous Wayans Brothers:  Damon Wayans Sr, Marlon Wayans,  Keenen Ivory Wayans and Shawn Wayans with a focus on their films I'M GONNA GET YOU SUCKA, SCARY MOVIE, WHITE CHICKS and LITTLE MAN.

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#242 - The Wayans Brothers Just Want To Make You Laugh

The Global Research News Hour cites instances of severe allergic reactions and even death immediately following the application of the vaccines by Pfizer-BioNtech and Moderna. Internist and epidemic and anthrax expert Meryl Nass M.D. sees instances authorities are not prepared for and exposes the Emergency Use Authorization and instances dire to vaccine injured recipients. Our next guest, Canadian infectious disease expert Allison McGeer explains that despite the relatively small list of deaths, the roll-out should absolutely not be paused given the threat posed by COVID. Our last guest, Mary Holland of Children's Health Defense opposes the roll-out and explains why.

A Life Saving Hope or Death Defying Jab? Three Perspectives on the Experimental COVID Vaccine

On this week's Global Research News Hour, we dive even deeper down the rabbit hole of the COVID vaccines and the numerous fictions associated with the pandemic in order to effortlessly accomplish the dreaded Great Reset. In our first half hour, Dr Chris Shaw spells out his opposition to the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines from a neuroscientific perspective. In our second half hour, after a brief review of many of the myths of the pandemic, we get the overview on the Great Reset from author Diana Johnstone author of the November article The Great Pretext...for Dystopia!

The Vaccines, The Plunder, and the Arrival of the Great Reset

Italian architect, lecturer, film producer, and man of many hats Robin Monotti discusses the biopolitics and biosecurity implications of COVID19 and The Great Reset, something which has been pointed out by a number of thinkers, including Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. 

Monotti refers to Umberto Eco's "Ur-Fascism" (Eternal Fascism) on how fascism or totalitarianism is not a thing of the past, but an evil that is present in every generation and which must be identified, recognized, and fought back against. He examines whether there are such underlying themes and dangers hidden within the Davos crowd's "Great Reset".

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Show Notes
Giorgio Agamben https://www.quodlibet.it/catalogo/autore/272/giorgio-agamben
Umberto Eco Makes a List of 14 Common Features of Fascism https://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html

Websites
Website http://www.robinmonotti.com
No Place Without Spirit https://nulluslocussinegenio.com
Twitter https://www.twitter.com/robinmonotti
Telegram https://t.me/robinmg
Gab https://gab.com/robinmonotti

About Robin Monotti
Robin Monotti Graziadei is a London based architect (Yacht House, Tbilisi Spiral Tower), designer (Watering Holes), architectural, urban, film & cultural theorist (writings available on this site and in international journals listed below) and commentator, published translator (Curzio Malaparte, Woman Like Me), former University lecturer (London Metropolitan University & University of Greenwich) and current film producer (The Book of Vision, produced with Terrence Malick) who was born in Rome, where he began his career by working with Professor Vittorio De Feo on projects which included the new Italian Embassy in Berlin. Work that Robin completed for De Feo is now held in the collection of the MAXXI Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome, some of it having already been restored. Robin obtained a distinction in the MA in Histories and Theories of Architecture from the Architectural Association in London where he studied the relationship of space to psychoanalysis with Mark Cousins, space and politics with Paul Hirst, and space and culture with Robert Maxwell, former Dean at Princeton. He worked in Milan with Gino Valle and Ennio Brion, client of Carlo Scarpa’s Brion cemetery, on the Nuovo Portello urban regeneration plan.

In 2016 Robin opened a film production company called Luminous Arts Productions and produced a feature film on the doctor-patient relationship in the history of medicine called The Book of Vision, executively produced by Terrence Malick directed by Carlo Hintermann, starring Charles Dance, Lotte Verbeek and Sverrir Gudnason. The film opened the International Critics Week of the Venice Film Festival of 2020 and the Warsaw International Film Festival 2020 and is sold by Celluloid Dreams of Paris.

Robin lectures on cultural sustainability at the International Society of Biourbanism summer school and beyond and is also a contributor to the Journal of Biourbanism, AD Architectural Design, Architecture Today, and Domus.

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Robin Monotti: Is There A Warning Message Behind The Virus? #188

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