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Ukraine’s Zelensky sends love letter to US corporations, promising ‘big business’ for Wall Street
In a video address to a US corporate lobby group, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky thanked companies like Black Rock, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, an…
3 years, 1 month ago
New cold war math: US Fed exaggerates China's military spending with absurd graph
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis published a jaw-droppingly misleading graph that portrays China as spending more on its military than the US. I…
3 years, 1 month ago
Brazil and Argentina preparing new Latin American currency to 'reduce reliance on US dollar'
Brazil and Argentina are making plans for a Latin American currency called the Sur, to “boost regional trade and reduce reliance on the US dollar”. L…
3 years, 1 month ago
How CIA overthrew Guatemala's elected president for United Fruit Company (with historian Aaron Good)
Historian Aaron Good explains how the CIA organized a coup against Guatemala's democratically elected left-wing President Jacobo Árbenz to stop land …
3 years, 1 month ago
BRICS challenges US dollar, Saudi considers selling oil in other currencies: Financial multipolarity
The BRICS bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) is “developing a fairer system of monetary exchange” to challenge the “dominance of the d…
3 years, 1 month ago
Peru resource battle: CIA-linked US ambassador talks 'investments' with mining/energy ministers
Peru has large reserves of copper, gold, zinc, silver, lead, iron, and natural gas. After a coup overthrew left-wing President Pedro Castillo, the US…
3 years, 1 month ago
Richest 1% took 2/3rds of global wealth since 2020 - twice as much as 99% of population earned
In 2020 and 2021, the wealthiest 1% of the world’s population took nearly two-thirds of all new wealth – six times greater than the wealth made by th…
3 years, 1 month ago
End of Juan Guaidó: US-appointed Venezuelan coup leader ousted by ex allies
The US claimed unelected coup leader Juan Guaidó was "interim president" of Venezuela from January 2019 to December 2022, when his former allies in t…
3 years, 1 month ago
'World War 3 has already started' between US and Russia/China, argues French scholar
Prominent French intellectual Emmanuel Todd argues the Ukraine proxy war is the start of WWIII, and is “existential” for both Russia and the US “impe…
3 years, 1 month ago
Economists Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson explain multipolarity, decline of US hegemony
Introducing Geopolitical Economy Hour: This is the first episode of a show being hosted every two weeks by economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudso…
3 years, 1 month ago