Monthly Archives: April 2023

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/04/30/18855706.php For Putin, the intention to admit Ukraine to NATO was a breach of “the agreement made with NATO after the fall of the Berlin Wall not to expand it” (2:34:20). Just as the Americans claimed hegemony over the Western … Continue reading →

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/04/28/18855673.php The larger problem is financialization. Step by step, this conquered all areas of society. And finally it also reached the holy grail of the military-industrial complex. With financialization came the neoliberal market doctrines of capacity reduction, downsizing, “lean inventories,” … Continue reading →

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/04/24/18855610.php Only the blowing up of the Nord Stream pipelines ultimately cleared the way for the EU, and Germany in particular, to become long-term buyers of U.S. natural gas surpluses and to keep the price at a profitable level for … Continue reading →

https://la.indymedia.org/news/2023/04/301464.php As is well known, in war the truth is the first casualty, and so it is in the Ukraine war. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, politics and the mainstream in the press, radio and TV have … Continue reading →

https://geopoliticaleconomy.substack.com/p/brazil-lula-china-dollar Brazil’s Lula travels to China and calls to end US dollar dominance by Ben Norton “Why can’t a bank like that of the BRICS have a currency to finance trade relations between Brazil and China, between Brazil and other … Continue reading →

https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/03/13/michael-hudson-us-bank-crisis/ Michael Hudson: Why the US bank crisis is not over Economist Michael Hudson argues banks like Silicon Valley Bank have behaved in a selfish and greedy way, yet get de facto US government bailouts, while regulatory capture and campaign … Continue reading →

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/04/15/18855488.php “They have their great, constantly changing I, but none of them has a self, a core, an experience of identity (…) Where there is no real self, there can be no identity” (1). Without awareness of and confidence in … Continue reading →

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/04/01/18855220.php What impresses me is China’s diplomatic engagement. And I say that also in terms of their role in restoring diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Our diplomacy, American diplomacy, seems to me reactive, unimaginative, and ineffective. Chinese diplomacy, … Continue reading →