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What causes inflation? Economists Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson explain
In this episode of Geopolitical Economy Hour, economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss inflation: what it is, what causes it, and what are…
3 years, 5 months ago
German foreign minister: 'We are fighting a war against Russia'
"We are fighting a war against Russia", Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told the Council of Europe. "We can fight this war only together…
3 years, 5 months ago
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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months ago