MICHAEL HUDSON—No. I was on Chinese television two weeks ago, you were there. As I explained, this is simply a charade. There was never a debt problem, but it was presented nightly on the news, like a wrestling match between the good guy and the bad guy. And the pretense was that somehow the Congress had to come together and agree to remove the debt ceiling in order for Congress to pay for the programs that the Senate and Congress already had approved.
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PAUL EDWARDS—It would be difficult to say, at this stage, whether the myth of Christianity or of Capitalism has the strongest hold on humanity. What is undeniable is that both are myths that have long exerted tremendous influence over the minds of much of mankind.
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In England on May Day tens of thousands of nurses went on strike and walked out from their work at the NHS. In London alone there were over a dozen picket lines as anger, despair and the struggle for a better wage were shouted out on the streets. The government offered the nurses a 5% pay increase which some union members accepted. However, with the inflation continuing to rise in the UK this offer was turned down by many union members too.
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ERIC ZUESSE—The U.S. Government and its colonies or vassal nations or ‘allies’ — the equivalents today of Hitler’s stooges and legions during World War II — pontificate about ‘democracy’ that’s based on deceiving their own publics, and they pontificate against Russia’s entirely justified invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022
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P. GREANVILLE—As far as the Western elites are concerned, such adjustments have to be made soon, or else cataclysm may ensue. Time is short on every front—political, economic, ecological— and the proper and fair solutions are rather obvious. The people have had enough. Especially in the Global South, but now also across the “Golden Billion”. As events in France, Czechoslovakia, and even Germany and Britain show, the signs are multiplying that the Empire is losing its grip over much of its captive populations. The people are done with the “neoliberal” model of governance and its repugnant hypocrisy and sociopathy.
