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Tehran and Moscow harbor no illusions – and are preparing accordingly. The war on BRICS is just getting started. Syria as we knew it is being eviscerated in real time – in geographic, cultural, economic and military terms – by an appalling confluence of mercenary Rent-a-Jihadi mobs and psychopathological genocidals praying at the altar of... Read More
Syria no longer exists. The Russian news service RT reports that Israel has launched the largest attack on Syria in history with Israeli warplanes hitting more than 250 military targets. Other reports put the number at 300. The Israeli Defense Force reports it has destroyed 80% of Syrian military capability. This is after Syria’s fall.... Read More
Until recently, a serious geopolitical working hypothesis was that West Asia and Ukraine were two vectors of the standard Hegemon modus operandi, which is to incite and unleash Forever Wars. Now both wars are united in an Omni-War. A coalition of Straussian neo-cons in the US, hardcore revisionist Zionists in Tel Aviv and Ukrainian neo-nazi... Read More
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The Global Majority should be on full alert. The Greater Idiblistan attack is part of a complex interconnected operation. The timeline tells the story. November 18: Ronen Bar, Israel’s Shin Bet chief, meets with heads of MIT, Turkey’s intel. November 25: NATO Chief Mark Rutte meets with Turkey’s Sultan Erdogan. November 26: Salafi-jihadis assembled by... Read More
As Russia revamps the role of Zeus, China is busy revamping the role of Hermes. Oh, the wonders chips from dishwashers are able to unleash. How come Zeus, King of the Gods, could not have foreseen it? Especially when his divine intuition was aware that in the future his thunderbolts would be replicated in Russia... Read More
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody, today is Wednesday, November 27th, and Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff are here with us. Welcome back, Michael and Richard. MICHAEL HUDSON: Glad to be back. RICHARD WOLFF: Glad to be here. NIMA ALKHORSHID: Let's get started with what's going on between Russia and the United States in Ukraine. We had... Read More
Russia DESTROYS Sanctions & Rise of BRICS
DANNY HAIFONG: Welcome, everyone. It's your host, Danny Haiphong, and I am here for another live stream this afternoon. I wanted to begin by saying that we are going to center the theme of today's discussion on the decline and the fall of the U.S. empire and the economic roots of this as we see... Read More
Previously: Russia and Iran Officially Link Their National Banking Systems Here’s the thing about America’s status as a superpower: it’s not because it has the best people. Americans are fat and retarded slobs; most of them are poor and on drugs. They are chronic masturbators. And some, I assume, are good people. America is controlled... Read More
The G20 summit in Rio earlier this week offered the quite intriguing spectacle of a deeply divided world, geopolitically and geoeconomically, trying to put on a brave ‘holiday in the sun’ face. There was plenty of fluff to amuse attentive audiences. French President Emmanuel Macron surrounded by a beefy security detail strolling on Copacabana beach... Read More
Africa now essentially needs political will to fight infrastructural problems, a human capital deficit and an institutional deficit. JOHANNESBURG – At the APEC annual summit in Lima, Comrade Xi Jinping was practically coronated as the King of Peru, as a lively moveable feast celebrated the brand new $1.3 billion Chancay-Shanghai Maritime Silk Road across the... Read More
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Trump may not appreciate just how isolated the U.S. and Israel are among Israel’s Arab and Sunni neighbours. Israelis, as a whole, are exhibiting a rosy assurance that they can harness Trump, if not to the full annexation of the Occupied Territories (Trump in his first term did not support such annexation), but rather, to... Read More
All of these small moves by the non-Western countries are starting to stack up. You can easily see the dollar falling as the world currency over a period of decades, just on this current trajectory. Unfortunately for homosexuals and Jews, that trajectory is likely to get a lot steeper if and when the US empire... Read More
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The West doesn’t have the financial clout to pursue global primacy – if it ever did. The election has occurred; Trump will take office in January; many of the existing Party Nomenklatura will be replaced; different policies will be announced – but actually taking power (rather than just sitting in the White House) will be... Read More
President Putin’s plenary session performance (address + Q&A) at the annual Valdai Club meeting in Sochi felt like a high-speed train on cruise control. Totally cool, calm, comfortable, in full command of a Himalaya of facts, no political leader anywhere – recent past and present - would even come close to delivering what amounts to... Read More
Fasten your seatbelts: whatever happens, Trumpquake is bound to be a bumpy ride. On the political Richter scale, that was a killer – literally. What was supposed to be a Liberal Totalitarian Show was brutally, unceremoniously, swept out of the park – any park. Even before Election Day, critical thinking was aware of the stakes.... Read More
The recent BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia should mark the end of the Neocon delusions encapsulated in the subtitle of Zbigniew Brzezinski’s 1997 book, The Global Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives. Since the 1990s, the goal of American foreign policy has been “primacy,” aka global hegemony. The U.S. methods of choice have been... Read More
The Kazan lab has laid out several geoeconomic road maps, and is seriously taking the inevitable roadblocks into account. We will need weeks, months, years to fully grasp the enormity of what took place in Kazan during the annual BRICS summit under the Russian presidency. For the moment let’s cherish arguably the most appropriate definition... Read More
The Russian presidency of BRICS 2024 could not have chosen a more multicultural and multi-nodal site to host a summit laden with enormous expectations by the Global Majority. The southwestern Russian city of Kazan, on the banks of the Volga and Kazanka rivers, is the capital of the semi-autonomous Republic of Tatarstan, renowned for its... Read More
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Rumble link Bitchute link FFWN link Partial transcript The lead story for this broadcast is the BRICS meeting in Kazan, where they are now creating an alternative to the SWIFT international payments system. It could be a new Bretton Woods such that the American Zionist sanctions regime run by the Global International Banking Crime Syndicate... Read More
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Why have West Asian nations that long ago pledged their support to the Palestinian cause remained so silent amid Israel’s terrorizing assaults on Gaza, the West Bank, and now Lebanon?. Where have the Russians and Chinese been? Is this not the time for a display of solidarity among non–Western nations? Can we not look to... Read More
It’s wild that the UN endorsed BRICS and actually met with Putin, whom the UN has previously labeled a war criminal and issued an arrest warrant for. It sure as hell makes it look like this Ukraine thing has to be on the verge of wrapping up. No surprise that Zelensky is mad, but you’d... Read More
Ragpicking is a serious women’s business, extracting value from rubbish. Cheerleading is the unserious business of girls waving pompoms at football games. There are those who claim the Kazan Declaration is today’s equivalent of the Bretton Woods Final Act (1944) and Bandung Declaration (1955), or a “a huge manifesto”, or “victory for all decent freedom-loving... Read More
The stories of North Korean troops being stationed in Kursk or being prepared to deploy in the Ukraine made sense and seemed logical enough, but the issue is that you only had the Western media making these claims, and they lie 95% of the time when talking about Russia. There was some third party evidence... Read More
Hi, everybody, today is Thursday October 24, 2024, and we’re having Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson with us to talk about the BRICS Summit in Kazan. Let’s start with Michael. Michael, what was important about this summit? MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, it was important not for coming up with solutions, but just to lay out what... Read More
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Who was behind Wednesday’s terrorist attack on Turkey’s leading aerospace company? According to reports, at least five people were killed, and 22 others wounded, when two terrorists attacked the facility with explosives and gunfire before being “neutralized.” First clue: Turkish president Erdogan “was holding talks in Russia with Vladimir Putin at the time of the... Read More
The BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, aimed to be a turning point towards a truly multipolar or multi-nodal world that has been in transition for a few years now. The changes announced in Kazan regarding the payment system and the reserves of nations are concrete steps towards independence from the U.S. imperialistic system. This system... Read More
Before the 2016 election, the Anti-Defamation League scheduled a conference for November 17th, between the election and the inauguration of the next president. It was widely advertised that Hilary Clinton was to win that election, and at the conference, the ADL introduced a whole new legal framework for outlawing criticism of the Jews in the... Read More
This is it. A date with destiny. All set for the most crucial geopolitical/geoeconomic gathering of the year and arguably the decade: the BRICS Summit under the Russian presidency in Kazan, capital of Tatarstan, where Sunni Tatars coexist in perfect harmony with Orthodox Christians. All the excruciating work by sherpas and analysts throughout 2024 –... Read More
Part 1: The Ideology of Mozgovism Translated by Dr. Livci, edited by Rurik; transmitted by Rolo Slavski Previously, we covered Storm Z. What I hope to achieve with this essay is to show that the “Russian Spring” of 2014-2016 was a genuine grassroots uprising that was first and foremost anti-oligarchic in its worldview. This is... Read More
Indivisibility of security as envisaged by Russia-China amounts to the de facto application of the UN Charter. The result would be peace on a global level – and by implication the death knell to NATO One week before the absolutely crucial BRICS summit in Kazan, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held a summit in Islamabad.... Read More
I recently posted a report about the Gestapo treatment the distinguished German attorney Reiner Fuellmich is receiving from present day Germany. See: Here is the latest report on Dr. Fuellmich’s abuse at the hands of the neo-Nazi German government and also a report from Dr. Fuellmich himself: The German government acting in behalf of Big... Read More
The real Super Friends are finally assembling. Putin, Xi, Kim, Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis – the world is seeing an emergence of powerful heterosexual nations coming together to fight back against the forces of evil, the satanic Jews and their Zionist-Globalist gay sex agenda. Reuters: Putin, whose country is hosting a summit of the... Read More
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Trump is not the ‘right card’, in the view of the U.S. power-élites; the Joker should have been pulled from the pack. As the ousted ‘Emperor’, Biden made his ‘final walk’ from the dias at the UN; he was not the Emperor of yore, brimming with the bravura that the U.S. is back, and ‘I’m... Read More
Like a river undisturbed while traversing a rocky wilderness, China silently flows away on its path to peaceful primacy. Leading website Guancha has published the transcript of a first-class lecture at Renmin University on China-U.S. relations by Martin Jacques, author of When China Rules the World. Jacques is one of the very few Westerner scholars... Read More
RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 34th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the show that examines the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of our time. I'm Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I'm Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: And working behind the scenes to bring you our show every fortnight are our host, Ben Norton, our videographer, Paul... Read More
NIMA: So nice to have you, Michael. And let's get started with an article in Bloomberg, it says that the United States is concerned about the strengthening ties between Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea. And Richard, should they be concerned about this? RICHARD WOLFF: I think so, yes, they should be concerned. Whatever in... Read More
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The United Nations has become a parody of itself. As world leaders gathered in New York this week, Gaza, Lebanon, and Palestine were nowhere on the agenda, but a rammed-through US Pact designed to protect the ‘rules-based order’ was right at the top. The United Nations and its Security Council’s inability – and unwillingness –... Read More
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With less than a month before the crucial BRICS annual summit in Kazan under the Russian presidency, serious informed discussions are raging in Moscow and other Eurasian capitals on what should be at the table in the de-dollarization and alternative payment system front. Earlier this month Andrey Mikhailishin, head of the task force on financial... Read More
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And Russia is fighting an existential war for the survival of the Motherland – what it has done repeatedly over centuries. First we had action: President Putin – cool, calm, collected – warns that any attack on Russia with long-range NATO missiles will be an act of war. Then we had reaction: NATO rats scurrying... Read More
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The war is lost, and the struggle to keep the ‘enforced pretending’ going is breaking through, to be seen by all as a false reality. Israel is entering the next phase of its war on Palestine by completing its takeover of the Gaza Strip – from the northern border to the Netzarim corridor. It is... Read More
The first meeting of security experts/National Security Advisors under the expanded BRICS+ format at the Konstantinovsky Palace in St. Petersburg unveiled quite a few nuggets. Let’s start with China. Foreign Minister Wang Yi proposed four BRICS-centric security initiatives. Essentially, BRICS+ – and beyond, considering further expansion – should aim at peaceful coexistence; independence; autonomy; and... Read More
Something quite extraordinary happened at the plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok last week – very much in tune with the forum’s main theme: “Far Eastern 2030. Combining Strengths to Create New Potential.” The stage was shared by President Putin; Vice-President of China Han Zheng; and Prime Minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim.... Read More
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From Trump to Crash Test Dummy, Hegemon’s “policies” have managed quite a feat. It must have taken eons of Taoist patience for President Xi Jinping to tell a few self-evident facts of life to a mediocre imperial functionary such as U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. Xi’s key takeways: “China is ready to be a... Read More
The “big club” that “you ain’t in,” as George Carlin famously put it, is increasingly visible as the presidential election rolls on toward November. Politicians and the donor class that controls them have made it known to the public that they are not representatives of the majority but rather the small elite minority. Nomi Prins,... Read More
BAGHDAD and KARBALA – Arriving in Baghdad today comes as an electric shock to any visitor who remembers recent, somber Iraqi history. There are virtually no checkpoints, apart from sensitive government areas. None of those ghastly cement blocks from the time of the American occupation, forcing a slow slalom every few minutes. No sense of... Read More
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The Global Majority is fully aware that the genocidals in Tel Aviv are trying as hard as they can to provoke an apocalyptic war – with full US military support, of course. Contrast that combative mindset with 2,500 years of Persian diplomacy. Iran’s acting Foreign Minister, Ali Bagheri Kani, has recently remarked how Tehran is... Read More
Both the Axis of Resistance and Christian Orthodox Russia need to step up the game. Radically. Exhibit A The stunning confirmation came directly from Russian Deputy FM Ryabkov, during a quite revealing interview on Rossiya TV. Ryabkov, extremely competent, is also the leading Russian sherpa for BRICS+, preparing the summit next October in Kazan. Essentially,... Read More
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HONG KONG – The Beijing Declaration, signed earlier this week, constitutes yet another stunning Chinese diplomatic coup, but the document goes far beyond affirming China’s pull. The gathering of representatives of 14 Palestinian factions to commit to full reconciliation showed the entire world that the road to solving intractable geopolitical problems is no longer unilateral:... Read More
Luca Placidi: Welcome, everybody. It is a great pleasure and honor to have with us today Professor Michael Hudson. For those who still do not know him, Michael is a professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and he is a researcher at the Levi Economics Institute at Bard College. Just to mention... Read More
NIMA ROSTAMI ALKHORSHID: Michael, let’s get started with the SCO summit. And right after that, we’re having the NATO summit. It seems that NATO is fighting on behalf of the United States to try to preserve the U.S. unipolar hegemony over Eurasia and the Global South, isn’t it? MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, for the last few... Read More
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