RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 34th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the show that examines the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of our time. I'm Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I'm Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: And working behind the scenes to bring you our show every fortnight are our host, Ben Norton, our videographer, Paul...
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Read MoreA European friend sent me this article which provides some understanding of the present political situation in France. The American media produces close to zero information about the political situation in European countries. What Americans hear of Europe is generally limited to whatever the current EU narrative is. The European Union is a puzzle. After...
Read MoreHans Vogel argues that the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov by French authorities illustrates the growing surveillance state in Europe, where governments, under the influence of the declining American Empire, suppress free communication while neglecting rising migrant violence and the dumbing down of education and public discourse. The recent arrest of Telegram boss Pavel...
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The Pavel Durov saga is a gift that will keep on giving for a long time to come. This is what hot information war is all about. So let’s attempt to connect several loose ends. A high-level Russian analyst makes the case that Durov’s arrest is connected with “anti-French protests in its former colonies, withdrawal...
Read MoreA question of our time is why do Europeans put up with the tyrannical EU scum? As I previously reported, the EU has told Elon Musk that they, not he, control the content of his interview on X with Donald Trump. The EU is an unelected governing body. Yet it claims to be democratic. It...
Read MoreIt is encouraging to see European nations stepping up to arm Ukraine, but their flagship effort at a coordinated strategy is faltering badly. According to a report released Monday by the Czech Senate, the Czech Munitions Initiative—a key component of this strategy—is falling short of its goals. The Czech Munitions Initiative was conceived to leverage...
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The Global Majority is fully aware that the genocidals in Tel Aviv are trying as hard as they can to provoke an apocalyptic war – with full US military support, of course. Contrast that combative mindset with 2,500 years of Persian diplomacy. Iran’s acting Foreign Minister, Ali Bagheri Kani, has recently remarked how Tehran is...
Read MoreTierry Breton, one of the tyrants that comprise the European Commission, has ordered Elon Musk to censor “harmful content” in his interview with US presidential candidate Donald Trump or face the EU’s “full toolbox” of legal repercussions. Breton warned Musk that the EU would be closely monitoring his interview of Trump. So here we have...
Read MoreI’ll tell ya man, these Israeli Jews must be the most honest Jews in the world. They’re just like “yes, we’re going to kill them all,” “yes, we think it’s okay to stick things up their asses in our torture prisons,” “yes, we’re going to starve the children to death.” They could just lie about...
Read MoreThe “new populism” on the left and right, and the collapse of the “centrist” cordon sanitaire Brussels Élites let out their long sigh of relief – the French Right was blocked. Markets complacently shrugged; ‘everything must ‘change’ to remain the same’. The Centre will find a way! Macron successfully had blocked the ‘populist’ Right and...
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The Big Picture remains: the future of the “rules-based international order” is being decided in the black soil of Novorossiya. Viktor Orban is on a roll. And that has set out a riotous roller coaster. Everyone has been gripped by the extraordinary spectacle of pre-historic specimens wallowing in the Western geopolitical swamp reaching the depths...
Read MoreE. Michael Jones deplores Jew hatred and analyzes European elections
Rumble link Bitchute link Europe is going anti-Semitic. What's with that? Let's start with Britain. That's the latest election. So many elections happening, it's hard to keep them all straight. Sir Keir Starmerstein, or whatever his name is, just won a historic victory. And the historic victory was basically the Jewish oligarchs', who destroyed the...
Read MoreThe July 4 landslide defeat of the neoliberal pro-war British Conservatives by the neoliberal pro-war Labour Party poses the question of just what the media mean when they describe the elections and political alignments throughout Europe in terms of center-right and center-left traditional parties challenged by nationalist neo-fascists. Political differences between Europe’s centrist parties are...
Read MoreI don’t know how the media keeps claiming this is controversial. It’s not controversial. The Ukraine is not going to “win” a war against Russia. That was always a totally retarded idea. I understand that people were lied to about what the initial invasion of the Ukraine was, told that Putin thought he was going...
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It is only by understanding and taking the Russian nuclear warnings seriously that we may exclude the risk of nuclear weapons coming into play. The G7 and the subsequent Swiss ‘Bürgenstock Conference’ can – in retrospect – be understood as preparation for a prolonged Ukraine war. The three centrepiece announcements emerging from the G7 –...
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That Group of 7 gathering on the coast of the Adriatic June 13–15 was truly a doozy, I have to say. Readers might think it a waste of column inches to devote any linage to it, as many will surely have forgotten about it by now—not to mention those many others who did not know...
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The Swiss “peace” kabuki came and went – and the winner was Vladimir Putin. He didn’t even have to show up. None of the Big Players did. Or in case they sent their emissaries, there was significant refusal to sign the vacuous final declaration – as in BRICS members Brazil, India, Saudi Arabia, UAE and...
Read MoreJust so everyone is clear: Zelensky’s backers invited virtually every country in the world except Russia to what they called a “peace summit” to try to convince them to endorse a “peace plan” that says Russia should not only offer an unconditional surrender, but also pay reparations and for all the top officials in government...
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Ah, those elections last week to the European Parliament, in which voters across the European Union administered a sound whack to the technocrats, market fundamentalists, and liberal authoritarians who now hold power across much of the Continent: Let us attempt what we are not supposed ever to undertake. Let us try to understand them. The...
Read MoreThis isn’t really a lot of money for a state, obviously. And obviously, Hungary gets a lot of money from the EU, so they’re really just giving them their own money back. But how is this not an “impasse”? Hungary is not going to start allowing migrants. If the fine is infinite, and other forms...
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The mutiny has arisen because many in the West see only too clearly that the western ruling structure is an illiberal mechanical ‘control system’. I have been writing for some time that Europe (and the U.S.) are in a period of alternate revolution and civil war. History warns us that such conflicts tend to be...
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The plutocracy believes that afterwards they can buy the whole thing for a pittance while flies are still laying eggs in European carcasses. So Le Petit Roi in Paris was predictably crushed in the European polls. He has called parliamentary snap elections, dissolving the Assemblée Nationale in an act of blind, puerile revenge on French...
Read MoreEuropean voters in the European Union parliamentary elections repudiated the governments of Washington’s puppet states. Marine Le Pen’s “right-wing” party received twice as many votes as President Macron’s party. The two “right-wing” German parties both bested Chancellor Scholz’s party. The Italian elections gave the vote to prime Minister Meloni’s “right-wing” party. In Belgian, the two...
Read MoreIt was the English writer G.K. Chesterton who remarked that “compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.” In the current war against Russian grain, less than half a loaf is what...
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