Corruption and supposed efforts to reduce it have become a neoconservative weapon of choice with which to operate the controls on the funding sluice gates to acolytes of the U.S.-led international neoconservative empire.Oliver Boyd-BarrettOliver Boyd-Barrett is Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, and at California State Polytechnic University,
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An interview with the pre-Revolution Iranian diplomat to the United States about the China-Iran ”comprehensive cooperation”, the relations of Iran with the West, the post-Trump Middle East and the place of Black Sea countries such as Romania and Bulgaria in Iranian foreign policyVladimir MitevVladimir Mitev is a Bulgarian-Romanian journalist based
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Trumpism cannot co-exist with democracyThomas Klikauer – Norman SimmsThomas Klikauer is the author of Hegel’s Moral Corporation and Seven Management Moralities.
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A talk with Cecilia Capanna from The Other News in the first part and discussion of the hosts on the US-Russian relations in the second part of the On the Barricades podcastMaria Cernat – Boyan StanislasvskiBoyan Stanislavski (Poland) and Maria Cernat (Romania) make a regular video podcast, in which they
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Virtually nothing is left to neoliberalism’s mythical free market. Even worse for neoliberalism, not even Elon Musk’s new Tesla factory in Berlin, can build anything without prior detailed planning.Thomas Klikauer – Norman SimmsThomas Klikauer is the author of Hegel’s Moral Corporation and Seven Management Moralities.
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The Alliance meets with reality test 75 years after its establishmentMedea Benjamin – Nicolas J.S. Davies Medea Benjamin is cofounder of CODEPINK for Peace, and author of several books, including Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran.– Nicolas J. S. Davies is an independent
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In the year of the COVID, the stock market has reached record high relative to the ‘real economy’Michael RobertsMichael Roberts worked in the City of London as an economist for over 40 years. He has closely observed the machinations of the global capitalism from within the dragon’s den. Since retiring,
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It works for extreme right, apropo.Thomas KlikauerThomas Klikauer teaches MBA students at the Sydney Graduate School of Management at Western Sydney University in Australia. He was born in southern Germany about half way between Castle Frankenstein to the East, the birthplace of Johannes Gutenberg (the inventor of the printing press)
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A discussion about private vs. public, about China and the West, about the advances of socialism in the United States.Maria Cernat – Boyan StanislasvskiBoyan Stanislavski (Poland) and Maria Cernat (Romania) make a regular video podcast, in which they discuss various developments in Poland, Romania and the region. The work title
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Albena Azmanova was the guest of the podcast On the Barricades speaking about the contradiction between individual exploitation and class liberation in feminist strugglesMaria Cernat – Boyan StanislasvskiBoyan Stanislavski (Poland) and Maria Cernat (Romania) make a regular video podcast, in which they discuss various developments in Poland, Romania and the
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