Nov 24, 2024 #richardwolff #nato #russia
Economist Richard Wolff breaks down how Russia crushed NATO Sanctions, accelerating the collapse of the U.S. Empire amid China and BRICS rise. Discover the global shifts reshaping the balance of power and what it means for the economic and geopolitical future of our world.

Richard Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor at The New School, where he works on economics in the Marxist tradition.

BILLY BOB—Blowback: Exposing Imperial Decline with special guests Max Parry and Charles McKelvey. The primary topic for today’s program is what we should expect from the incoming Trump administration, including the strategies that Trump should employ in order to advance his MAGA agenda.

INDRAJIT—It is said, “those who are in solidarity with our corpses and not our rockets are hypocrites, and not of us.” I think that sums it up. I am not worth the dust on a single fighter’s sandals, but I am not a hypocrite. My scales will be light on the day of judgment, but they won’t be empty. I do not support Palestinian resistance while condemning the Palestinian Resistance.

KIT KLARENBERG—It transpired that the appropriate weapons hadn’t been purchased, due to a lack of funds – the money having of course been spent instead on constructing barely operable aircraft carriers, which now face summary defenestration. By investing incalculable time, energy, and money in pursuing the mythological greatness associated with carrier capability, Britain – just like the US Empire – now finds itself unable to meet modern warfare’s most basic challenges. Meanwhile, its adversaries near and far have remorselessly innovated, equipping themselves for 21st century battle.

EDITOR—Nima and Larry cover a broad array of subjects. Larry is nauseated by Netanyahu’s cynical speech rejecting the ICC charges (duly seconded by the US mouthpieces), done, he notes, in English for an American audience.  Every word, every sentence in it is a filthy lie. Larry also explains in some detail what the new Russian missile is all about, pointing out that ATACMS are not long range weapons, but short range supersonic (but not hypersonic, reaching up to 190 miles), and that the missile used by the Russians on Ukraine, the Oreshnik (Hazelnut), is an intermediate-range ballistic missile (from 600 to 1500 miles), which could easily reach every corner of Europe. Commenting on Israel’s barbaric war on the Palestinian population, an ethnic cleansing op condemned as a war crime, Larry reminds the audience that Israel learnt such military approach from the US and Britain. US/allied bombing of Germany killed up to a million civilians, he notes. That’s not Moscow’s way of war. 

EDITOR—Col. Wilkerson celebrates Netanyahu’s arrest warrant by the ICC, noting that, ironically, the US was the chief backer for the creation of that institution, but also promptly refused to sign off on the treaty for the simple reason that the US saw its own politicians would surely be subject to criminal charges some day due to the frequency of unlawful interventions committed by the US.  Basically, we stayed away because we are the imperial giant.  “As the Empire, we hold the prerogative to put our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines in any country and kill their people anytime we want to.” Wilkerson also says that Russia, China, or Iran are not a danger to the US. “The real present danger to all Americans, and much of the world, is the Biden administration,” he says.

BRIAN BERLETIC—Russia has retaliated against the use of Western-manufactured missiles inside Russian territory by firing an intermediate-range ballistic missile with multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles at military industrial targets in eastern Ukraine;
The missile had previously been prohibited under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with such missiles constituting the primary means of nuclear exchange between the Soviet Union and NATO in Europe during the Cold War;
The stark warning comes at a time when Ukrainian forces are rapidly deteriorating and the prospect of a widespread collapse increases;

EDITOR—Garland and Prof. Jim Kavanagh discuss the extremely dangerous situation provoked by the “collective Biden” gang choosing further escalation with Russia in order to tie Trump’s hands, and distract the incoming administration from any judicial persecution against the numerous malefactors in the national security apparatus, especially the CIA, FBI and NSA, all of which played a huge role in the Russiagate hoax and Trump’s demonisation by every means available to these factions. Now the world finds itself on the brink of a horrible nuclear calamity, as the Biden gang continues to put the pedal to the floor as it seeks confrontation with Moscow and Beijing in a last-gasp effort to bend history to their designs. No greater crime has ever been seen in history. 

EDITOR—A population drunk on idiocies—sports spectacles, Taylor Swift mania, rabid exceptionalism, Disney history, moronic infantile cinema, fake journalism, and ludicrous, performative politics—allowed itself to be driven to the slaughterhouse without a fight.
What a way to go!
So here we are, finally on the brink of a global nuclear war that will annihilate all human life along with the lives of trillions of innocent creatures who happen to share this tormented planet with us.

OLIVER BOYD-BARRETT—[The response to the stupid US provocation continues to make waves in Russia and Europe]. For Antiwar.com David DeCamp (DeCamp) reports that Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said today that a controversial US missile defense base in Poland is a potential target of the Russian military.

“The Aegis Ashore anti-ballistic missile system in Poland has long been a security concern for Russia as its Mark-41 launchers are capable of fitting nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles, which have a range of about 1,000 miles. A land-based version of the Tomahawks was previously banned by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which the US withdrew from in 2019. The integration of the Aegis Ashore system into NATO’s defensive network has just been formalized. The Aegis Ashore Ballistic Missile Defence System facility at Redzikowo, Poland. Also today, Vladimir Putin has confirmed that Russia has the right to strike the military facilities of countries that are supplying Ukraine with the missiles”.