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>
From the Chris Hedges Report, “Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb:” If, as Joe Biden says, Putin is “not joking” about using nuclear weapons and we risk nuclear “Armageddon,” why isn’t Biden on the phone to Putin? Why doesn’t he follow the example of John F. Kennedy, who repeatedly communicated with Nikita Khrushchev to negotiate an end…
By Stan Cox Reprinted with permission from TomDispatch September 22, 2022 The Nightmare of Military Spending on an Overheating Planet – A Big Carbon Bootprint and a Giant Sucking Sound in the National Budget On October 1st, the U.S. military will start spending the more than $800 billion Congress is going to provide it with…
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 —…