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War on Iran is part of the US empire’s larger attempt to re-impose its unipolar dominance on the global political and financial system, argues economist Michael Hudson.
Washington wants to preserve dollar hegemony and the petrodollar, while disrupting BRICS and Eurasian integration with China and Russia.
Hudson explained this in the following interview with Geopolitical Economy Report editor Ben Norton.
You can read Michael Hudson’s article here: War on Iran is fight for US unipolar control of world.
Transcript
Introduction
BEN NORTON: Why is the United States so concerned about Iran?
US President Donald Trump admitted that what Washington wants is regime change in Tehran, to overthrow the Iranian government.
Trump backed a war on Iran in June, in which both the US and Israel directly bombed Iranian territory.
Trump claimed that he brokered a ceasefire after what he calls the 12 Day War that the US and Israel waged against Iran. But it’s very difficult to believe that this ceasefire will hold.
Especially considering that Trump said the same in January. He claimed to broker a ceasefire in Gaza, but then in March, two months later, Israel started the war again, after Trump had given Israel the green light to violate the ceasefire that he helped to broker.
So it’s very difficult for Iranian officials to believe that the ceasefire will truly hold. And even if it does hold in the short term, the reality is that the US government has been waging a kind of political war and an economic war against Iran for many decades, going back to 1953, when the US carried out a coup that overthrew Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and installed a pro-US dictator, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
So why is this? What does Washington want to get out of its never-ending political and economic war on Iran?
To try to answer this question, I interviewed the renowned economist Michael Hudson, who has written many books and is an expert on global political economy.
Michael Hudson published an article in which he outlines the economic and political reasons for this war on Iran, and he posits that this is part of the attempt by the US empire to impose a unipolar order on the world, like we saw in the 1990s, when the US was the only superpower and it could impose its political and economic will on almost all countries on Earth.
Iran was one of the very few countries that was actually resisting US unipolar hegemony. And today we see, as the world is more and more multipolar, Iran plays an important role as a BRICS member, and as a supporter of resistance groups.
Iran is pushing for a more multipolar world, in opposition to the US empire’s unipolarity, as the economist Michael Hudson describes in this essay.
Hudson wrote:
What is at stake is the US attempt to control the Middle East and its oil as a buttress of US economic power, and to prevent other countries from moving to create their own autonomy from the US-centered neoliberal order administered by the IMF, World Bank, and other institutions to reinforce US unipolar power.
In our discussion today, Michael connects all of the different factors involved in this conflict, including the oil and gas and other resources in West Asia (in the so-called Middle East); including the role of the US dollar and the petrodollar system; and how Iran, as a member of BRICS, and many other Global South countries, are de-dollarizing and seeking alternatives to the dollar.
We also talk about the geopolitics of the region, the trade routes and interconnectivity among China, Iran, and Russia, as part of a project of Eurasian integration; we talk about the geopolitical goals of the US and Israel; and much, much more.
Here is an excerpt of our conversation, and then we’ll go straight to the interview:
MICHAEL HUDSON: What we have seen in the last month — or I should say the last two years actually — is the culmination of the long strategy that America has had ever since World War II, to take complete control of the Near Eastern oil lands and make them proxies of the United States, under client rulers, such as Saudi Arabia and the king of Jordan.
Iran represents a military threat to Russia’s southern border, because if the United States could put a client regime in Iran, or break up Iran into ethnic groups who would be able to interfere with Russia’s corridor of trade southwards, into access to the Indian Ocean, well, then you have boxed in Russia, you have boxed in China, and you have managed to isolate them.
That is the current American foreign policy. If you can isolate countries that do not want to be part of the American international financial and trade system, then the belief is that they cannot exist by themselves; they are too small.
America is still living back in the epoch of the 1955 Bandung Conference of Non-Aligned nations in Indonesia. When other countries wanted to go alone, they were too economically small.
But today, for the first time in modern history, you have the option of Eurasia, of Russia, China, Iran, and all of the neighboring countries in between. For the first time, they are large enough that they do not need trade and investment with the United States.
In fact, while the United States and its NATO allies in Europe are shrinking — they are de-industrialized, neoliberal, post-industrial economies — most of the growth in world production, manufacturing, and trade has occurred in China, along with the control of the raw materials refining, such as rare earths, but also cobalt, even aluminum, and many other materials in China.
So America’s strategic attempt to isolate Russia, China, and any of their allies in BRICS or the Shanghai Cooperation Organization ends up isolating itself. It is forcing other countries to make a choice.
That is the only thing that America has to offer other countries in today’s world. It can’t offer them exports. It can’t offer them monetary stability.
The only thing that America has to offer the world is to refrain from destroying their economy and causing economic chaos, such as Trump has threatened to do with his tariffs, and what he has threatened to do to any country trying to create an alternative to the dollar.
Hence this free lunch, where other countries can earn dollars, but they have to re-lend them to the United States. And the United States, as their banker, has to hold it all, and the banker may just decide whom to pay and whom not to pay.
It’s a gangster. It has been called a gangster state, for just such reasons. And other countries are afraid of what the United States can do, not only under Donald Trump, but what it has been doing for the last 50 years. It is simply confiscating, and destabilizing, and overthrowing.
America has basically declared war against any attempt to create an international trade and investment system that the United States does not control, in its own self-interest, wanting all of the earnings from it, all of the revenue from it, not just part of it. It’s a greedy empire.
Interview
BEN NORTON: Michael, thanks for joining me. It’s always a real pleasure having you.
Let’s talk about this article you wrote, in which you argue that the war on Iran is part of an attempt by the United States to impose its unipolar hegemony on the world.
We see that we’re living in more and more of a multipolar world, and Iran has played an important part of the multipolar project as a member of BRICS, as a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, as a partner of China and Russia. Iran has also been pushing for de-dollarization of the global financial system.
Talk about how you see the war on Iran — which didn’t start under Donald Trump, this goes back many years — and how you see it in particular as an economist.
MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, the war on Iran started in 1953, when the United States and MI6 overthrew the elected Prime Minister [Mohammad Mosaddegh], and the reason he was overthrown was because he wanted to nationalize the oil reserves of Iran. The United States has always viewed Iran as part of the Near Eastern oil Gulf.
American foreign policy, in terms of weaponizing its foreign trade, has always been based on two commodities: food grains — the ability to stop exporting food to countries that oppose US policy, as the United States stopped exporting grain to China under Mao — and oil.
For a century, the United States has focused on control of the oil as the basis of its international trade balance — it’s the largest contributor to the trade balance — and of its ability to sanction the rest of the world, by turning off the oil supply, and thereby turning off the electricity, turning off the gas, turning off the home heating, of countries that break away from US policy.
When I worked for the Hudson Institute in the early 1970s, Herman Kahn brought me to a meeting with some generals, and they were discussing what to do with Iran in case, under the shah, Iran should ever once again try to assert its autonomy and go its own way.
Iran has always been the strongest power in the entire Near East, and the capstone to controlling the Near East. You cannot fully control the Near Eastern oil — Syria, Iraq, the rest of the countries there — without controlling Iran too, because of the size of its population and the strength of its economy.
It was a very interesting meeting. Herman Kahn, the model for Dr. Strangelove, discussed how to break up Iran into its various ethnicities, five or six ethnicities, in the case that it should, take a policy independent from the United States.
The United States’ concern already in the 1970s, 50 years ago, was, “What do we do if other countries do not follow the kind of international world order that we are, organizing?”
Herman said that he thought the crisis point that was going to break up in international news was going to be Balochistan, at Iran’s border with Pakistan. The Balochis are a distinct population, just as the Azerbaijanis, Azeris, the Kurds.
Iran is a composite of many ethnic groups, including a very large Jewish group there. It is a multi-ethnic society, and the United States’ strategy, in case there was a war against Iran, was to play on these ethnicities — just as similar plans were drawn up for Russia, how to break it into separate ethnic parts; and China, how to break China into ethnic parts, at such point as America wants to take them on.
And the reason this ethnic division was developed was, as a democracy, especially in the 1970s, it became very apparent that the United States never again could field an army for invasion, as it was doing in Vietnam.
At the time I sat in on this meeting, late 1974 I think, or early ’75, there were demonstrations. It was obvious that there could never be a military draft again.
How was the United States to exert its international power without military power? It had military bases all over the world; it spent more on military than any other country.
The entire US balance of payments deficit was military spending abroad, and yet it couldn’t go to war. It had to use proxies.
This was the time when, in addition to the discussions that I sat in on how to use ethnicities in countries that we declared war on, as opponents; America decided to create the largest military base in the Near East, and that was Israel.
Henry Jackson, the pro-war, Military-Industrial Complex’s senator, met with Herman Kahn — I actually was in Herman’s office, listening to the phone call, when it came through — and the agreement was that the Military-Industrial Complex and Jackson would back Israel, if Israel agreed to act as America’s landed aircraft carrier in the Near East, as it was put at the time.
Herman very gladly made that arrangement, because the Hudson Institute at that time was a Zionist organization, and it was a training ground for Mossad.
One of my colleagues was Uzi Arad. We made a number of trips together to Asia. And Uzi became Netanyahu’s advisor and head of Mossad in subsequent years.
So I sort of sat in at the time when the American strategy was being outlined.
Israel was going to be America’s face, and indeed has been coordinating America’s backing of Al-Qaeda and the Wahhabi butchers who have taken over Syria, and are now busy killing the Christians, killing the Shiites, killing the Alawites.
And you will never see any criticism of Israel by Al-Qaeda, or the group [Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)] in Syria, whatever you want to call it there now. And vice versa, there has always been a working relationship.
So this gives some background as to how long the United States has anticipated the day when it would try to finally capstone its invasion of Iraq, its attack on Syria, its destruction of Libya, its backing of the destruction of Lebanon, and other countries, in North Africa, etc.
What we have seen in the last month — or I should say the last two years actually — is the culmination of the long strategy that America has had ever since World War II, to take complete control of the Near Eastern oil lands and make them proxies of the United States, under client rulers, such as Saudi Arabia and the king of Jordan.
Geopolitics and global trade
BEN NORTON: You raised so many interesting points, Michael. I want focus on two main issues here: one is the geopolitics of Iran’s integration with Eurasia, and the other is oil and the petrodollar system.
I will start with the geopolitics. Of course, when we talk about the petrodollar, we should keep in mind that Iran has been selling its oil and gas in other currencies, and pushing for de-dollarization.
But before we get to that, I want to talk about the role that Iran has played not only in supporting resistance groups in West Asia, but also in deepening its political and economic partnership with China and Russia, as part of a larger Eurasian partnership.
There are numerous physical projects integrating these regions.
Iran is at the heart of China’s New Silk Road. This was originally launched by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013, and then it expanded into the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Iran is an important part in that, connecting East Asia, through Central Asia, through Iran, into West Asia. And the US has really tried to disrupt that.
Iran also plays an important role in a Russian-led economic corridor that connects from St. Petersburg, through Moscow, down through the Caspian Sea, through Iran, and to India.
This is known as the International North-South Transport Corridor, the INSTC.
So we have seen that Iran has played a very important role challenging the US dollar, challenging US hegemony, and also seeking economic and political integration with other countries in Eurasia.
Can you speak more about this and why these imperial planners in Washington see this as so much of a threat?
MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, you just summarized the two maps that I included in my article.
About a month ago, Iran just completed its Belt and Road railroad, that goes all the way to Tehran. For the first time, there is a land corridor from Iran to China.
Now, the Belt and Road corridor means they’re avoiding going by sea.
American and British military policy has been based for a hundred years on control of the seas, and control of the oil trade was part of that strategy.
Because if Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the other oil-producing countries can’t load up tankers with oil, how are they going to be able to export? And how can importers such as China, or India, obtain oil from the Near East?
Well, with China’s Belt and Road Initiative, its intention was to go all the way through, via Iran, and then proceed on all the way to the Atlantic Ocean, to Europe.
This Belt and Road was to span the entire Eurasian continent, the entire eastern hemisphere.
And if the United States could conquer Iran and take it over, that would interfere with China’s long-distance railroad development, and it would block it — just as the United States is hoping to goad India and Pakistan into some kind of fight that would interrupt China’s Belt and Road Initiative that goes through through Pakistan [the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)].
So, on the one hand, Iran is the key to China’s overland trantransportation to Europe.
And as you just pointed out, with Russia: Iran represents a military threat to Russia’s southern border, because if the United States could put a client regime in Iran, or break up Iran into ethnic groups who would be able to interfere with Russia’s corridor of trade southwards, into access to the Indian Ocean, well, then you have boxed in Russia, you have boxed in China, and you have managed to isolate them.
That is the current American foreign policy. If you can isolate countries that do not want to be part of the American international financial and trade system, then the belief is that they cannot exist by themselves; they are too small.
America is still living back in the epoch of the 1955 Bandung Conference, of Non-Aligned nations, in Indonesia. When other countries wanted to go alone, they were too economically small.
But today, for the first time in modern history, you have the option of Eurasia, of Russia, China, Iran, and all of the neighboring countries in between. For the first time, they are large enough that they do not need trade and investment with the United States.
In fact, while the United States and its NATO allies in Europe are shrinking — they are de-industrialized, neoliberal, post-industrial economies — most of the growth in world production, manufacturing, and trade has occurred in China, along with the control of the raw materials refining, such as rare earths, but also cobalt, even aluminum, and many other materials in China.
So America’s strategic attempt to isolate Russia, China, and any of their allies in BRICS or the Shanghai Cooperation Organization ends up isolating itself. It is forcing other countries to make a choice.
This was made very clear immediately upon Trump taking the presidency and announcing his tariff policy, saying, “In three months, I’m going to impose such devastatingly high tariffs that you, the Global South countries, the Global Majority countries, your economies will be in chaos without having access to the American market”.
But, [Trump said], “We have three months to negotiate, and, if you give us a give-back, I will roll back these tariffs to 10%, so that it won’t devastate your economies. And one of the agreements that you have to make is you’ll agree to America’s sanctions not to trade with China, not to invest in China, not to use alternatives to the US dollar”.
China is trying to avoid using dollars, just as Russia no longer is able to use dollars, because the United States has simply confiscated $300 billion of Russia’s foreign exchange holdings in the West, that it held in Brussels, in order to manage its foreign exchange, to stabilize its exchange rate, which is what central banks do throughout the world.
Well, it’s very interesting. The Financial Times had a front page article [reporting] that now European countries, especially Germany and Italy, which have the second- and third-largest gold holdings, have asked, “Could you please [give us our gold back]? We have, since World War II, we have left all of our gold supplies at the Federal Reserve in New York”.
America’s gold is in Fort Knox, but other countries keep their gold reserves in the basement of the Federal Reserve Bank, right across from Chase Manhattan bank in the downtown area.
And other countries now realize that, under Trump, if he says, “Well, Europe has been really taking advantage of us; they have been exporting more to us than we’ve sold to them” — you know, Italy and Germany are worried that somehow America will say, “Well, we’re just gonna grab all of this gold that you’ve built up by taking advantage of us”.
So you’re having the rest of the world pull back from the dollar. This reflects the effect of everything that the United States is trying to do to isolate the other parts of the world from contact with the United States, if they try to have an alternative economic system to neoliberal finance capitalism, if they try to have industrial socialism — which is really industrial capitalism on the way to being industrial socialism, with active government investment in basic infrastructure, instead of privatizing the infrastructure Margaret Thatcher style.
The effect will be to leave the United States isolated, and all the rest of the world going its own way, unable to trade with the United States because of the high tariffs that Trump has imposed, and afraid to trade in dollars because of the predatory weaponization of the dollar standard, which had been America’s free lunch under the whole epoch of US Treasury bill standard, since America went off gold in 1971.
Oil and the petrodollar
BEN NORTON: Again, Michael, you raised so many good points there.
I want to stick with this issue of oil and the US dollar, and the petrodollar system.
Now, you have mentioned a few times that the US really relies on exports of oil and control of the oil trade, partially to try to reduce its enormous current account deficit — which, I mean, it still is not very successful. The US runs massive current account deficits — that is, trade deficits with the rest of the world.
But what is something that is different in the 2020s is that the US is now the world’s largest exporter of oil. It’s the largest producer of oil on Earth, and the largest producer of gas.
So that’s a significant difference. That’s largely a development in the past decade due to the explosion in fracking in the US, and also the shale oil revolution.
So, it’s not necessarily that the US needs to physically get access to all of the oil in the region.
Although, of course, US fossil fuel corporations would love to privatize all of the oil in West Asia, that is state-owned.
So for instance, we talked about Mohammad Mosaddegh, the prime minister of Iran who was overthrown in the 1953 CIA-backed coup, after he nationalized the oil in Iran and kicked out US and British oil companies.
Well, the current Iranian government, following the Iranian Revolution in 1979, also nationalized the oil, and the Iranian state does actually have a lot of influence in the economy, including through state-owned enterprises.
So, of course the US would love to privatize that. But this is not really necessarily about getting access to all that oil.
This is about maintaining the current financial order, which is really backed by oil, especially after Richard Nixon in 1971 took the dollar off of gold.
Then, in 1974, Nixon sent his treasury secretary, William Simon — Bill Simon, from Salomon Brothers — who was a bond expert. He ran the Treasuries desk, trading US government debt at Salomon Brothers, this major Wall Street investment bank.
He was sent to Jeddah in 1974, where they brokered a deal saying that the US would protect the Saudi monarchy, and, in return, Saudi Arabia would sell all of its oil in dollars, maintaining global demand for the US dollar.
This came one year after the OPEC oil embargo, in which the countries in the Global South showed that they could use their control of oil as a geopolitical tool to punish the US and the West for their support of Israel.
So I mean, all this history is still so relevant today.
Now, Iran is directly challenging that petrodollar system. Iran is selling its oil to China in Chinese yuan, the renminbi.
Iran is also trading with India, selling its oil, and it is using its currency, the rial. India is also using its currency, the rupee, and India is essentially trading its agricultural goods for Iranian oil.
So can you talk about this petrodollar system, and why Iran is seen as such a major challenge to this system? And really what that means is a direct challenge to the global dominance of the US dollar itself.
MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, I mentioned that the original drive of the United States was to control Near Eastern oil.
I was the balance of payments economist for Chase Manhattan Bank, and I did a whole study on behalf of the US oil industry to calculate the balance of payments returns, and the average dollar spent by the Seven Sisters, the big oil companies.
The average dollar invested in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, other Arab countries, was recovered in only 18 months.
Oil was the most profitable investment in the entire US economy, and it was tax free.
Now, the original plan, as I mentioned, of the US in the Near East, it viewed as having oil. Then came the oil war — and it was more than an oil war — in 1974, after Israel waged the 1973 war, and after the United States quadrupled its grain prices.
Well, you mentioned [Nixon’s Treasury Secretary] Bill Simon. Herman Kahn and I went to meet with Bill Simon in 1974, to discuss what should America’s strategy be with the oil companies.
Simon said, “We’ve explained to them that, they can charge whatever they want for oil. They can quadruple the prices”.
In fact, that made Standard Oil of New Jersey, Socony [later Mobil], and the other American oil companies very happy, because, as you point out, America was itself a huge oil producer.
When the OPEC countries quadrupled the price of oil, that made the American oil companies immensely profitable on their and Canada’s oil production.
So, Bill Simon told me that he had explained to them that they could charge whatever they wanted for the oil; quadrupling was okay.
But the agreement was they had to keep all of their savings from what they made off this oil — I won’t call it profit, because it’s really natural resource rent — they had to keep their rents in the United States economy.
The deal was that Saudi Arabia and other countries would export their oil for dollars; they would not remove these dollars from the United States.
They would leave the dollars that they were paid by European countries, by other countries buying their oil; they would invest it primarily in US Treasury securities, and they could also buy US stocks and bonds.
But they could not do what America did with its foreign exchange of European currency, for instance. The OPEC countries could not buy control of any major American company.
They could buy stocks and bonds, but they had to spread the investment in the stock market over the market as a whole. So I think the king of Saudi Arabia bought a billion dollars of every stock in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, to spread it all out.
But most of their money was kept safely in US Treasury securities.
So, essentially, the OPEC revenue — I won’t say earnings because, again, it wasn’t really earned; it’s unearned income — OPEC revenue from the oil sales all ended up in the United States, most of it lent to the United States government.
Well, that inflow of dollars is what enabled the United States to do two things.
One, as a balance of payments inflow, it enabled the United States to continue spending its military overseas spending abroad, in order to have the military fist behind its economic empire.
But it also funded the domestic budget deficit. Foreign central banks were largely funding America’s own domestic budget deficit, by their holding of American Treasury bills.
So the OPEC countries essentially became captive parts of the American financial system that I had described in my book Super Imperialism.
So I met with the Treasury Treasury people, basically explaining what I had written about in Super Imperialism, about how ending other countries’ practice of holding their international monetary reserves in gold, but holding them in loans to the US Treasury in the form of buying Treasury bonds as the vehicle for their savings, essentially made the savings of the entire world, the monetary savings, all centralized in Washington and New York.
That control of what began as control of the oil trade, to weaponize the trade in oil, became control of the international financial system with the dollar’s surpluses being thrown off by the oil trade.
So you had that symbiosis between the trade system and the financial system as the basis for American military policy, and what I called super imperialism.
Super imperialism
BEN NORTON: Yeah, and what you described over 50 years ago, so brilliantly, as the system of super imperialism, what we’re seeing today is that Iran and other BRICS countries are challenging that system.
They are challenging the exorbitant privilege of the US dollar and trying to seek alternatives.
So maybe you can speak more about this global de-dollarization movement and how Iran plays a central role in this.
And that is one of the reasons, of course, why it’s a target of the US.
MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, Iran really wasn’t central to it, because the United States has been able to isolate Iran.
As soon as the shah was overthrown, the United States played a dirty trick on Iran — Chase Manhattan Bank did.
Iran had a foreign debt — like every country has, by issuing foreign bonds — and it sent the dollars to the Chase Manhattan Bank, to pay the bond holders their dividends.
The Treasury went to David Rockefeller and told him, “Don’t send this Iranian money along. Just hold it there”. And so Iran was considered to be in default, and the entire foreign debt came due, and America seized, confiscated, Iranian economic and financial resources in the United States.
They later negotiated to give it back, because all of this was illegal under international law, but that has never stopped the United States, as we’re seeing right now.
After the shah was overthrown, the United States said, “We’ve got to destabilize the the new Iranian government, and if we grab its foreign reserves, that will cripple it and cause chaos, and that’s how we run the world, by causing chaos”.
That is the only thing that America has to offer other countries in today’s world. It can’t offer them exports. It can’t offer them monetary stability.
The only thing that America has to offer the world is to refrain from destroying their economy and causing economic chaos, such as Trump has threatened to do with his tariffs, and what he has threatened to do to any country trying to create an alternative to the dollar.
Hence this free lunch, where other countries can earn dollars, but they have to re-lend them to the United States. And the United States, as their banker, has to hold it all, and the banker may just decide whom to pay and whom not to pay.
It’s a gangster. It has been called a gangster state, for just such reasons. And other countries are afraid of what the United States can do, not only under Donald Trump, but what it has been doing for the last 50 years. It is simply confiscating, and destabilizing, and overthrowing.
America has basically declared war against any attempt to create an international trade and investment system that the United States does not control, in its own self-interest, wanting all of the earnings from it, all of the revenue from it, not just part of it. It’s a greedy empire.
Sanctions and economic warfare
BEN NORTON: Yeah, and what you’re getting at, Michael, is such an important point, because essentially what this shows is that these tactics that the US has abused more and more frequently in the past few decades are not entirely new.
Today, one-third of all countries on Earth are under US sanctions, which are unilateral; they are illegal under international law.
But of course, Iran was one of the first countries to be sanctioned, after its revolution in 1979.
And we know that in 2022, the US and the EU seized $300 billion dollars and euros worth of Russian assets, and that was a huge wake-up call to the world.
But, actually, Iran was the kind of first test case. It was the US that seized Iran’s assets first, and then they later seized Venezuela’s assets, and then Afghanistan’s assets, and now Russia.
So Iran was always the first country to be targeted by these aggressive tactics, and now they have become so commonplace that we have seen a kind of global rebellion against this system, even by longtime US allies.
Like for instance Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which historically have been US client states, but they see what has happened to Russia, Iran, and Venezuela, and they’re worried that they could be next.
MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, this is exactly what is shaping Saudi Arabian and Arab policy in the region.
Obviously, the Arabs don’t like what Israel is doing in Gaza.They don’t like the ethnic cleansing, and the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank, and the whole attack on the Palestinians and other Arab populations.
But they’re afraid of acting on behalf of Iran.They may be very sympathetic with it. The populations of these countries are very much against the violence that Israel is waging against the Arab states, but the leaders of these countries have a problem: All of the savings that Saudi Arabia has accumulated for the last 50 years are held as hostage in the US Treasury and in the US banks.
And the US banks, essentially, are arms of the Treasury. Most of all, Chase Manhattan was a designated bank that would act on behalf of the Treasury. Citibank was more independent, of that.
So you have not heard a peep out of Saudi Arabia and its neighboring oil-producing countries, because they’re afraid. They realize that they’re in a very delicate position.
All of this money that their sovereign wealth fund that they have built up to finance their own future development — if you can call what they’re doing, it’s a twisted development — but their plans for the future are held hostage, and they’ve been politically neutralized, because of this exposure to the US dollar.
Well, you can imagine that other countries realize what is happening, and Asian countries, the Global South countries, and even European countries like Germany and Italy, say, “We don’t want to be stuck in the same trap that the Arab countries are stuck in, where not only our savings, and Treasury securities, and US stocks and bonds, and our investments in the United States are held hostage; our gold supply is being held there!”
And the whole world is now moving toward gold.They’re afraid to hold dollars. Dollar holdings by foreign central banks have been at just stable, while the gold holdings have been going up.
And many foreign official gold holdings are held off the books. The government will hold stock in a company that holds gold. You can conceal what they’re doing, so they won’t very conspicuously being shown to be dumping the dollar.
There’s a kind of Kabuki dance going on in financial statistics, as well as in dropping bombs on countries.
The Military-Industrial Complex
BEN NORTON: Michael, I want to talk about the military-industrial complex, because another point that you made in this article which is very important and is often left out is how US military contractors profit from these wars — like we saw in what they’re now calling the 12-Day War, between the US/Israel and Iran.
You pointed out that Iran was mostly using its older missiles. It was emptying its stockpile of old missiles to hit Israel, and trying to overwhelm Israel’s air defense system.
Now, we know that US military contractors have boasted about the advanced military equipment the US has given to Israel, like the Iron Dome, the David’s Sling system, and the Arrow system.
US corporations have benefited from helping to design these systems, and from providing the missiles and interceptors.
So Israel has spent many millions of dollars trying to shoot down these old Iranian missiles that Iran wanted to get rid of anyway.
If the war had continued, it would obviously have bled more and more resources of Israel and the US.
But as you point out, this is actually something that the military-industrial complex in the US benefits from, because what the US calls the “aid” that it gives to many countries is actually not really aid; it’s actually contracts given to US private contractors, and then they give that military equipment to Israel, or to Egypt, or to Japan, South Korea, and other countries.
So can you talk more about the role of the military-industrial complex, and how it has profited from all of this?
MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, this is the key to the debate in Congress that is now occurring over the Republican tax law. The enormous amount of money that is spent on the military-industrial complex that basically, the weapons it makes do not work.
We’ve seen in Ukraine the inability of the NATO countries to defend against the Russian missiles.
We’ve seen in Israel that the Iron Dome is very easily penetrated by Iran.
And Iran, already several months ago, demonstrated this when it sent two sets of rockets. It warned Israel, “We don’t want to go to war. We don’t want to hurt anybody, but we just want to show you that we can bomb you whenever you want, and so we’re gonna drop a bomb on this particular location; get everybody out of there; we’re just gonna show you that it works. Try to shoot us down”. And they dropped it.
They did the same with the United States, in Iraq, saying, “You know, we don’t want to really have to go to war with you in Iraq. We lost a million Iranians fighting the Iraqis, when you were setting Saddam Hussein against us before [in the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s], but you should know that we can wipe out your American bases whenever we want. Let’s give you a demonstration. Here’s a base that’s not very populated. We’re going to bomb it, so get everybody out; we don’t want anyone to get hurt. We’re gonna bomb you on such and such a date. Do everything you can to shoot us down”. Whoosh! They bombed it. America could not shoot them down.
Well, the Iron Dome obviously doesn’t work, nor does the American military defense work.
Well, President Trump has just come out and said, “We’re going to vastly increase the US budget deficit by creating an Iron Dome in the United States for $1 trillion”.
Well, imagine spending a trillion dollars replicating the system that Iran and Russia show that they can penetrate right away.
BEN NORTON: Michael, this is called the Golden Dome. And Elon Musk’s companies like SpaceX are poised to get massive US government contracts. It is estimated that hundreds of billions of dollars in total will be spent to make this Golden Dome that won’t even work.
MICHAEL HUDSON: Of course, for Trump, everything is gold, not iron — I should have noticed that — just like the doorknobs in his Trump Towers, of course.
So we’re seeing this fantasy.
What the military-industrial complex makes aren’t arms to actually be used in war. They’re arms to be traded or sold.
And, as as you pointed out, in addition to the enormous amount of direct Congressional spending on buying arms for the US Army, Navy, and Marines, on the military, the United States gives foreign aid to South Korea, Japan, and other countries, and this foreign aid is spent by their own purchases of US military arms.
This is not included in the American military budget, but in effect, it’s financing the military-industrial complex through the back door, by giving money to America’s allies to buy America’s arms, that also don’t work.
Well, you must wonder what these allies are thinking now, especially in Europe, it’s almost embarrassing to see NATO refusing to acknowledge the fact that the American arms that it wants to buy, and the European arms that it has made, simply are not able to defend themselves against Russian and Iranian arms.
American technology is backwards, because the military-industrial complex companies have taken all this enormous money that they’ve paid, their profits that they’ve made, by paying out dividends and buying their own stocks.
They haven’t spent it on research and development. 92% of every dollar they’ve got is recycled into supporting their stock prices, not in actually making arms.
So, by financializing its military system, along with the industrial economy as a whole, the United States has essentially de-industrialized itself, and you could almost say disarmed itself, against the rest of the world, that actually spends their military money on arms that work, arms that are intended to work, not simply to make profits, to increase the stock prices of military-industrial companies.
BEN NORTON: Yeah, I think that’s actually a great note to end on. We could go on for another hour, but we should save that for another time.
Michael, is there anything you would like to recommend for people who want to find more of your work?
MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, I have my website, Michael-Hudson.com, and all of my articles are on the website, including the one that Ben has just mentioned. So you can see my ongoing commentary on all of this.
And my book Super Imperialism explained the whole unfolding dynamic of all of this.
BEN NORTON: As always, Michael, it’s a real pleasure. Thanks for joining us today, and we’ll talk again soon.
MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, it was a timely discussion.Thanks for having me.
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The world is waking up that American ,or “international”, aid comes with it a1 demand for it’s pound of flesh.
The unprovoked attack on Iran is such a wake-up call, there is no peace with the west if they chose not to be peaceful, there is no selection of your own leader, if the U.S doesn’t like your selection they will be removed.
There is no international organisations, they are the modern day version of a fifth column octopus within your borders loyal to the Empire.
The attack on Iran has done so much damage to the Western Empire but the “neocons” don’t care because they are ideological nut-cases that will pull down the building around themselves to get what they want.
Huh? Is this Michael Hudson different from the author of this article, also named Michael Hudson? or is article author Micheal Hudson the alter ego of the Michael Hudson referenced in this article? Or?
poor michael hudson, forced to work at the hudson institute, to carry on the work of his overbearing father, at the family think tank. working along side of doctor strangeglove and his mossad friends, that were being pressed into service, for the interests of this horrible, capitalist, jew hating nation, must have been intolerable.
this poor little helpless nation, that wanted only to benefit mankind, forced to serve as an aircraft carrier, against their will and their natural peaceful inclinations. every time he tells this story, my heart breaks for these poor, long suffering people, used in such a shameful manner.
have we no shame as a people, have we no conscience? how could our chutzpa allows us, to so abuse these poor innocents? we must be nothing but heartless psychopaths, to have allowed ourselves, to use these people in such cruel and vindictive manner. surely god will punish us, for these unspeakable crimes against humanity. repent america, stop using and abusing these poor innocent israelis. thank you michael hudson, for your service in pointing out the true problem to us, our shameful anti-semitism as a nation, please forgive us.
Once again, Jews take over a country created and built by others and turn it into a demonic monster devouring everything in its path and as usual it will lead to that country’s ruination.
Don’t be a sore loser.
Trump wants the Israeli courts to back off prosecuting Netanyahu, just like his predecesor Biden wanted the Ukranian courts to back off investigating Burisma.
Burisma was to be a key link in the transhipment of oil from Asia to Europe, controlled by America, of course. Russia blew that apart, and the US coped by destroying NordStream. Burisma and it’s money laundering are history.
Netanyahu is a thug who positioned himself as the player who could reshape the ‘new Middle East’. Therefore, he gets this extraordinary protection from Britain, Europe and the U.S.
The Palestinians are just roadkill.
The Unz Review is republishing this interview (not an article) from a YouTube channel. In the process, it simply did a copy-and-paste from the post’s description, followed by the video and a transcription. All this was placed under the standard slot alotted to Michael Hudson’s articles, which have a header containing a ‘Michael Hudson’ byline.
To have a precise idea of what exactly goes on, you’d better go to the YouTube source whose link is provided at the end of the article.
P.S.: It’s either what I explained above or there are infinite Michael Hudson clones, all of them referencing one another in an infinite circle jerk.
One issue in the background that no geopolitics commentators are addressing currently – but will have to soon – is the UAP/NHI phenomenon.
The “Age of Disclosure” documentary debuted in March in Texas, but has not been formally released yet. Once it is on the streaming services, the buzz will slowly build, and at some point, geopolitics experts/commentators will have to address the issue/incorporate it into their analyses.
34 American political, military, intelligence, and scientific experts are interviewed *on the record*.
One of the 34 is **US SECRETARY OF STATE** Marco Rubio. (!!!)
Even if you are a totally conventional, let’s say foreign policy journalist for a totally conventional newspaper/TV channel of any one of the 193 Member States (nation-states) of the UN, and with zero interest in UFOs, aliens, and “little green men”, how could you ignore this?
The Secretary of State of the USA, speaking live and on the record, about UAP/NHI and the reality of it!
If I were a journo on the foreign policy beat, I’d be compelled to get official statements from Rubio’s contemporaries at each of the other 192 UN Member States, e.g., the Foreign Ministers of Russia, China, India, and so on. Every single one. Even a “no comment” would be fine. Just get it on the record, and print the responses.
URL: https://www.theageofdisclosure.com/
Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkU7ZqbADRs
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Finally… someone (Ben Norton) is translating and summarizing Michael Hudson’s analysis… into something that common people can easily understand. It takes some effort to learn/understand/appreciate Michael Hudson’s lingo and speaking style. I learned his lingo/style back in early 2008… when he and Bill Black were clearly explaining the economic history that led to the 2008 crash. Bill Black’s explanations… of how the U.S. legal system was rigged… beginning in the 80s… aggressively accelerating with the Savings & Loan crisis, the 90s Asia crash, the 2000 DotCom crash and the housing bubble 2008 crash… was amazing and essential.
I should look for a link to post… I was stunned in 2008 when Bill Black (a criminologist/lawyer who wrote the book ‘The Best Way to Rob a Bank is To Own One”) explained how… immediately after 9/11… Bush/Cheney… forced the FBI/DOJ to convert/replace almost ALL the (tens of?) thousands of FBI investigators and DOJ prosecutors… from white collar crime investigators/prosecutors (i.e. ‘government’ professionals fighting corporate fraud… by far the U.S.’s biggest problem) … into terrorist hunters/persecutors (i.e. Stasi goon types… chasing terrorists hiding everywhere… a non-existent problem… of which the very few arrests/prosecutions have almost all involved entrapping American crazy people). Bill Black explained how the FBI/DOJ investigators/prosecutors used to be experts with long careers fighting against (i.e. preventing) the mafia takeover of corporate America… and after 9/11 most investigators/prosecutors simply became ‘trainees’… who used the FBI/DOJ as a steppingstone into today’s corporate/mafia crime organizations. Really interesting stuff… but I must say… I’ve never met another person who is “interested”… it took me a long time to fully understand that today’s ‘consumer/child’ is not yesterday’s “person/adult”… (is that true?… were Americans ‘adults’ before ‘consumerism’?… when most Americans were rural/farm people?… probably not… as a 70s teenager and 80s college student… I couldn’t find anyone to talk-to/think-with… there is never a time or place for ‘adult conversation’… was there ever a time when common Americans were ‘adults’? and made ‘adult conversation’?).
Hey… you ‘libertarians’… ‘SOCIALISM’ ALERT… SOMEONE SAID ‘GOVERNMENT’… you’re going to LOVE what I wrote above… enjoy… have at it!!!
As noted Hudson does a Chomsky double fake and uses a high powered telescope to examine
His favorite tree but it’s all to cover up for the assassination nation so eloquently exposed
By Ronny. Dear Sir Hudson, we know all of this we know what evil does you needn’t repete these
Mundane facts like a 3rd grade teacher’s times tables flash cards displaying your expertise for the
Next row of captive children. There is no American empire Sir, for then how to explain the very
Leisurely manner by which every American voice is summarily silenced and murdered by
Magic ricocheting bullets and the entire federal diplomatic corps being occupied by Jews?
Yes your graphs your stats displaying that megalomaniacs plot to retain their Devine Right to
Strangle Any competitors but really Sir Hudson this is all you have to say about human nature
After 50 odd years of studying brute force! Sir, Dear Sir, please Sir, this is neither the British
Nor the American Empire but something more perniciously brutish the subject concerning
Which We graciously await your next set of 4th grade flash cards explaining the basic precepts of
Prestidiginated numerical diversion..
The global domination of the U.S took a hit in the first half of 2025 with the Greenback down 10% its worst performance since 1973…what happened in 1973?
The oil crisis, thats all, so its history repeating, this time the dollar is under pressure due to countries divorcing from the petro dollar taking away its backstop…whats left? Debt!
So we can look forward to conflict because I cannot see any policy turning around the slump in the Greenback beyond hegemony.
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My sentiments exactly
This is what the empire fears. A rebellion from NATO/EU in southeastern Europe:
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The situation is this – a bunch of insane jews with nukes has taken over the Collective West and is threatening to destroy the planet as their plans for world domination are coming apart. The idea that Israel would be a military asset, first for Britain, then for America, has always been a fig leaf for bribed politicians.
The least destructive way to deal with this would be targeted assassinations of the key insane people. This mafia has already used targeted assassinations against their targets in the Middle East and Russia. So the tactic may be legitimately used against them.
The basis of their power is (ill-gotten) money. With money they bribe, and finance blackmail operations, assassinations, and toppling governments. So the key money people would be the logical key targets.
Ideally assassinations would start with the top of the money control pyramid. If they began with lower level people then the top level people would batten down the hatches and redouble their efforts to survive. If the top people could be taken out first that would disrupt the center. The next level would be the billionaires that buy the politicians. That would shake up the politicians, and induce some rats to jump ship.
There is a widespread consensus that the City of London is the center of the network. The preeminent bank is the Rothschild bank. This bank financed the establishment of Israel (using terrorism), launched George Soros into high finance (through Evelyn de Rothschild, French branch), and controls the Bank of England, which controls the British Prime Minister according to former PM Teresa May. So the Rothschild bank would be a practical target. Its Paris branch would also be hit. Ideally the entire leadership would be in the headquarters buildings when they are destroyed.
In America the JP Morgan Chase bank is an extension of the Rothschild bank, so it would be a logical target.
Also, the roster of AIPAC would be a list of potential targets, especially the large “donors”.
Ron Unz has made the case for destroying NATO headquarters in a demonstration of force. That would be a logical companion target to the Rothschild ban. But it doesn’t hit the head of the serpent.
A Forceful Russian Response to NATO Recklessness
https://www.unz.com/runz/a-forceful-russian-response-to-nato-recklessness/
The evil this Jewish Mafia has done already runs into the millions of lives and trillions of dollars. Now the consequences of their evil deeds are closing in on them, and they’re getting desperate. It would be entirely rational to take them out before their desperate leads them to cause some truly cataclysmic catastrophe for the whole world.
Some suggestions are in the section “Counterattack” in the article
War Profiteers and Israel’s Bank.
https://warprofiteerstory.blogspot.com/p/war-profiteers-and-israels-bank.html
“America is now infected with all the symptoms of an Empire near collapse – a tumble precipitated by America’s obsession with the needs of the racist Jewish state to reconfigure the Middle East to benefit the Apartheid country.
“In the process, the US got blindsided while China and Russia became powerhouses themselves, ready to knock the US Empire off its perch. Such happenstance is truly God’s doing to impede the Evil American Empire, as wagged by the Evil State of Israel, to become much worse than it already has.”
read more
http://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/israel-the-scourge-of-empires/
Demographers claim that by 2044, the whites will be in the minority! This will mean the END of white Amerika and any ideas for “empire” !
Mike, what will it take for you to figure out that there’s no “U.S. Empire” but a Jewish Empire conquering the world, using & abusing America and everyone else until they’ve accomplished their mission, resulting in the annihilation of humanity?
‘The global domination of the U.S took a hit in the first half of 2025 with the Greenback down 10% its worst performance since 1973.’ — Mr-Chow-Mein
Dr Hudson’s interview was recorded before this statistic became available last evening, when the first half ended.
But yes, the US dollar’s headlong collapse shows that dollar hegemony is dissolving before our eyes. A key reason, mentioned by Dr Hudson, is the brazen theft of Russia’s $300 billion in western-held foreign exchange in 2022.
As a matter of national security, countries outside the NATO axis cannot afford the risk of having their dollar and euro-denominated foreign exchange assets arbitrarily seized by the US, which has demonstrated to the world that it’s a dishonest and unreliable central banker.
Global monetary systems carry tremendous inertia. They can’t be changed overnight. But the surge in gold’s dollar price shows that most players are quietly edging away from US dollars. Dollars have become an even more toxic asset as the unstable caudillo Trump unilaterally (and unconstitutionally) imposes tariffs which threaten the ability of foreign nations to service dollar-denominated debt.
Trump is the bombastic Boobus Americanus economic illiterate who may finally bring down dollar hegemony for good.
‘Of course, for Trump, everything is gold, not iron — I should have noticed that — just like the doorknobs in his Trump Towers, of course.‘ — Dr Michael Hudson
Touché. Best quip in the whole interview.
‘After the shah was overthrown, the United States said, “We’ve got to destabilize the new Iranian government, and if we grab its foreign reserves, that will cripple it and cause chaos, and that’s how we run the world, by causing chaos”.’ — Dr Michael Hudson
And now we’ve reached the next step, of regime change in
IraqIran. Perfidious little Albion doesn’t even try to hide it:Really, isn’t about time Russia nuked the little Sceptred Isle off the map? These scheming, perfidious white people are no friends of ours.
Actually the Five Eyes are just five anuses insolently winking at us.
You act like some psychopath Secretary of State to a nation committing genocide telling us what we already know from millions of eyewitnesses for decades at least, is important? It’s not. The U.S. government has been lying about the alien presence and won’t be telling the truth anytime soon. You should have listened to the eyewitnesses telling the truth instead of waiting for the pathological liars to give you a fictional narrative that you’ll comically call, “disclosure”.
Search input: ai what is the UAP/NHI phenomenon
Response:
Why go all OT and obfuscate; why not just say: Good old UFOs? bah
PS As if American political, military, intelligence, and scientific experts could be relied on for any significant truth? haw
A Jew Converts to Islam After 60 Years – I Saw Muhammad (pbuh) in the Bible!
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Hellfire in AI – We Asked AI to Visualize Islamic Scenes!
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Lest we not forget ‘The Unspoken Aspects of Iran’s Nuclear Program’.
TL;DR’: FUSION
https://www.voltairenet.org/article222538.html
USians are hustlers, hucksters and war mongers. It has been this way since the founding of the business enterprise (“country”).
Unipolarity will be achieved, come hell or high water it will be achieved even if it means a few atomic s going off. Two men from our past made this glaringly real when they said though they were talking communism:
Grenville Clark:
Perhaps it may take a few nuclear bombs and several million deaths.
Joseph Clarke added:
The people will follow when the leaders tell them there is no alternative.
The real proof of that however, is easily and readily seen in this report:
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/great-reset/kuwait-suspends-services-to-thousands-for-failing-to-submit-biometric-data/
KUWAIT?
That Dr. Hudson doesn’t mention this is very odd.
What Rockefeller and others of his kind wants and desires is a world or nations rather that no longer are self-determining and nothing has given his kind the ability to take them and us there than digital inventions and computer technology.
“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years……It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government which will never again know war, but only peace and prosperity for the whole of humanity. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto determination practiced in past centuries. It is also our duty to inform the press of our convictions as to the historic future of the country.” David Rockefeller
That America is the country to lead us there is because of the strength of her military might. Isn’t that why she has over 800 military bases throughout the entire world.
We are half way there as we speak with the QR Code which uncannily is bringing to light those words of St. John from the Book of Revelation about:
No one being able to buy or sell unless he had the mark in either his hand or forehead which is the number of his name.
And the question we should be asking our selves is what gives that Russia and Iran, China are seeking to extricate themselves from the Western Bankers desires when they silent-ed are desiring to implement the same?
Thousands of words for nothing. The USA is the Golem in the Chosen People’s plan to degrade Humanity to unseen limits.
Why? Because they serve the devil. That’s why. If they were self-serving, they would sit back and enjoy their victory. Since they are not, they serve interests that will ultimately destroy themselves.
Money is the poor man’s currency. The bait for fools. The curtain behind which the magician hides.
Putin should have helped Iran, according to their agreement, but he DIDN’T. starts at 35″
Russia’s Complex Relationships With Iran and Israel w/ John Helmer
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A key problem in human institutions is the longer they exist, the more they trend towards outright psychopathy.
The percentage of psychopaths in the C-Suites of America is several hundred percent higher than the population in general and the same can be assumed of the Military and any other long existent hierarchal organization.
While there were no doubt many Christians and God-fearing men in the Waffen-SS they’d tend to leave one way or another after participating in burning down some churches full of screaming villagers. Hence, over time, any and all organizations self-select for rising insanity and become more out of touch and I’d say anti-human.
Couple this with known ideologies that quite literally have their hands on the printing press ie unlimited funding, insider trading, and the liquidation of those that get in their way and you have a toxic, brooding demonic mix that is quite capable of anything in the drive to dominate.
Nuclear brinkmanship. Custom made genetically targeted bioweapons. False flags that kill thousands. Assassinations.
There’s literally nothing beyond the pale for a creature that seeks pure unbridled and rising power above all else, at the cost of anything, including turning the Earth into a cinder.
As far as solutions, psychological exams for advancement, employee-owned and operated business (Employee Stock Ownership Plans) given favorable tax treatment, tighter regulations, taking the power of the press (both currency and media) back from the current monopolists, an end to dual-citizenship, a sunset law where no public company can exist more than 80 years before being broken up and sold (4 human generations), and an end to the primacy of shareholders that was reinforced with Visit W3Schools!.
I dunno. Spitballing here.
The No-Win Bubble “Wealth Effect”: Either Way We Lose by Charles Hugh Smith
The truth is, your average Middle class worker should be able to maintain a single-earner 1950s lifestyle with a car, modest home, picket fence, wife and 3 kids today, and due to efficiency gains, do it on working but 20 hours per week. And that is likely a conservative estimation. But due to financialization, and an invasive alien parasite taking control of the US, the unbridled rise of psychopathy, and the commensurate dismantling of meaningful regulation that didn’t happen.
Capital won, labor lost, sorry about your luck ese. And this is the reason for the prevalent ennui in the West, the rampant drug use, the dissolution of family etc. Slaves will only work if you whip them, and more and more Americans are waking up to the fact that the only difference between them and the slaves of 1830 is those guys at least got free housing, free food, planned breeding wives, and ironically worked less in most cases. So why bother.
Only positive way out is emigration or found an Intentional Community as far as I can determine.
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…and an end to the primacy of shareholders that was reinforced with Dodge v. Ford Motor Co.
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The 1 string guitar tune. US empire is and was vile bc of its populace.
Jun 30, 2025 IAEA Chief Warns Iran Can Restart Uranium Enrichment Soon
Despite US President Donald Trump’s claims that recent airstrikes “completely obliterated” Iran’s nuclear programme, the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog says otherwise.
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Jun 26, 2025 Iran’s 1953 Regime Change
Please note this upload is not an endorsement of this version of events – it is a historical record of how the coup was presented to the British public in 1953. The 1953 Iranian coup d’état saw the US and UK orchestrate the overthrow of Iran’s leadership to reinstate the pro-Western Shah and to regain the newly-nationalised oil reserves. The Shah remained in power until the 1979 Revolution. This was our report from the time.
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Sorry about your luck ese! Us hispanics are just superior, real scrappers when comes to the fight.
Since 1945 the US has been unable to pick a plum in terms of winning any conflict even those it started.
I would argue that even in WW2 the US entered the war during and after the Soviet’s destruction of the best German Army units.
Since then, peasants armed with Aks, rocket launchers, civilian clothing and sandals have defeated the US with all its air, armour and technology.
Vietnam, Afghanistan and recently Yemen put paid to US arrogance and habitual bullshit. Iran just straightened out Don and the Boys with another disastrous round 2 coming up ! Ukraine is a black hole for taxpayer arms and money. That’s another fiasco in the making with Jewlandia set to replace that mess.
Even in its own cities the long arm of the oppressor (with heavily militarized goons aka Police, Nat Guard and Marines) are unable to control things in a few square blocks when the homies rumble.
Our existing leader is as neurotic, confused, zion controlled and dumb as fuck !
World domination ? Yeah…when pigs shit 4 carat diamonds !.
Let’s Make a Deal: Enrichment path that both Iran, US can agree on
A regulated consortium for civilian power with Gulf state neighbors is still on the table
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-nuclear-consortium/
Where is the Arab Mosaddegh?
Why do the Arab states think they need US “agreement” — or mediation, or involvement in any way?
Sounds good.
But who will bell the cat?
We’ve seen in Ukraine the inability of the NATO countries to defend against the Russian missiles.
That’s incorrect.
The Patriot system works as intended and constantly shoots down Iran’s 2 stroke Shahed drones.
The problem is that they don’t have enough of them. If they didn’t work then Zelensky wouldn’t be offering to buy more of them.
Zelenskyy renews calls for Washington to sell Patriot missile systems to Kyiv after Kremlin strikes Ukraine with 537 missiles and drones.
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-ukraine-biggest-attack-war-f16-pilot-kill/
The enormous amount of money that is spent on the military-industrial complex that basically, the weapons it makes do not work.
Let’s look at some of the weapons that have been praised by Ukrainian forces:
1. HIMARS
2. Javalin
3. Stinger
4. Bradley
5. F-16 (A third gen jet)
6. M-16
7. M109 Howitzer
If you would like I can provide articles from Ukrainian soldiers where they praise these weapons over Russian equivalents. Putin’s Jewish chef turned private warlord hated HIMARS and is on record saying it is Ukraine’s most effective weapon. He described how there is nothing you can do when it comes in and always hits its target.
I’m not a fan of the US military complex but I’m not going to lie to myself about the effectiveness of the weapons just because I would rather see its budget reduced. But that of course won’t be happening thanks to Putin’s war. He has provided massive profits for the US military industrial complex and in fact HIMARS is backordered 10 years by various countries.
Once again Alt-right circles back into leftist territory where Hudson is more interested in bashing the US than providing honest analysis.
Gordon Chang?
Israel and the United States, which one ends up the pillow biter?
Like when Mao started purging FDR’s jews from his inner cabinet? Oy Vey!
I don’t think we even know the identities of the top pedojews. Larry Fink is a subordinate. They travel on private jets exempt from customs in the jew only terminals of Zurich, Amsterdam and London.
An important aspect of disentangling the White Nationalist impulse from the Globalist impulse might involve re-evaluating what Michael Hudson has labeled as “Junk Economics” – as accomplished in this article from last Fall’s Occidental Quarterly:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dGGzLqekqkpZTYOyTU08wDYC8ZLVgwc8/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114674070638322067883&rtpof=true&sd=true
The most interesting link in the TOQ article outlines an expatriate American’s initiative toward developing a new global reference commodity (or Bancor) for international trade among the BRICS+ nations:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-O8A7aY7SIOUguLzmt7dxXpHK3YrhRt9/view?pli=1
I’m sorry, but if you are really an unbiased free-thinker who strives for maximum truth, justice, and prosperity for all regardless of politics, personal wealth, religion, and racial or ethnic roots, you cannot support the USA in its many ventures to actually strangle and stiffle most of humanity as naturally scattered about this variegated globe. As soon as any self-described liberal advocates are asked to share anything with someone more distantly related to them than their mother they get transfigured from “visionaries” to strict constructionists, at least until they have secured their maximal prerogatives, which is why all promising ideas inevitably morph into but insipid platitudes.
If any country opposes Israel America will bomb that country while Russia will ensure that country doesn’t have the means to defend itself. Russia will even supply Israel with the electromagnetic and electronic means to bypass that country’s air defences, something Iran has accused Russia of in the past.
So if you don’t kowtow to Jews you’re going to have both America and Russia on your case. And yet Jews still don’t rule this world, why is that? The reason is because there are still too many belligerent barbarians on this earth, barbarians who will go against conventional thinking as soon as they think they can get away with it. So somehow the number of belligerent barbarians has got to be decreased before Jews can come out into the open as Kings of this world. Russia is having problems with its belligerent barbarians already, one bunch tried a coup against Putin during the Prigozhin Wagner uprising. America has its belligerent barbarians either opiated out, or LGBT’ed out, or AntiFa’ed out, but there are still too many of the capable left. Europe is of course going Sharia, so soon there will be no-one capable left there.
China is out of the equation, they are either not interested or they have collapsed but are keeping quiet about the matter. China might or might not have decreased its number of belligerent barbarians already.
Putin can’t live forever, and its doubtful if another shabbos goy will come to the throne in Russia after him. Russia is unpredictable, the vodka consumption rate there guarantees unpredictability. After Trump it will definitely be another shabbos goy taking over in America.
Jun 28, 2025 NATO’s SHOCKING FAILURE: Russia BRUTALLY Attacked NATO Air Base in ‘STAROKOSTIANTYNIV’
Meanwhile, on the night of June 28, the Russian Aerospace Forces launched another massive missile attack on military installations of the Ukrainian Army and NATO forces in Ukraine. This time, numerous explosions were recorded in such Ukrainian regions as Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, Kiev, and Khmelnytskyi. It is well known that during this missile attack, the Russian military mainly targeted the enemy air bases.
Even a broken clock is correct once a day.
I don’t want the US (USrael) to suffer a humiliating defeat at the hands of Iranians. Or the Russians or Chinese for that matter.
A more pleasing fantasy is to imagine the US being dealt a series of shameful, deeply humiliating blows to its hypertrophied ego and prestige by the … Houthis.
That would terminate its clams of military superiority and give some serious food for thought to their cowardly and corrupt lackeys in the ME and not only.
since the beginning i have said russia left the 300 billion, as cheese in the rat trap. the rats have been eyeing this cheese for 3 years, stealing the interest it accrues, but unwilling to take the bait as yet. they encourage one another to grab this most delicious, beautiful cheese, in the name of the starving ukrainians, won’t somebody think of the hohols.
as soon as they do, that trap will spring shut and break their rat neck. just the other day vvp warned them again, that if they do, that will hasten the demise of the dollar and euro, in international trade and that in the end it would be worth 300 billion to free the world from the financial chains of the western banking systems.
in addition the russians will then reciprocate by seizing western assets that will more than offset this loss. this is all part of the larger economic war, that eludes most, who see the smo in a strictly military light. this is much bigger than ukraine which is merely the point of the spear.
the west is being crushed and while trump appears for all the world to be the buffoon you describe, remember stuporman and his boy wonder, came into office talking about how we needed to devalue the dollar and create a strategic bitcoin reserve. he is at least as evil as he is stupid, the last act of a dying empire, is always to loot what’s left of the treasury.
Michael, Ron Paul wrote an article some years ago about how US government and its ruling class want to own and rule the whole world
Go Hooties! Screw those Blowpigs!
Good comment you are right, and now Jaime Maussan and other ufologists are investigating the Colombian metallic ball, we are close to a full disclosure
It may have looked that way at the time, but then a generation later we had two Iraq wars a decade apart, and fielding an army of invasion happened. A mix of pro soldiers and corporate mercs. So a workaround has evolved over time.
‘the last act of a dying empire, is always to loot what’s left of the treasury’ — Notsofast
Well, the budget reconciliation bill passed by the Senate at noon today, 51-50, after a 27-hour session which would have brought a smile to the face of old Joe Stalin, will accomplish the looting of which you speak — in slow motion.
Although I only watched a few hours of the ‘debate’ during the wee hours of this morning, none of the proposed amendments during this time even touched on the subject of arbitrarily hiking the ‘defense’ [sic] budget by $150 billion, to over $1 trillion.
Why the complete silence about the elephant in the room? Why would a ‘peace president’ want to ‘armament up’? Why did he just fly to The Hague to urge the eunuch Euroclowns to hike their defense [sic] budgets to 5% of GDP, which is patently impossible?
Trump’s 940-page turd of a bill heads back to the House of Ill Repute for consideration as soon as tomorrow morning, on orders from the Orange Emperor. I already messaged my Freedom Caucus R-party rep to kill it dead.
My name is Donniemandias, King of the Jews;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, commenting on the Orange Emperor
Global Domination for a culture like this:
In previous times, any gathering of dark clouds in global Capital markets would have prompted investors to shift to dollars as temporary safe haven until things settled down. However, this does not seem to be the case now, due to persistent concerns of rising unsustainable debt levels, and the erratic and inconsistent policies coming out of Trump regime is making things lot worse.
The deepening of contradiction between globalized production in a inherently antagonistic nation state system is the reason why powerful bourgeois governments are resorting to once again to massive military built-up. What all this means is that the existing social order has reached its historical limit, and it is now up to the working class to replace it with Socialism.
The Chinese social media slaves are hard at it today.
That’s funny.
Actually, Russia has have historically proven to be a military threat to IRAN.
Now the Khazarite controlled Mafia Regime in Moscow wants a Naval Port in Persian Gulf. (How did that work out for Asad?)
The end game (which Michael is either clueless about or can’t see) is for a Khazarite stranglehold over trade and energy nexus of West Asia. (Just draw a line from Crimea to TelAviv and get the picture, China? …)
Naturally, the big bad “US Empire” is to be ejected from West Asia. The old Zionist dream of all the kings and lords of the earth coming over to Jerusalem to lick their boots. How do you think that is supposed to happen?
This is why China will in fact do a land invasion (finally) when the penny drops over there in the Far East. Meanwhile, Michael Hudon and other (possibly useful idiot type) pens keep talking about the “US Empire” but are silent on the USURY EMPIRE of Michael’s (former?) employees.
Someone helped Iran with targeting information (did you know where the Mossad headquarters were, or their nuclear scientists?). Someone also helped them guide their missiles in an airspace contested by Western A/D missiles and electronic warfare.
Gee, I wonder who has +1M citizens living inside Israel, and has recent experience with Western A/D and EW?
Also, who warned the Iranians that Israel/USA was loading nukes on planes in preparation of a ‘final solution’? Iran has some satellites, but they don’t have any of these capabilities.
I think it was important for Iran, domestically, to show that they had the military might to destroy Israel. Well, mission accomplished, they had the Zionists squealing like the little piglets they are, begging for a ceasefire.
The fascists did not lose WWII, they went to the US to regroup. They now control the governments of most European countries.
Zelensky is offering to buy more? With what money? Has he ever bought a thing?
She eliminates her critics by sitting on them…
Disgusting massive waste of protoplasm.
France has long lost any sense of shame. L’esprit de pus.
The U.S. Empire
Nice euphemism.
We took down one Jew infiltration, Hollywood. Gone! they blew it up. More to cum!
100% ^ – I too, am looking forward to my atonement. At this time I’m debating whether to flog my nice smooth skin, or whether to put on the hair shirt passed down over generations of self-hating kin.
Absolutely. All of this. I’ve always wondered why some thinking person with money hasn’t already initiated some kind of plan to assassinate these creatures. I’d add, they’re not responsible for millions of lives. They, and theirs and their progenitors are responsible for billions of lives. They are responsible for this dysgenic mess we find ourselves in today where Icelanders and Japanese decline, while Somalians move into Maine and Germany. They are responsible for hideous suffering of the worst and also mundane types: amputees, abuse of children, divorce of couples who might have otherwise stayed together – hanging is, literally, too good for them. But I’d settle for anything removing them from the board. I only wish I had the wealth and stealth to achieve it, and I’d sell my soul dearly to do so. *And I know I am not alone in this. These dark ones have hijacked our entire planet – and perhaps even more than this, in their quest for redemption through sin.
It’s so tiresome.
The sphere is fascinating. My guess is that it contains exotic matter (not detectable by normal methods) which entrains the cosmological psychic field in order to operate. It is unlikely that it will cause any ‘disclosures’ any time soon. The keepers of the secrets don’t know how such artefacts they may hold operate either. It’s a puzzle for earthtards to solve in their own way.
Don’t buy jew, rent jew, or do business with a jew. I’d do business with the Chinese before a jew. Dis-invest and isolate.
That would be fitting, like their sandalled counterparts in Afghanistan chased away the US army, Ansraallah (Houthis) can chase away the US navy.
It would be interesting to see a comparison between how much American taxpayer dollars have gone to Israel in the past six months compared to the Average for American states.
If you really what to upset Americans then take out a Google ad that lists the fiscal support for each state compared to Israel by American taxpayers, you could also take out full page adds in newspapers through crowd funding, if they will take the ad.
Americans must be made to notice how much is been stolen off them by their elected representatives and given to a foreign country…that could be considered an enemy due to what they have done to Americans over time.
And by “the fascists” you mean the Jews, right??
On the other hand the sphere may not contain any technology or exotic matter at all. The sphere was said to receive some sort of electrical discharge when it came into contact with a power line and then fell to the ground. Therefore its possible the sphere was only temporarily ‘charged’ to fly around, this charge dissipating when coming into contact with the power line due to either a discharge or grounding effect.
Personally I wouldn’t worry about trying getting it to work, just cut it up and examine everything under the microscope. If it actually comes from the aliens, they will just send another one sooner or later.
It’s official, US suspends weapons supplies to the Ukraine.
https://www.rt.com/news/620898-us-confirm-suspension-aid-kiev/
So they need to keep all they can for their own needs, or is it for Israel’s needs? Are they planning another bigger attack on Iran?
It’s impossible to understand why Iran would halt its attack on Israel when every ceasefire is just a chance for Israel to regroup and find new ways of killing Iranians. They had the devil on the run and screwed it up.
Just an observation- the north-south corridor is just the Berlin-Baghdad railway or Cairo to Capetown railway all over.
There’s a tendency to see some multigenerational scheme to bind them all in darkness and control all the nations but it looks more like it’s a human tendency. Some groups seem to have amuch larger proportion of sociopathic control freaks who see the world as a little simulation they can somehow control in its totality. My dudes, you can’t even fully control a game of Civ 5. But they can’t help themselves. Bill Gates, Thiel, Bibi…They get away with this stuff only because vicious men with guns allow themselves to be enslaved and put to use. (Pink Floyd wrote a song about this)
Am I Andrew Anglin? No. But I’m suddenly channeling his style.
Nailed it.
Hudson and his wretched, crawling, “marxist” ilk have long made handsome livings out of covering up the true relatioship between Jews and Empire.
Just as irritating is that despicable yapping, mendacious, deeply boring Jew runt, Wolff, who endlessly and triumphantly spews forth his kindergarten version of disembodied Capitalism.
Zelensky is offering to buy more? With what money? Has he ever bought a thing?
Well he bought javelins before the war started. He can probably borrow more money from Western Europe.
Putin was strongly opposed to Ukraine having javelins where are a defensive anti-tank weapon.
Geez not at all suspicious.
Which one of these two guys would you prefer having your back in a battle?
Mister “My pronouns are ‘he’ and ‘him’”:
or this guy:
The choice is obvious; give me the real McCoy, a warrior, to fight along my side instead of the chubby LARPer General who managed to “win” a chest full of medals without ever winning a war.
When Trump asked this beta-male to walk with him to the Washington Church which had been torched by BLM terrorists, to show solidarity to the American people — whose faith was under terrorist attack — this so-called “general” turned back and issued a public apology (sic) to the Woke Priesthood for daring to defend a Christian church from the anti-Christian terrorist mob.
Uh, I don’t know. Everybody fears nukes. Let’s say Israel (and US) run out of weapons and Israel is still under attack, what then? Mind you Iran backing down still doesn’t mean it won’t get nuked. There have been nutcases in America who have wanted to nuke Iran for the last forty years. One day they may really do it.
I’m hoping the Iranians use the ceasefire to repair/expand their air defense system and to root out traitors.
The parasite almost seems to be longing for his comeuppance. Masada Syndrome? Survivor guilt for not being sent to Auschwitz? Worship of death and destruction? The Judeonazis are truly sick puppies.
Understanding capitalism is simple. Look up ‘cancer’ in any medical dictionary.
Truman, the Mafia lawyer and recipient of Jewish largesse, said it when he finally understood what the A-bomb meant-‘We’re gonna rule the world!’. The Yankee ambition for 250 years. The ‘New Romans’.