Ben is coRrect on neo-libeRalism is US: hegemonyites capitalism...

Joining us to discuss the pharmaceutical company Pfizer are two guests. In our first half hour, Professor Michel Chossudovsky talks about the bombshell release of information about Pfizer’s secret report on impacts of its vaccine, as well as giving us more background not only on its criminal record but on its attempts to subdue its own medical adversaries. Then in our second half hour, we hear more about Pfizer’s background of escaping accountability through the investigative reporter Johnny Vedmore.

Medical Marvel or the Second Coming of Al Capone? The Sins of Pfizer

As the world enters a new phase of major power conflict, it is crucial  to understand the character of the Russian government and the role it  plays on the world stage. Is Russia an imperialist power, equivalent to  countries like the United States, France or the UK? How has the  imperialist world system been set up – and is Russia in the club, or  out?

Brian is joined by Ben Norton. He is a journalist and editor of  Multipolarista. You can find his work at BenNorton.com.

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Ukraine War: Russia, the United States, and the Nature of Imperialism

Key international relationships are being profoundly tested by the war in Ukraine, especially the alliance between China and Russia – the two countries at the top of the U.S. empire’s hit list. How does China’s government view Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine? Will the relationship between the two countries grow closer or more distant as the western powers attempt to cut Russia off from the global economy? What consequences will this have for the entire world?

Brian is joined by Dr. Ken Hammond, professor of East Asian and Global History at New Mexico State University, founding director of the Confucius Institute at New Mexico State University, and activist with Pivot to Peace.

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China Reaffirms Closer Relations with Russia as Ukraine War Continues

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)

This week on the Global Research News Hour, we bring you the latest news from the site of the war in Ukraine. In our first half hour, we'll hear from U.S. Colonel Douglas Macgregor, about his predictions for how the war in Ukraine is going better for Russia than how the media is letting on, and how a new escalation inwar violence could arrive as soon as November. Then in our second half hour, we talk with independent geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar about recent developments in the former Soviet Territory and about how Europe is adjusting to life without Russian gas, and how the world has fundamentally changed forever.

Eight Months into Putin’s war. A New Era. For Ukraine, The European Union, and the World

On this day of remembrance, the Global Reseach News Hour looks into the existence of the groups of right-wing Nazi collaborators who were given a lot of room to collect and grow and express their views right here In Canada. We will hear from writer and researcher Marco Carynnyk about the history of Ukrainian nationalism and participation in the pogroms of World War II. Then we will hear from people signing onto a petition banning federal government funding of associations of Eastern European ethnonationalists who glorify of Nazi Collaborators

Canadian Support for NAZI Collaborators after World War II. LEST WE FORGET

This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we take a special look at the Dr. Kelly situation, with an individual partially responsible for bringing aspects of the suicide and the faulty behavior of the Lord Hutton inquiry to light in major media. His name if David Halpin who, together with a team of other physicians, are demanding a coroner’s inquest into Dr. Kelly’s death which he claims was not a suicide and was more likely a murder with the fingerprints of British government individuals all over it. An extensive interview taking up the majority of the hour, Dr. Halpin explains the specifics of his doubts about the official story, and the reasons he thinks Kelly may have been murdered.

Iraq Twenty Years after “Shock and Awe” Part two: The Mysterious Death of David Kelly

Security Expert Lee Slusher discusses the state of Pax Americana and how the post-WWII status quo is failing. The West's foray into Ukraine is a fool's errand and it's likely we've reached peak NATO and EU. He analyzes the recent Prigozhin incident and evaluates Russian power. Lee lived and worked in Taiwan and believes the U.S. no longer has the capability to defend Taiwan. He feels countries are making concrete steps toward multipolarity. We also discuss the destabilization of Hungary, the U.S.-Mexico border crisis, the global elite, and how the goal on all fronts is control.

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Lee Slusher: Post-WWII Order Collapsing, World Moving Toward Multipolarity, Elites Seek Control #367

Thank you for your service.

I say this not to the employees of the war machine, who in truth serve nothing besides imperial domination and the profit margins of Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.

I say this to the peacemakers.
To the truth-tellers.
To the defiant ones.
To those who’ve shone the light of truth upon the blood-spattered face of the empire against their own interests for the benefit of everyone.
To those who’ve stared down the barrel of the most powerful military force ever assembled and said “Do your worst.”
To the grandparents who’ve been dragged from nuclear weapons protests in handcuffs to create a safer world for their grandchildren.
To the activists whose incurable disobedience has led them to disrupt empire managers at think tank conferences or paint NO WAR across the face of the Sydney Opera House.
To the selfless martyrs who’ve exposed the abuses of the machine knowing full well that the scales of justice are weighted heavily against them.
To the hero in Belmarsh.
 To the Pentagon Papers whistleblower who today closed his gentle loving eyes for a final time.

Thank you for your service. 
For serving the highest interest over your own. 
For pouring everything you’ve got into the hope for a better tomorrow.
For betting everything on the hope of a healthy and harmonious world. 
For creating a guiding light to help humanity steer its way home.
For seizing your moment to help make things right instead of letting it pass like everyone around you.
For somehow finding the strength to swim against the current when it would be so much easier to drift along with the madness.
For somehow finding a higher calling in this wildly dysfunctional society where everything is pointed at selfishness and meaninglessness.
For somehow cultivating something profound and authentic within yourself in the midst of a civilization of the vapid and fraudulent. 
For doing your very best to get a foot on the brake pedal when everything else is accelerating toward the cliff’s edge. 
For listening to that small voice within which can tolerate no more.
For turning around. 
For taking your stand. 
For finding the courage. 
For doing what is right. 
For putting truth first. 
For lighting the way.

Thank you for your service.
We will do our best to carry the torch forward, and finish what you started.

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Reading by Tim Foley.

Thank You For Your Service

This week on the global Research News Hour we continue our journey into the latest adventures into the new artificial intelligence research that is taking the world by storm and firing up the imaginations of politicians, military individuals and corporate leaders alike and see how far that takes us down the techno-autocratic hole. In our first half hour, we will hear from writer Karsten Riise about how AI has finally put the US ahead of China and Russia as a true game changer, and how its enormous impacts will soon shape a new geopolitical frontier. And in our second half hour, we are joined again by geopolitical analyst Peter Koenig who investigates the trajectory the human species is on that leads us to dark and tragic endings beyond COVID and into the Great Reset.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution Part Two: AI, The Decisive Victory for the USA and Global Elites

These were the most important geopolitical and economic issues of 2023, including the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, US-China tensions, BRICS expansion, growing de-dollarization, inflation crisis, crypto fraud, bank crashes, European de-industrialization, and more. Journalist Ben Norton reviews the chaotic year.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nA9qSH6uHu8

Links here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/12/31/stories-2023-gaza-ukraine-china-brics

Topics
0:00 Top stories of 2023
5:01 Israel's war on Gaza
8:24 Ukraine losing in NATO-Russia war
13:02 Africa's Sahel rebels
14:42 Growing global inequality
16:10 BRICS expansion
19:10 De-dollarization
25:52 Inflation (and 'greedflation')
29:40 Debt crises
34:19 Bank failures (and US bailouts)
41:39 Crypto fraud
43:21 Europe: stagnation and de-industrialization
46:12 China's economic transition
56:06 US new cold war on China
1:01:09 India grows closer to US (and Russia)
1:03:55 Pakistan's Imran Khan imprisoned
1:05:08 Brazil's Lula returns
1:07:40 Argentina's Javier Milei
1:09:53 Peru coup
1:12:03 US-Mexico tensions
1:13:26 Biden loses supports as 2024 election nears
1:15:43 Outro

Most important stories of 2023: Gaza, Ukraine, China, BRICS, dedollarization, bank crises, inflation

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