DFA Classic: Debt And Power - With Michael Hudson From the more than 5,000 shows in our archive there are a few which stand out as being important in shaping our understand of finance, property, society and politics. Today we reprise a show from 2020 recorded with Michael

Will Peter Hartcher ever critically analyse the role of US hegemony in global instability?Funding Israel’s genocide in Gaza and arming Taiwan. Containing China. 800 military bases around the world. Nuclear armed subs and bombers based in Australia. NATO expansionism . #Insiders

Imagine being one of the thousands of Americans who were told you had to risk your life to destroy Al Qaeda, only to die doing so, and then watch your own government welcome a long-time Al Qaeda leader to your own country, and have Gen. Petraeus gently ask how he's holding up:

I love how they just keep proving us right that Al Qaeda are a CIA/Israeli outfit. Over and over. Lol.

Hallelujah! Now let's get our money back.

Thank you to the Australian Citizens Party for their ongoing support throughout this horrifying ordeal. Please if you can, donate to help Dan in the Federal Court Challenge next month: freedanduggan.org/help-the-cause/ #FreeDanDuggan #FederalCourtChallenge #Humanrights #Enoughisenough

Hilarious. Australians didn’t wake up one day moved by the spirit of God to make cars! It was decades of deliberate industry & skills policy. It was unions delivering good well-paid jobs. All of which the Coalition tore up in the name of “free markets” (their real religion).

Found him.

Israeli-Aligned Billionaires Seize TikTok in Battle for U.S. Narrative Control The White House has announced that the forced sale of TikTok will be finalized this week. The new ownership led by Larry Ellison - the largest individual donor to the IDF - will take control of U.S.

If Andrew Hastie is wondering what happened to the Australian car industry, here’s a hint.

A bank cannot legally call a site a "branch" if it does not offer teller service when reporting points of presence to government. Cashless banks are a move away from the branch banking model. Westpac Bank Finance Sector Union Jim Chalmers MP

Evil.

This story warning of the dangers of letting Australia's banks go cashless needs another run on the back of Westpac Bank's news it is axing tellers. No tellers means cashless banks and cashless banks are a move away from the branch banking model. Jim Chalmers MP bit.ly/3FAlIrQ

Actually, while Anthony Albanese is in New York for the UNGA, it would be a very good time for Andrew Clennell and the other members of the travelling media pack to ask Albo about FreeDanDuggan: * Why have you jailed an innocent man for 3 years? * Why have you applied a law retrospectively

Meloni wouldn't recognise Palestine, but she recognises Al-Qaeda.

Did you ask him about Biden blowing up Nord Stream 2?

What is this "free" world? Who made Trump the "leader"? Who do some Australians want our PM to suck up to a president who whacked us with tariffs for a meeting?

Not even Taiwan recognises Taiwan as a state. 🤣

Bomber Beazley says out loud what most keep silent except in “polite company”. And so, he’s belled the cat: Australia funds & allows de facto & on the sly, U.S. nuclear-armed (possible) subs to use Australia at their discretion.