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Listen HERE Monetary analyst Ellen Brown discusses her new article “The Coming Global Financial Revolution: Russia Is Following the American Playbook.” She offers a succinct summary of the rise of the petrodollar, then argues that Russia is demolishing dollar hegemony with its petroruble. Unlike Michael Hudson, she does not view the coming demise of the petrodollar as global reserve currency as a disaster for the US economy.
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Broadcasts live 11 to noon Eastern Saturdays — watch the full uncensored version above or watch on Bitchute. PSA 1) Help FFWN expose who really runs the world! https://fundrazr.com/c1yWWc Ukraine War: Who Did What When Why? 2) Evidence that the US imperialists “predicted” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine months before it happened https://failedevolution.blogspot.com/2022/03/evidence-that-us-imperialists-predicted.html 3) US Dollar Hegemony Ended Abruptly Last Wednesday https://www.unz.com/mhudson/us-dollar-hegemony-ended-abruptly-last-wednesday/ Succeeding Wildly 4) “Russia is Succeeding Wildly in its Objectives!” Scott Ritter on the War in Ukraine https://www.globalresearch.ca/russia-is-succeeding-wildly-in-its-objectives-scott-ritter-on-the-war-in-ukraine/5775864 5) UAE defies US Europe to reaffirm oil alliance with Russia https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/03/28/679315/United-Arab-Emirates-commitment-oil-alliance-Russia-Suhail-alMazrouei 6) How Mariupol Will Become a Key Hub of Eurasia…
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Listen HERE Michael Hudson’s Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire takes up where Economic Hit Man John Perkins leaves off. Hudson’s book offers a historical overview of how the US empire covertly exacts tribute from the world. But the era of Super Imperialism may be coming to an end, as the subjugated and exploited nations, led by China, band together to escape dollar hegemony. Will Main Street Americans, crushed beneath the collapsing dollar, turn against their bankster overlords? Will the Empire lash out in its death spasms, potentially inciting World War 3? We have certainly been cursed to…
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Listen HERE CUNY philosophy professor Peter Simpson, author of “Theocracy’s Challenge” and Political Illiberalism, continues last week’s conversation on “debt traps” and discusses the impending fall of the Western neoliberal empire. Is neoliberalism’s achilles heel its financial system, which rewards rent-extracting parasites (like Wall Street) and discourages investment in real infrastructure and goods and services? Is China eclipsing the West because its public banking system rewards real production? As Michael Hudsonwrites: “So the question is what kind of financial system are you going to have to back up a central banking system and credit creation? Is credit going to be a…
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Listen live 8 to 10 pm Fridays on Revolution.Radio later archived HERE First hour: CUNY philosophy professor Peter Simpson, author of “Theocracy’s Challenge” and Political Illiberalism, continues last week’s conversation on “debt traps” and discusses the impending fall of the Western neoliberal empire. Is neoliberalism’s achilles heel its financial system, which rewards rent-extracting parasites (like Wall Street) and discourages investment in real infrastructure and goods and services? Is China eclipsing the West because its public banking system rewards real production? As Michael Hudson writes: “So the question is what kind of financial system are you going to have to back up a central…
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Listen HERE Steve Penfield is the author of Student Debt Cancellation: A Good Idea and a Political Hoax. In it he argues against standard left vs. right, Democrat vs. Republican arguments—and offers this key insight: “An inescapable consequence to any responsible Debt Forgiveness plan is that someone will have to pay. As Michael Hudson says: ‘You can’t bail out the banks, leave the debts in place, and rescue the economy. It’s a zero-sum game. Somebody has to lose.’” So who should lose? Steve argues that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren should abandon their plan to foist the cost of student debt…
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