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RADHIKA DESAI: Hello everyone. Welcome to the fourth Geopolitical Economy Hour, our fortnightly show on the political and geopolitical economy of our times. I’m Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I’m Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: Today we are continuing our discussion of de-dollarization. As many of you know we have structured our discussion around some Continue Reading
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With progress being made towards the implementation of a Voice to Parliament, the next step is a treaty to unify Australia for generations to come. read now...The media caters to a particular demographic, telling that demographic what it already believes — even when it is unverified or false. This pandering defines the coverage of the Trump-Russia saga.
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If you cast your mind back to the peak of the GFC, when people were actually talking about the dissolution of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), a.k.a. the Eurozone, or more specifically, a unilateral exit by Greece or Italy, we were told by the ‘experts’ that it would be catastrophic. Over and over, headlines…
Legislation that would help evacuate refugees held offshore is urgently needed to erase the dark history of suffering and punishment by the Coalition Government. read now...
I like the guy but …no It’s bad enough that we have wingnut anti-vaxxers spreading lies and making the world a more dangerous place. Do we really need supposedly left wing movie actors doing the same thing? After a winding story about smoking weed — shouting-out his pot shop in West Hollywood, The Woods, and claiming his manager, Jeremy, transported weed from the LA shop to New York for him — Harrelson went into a spiel about the pandemic. The self-proclaimed “anarchist” joked about a supposed movie script, a clear metaphor for the pandemic, that went, “The biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes, and people can only come out if they take the cartel’s drugs — and keep taking them — over and over.” Except for the deadly virus that actually killed well over a million people in the US alone in less than two years, this is super right on. He’s been saying stupid shit about the pandemic for a while. Maybe he could just hang out with Joe Rogan and do that instead of going on SNL?
In spite of all the emphasis on the need for going green, oil consumption is not falling and a grey market is developing as a result of sanctions.
Oxford Business GroupShifting oil market creates export opportunities for emerging markets producers
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The rise of US dollar imperialism, and why it failed – with Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson
In this episode of their program Geopolitical Economy Hour, economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson explain the end of the British empire’s sterling area with the rise of the US dollar system, its central role in imperialism, and why it ultimately failed to accomplish Washington’s hegemonic goals.
RADHIKA DESAI: Hello everyone. Welcome to the fourth Geopolitical Economy Hour, our fortnightly show on the political and geopolitical economy of our times....Geopolitical Economy
The rise of US dollar imperialism, and why it failed – with Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson