Yanis Varoufakis: We Are Living in a Post-Capitalist, Techno-Feudalist Dystopia
YANIS VAROUFAKIS: WE ARE LIVING IN A POST-CAPITALIST, TECHNO-FEUDALIST DYSTOPIA World-renowned Greek economist, author, and politician Yanis Varoufakis argues that global capitalism as we know it is dying—and something much worse is taking its place. Yanis Varoufakis speaks with This Is Revolution co-hosts Jason Myles and Pascal Robert. Screenshot/TRNN From the push to turn more […]
When normality is exposed as a Ponzi
When normality is exposed as a Ponzi Putin’s hubris, yes-men for generals, lack of fighting conviction among the men, poor logistics and strong Ukrainian leadership and determination have combined to turn the Russian invasion of Ukraine into a military quagmire. Meanwhile, the West has upped the stakes in a financial war. The underlying assumption is […]
Food Crisis Imminent: Hungary Bans All Grains Exports Effective Immediately
Food Crisis Imminent: Hungary Bans All Grains Exports Effective Immediately (Update 1:25pm ET) – Those who have it, are no longer giving it away, and those that don’t will soon find themselves in the middle of an epic food crisis. Just hours after we reported that Russia effectively banned exports of fertilizers, moments ago Hungary – […]
FRA-OIS Explodes: Here Is The Only Chart Powell Is Closely Watching, And Why It Is Soaring
FRA-OIS Explodes: Here Is The Only Chart Powell Is Closely Watching, And Why It Is Soaring Some were quick to mock repo guru and former NY Fed staffer Zoltan Pozsar when he warned that the unexpected western blockade of Russia had the feel of a Lehman weekend, because virtually nobody had any idea what the forced exclusion […]
Pioneer CEO Sheffield Warns U.S. Shale Is Unable to Grow Much More
Pioneer CEO Sheffield Warns U.S. Shale Is Unable to Grow Much More (Bloomberg) — U.S. shale lacks the capacity to come to the rescue of consumers battling sky-high energy prices with much more crude production, says the boss of the Permian Basin’s biggest oil explorer. Only OPEC countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab […]
The world could be on the brink of an energy crisis rivaling the 1970s, says IHS Markit’s Yergin
The world could be on the brink of an energy crisis rivaling the 1970s, says IHS Markit’s Yergin Russia’s Ukraine invasion could have set in motion an energy market disruption on the scale of major oil crises in the 1970s, according to Daniel Yergin, vice chairman of IHS Markit. Sanctions by the U.S. and allies […]
Digital Brownshirts and Their Masters
Digital Brownshirts and Their Masters We are under siege. A nihilistic fanaticism is running free among us thanks to the emergence of a journalistic “ethos” that establishes an almost complete equivalence between the “truth” and those utterances that support the strategic goals of the great economic and digital powers of our time. A few months […]
Russia bans ammonium nitrate exports until April to support domestic farmers
Russia bans ammonium nitrate exports until April to support domestic farmers Russia has banned the export of ammonium nitrate (AN) from Feb. 2 to April 1, in a widely-expected move by the government as it seeks to guarantee affordable supplies for domestic farmers following the spike in global fertilizer prices. Ammonia gas, one of the […]
Two Oil Price Scenarios: One Bad, And One Catastrophic
Two Oil Price Scenarios: One Bad, And One Catastrophic Another day, another record discount for Russian Urals crude, which was offered at a price more than $22 below spot by oil trader Trafigura and still could find no giant… … confirmed what we previously observed, namely that the commodity world is splitting in two: a bidless market for Russian […]
Who’s Got the Gold?
Who’s Got the Gold? In 1971, the US abruptly went off the gold standard, and in making the public announcement, US President Richard Nixon looked into the television camera and said, “We’re all Keynesians now.” I was a young man at the time and had previously bought gold, albeit on a very small scale, but […]
Every US Enemy Is Hitler: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Every US Enemy Is Hitler: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ It’s just incredible how even after all this time, after all those wars, after all those lies, it’s not even occurring to most mainstream westerners to investigate whether the US could possibly have had […]
Russia-Ukraine War Propaganda Exposed
Russia-Ukraine War Propaganda Exposed Kim Iversen from “The Hill” breaks down what’s true and what’s false about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Using images of past wars to depict the current conflict is blatant propaganda. Iversen noted that she mistakenly promoted a picture of Zelensky in full military gear that was taken in April 2021, and […]
Russia Describes “Hot War” With West To Settle “Post-Soviet Space” Once & For All; Zelensky Urges Direct Putin Meeting
Russia Describes “Hot War” With West To Settle “Post-Soviet Space” Once & For All; Zelensky Urges Direct Putin Meeting Update(1138amET): The second round of Ukraine-Russia talks are underway, with a “ceasefire” possibility on the table – however this is unlikely given what both sides communicated to Macron prior to the meeting as to their demands. On […]
