What do the words “hegemony” and “unipolarity” mean? And why is the growing “multipolarity” and “de-dollarization” of the non-Western world such a threat to the United States? All this and more can be found in a fascinating discussion between economists Michael Hudson, Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, and Radhika Desai,…
Here Colonel Douglas MacGregor — one of my favorite go-to authorities on US military and foreign policy — shares his thoughts on China and Ukraine. His comments about Chinese culture and government are particularly fascinating and wide-ranging. Clearly he studies. >/div>
I’m only passing this on to you because the hands on the Doomsday Clock are just 100 seconds to midnight and our current president seems more recklessly confrontational with our nuclear foes than any other president in my lifetime. In the following short TED Talk (titled “I’ve studied nuclear war for 35 years —…
Last November, Amy Goodman interviewed historian Alfred McCoy about his current work (see video below), recently released as his latest book, “To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change.” In it, McCoy describes the common factor found in every ruling empire — or world “hegemon” — over the last 500 years, and that…
Editor’s Note: This is pure speculation on my part, but I’m convinced that the neocon holdovers in the Biden administration are the driving force behind neocon Joe Biden’s foreign policy. Further, I believe that those same impetuous warriors want to use Taiwan as a proxy for a war with China, in the same manner…