Two leading critics of global imperialism, Profs. Michael Hudson and Richard D. Wolff, analyse the present political/economic situation shaping events across the world, and the behaviour of the US empire in this historical phase characterised by the decay of US hegemony, and the rise of powerful independent powers determined to build a new order grounded in sovereignty, peace, international solidarity, and multipolarism. The guests focus on the Kursk invasion supported by NATO, which is being presented in diametrically opposite ways by the mass media. Those in the West are advancing a complete lie, suggesting that the invasion is a huge victory for Ukraine that could end up destroying Russia’s armies and the much hated “Putin regime”. The reality media used by the West’s opponents describes a Ukrainian incursion that can easily become Kiev’s last “Hail Mary”, their desperate “Last Hurrah!”. Dr Wolff concludes that we may be witnessing (from Ukraine to the Middle East) a lot of theatrics. Dr Hudson speaks about the creation of a Nazi Ukraine, via the Anglo-American persistent exploitation of regional hatreds and prejudices, especially in Western Ukraine (Galizia, etc.), all of which has created a monster in Eastern Europe, just as the West has created a similar monster in Israel (occupied Palestine). The experts are in agreement that the likelihood of the Ukraine war ending through negotiations is next to nil, as Putin has frequently suggested, since there’s no Kiev government capable of such an agreement, and the West, especially the US, is not agreement capable.
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EDITORS—Nonetheless, even if the essence of the internal U.S. conflict is shrouded, a veil on the working of the Deep State has been peeled away: It is widely understood the Biden ouster was masterminded – behind the curtain – by Barack Obama. Pelosi was the ‘enforcer’ (“We can do this [Biden’s ouster] the easy way – or the ‘hard way’”, Pelosi warned the Biden circle).
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PATRICK LAWRENCE—And then the case of Primo Levi, the famous survivor of the camps and author of, among other things, If This Be a Man, his account of his time at Auschwitz. A couple of years into the regime of Menachem Begin, who was not Israel’s first terrorist prime minister and not the last, Levi dismissed the Zionist project altogether. “The center of gravity of the Jewish world must turn back,” he wrote, “must move out of Israel and back into the diaspora.” He later told an American audience, “Israel was a mistake in historical terms.”
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EDITORS—The constant begging for money, the malnourished population, the open sewage — all of that was familiar to us as veteran war zone doctors. But add in the incredible population density, the overwhelming numbers of badly maimed children and amputees, the constant hum of drones, the smell of explosives and gunpowder — not to mention the constant earth-shaking explosions — and it’s no wonder UNICEF has declared the Gaza Strip as “the world’s most dangerous place to be a child.” We have always gone where we were most needed. In March, it was obvious that the place was the Gaza Strip.
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EDITORS—The panel discusses how a Yemeni drone got through, considering that several neighboring countries, like Egypt and Jordan, not to mention US and EU assets, are often deployed to keep airstrikes like these from occurring. The West appears confused about Yemen’s capabilities; they certainly have great ability to hide their military assets, and absorb punishment.
