Inside Latin America's new currency plan, with Ecuador's presidential candidate Andrés Arauz
Ecuadorian economist Andrés Arauz, who came close to winning the 2021 presidential elections, explains Latin America's attempt to create a new currency and regional financial architecture, to challeng...
15 Feb 20231h 8min
Ukraine’s Zelensky sabotaged peace deal with Russia, West blocked negotiations
Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky admitted he refused to implement the 2015 Minsk II peace deal with Russia. Germany and France said Kiev used the agreement to “buy time” to prepare for war. Israel'...
13 Feb 202333min
How Western war and sanctions devastated Syria, where earthquake now kills thousands
A decade of proxy war and illegal US and EU sanctions have devastated Syria, and blocked some humanitarian aid after a crushing earthquake killed thousands of people. To save face, Washington agreed t...
12 Feb 202329min
Understanding money and the dollar system's contradictions with Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson
Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson explain the relations between money and debt, their role in imperialism, and the rise of the US dollar system. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ew21FOlft...
10 Feb 20231h 4min
US blew up Nord Stream pipelines connecting Russia to Germany, journalist Seymour Hersh reports
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh reported the US government destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines that delivered Russian gas to Germany. The Biden administration approved the CIA operatio...
9 Feb 202346min
UN: Western sanctions violate Venezuelans' human rights, devastated their economy
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said sanctions on Venezuela “have exacerbated the economic crisis and hindered human rights”, calling for the unilateral coercive measures to be lifte...
7 Feb 202316min
Behind the CIA war on Cuba and coup in Congo (with historian Aaron Good)
Historian Aaron Good explains the final years of the Dwight Eisenhower administration, including the start of the CIA's war on Cuba's revolutionary government and the coup against Congo's anti-colonia...
5 Feb 20231h
US 'neo-imperialist' dollar scheme explained by economist Yanis Varoufakis
Greece’s former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis explains the US system of “neo-imperialism” based on the dollar, an “IOU issued by the hegemon”, which finances a huge trade deficit by letting foreig...
3 Feb 202319min
