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History of US empire: Latin America & JFK - CIA terror war on Cuba, coups in Brazil & Dominican Rep.
Historian Aaron Good discusses US President John F. Kennedy's policies in Latin America, the CIA's terror war on Cuba, the coup against Brazil's left…
2 years, 9 months ago
4 US banks crash in 2 months: Banking crisis explained by economist Michael Hudson
Economist Michael Hudson joins Ben Norton to discuss the collapse of four US banks in two months, giant JP Morgan Chase taking over First Republic Ba…
2 years, 9 months ago
Understanding China's economic system: Socialism with Chinese characteristics
Learn about China's economic model with Beijing-based scholar Roland Boer, a professor at Renmin University and author of the book "Socialism with Ch…
2 years, 9 months ago
US makes up 40% of global military spending, 10x Russia, 3x China
The United States spent $877 billion on its military in 2022, nearly 40% of the global total, 10 times more than Russia ($86.4 billion), and three ti…
2 years, 10 months ago
Sanctions backfire: Europe pays more for banned Russian oil, resold by India - as EU wages fall
The EU sanctioned Russia and boycotted its oil, yet is still buying it indirectly from India, at a higher price. This is fueling both de-dollarizatio…
2 years, 10 months ago
De-dollarization is about more than currencies: As dollar system declines, what comes next?
Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss de-dollarization, the global drive to drop the US dollar, and the transition away from financiali…
2 years, 10 months ago
US corporations cash in on Ukraine's oil and gas
As the war drags on, Ukraine is selling off state assets in a big privatization spree. US fossil fuel corporations like ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Hall…
2 years, 10 months ago
Capitalism's inherent contradictions: Why it drives toward crisis
Political economist Radhika Desai discusses the inherent contradictions in the capitalist mode of production: crises of overproduction, the tendency …
2 years, 10 months ago
Facebook censors journalist Seymour Hersh's report on Nord Stream pipeline attack
Facebook censored a report by the world's most famous investigative journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh, on the destruction of the Nord S…
2 years, 10 months ago
'Dollar suffered stunning collapse in market share' media warns, as Global South de-dollarizes
"The dollar suffered a stunning collapse in 2022 in its market share as a reserve currency, presumably due to [the US government's] muscular use of s…
2 years, 10 months ago