This week, on the Global Research News Hour, as yet another banking institution is in trouble, we reassess the dangers of further troubles  spreading across the nation and ascertain the dilemma facing both the giant banks as well as the humble households of America.
In our first half hour, Geo political analyst Peter Koenig speaks of his vision of these bank failures actually being coordinated to help move forward plans to digitize all currency well before the end of the decade. Then in our second half hour, we will hear from Economic thinker and journalist Dr Jack Rasmus about the fundamentals of what happened to Silvergate Capital and Silicon Valley Bank last month, and what may be in store for more banks as the qualifiers continue to go unaddressed.

CONTAGION. US Banking Woes, and the Rise of the Great Reset

Dr. Gerald Horne is an author and historian who currently holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. Secretary of State Antony Blinken attempts to make amends in Beijing with Xi Jinping and other officials. The Ukrainian counter offensive is not going in Ukraine’s favor but the US continues to escalate. Dr. Horne discusses these and other foreign policy issues with Black Agenda Radio.

The US Refuses to Concede Defeat as the World Resists Domination

On the 23rd of June, following months of increasing tension between the Wagner Group and the Russian Ministry of Defence, Yevgeny Prigozhin launched his rebellion. Prigozhin's forces quickly took control of the head quarter's of Russia's Southern Military District in the city of Rostov-on-Don, after which an armoured column of Wagner troops advanced towards Moscow.

In today's episode of Interregnum I asked Richard Seymour about Prighozin's background in crime and his early business ventures, the founding of the Wagner Group, the scope of its operations and its reputation for appalling violence. And we also talked about why Richard thinks Prighozin can accurately be described as a fascist. Finally, Richard addressed the claim, made by some analysts that the abortive rebellion actually leaves Putin in a stronger position.

Interregnum - The meaning of Prigozhin's rebellion

Dr. Jemima Pierre is a professor in the African American Studies and Anthropology Departments at UCLA. She is a contributing editor to Black Agenda Report and a co-coordinator of the Black Alliance for Peace Haiti and the Americas Team. This week Black Agenda Report is giving special attention to Haiti. Dr. Pierre joins us from Los Angeles to discuss US policy towards Haiti and the newest call for an invasion.

Opposing Occupation and Intervention in Haiti

Jacqueline Rose returns to the show to discuss her new book, The Plague: Living Death in Our Times. We talked about what the Covid-19 pandemic revealed about contemporary society and whether the the initial wave of global solidarity provoked by the crisis was purely a mirage. We also talked about the Ukraine crisis - how Jacqueline connects the themes of war and pandemic in the book - and how Vladimir Putin's brutal invasion has had the troubling consequence of appearing to redeem the foreign policy and security establishments of the United States and Britain. We also talked about the philosopher and mystic Simone Weil, and her refusal to adopt a position of heroic innocence when supporting the allied cause during WWII. And finally, we talked about Sigmund Freud's concept of the death drive - and how it was informed by his own encounter with a pandemic - the so-called Spanish flu that took the life of his daughter Sophie in 1920.

The Plague: Living Death in Our Times w/ Jacqueline Rose

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Human rights lawyer Noura Erakat debunks the Biden Admin's claim Israel isn't engaging in genocide. Then Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro explains why Zionism is antisemitic.

Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney, Assoc. Professor of Africana Studies & the Program of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She recently completed a non-resident fellowship of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School & was a Mahmoud Darwish Visiting Professor in Palestinian Studies at Brown University. 
Noura is the author of Justice for Some: Law & the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), which received the Palestine Book Award & the Bronze Medal for the Independent Publishers Book Award in Current Events/Foreign Affairs. She's co-founding editor of Jadaliyya & an editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies as well as Human Geography. She's a co-founding board member of the DC Palestinian Film & Arts Festival. 
She has served as Legal Counsel for a Congressional Subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives, as Legal Advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee & Residency Rights, & as national organizer of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. 
Noura has also produced video documentaries, including "Gaza In Context" & "Black Palestinian Solidarity.” Her writings have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation,  Al Jazeera, & The Boston Review. She's a frequent commentator on CBS News, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, Fox News, the BBC, & NPR among others. Her awards include the NLG Law for the People Award (2021) & the Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar award (2022). 

Yaakov Shapiro is an international speaker, author, & pulpit rabbi for over 30 years, now emeritus. He's attained an enviable place in the arena of anti-Zionist public intellectuals, having constructed a unique oeuvre on the ideology of Zionism & its relationship to Judaism. After graduating high school at age 16, Rabbi Shapiro dedicated himself to full-time study of religion, becoming the protégé of some of the most well-regarded rabbinic scholars in Orthodoxy. Among his areas of research are religious philosophy, analytic theology, Talmud, Halachah, & Biblical exegesis. At age 19 he published his first book, משפטי הבירורים, a collection of original expositions on rabbinic principles of tort adjudication. His other books include חלקת השדה, a commentary on Judaic laws governing land disputes (2000); צדה לדרך, a commentary on Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato’s exposition of God as the Necessary Being (2009); & שופריה דיעקב, a compendium of original Biblical exegeses (2017).
His most recent work, The Empty Wagon: Zionism’s Journey from Identity Crisis to Identity Theft (2018), a 1381-page treatise on the differences between Judaism & Zionism, is the most comprehensive work written on the subject & considered by many to be definitive. Rabbi Shapiro’s videos on Zionism have been seen by millions of viewers worldwide & translated into several foreign languages. His 7-minute video on President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has been viewed over 1.8 million times.
Rabbi Shapiro is a recipient of the Community Leadership Award from Agudath Israel of America; the Keser Torah Award from Yeshiva Torah Vodaath; Harbotzas Torah award from Yeshiva Bais Yisroel; Parent of the Year Award from Bnos Yisroel; & a post-rabbinical scholarship award from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.

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Debunking Zionist LIES With Noura Erakat & Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro

We talk about the history of AI by drawing out the often very explicit millenarianism that undergirds so much of this technology and its culture over the last 70 years. This strange brew of Eschatological Evangelism and Technological Theology has sustained a cultish faith in AI’s ability to bring about a New Age.

••• Making God | Emily Gorcenski https://emilygorcenski.com/post/making-god/
••• The Taming of Tech Criticism | Evgeny Morozov https://thebaffler.com/salvos/taming-tech-criticism 

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302. God is the Machine

Returning champ Salomé Viljoen joins us once again to discuss her latest work analyzing the relationship between social data and value creation. We get into the conversion problem of turning data into money, which requires us to expand our view of data and break from the bonds of pure exchange value to also think about social data’s “prediction value.” We also talk about why our current legal regimes of data governance are unequipped and ineffective at governing the political economy of social data—and the change that is needed.

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••• Valuing Social Data https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4513235 

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305. What’s the Value of Data? (ft. Salomé Viljoen)

Silk Road Sounds is Hong Kong-via-London based record label founded by creative collective Yeti Out. SRS bridges the sonic gap between the East and West, which follows the same trade route the project is named after. Across 60 minutes, the monthly showcase features pioneers of new scenes, and localises the otherwise varied club sounds of Eurasia. 
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Gather around and hear the story of Fox Mulder: TV's greatest lunatic. In this inaugural episode of Fox Mulder Is A Maniac, hosts Dave and Tom lay out the thesis and format for the podcast, as well as dive into the many acts of insanity within very first episode of The X-Files. 

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Fox Mulder Is A Maniac - S01E01 - "Pilot"

Dimitri and Khalid discuss the 2020 UFO documentary “CE5”, Dr. Steven Greer’s positive attitude toward ET encounters, the Transcendental Meditation™ influence on Greer and CE5, shots fired at To The Stars Academy, Demi Lovato’s successful contacts with light beings at Joshua Tree, Daniel Sheehan’s journey from the Jesuit-affiliated, Iran-Contra-exposing Christic Institute to his UFO activism, the susness of Jesuit interest in ETs, Sheehan and LaRouche, Sheehan defending Scientology, and the IDF General who recently claimed that Trump was prevented from telling the world about the Galactic Federation.

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305. What’s the Value of Data? (ft. Salomé Viljoen)

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