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Anti-China hawks' drive to expand NATO into Asia may destroy Western military alliance
Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are joined by geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar to discuss how the war hawks' drive to expand N…
2 years, 11 months ago
US/France threaten intervention in resource-rich Niger - Fears of war in West Africa
The US and France have threatened foreign intervention to re-install a pro-Western regime in Niger, which produces uranium needed for nuclear energy …
2 years, 11 months ago
NATO failed in Ukraine against Russia. Now it's targeting China
Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are joined by geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar to discuss how NATO has shifted from its proxy …
2 years, 11 months ago
US hypocritically attacks China on climate change, while Beijing leads world in renewable energy
The United States is the largest historic contributor to climate change, yet Washington is condemning Beijing for supposedly not doing enough. In rea…
2 years, 11 months ago
How neoliberalism devastated the economy, fueling financial instability and extreme inequality
Political economist Radhika Desai discusses the origins of neoliberalism as a fringe ideology and how it became dominant, fueling extreme inequality,…
2 years, 11 months ago
Colonialism or sovereignty? How the global financial system traps countries in debt
Political economists Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson, and Ann Pettifor discuss how the international financial system traps Global South countries in d…
3 years ago
Iran joins group with China & Russia, calls to drop US dollar in trade
Iran has become a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, along with China, Russia, India, Pakistan, and Central Asian nations. The SCO…
3 years ago
Biden joins Trump in appointing war criminal involved in genocide: Meet Elliott Abrams, coup expert
US President Joe Biden appointed notorious neoconservative war criminal Elliott Abrams as an advisor for "public diplomacy". Abrams previously served…
3 years ago
What is neoliberalism? How the 'Washington consensus' was imposed on the world
Neoliberalism is often misunderstood, but it is very important to understand this ideology that has dominated global economics and politics for decad…
3 years ago
How China became the world's industrial superpower - and why the US is desperate to stop it
China has gone from one of the poorest countries on Earth to building the world's largest economy, responsible for nearly one-third of global manufac…
3 years ago