A Sobering View of High Fuel Prices, Green Energy, and Biden’s Plans to Help Europ
An assessment of current economic conditions, including rising prices, how long the pain might last, and possible paths forward.
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Michael Hudson: The Dollar Devours the Euro
Michael Hudson argues that the euro and European economic independence are intended US targets for the war in Ukraine.
Read more...The French Election Is All About Imperialism. Here’s Why
How media oligarchs have been moving French voters, and with them, mainstream parties, to the right.
Read more...India: Pursuing its National Interest in the Multipolar World
The U.S. botches its India diplomacy as it fails to comprehend Delhi’s understanding of the new realities of the emerging multipolar world.
Read more...Russia’s War with Ukraine: Five Reasons Why Many African Countries Choose to Be ‘Neutral’
Why African countries have chosen to be ‘neutral’ on the issue of Russia’s war with Ukraine.
Read more...The Importance of Custody, or NATO’s Internal Gold War
Both the UK’s Government and the Bank of England have gotten suspiciously tetchy over German requests to get its gold back.
Read more...No One Will Win in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Gail Tverberg argues that the war in Ukraine does not get Russia or other energy producers out of their scarity bind.
Read more...Putin Edict on “Gas for Roubles” Consistent With Original Description (and Our Take); Western Officials Nevertheless Claim a Walkback
Putin’s gas for roubles plan was over-interpreted by foreign policy experts and media employees, and that’s working out to Russia’s advantage.
Read more...Joe Lauria Interviews Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff on Consortium News
Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff discuss how the economic and ground war over Ukraine is moving geopolitical tectonic plates.
Read more...Putin-Scholz Phone Call on “Gas for Roubles” Mechanism Conforms to Our Assessment; Disputes Over Russia Force Reduction Around Kiev; West Pressure on China, India Continues
What Russia is up to and what if anything the West can do continues to dominate the media. Too bad we know so little about what is afoot
Read more...The IMF Connection with the Ukraine Crisis
You can’t quite say the IMF is the root of all evil. But it sure made a lot of bad situations worse.
Read more...Ukraine Updates and More Discussion of the Russia “Gas for Roubles” Countersanction
Gazprom is scheduled to announce what its roubls-for-gas payments stipulations are, even though most Western countries said no, sight unseen.
Read more...“Dollar Hegemony Ended Last Wednesday”: Michael Hudson Interviewed by Margaret Flowers on Clearing the Fog
Michael Hudson continues to discuss how Western sanctions are undermining the central role of the dollar in US economic dominance.
Read more...NATO-Russia Proxy War – Revealing Signs of a Fading America: Michael Hudson
Michael Hudson continues his political and financial analysis of the war in Ukraine.
Read more...US Natural Gas Production and LNG Exports Amid Urgent Demand for LNG from Europe
Europe will compete with the biggest buyers of US LNG: South Korea, China, Japan, Brazil. But Mexico bought more than all four combined.
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