Because I am way past any hope of ever being brilliant, it cheers me up to listen to economist Michael Hudson, who (in his mid-eighties) is several years older than me. Not only is he brilliant, he’s very skilled at “following the money” and explaining where it leads to those of us with ordinary…
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,…
Steven Donziger If the court upholds the rogue ‘Independent State Legislature’ theory, it would put the US squarely on the path to authoritarianism It is well-known that intense competition between democracy, authoritarianism and fascism is playing out across the globe in a variety of ways – including in the United States. This year’s US supreme…
In this short audio Steve Bannon, on the evening of October 31, 2020, gleefully tells a private audience about Trump’s plan to overthrow American Democracy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxNoUnxN_cs&t=8s
This scenario isn’t just plausible: it’s probable. GOP-controlled states are already changing their state laws to allow for it, regardless of how their people vote Thom Hartmann Reprinted from the July 1 Hartmann Report with permission of the author Six Republicans on the Supreme Court just announced — a story that has largely flown…