One China Eyepoking Too Far: Biden Signals US Not Backing Down on Pelosi Taiwan Visit as China Promises Military Response
Taiwan is becoming yet another case study in advanced imperial decline. Too bad the world is along for the ride.
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Sri Lanka’s Arrest of Aeroflot Plane Was the Straw that Broke President Rajapaksa’s Back
How Sri Lanka tried, and may still be trying, to play Moscow off against Washington.
Read more...The End of Cheap Russian Gas: Turning the Lights Out in Europe
Be careful what you wish for: Europe is seeing the end of its access to cheap Russian gas.
Read more...Some Implications of the UN’s Ukraine Grain and Russia Fertilizer/Food Agreements
The press was all over the UN’s Ukraine grain deal, but the UN agreement on Russian fertilizer and food may be more imporant in the long run.
Read more...Reject CPTPP, Stay Out of New Cold War
Aiee, the TPP is back as the CPTPP. Same bad features but no US market access. What’s not to like?
Read more...Michael Hudson on Finance Capitalism’s Self-Destructive Nature
Michael Hudson rings the changes on a favorite theme: the differences between the financial capitalism and industrial capitalism systems
Read more...International Labor Organization Reports on Gig Worker Protest
Platform workers are well networked, with strengthening sinews of solidarity that transcend individual companies. It is also important to note that platform labour protest tends to emerge from the bottom up, particularly in the global South, where such protests are overwhelmingly led by informal groups of workers.
Read more...Dollar Diplomacy: Michael Hudson and Steve Keen on Real Progressives
A wide-ranging and free-wheeling discussion of money, oligarchy, trade, China, the future of the dollar….with an eye to MMT.
Read more...FBI Now Joins in China Warmongering in Bizarre Speech in London with MI5 About Taiwan, Intellectual Property Theft
The US is really really out to heat things up with China…
Read more...Fossil Fuel Interests Are Behind Canada’s Blue Hydrogen Push
Fossil fuel producing Canada is promoting the blue hydrogen con.
Read more...Weaponizing Free Trade Agreements
free trade agreements may increasingly become economic weapons in the new Cold War, disrupting earlier globalization.
Read more...“G7 Aims to Hurt Russia with Price Cap on Oil Exports”
If this harebrained Russia oil price cap scheme gets off the ground, it’s likely to be yet another Western economic own goal.
Read more...“Why the Ukraine Crisis Will Make Little Difference to Dollar Supremacy”
Why the depth of the U.S. securities market will extend dollar hegemony beyond what would seem to be its natural sell-by date.
Read more...WTO 12th Ministerial Conference Continues Sorry Record of Anti-Worker, Anti-Developing Economy Policies
After pretenses that it might be more solicitous towards people, as opposed to big companies, the WTO followed the money masters.
Read more...Michael Hudson Talks About Almost Everything with Jonathan Brown
Another blockbuster interview with Michael Hudson.
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