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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
February 28, 2023
Geopolitical Economy Report on Feb 24, 2023
Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson explain the end of the British empire’s sterling area with the rise of the US dollar system, its central role in imperialism, and why it ultimately failed to accomplish Washington’s hegemonic goals.
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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
February 20, 2023
Geopolitical Economy Report on Feb 10, 2023
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.
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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
February 13, 2023
The Left Lens with Danny Haiphong on Feb 2, 2023
Economists Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai join Danny Haiphong to break down the economics of the Ukraine proxy war between NATO and Russia as the one-year anniversary of the military operation approaches.
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by Finian Cunningham
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Ireland
February 1, 2023
Finian Cunningham on Jan 28, 2023
The war in Ukraine is not just about Ukraine and Russia with the US and NATO acting as seemingly benevolent supporters of Ukraine, as the Western media portray.
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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
November 5, 2022
India & Global Left on Nov 4, 2022
Prof. Hudson speaks on the nature of US financial dominance, the role of World Bank in developing countries, USA’s ability to run a huge balance of payment deficit, changes in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union, the problems of US economy with post-industrialization, and the role of neoclassical economics in all this.
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“We have, after World War II, systematically destroyed the Left: Communists, Socialists, Marxists, Anarchists, Labor Union activists, all of it. It is logical and not a surprise that an angry American working class goes to the right, it looks to the right to give them the explanation.” — Richard Wolff
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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy, Sept. 21, 2022
September 22, 2022
Debate set up by World BEYOND War on September 21, 2022, International Day of Peace.
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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
September 14, 2022
Multipolarista on Sep 8, 2022
Economist Michael Hudson discusses partial student debt relief in the US, inflation and the Fed, disaster capitalism in Ukraine, and China’s challenge to the petrodollar.
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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
August 8, 2022
This time Eric welcomes back author and economist Michael Hudson to discuss his new book The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism, or Socialism available from CounterPunch.
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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
July 21, 2022
Empire of Inflation: Economist Michael Hudson on U.S. Economic Warfare and Super Imperialism
The Left Lens on May 25, 2022
Economist Michael Hudson joins the Left Lens to discuss the rise of inflation, the weakening of the U.S. dollar, and the consequences of U.S. economic warfare in the Ukraine crisis.
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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
June 28, 2022
Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers on Jun 16, 2022
Welcome to the Shepheard Walwyn podcast and a two part interview with Michael Hudson, perhaps to the world’s most influential (but rarely acknowledged) economist. Michael has had a remarkable career starting off as a practical or reality-based economist working for a variety of institutions looking and how banks really behave.
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by Will Griffin
Writer, Dandelion Salad
April 12, 2022
“Studying the contemporary expressions of monopoly-capitalism’s key features shows that the logic and dynamic of the monopoly capitalist system remains fundamentally unchanged from Lenin’s time. However, it shows that the forms and means of exploitation and oppression that characterize imperialism have evolved and intensified.” — Paul Quintos
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by Will Griffin
Writer, Dandelion Salad
March 24, 2022
“So what is imperialism? On the surface it may seem relatively easy to understand: a big powerful evil nation dominates a small weak innocent nation. But when we dig deeper imperialism becomes a complex system to understand. A wide variety of concepts frameworks and philosophies are used by different groups of people to understand this system of domination.
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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
March 23, 2022
Ross [00:00:29] Welcome to Renegade Inc. Whatever the outcome in Ukraine, one thing is for sure the economic reverberations will be felt by everyone for years to come as the world divides between the West and a rapidly reshaping Eurasia.
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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
March 8, 2022
But nobody thought that it would happen this fast.
Empires often follow the course of a Greek tragedy, bringing about precisely the fate that they sought to avoid. That certainly is the case with the American Empire as it dismantles itself in not-so-slow motion.
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