JIM KAVANAGH (Quoting Trump)—TRUMP: You better believe it… I will tell you that our system is broken. I gave to many people. Before this, before two months ago, I was a businessman. I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And you know what? When I need something from them, two years later, three years later, I call them. They are there for me. And that’s a broken system.
Jim Kavanagh
Jim Kavanagh
A former professor, and now in retirement full-on antiwar/ anti-imperialist activist, New York native Jim Kavanagh edits The Polemicist (http://www.thepolemicist.net). Follow him on Twitter @ThePolemicist_.
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BRICS And The Fundamental Paradigm Shift in the Political Economy of the World
by Jim Kavanagh17 minutes readEDITOR—Thus, I came across this video from a channel called Inside China Business, by a guy named Kevin Walmsley, who has lived and worked in China since 2012 for a company called Direct Equipment. The video is entitled, bluntly, “The BRICS trading system is already wiping out US farmers, as global price discovery is destroyed” and it gives a concrete analysis, which surprised me, of how the BRICS system has already upended the global commodities trading system that was “for a hundred years” based on the U.S. dollar and essentially managed from Chicago. As he says, “This is one of the biggest stories in the world, and nobody is talking about it”—because few people know how. He knows how.
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Israel’s War on Lebanon, Iran and Palestinians—Jim Kavanagh on PressTV
by Jim Kavanagh5 minutes readEDITOR—Jim paints a bleak picture for the region as Israel, confident of extensive Western support—military, diplomatic, financial, and media.—especially by the US, the UK and much of the EU—goes all out to complete its long-held dream of a “Greater Israel” via the expulsion or extermination of Palestinians and any other population standing in its way. The choices facing the Resistance (Iran, Iraq, Syria, Hamas, the Palestinians, Hezbollah, the people of Lebanon, etc.) are grim, as full-on regional war could devastate the whole region, cost millions of lives, and possibly inflame WW3. The forceful and intelligent intervention in this conflict by new players—Turkey, Russia, China, etc.—may be the only hope for containing an even larger tragedy.