ADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 26th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the show that examines the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of our times. 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

Nvidia is technically an “American company.� But the CEO is Chinese, and all the factories are in China. Western style multiculturalism is always retarded and dangerous, because when you hire foreigners to work in your government, you are always running a very serious risk that these people are loyal to their own people instead of... Read More

Weening off of the Western software that all computer systems are based on is a big, decades-long project. However, the fact that there is so much open source software makes it a lot easier. RT: Huawei has unveiled its new in-house-developed operating system, HarmonyOS NEXT, which the Chinese tech giant expects to help it break... Read More

If I had to guess, this is an attempt to look less ridiculous to the Europeans. BBC News: The whole Australian-French-US-UK submarine fiasco, and the weird saber-rattling that followed, kind of made America look as insane as its leadership actually is. If America is really planning on stirring up some kind of serious conflict with... Read More

The Empire of Chaos could never be accused of deploying Sun Tzu subtlety. Especially when it comes to dealing with the satrapies. In the case of Brazil, former BRICS stalwart reduced to the status of a proto-neo-colony under an aspiring Soprano-style “captain�, the Men Who Run the Show applied standard procedure. First they sent the... Read More

Let’s cut to the chase: with or without a sanction juggernaut, China simply won’t be expelled from the global semiconductor market. The real amount of chip supply Huawei has in stock for their smart phone business may remain an open question. But the most important point is that in the next few years – remember... Read More

Google cuts Huawei off Android; so Huawei may migrate to Aurora. Call it mobile Eurasia integration; the evolving Russia-China strategic partnership may be on the verge of spawning its own operating system – and that is not a metaphor. Aurora is a mobile operating system currently developed by Russian Open Mobile Platform, based in Moscow.... Read More

The Snowden camp did itself no favors with its critics and skeptics by revealing information from a highly classified NSA document concerning the use of “Targeted Exploitation� a.k.a. TAREX against the People’s Republic of China in a story published by The Intercept. Basic story: undercover operatives penetrate PRC telecommunications companies to bug their products. I’m... Read More

The theme of Secretary of Defense Panetta’s remarks at the Intrepid Air and Sea Museum on October 12 before the “Business Executives for National Security�, in the words of the BBC: Leon Panetta warns of “cyber Pearl Harbor� Actually, Mr. Panetta, the “cyber Pearl Harbor� has already happened. It was called Stuxnet, the virus designed... Read More