How a US debt trap in Argentina is fueling inflation, dollarization, far right
Argentina is trapped in unpayable odious debt owed to US vulture funds like BlackRock and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This is fueling extreme inflation and far-right demagogues such as Javi...
31 Touko 202347min
China builds global alternative as US-led financial order decays
To analyze how China is building a global alternative as the US-led neoliberal financial order decays, political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are joined by economic geographer Mick Dunf...
27 Touko 20231h 9min
Origins of debt: Michael Hudson reveals how financial oligarchies in Greece & Rome shaped our world
Economist Michael Hudson discusses his book "The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization’s Oligarchic Turning Point", and how this history from 2000 years ago is still so relevant to un...
25 Touko 20231h 30min
US post-9/11 wars caused 4.5 million deaths, displaced 38-60 million people, study shows
Wars the US waged in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan following September 11, 2001 caused at least 4.5 million deaths and displaced 38 to 60 million people, with 7.6 million children star...
22 Touko 202329min
US backs Ecuador dictator: Right-wing banker dissolves parliament to stop impeachment for corruption
Ecuador's right-wing President Guillermo Lasso, a multimillionaire banker notorious for blatant corruption, dissolved the National Assembly to prevent it from impeaching him for embezzling public fund...
22 Touko 202330min
Criminals welcome as US recruits foreign proxies to wage 'irregular war' on adversaries
The US military arms and trains foreign fighters as "proxies" to wage "irregular warfare" against adversaries, and the Pentagon does not vet them to see if they have committed atrocities, according to...
18 Touko 202326min
Ukraine's neoliberalism on steroids, Europe’s economic suicide
To analyze the conflict in Ukraine, political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are joined by economic geographer Mick Dunford. They discuss the aggressive neoliberal reforms being imposed b...
15 Touko 20231h 1min
How CIA's Operation Mongoose terror war led to Cuban missile crisis
Historian Aaron Good discusses Operation Mongoose, the CIA's terror campaign against Cuba; how it led to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis; and the response of US President John F. Kennedy (JFK). VIDEO: ...
13 Touko 20231h 3min
