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All Power to the Banks! The Winners-Take-All Regime of Emmanuel Macron
All Power to the Banks! The Winners-Take-All Regime of Emmanuel Macron A ghost of the past was the real winner of the French presidential election. Emmanuel Macron won only because a majority felt they had to vote against the ghost of “fascism” allegedly embodied by his opponent, Marine Le Pen. Whether out of panic or […]
Why Study History?
Why Study History? As liberal Democrats for the most part, United States historians have no doubt been having a field day with Donald Trump’s recently reported clueless comments on United States history. The president’s moronic take on the nation’s past was front-page news last Tuesday in liberals’ and academics’ favorite newspaper, The New York Times. […]
Prosecution of Assange is Persecution of Free Speech
Prosecution of Assange is Persecution of Free Speech US authorities are reported to have prepared charges to seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. This overreach of US government toward a publisher, whose principle is aligned with the U.S. Constitution, is another sign of a crumbling façade of democracy. The Justice Department in the […]
Why Trump is Wrong About North Korea
Why Trump is Wrong About North Korea When I think about North Korea, what first comes to my mind is a mist over the calm and majestic surface of the Taedong River near Pyongyang. Next I always recall two lovers, locked in a tender and almost desperate embrace, sitting side by side on the shore. […]
The Problem is Washington, Not North Korea
The Problem is Washington, Not North Korea Photo by Stefan Krasowski | CC BY 2.0 Washington has never made any effort to conceal its contempt for North Korea. In the 64 years since the war ended, the US has done everything in its power to punish, humiliate and inflict pain on the Communist country. Washington has subjected […]
Australia Beckons a War With China
Australia Beckons a War With China Photo by Marko Mikkonen | CC BY 2.0 Australia is sleep-walking into a confrontation with China. Wars can happen suddenly in an atmosphere of mistrust and provocation, especially if a minor power, like Australia, abandons its independence for an “alliance” with an unstable superpower. The United States is at […]
The Deep State and the Dark Arts
The Deep State and the Dark Arts Photo by Nicolas Raymond | CC BY 2.0 Rejecting populism for hegemony There’s a superb scene in the movie Syriana where CIA bureaucrats distance themselves from one of their agents, Bob, played by George Clooney, who has become a troublesome asset for the agency. Terry, the pack leader, begins to extemporize […]
Did the Russians Really Hack the DNC?
Did the Russians Really Hack the DNC? Russia, we are told, breached the servers of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), swiped emails and other documents, and released them to the public, to alter the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. How substantial is the evidence backing these assertions? Hired by the Democratic National Committee to […]
Manufacturing Normality
Manufacturing Normality Sometime circa mid-November, in the wake of Hillary Clinton’s defeat (i.e., the beginning of the end of democracy), the self-appointed Guardians of Reality, better known as the corporate media, launched a worldwide marketing campaign against the evil and perfidious scourge of “fake news.” This campaign is now at a fever pitch. Media outlets […]
Trump, Brexit and the Collapse of the Liberal Order
Trump, Brexit and the Collapse of the Liberal Order Photo by DonkeyHotey | CC BY 2.0 One of the most confounding aspects of Donald Trump’s election as 45th President of the United States is that in the space of a year – indeed less than a year – a man with zero political experience has destroyed two […]
Thinking Dangerously in the Age of Normalized Ignorance
Thinking Dangerously in the Age of Normalized Ignorance Photo by new 1lluminati | CC BY 2.0 What happens to a society when thinking is eviscerated and is disdained in favor of raw emotion? [1] What happens when political discourse functions as a bunker rather than a bridge? What happens when the spheres of morality and spirituality […]
A Scam Too Far
A Scam Too Far One of the more politically frustrating aspects of the last decade in the West is the unwillingness of the powers-that-be to address the radical dysfunction that underlies Western political economy. As fact, microcosm and metaphor, the ‘scandal’ of Wells Fargo bank creating millions of fake accounts, charging its customers for the […]
Monsanto and Bayer: Why Food and Agriculture Just Took a Turn For The Worse
Monsanto and Bayer: Why Food and Agriculture Just Took a Turn For The Worse defotoberg | Shutterstock.com News broke this week that Monsanto accepted a $66 billion takeover bid from Bayer. The new company would control more than 25 per cent of the global supply of commercial seeds and pesticides. Bayer’s crop chemicals business is the world’s second largest […]
Stop the Fed Before it Kills Again
Stop the Fed Before it Kills Again Why has the Fed created incentives for US corporations to loot their companies and drive them deeper into debt? Despite four consecutive quarters of negative earnings, weak demand and anemic sales, US corporations continue to load up on debt, buy back their own shares and hand out cash […]
The Slow Crash: When Global Economies are Run by Banks
The Slow Crash: When Global Economies are Run by Banks I’m Bonnie Faulkner. Today on Guns and Butter, Dr. Michael Hudson. Today’s show: The Slow Crash. Dr. Hudson is a financial economist and historian. He is President of the Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends, a Wall Street financial analyst and Distinguished Research Professor of […]
