The Chicago Council on Global Affairs (CCGA); the Pritzker Forum on Global Cities; the Global Cities movement; cities doing an end run around the nation state; cities developing their own foreign policy; Rahm Emanuel's "The Nation City: Why Mayors are Now Running the World"; SMART Cities; effect of the global pandemic on cities; issue of governance; violations of the US Constitution; funding of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs; national sovereignty v globalism; Global Parliament of Mayors; World Affairs Councils of America (WACA); implement global locally.

Aired: February 10, 2021

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Global Cities:  Boom or Bust? - Mark Anderson, #431

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Mauro Lanza - JSB bleibet meine Freude

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

On this brand new episode of the Global Research News Hour we take a fresh and discerning look at Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on the week when the Democratic party is hosting its 2020 National Convention.

In the first half hour, Mark Robinowitz offers his assessment as a deep political thinker and ecological thinker. His website is oilempire.us. Ajamu Baraka, national organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace and vice president on the Green ticket during the last presidential election, offer his uncompromising view of the Democratic party and leader Biden in our second half hour.

Dissecting the Democrats in 2020

This episode of the Global Research News Hour examines the question of whether the story of 9/11 continues to have consequences for people 19 years later. My guests include Anthony Hall, who sees the influence of big money which continues right through the COVID crisis. Also, Graeme MacQueen sees the impact on fighting even outside of the Al Qaeda forces. Richard Gage, AIA finishes off with an updated look at the fight for 9/11 truth and 9/11 justice.

Why 9/11 matters 19 years later. Conversations with Anthony Hall, Graeme MacQueen, and Richard Gage

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts discusses the CIA and globalist "Color Revolution" and military coup being unleashed against President Trump and Washington itself. He also discusses the extreme privatization of the economy which will lead to mass homelessness and poverty and gives his thoughts on the Military-Industrial-Complex and prospect for war with China, Russia, and Iran.

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Show Notes
The Future of the United States of America: Light after Darkness http://plata.com.mx/enUS/More/393?idioma=2
Mike Whitney: Treason https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/treason
Former JAG Officer Richard Black Warns of a Potential Military Coup https://larouchepac.com/20200907/former-jag-officer-richard-black-warns-potential-military-coup
The War on Populism: The Final Act https://consentfactory.org/2020/09/20/the-war-on-populism-the-final-act
Blueprint for Overthrow: Transition Integrity Project https://www.democratsagainstunagenda21.com/the-way-we-see-itour-blog/blueprint-for-overthrow-transition-integrity-project
Revolution 2020 https://americanmind.org/essays/revolution-2020
The Coming Coup? https://americanmind.org/essays/the-coming-coup
Are the Corona-Lockdowns An Election 2020 Ransom Note? https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2020/09/15/are_the_corona-lockdowns_an_election_2020_ransom_note_577391.html

Websites
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org

About Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts has had careers in scholarship and academia, journalism, public service, and business. He is chairman of The Institute for Political Economy.

Dr. Roberts has held numerous academic appointments including the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy in the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has contributed chapters to numerous books and has published many articles in journals of scholarship. He has testified before committees of Congress on 30 occasions.

Dr. Roberts was associate editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal and columnist for Business Week and the Scripps Howard News Service. He was a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate in Los Angeles. In 1992 he received the Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 1993 the Forbes Media Guide ranked him as one of the top seven journalists in the United States.

President Reagan appointed Dr. Roberts Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and he was confirmed in office by the U.S. Senate. From 1975 to 1978, Dr. Roberts served on the congressional staff where he drafted the Kemp-Roth bill and played a leading role in developing bipartisan support for a supply-side economic policy. After leaving the Treasury, he served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Dr. Roberts was awarded the Treasury Department’s Meritorious Service Award for “his outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States economic policy.”

In 1987 the French government recognized him as “the artisan of a renewal in economic science and policy after half a century of state interventionism” and inducted him into the Legion of Honor.

He is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World.

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Paul Craig Roberts: Color Revolution & Coup Against Trump & The Constitution #160

This episode of the Global Research News converses with two members of Docs for Open Debate to get more lowdown on their concerns about why politicians, the WHO and the media are getting it wrong about the virus and why voices like theirs are crucial.

Coronavirus a Second Look Part 2: Crushing and Silencing Doctors of Conscience

Douglas Valentine explains the 1960s CIA Vietnam torture and extermination program known as "Phoenix" which later went on to be perfected and deployed in war zones around the world after 9/11 and which has come home to roost in the United States through the creation of a permanent surveillance and police state under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security, Fusion Centers, NSA bulk data collection, and numerous other programs. He explains how both political parties are two sides of the same coin and how the pandemic has advanced the interests of the security state.

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Show Notes
USA Torture Vietnamese Phoenix Program (BBC) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMtD3pCch0s

Websites
Douglas Valentine http://www.douglasvalentine.com
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/doug.valentine.71
Doug Valentine BOOKS http://www.douglasvalentine.com/works.htm

About Douglas Valentine
Douglas Valentine is an American journalist and author of four works of historical non-fiction: The Hotel Tacloban, The Phoenix Program, The Strength of the Wolf (winner of the Choice Academic Library Award), and The Strength of the Pack. His articles have appeared regularly in CounterPunch, ConsortiumNews, and elsewhere.

Portions of his research materials are archived at the National Security Archive (both a Vietnam Collection and a separate Drug Enforcement Collection), Texas Tech University’s Vietnam Center, and John Jay College. He provided expert testimony at the King v Jowers trial on the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination at the request of the King family.

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Doug Valentine: How the CIA's Phoenix Program Gave Birth to the Police State #163

This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we question three experts about the uunspecified risks associated with the COVID vaccine. We also dig into a more elaborate risk to human freedom posed by an ID Nanochip with ecomonist and geopolitical analyst Peter Koenig.

Coronavirus, a Second look part 4: The Trojan Vaccine. A Challenge to Health, and Freedom

This week's Global Research News Hour examines the Social and economic consequences of major changes resulting from the corona virus and actions designed to contain it. In our first half hour we’ll speak with Professor Michel Chossudovsky about the Social and economic implications of the fight against Covid for labour and small businesses.
Then in our second half hour, Professor of political studies professor Radhika Desai talks to journalist Chris Cook about her 7 part series WHAT IS TO BE DONE? A MANIFESTO FOR POLITICS AMID THE PANDEMIC AND BEYOND

Corona Virus a Second Look Part 5: Corporate Plunder and Hope for Political Change

Forecaster Martin Armstrong says we are witnessing a deliberate attempt to take over the world through the World Economic Forum's "Great Reset" which seeks to install global Communism 3.0. It merges three ideologies: Bill Gates being a symbol of the eugenics and depopulation program, George Soros' "Open Society" a key driver of the one-world government, and Klaus Schwab a Marxist at heart who has proclaimed that no one in the world will own anything anymore. The problem stems from the world's debt since WWII which no one planned to ever pay back and things have reached a point of no return. Politicians are deliberately using lockdowns to intentionally destroy global economies as they seek to strip the U.S. of its superpower status. President Trump is the only one currently standing in the way of this agenda, and if he is removed America's nuclear arsenal could be handed over to the UN. What follows is civil unrest culminating in world war, which could be initiated using a false flag attack on the internet or power grid.

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Show Notes
Covid Fraud? https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/disease/covid-fraud
Schwab Advocates Putting Chips in Our Head so Government Can Read our Thoughts? https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/great-reset/schwab-advocates-putting-chips-in-our-head-so-government-can-read-our-thoughts
BigTech Replacing Banks https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/banking-crisis/bigtech-replacing-banks
Switzerland to Prosecute COVID Skeptics – Welcome to Tyranny https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/disease/switzerland-to-prosecute-covid-skeptics-welcome-to-tyranny
Why China Will Become #1 World Economy https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/china/why-china-will-become-1-world-economy

Website
Twitter https://twitter.com/StrongEconomics
Website https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/blog

About Martin Armstrong
Armstrong is the developer of the Armstrong Economic Confidence Model, best known for calling the crash of 1987 to the very day. The model pegged June 13-June 14, 2011 as the start of a long-term upward trend in the market; the market obliged by notching its first weekly rise since April 29.

Armstrong’s work has become world renown. His model has successfully pinpointed not merely major specific days who events well in advance, but it has provided one of the most consistent guides for understanding the turning points in the global economy and thus the business cycle not merely within a domestic economy, but within the global economy on a collective basis.

Not long afterward, he claims, the C.I.A. telephoned his ﬁrm, eager to get a closer look at his model. Agents had been watching him and were curious about how he had managed to call the collapse of the ruble. They asked if he would come to Washington, he said, and build his model for them. He declined.

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