Here’s an interesting short video exposition by Jackson Hinkle on the decline of the Dollar as the World’s most sought-after reserve currency, worth a few minutes of your time (if you can get past the laudatory comments about Ron Paul). For what it’s worth, I dislike the offensive use of Putin’s grinning image on…
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: Sometimes the expression, “the view from 30,000 feet” indicates the largest possible frame of reference we can use to understand the underlying dynamics of a historical event. I thought of this today while listening to the following discussion between the economists Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff. They agree that the Ukraine War…