Fasten your seatbelts: whatever happens, Trumpquake is bound to be a bumpy ride. On the political Richter scale, that was a killer – literally. What was supposed to be a Liberal Totalitarian Show was brutally, unceremoniously, swept out of the park – any park. Even before Election Day, critical thinking was aware of the stakes.... Read More

The recent BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia should mark the end of the Neocon delusions encapsulated in the subtitle of Zbigniew Brzezinski’s 1997 book, The Global Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives. Since the 1990s, the goal of American foreign policy has been “primacy,” aka global hegemony. The U.S. methods of choice have been... Read More

The Kazan lab has laid out several geoeconomic road maps, and is seriously taking the inevitable roadblocks into account. We will need weeks, months, years to fully grasp the enormity of what took place in Kazan during the annual BRICS summit under the Russian presidency. For the moment let’s cherish arguably the most appropriate definition... Read More

The Russian presidency of BRICS 2024 could not have chosen a more multicultural and multi-nodal site to host a summit laden with enormous expectations by the Global Majority. The southwestern Russian city of Kazan, on the banks of the Volga and Kazanka rivers, is the capital of the semi-autonomous Republic of Tatarstan, renowned for its... Read More

Ragpicking is a serious women’s business, extracting value from rubbish. Cheerleading is the unserious business of girls waving pompoms at football games. There are those who claim the Kazan Declaration is today’s equivalent of the Bretton Woods Final Act (1944) and Bandung Declaration (1955), or a “a huge manifesto”, or “victory for all decent freedom-loving... Read More

Hi, everybody, today is Thursday October 24, 2024, and we’re having Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson with us to talk about the BRICS Summit in Kazan. Let’s start with Michael. Michael, what was important about this summit? MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, it was important not for coming up with solutions, but just to lay out what... Read More

Who was behind Wednesday’s terrorist attack on Turkey’s leading aerospace company? According to reports, at least five people were killed, and 22 others wounded, when two terrorists attacked the facility with explosives and gunfire before being “neutralized.” First clue: Turkish president Erdogan “was holding talks in Russia with Vladimir Putin at the time of the... Read More

The BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, aimed to be a turning point towards a truly multipolar or multi-nodal world that has been in transition for a few years now. The changes announced in Kazan regarding the payment system and the reserves of nations are concrete steps towards independence from the U.S. imperialistic system. This system... Read More

Before the 2016 election, the Anti-Defamation League scheduled a conference for November 17th, between the election and the inauguration of the next president. It was widely advertised that Hilary Clinton was to win that election, and at the conference, the ADL introduced a whole new legal framework for outlawing criticism of the Jews in the... Read More

Part 1: The Ideology of Mozgovism Translated by Dr. Livci, edited by Rurik; transmitted by Rolo Slavski Previously, we covered Storm Z. What I hope to achieve with this essay is to show that the “Russian Spring” of 2014-2016 was a genuine grassroots uprising that was first and foremost anti-oligarchic in its worldview. This is... Read More

Indivisibility of security as envisaged by Russia-China amounts to the de facto application of the UN Charter. The result would be peace on a global level – and by implication the death knell to NATO One week before the absolutely crucial BRICS summit in Kazan, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held a summit in Islamabad.... Read More

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... Read More

NIMA: So nice to have you, Michael. And let's get started with an article in Bloomberg, it says that the United States is concerned about the strengthening ties between Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea. And Richard, should they be concerned about this? RICHARD WOLFF: I think so, yes, they should be concerned. Whatever in... Read More

The first meeting of security experts/National Security Advisors under the expanded BRICS+ format at the Konstantinovsky Palace in St. Petersburg unveiled quite a few nuggets. Let’s start with China. Foreign Minister Wang Yi proposed four BRICS-centric security initiatives. Essentially, BRICS+ – and beyond, considering further expansion – should aim at peaceful coexistence; independence; autonomy; and... Read More

Something quite extraordinary happened at the plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok last week – very much in tune with the forum’s main theme: “Far Eastern 2030. Combining Strengths to Create New Potential.” The stage was shared by President Putin; Vice-President of China Han Zheng; and Prime Minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim.... Read More

The “big club” that “you ain’t in,” as George Carlin famously put it, is increasingly visible as the presidential election rolls on toward November. Politicians and the donor class that controls them have made it known to the public that they are not representatives of the majority but rather the small elite minority. Nomi Prins,... Read More