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Wealth, Debt and Economic Power
Robinson's Podcast Episode 302
Michael Hudson in conversation with Robinson Erhardt
Inherited wealth and earning a living
Robinson Erhardt: I wanted to start with a rather pointed question today because Elon Musk has been in the news a lot lately. So have the tech billionaires, and people are very afraid about being unable to make money in the near future.
Lorenzo Maria Pacini
Un'emergenza diventa permanente quando nessuno la dichiara e nessuno la revoca. Resta una domanda per il Parlamento: se lo Stato ritiene di essere in guerra, perché non lo dice dove la Costituzione glielo impone?
Il caso di Ravenna
Tutto ha inizio a Ravenna, città storica e snodo portuale italiano nella costa adriatica. Il porto di Ravenna è uno scalo civile: rinfuse, fertilizzanti, container, crociere.
Die politische Mitte, links und rechts, verfolgt Projekte am Interesse der Nation vorbei. Deutschland blutet, finanziell und für Ideologen. Ein Essay. Der bald fünf Jahre anhaltende Krieg gegen das Nachbarland Ukraine kommt die Russische Föderation teuer zu stehen. 14,9 Billionen Rubel kosten der Krieg und die übrige Landesverteidigung im laufenden Jahr, umgerechnet rund 158 Milliarden Euro.
Lorenzo Maria Pacini
Whatever the outcome, that night in Warsaw has already set a precedent.
Unexpected chronicles
There's no denying it: this year, 2026, is delivering some truly unexpected twists. This time, it's Poland's turn.
On the night of October 30-31, 2026, Poland witnessed something that no democracy in the European Union had ever staged with such clarity: a government that, taking advantage of the head of state's absence while he was flying to Africa, effectively changed the leadership of a constitutional body by having the police take control of its headquarters.
By Jayant Bhandari
November 2, 2026
For most of my life, I have watched the Third World supposedly emerge. Roads seemed to improve, universities multiplied, incomes rose, smartphones appeared, elections became more elaborate, and Western technology penetrated ever more deeply. The euphemism "emerging markets" came into use, carrying within it the assumption that eventual emergence was somehow baked into the cake.
The time has come to break the chains of the welfare-warfare state
By Murray Sabrin
Murray's Newsletter
November 2, 2026
Introduction-The New Abolition Movement
"The citizen is sovereign only when he can retain and enjoy the fruits of his labor." Frank Chodorov
"The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it." Horace Greeley
"A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government..." Thomas Jefferson
By David Stockman
David Stockman's Contra Corner
November 2, 2026
With the benchmark 10-year US Treasury yield recently above 5.0%, it's time to call a spade a spade when it comes to the fiscal culprits in Washington.
Yes, the Dems are now and always have been fiscal miscreants. More or less, they have functioned since the New Deal and Great Society on the predicate that Washington has first call on the incomes and wealth of the American people; and that federally directed redistribution for the purpose of vote-getting in the guise of social uplift and the public good is absolutely copacetic.
By Wanjiru Njoya
Mises.org
November 2, 2026
The public debate about whether America is a proposition nation has pitted those who describe themselves as heritage Americans against those who believe anyone who embraces the ideals of America is just as American. Vivek Ramaswamy, writing in the New York Times, said:
There are two competing visions now emerging on the American right, and they are incompatible.
By Larry C. Johnson
Sonar21
November 2, 2026
Washington has a plan for Iran. According to a source close to the White House, the plan is to seize one or more of Iran's islands in the Persian Gulf. Senator Chris Murphy, who says he has been briefed on what the administration intends to do after Tuesday's midterms, summed it up this week in four words: "their plan is insane." For once, a United States senator has understated something.
EU-supported politicians attempted a coup d'etat in Poland and lost due to the bravery of the Polish president Karol Nawrocki and the thousands of Poles who support him.
By Clarice Feldman
American Thinker
November 2, 2026
While the news is scattered and the incidents fresh, it appears the EU-supported politicians attempted a coup d'etat in Poland and lost due to the bravery of the Polish president Karol Nawrocki and the thousands of Poles who support him.
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
November 2, 2026
Here is how the NY Times shapes the News in order to protect Israel and harm Trump: On October 29, David Halbfinger wrote in the NY Times that President Trump "has made clear he wants Israel to join the United States in another round of war against Iran." Halbfinger blames the unprovoked aggression against Iran on Trump, with Trump wanting Israel to join America's aggression.
Six years after the last Q posts, their message still holds: encouragement on the eve of battle. The fight is at hand, it's a spiritual one, and there will not be a neutral ground.
By Sheryl Collmer
Crisis Magazine
November 2, 2026
The topic of Q rather abruptly entered the room again this year when Bill Maher, no conservative, confessed in February that he'd misjudged "QAnon," in light of the Epstein revelations.
By Ilana Mercer
November 2, 2026
Ellon Musk is the deus ex machina of conservatives and other Beltway careerists. He, the divinity of Deep Tech, will perennially preach the anti-AI gospel. But behind the scenes...~ilana
FOR THE LUCKY ONES, " youtube ," the PHP code vulnerability that roiled cyberspace, might have begun with a slightly urgent tone in the otherwise scrupulous calm of a software engineer.
By Capt. Randall
October 31, 2026
Synchronicity brought you here.
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Technology has brought wonderful gifts, but at a terrible cost.
New and improved, like "free", are sucker come-ons.
Meanwhile, the insane profits for a few poison all life on earth.
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You can be distracted by diesel prices, CO2 and gluten, while 10,000 chemicals, heavy metals, plastics, pesticides, processed foods, prescription drugs, vaxxes, indoor lighting, black mold, fluoride, electromagnetic fields and dirty electricity fly under the public radar.
Par Chris Hedges, le 29 octobre 2026
Dublin - Une matinée venteuse et nuageuse sur la côte irlandaise. Je me tiens debout sur le toit de la tour Martello, observant les baigneurs qui plongent depuis un rocher dans le "Forty Foot" dans la baie de Dublin, sur la plage de Sandycove. Je tiens entre mes mains l'Ulysse de James Joyce.
Nul autre bruit que le vent pour m'importuner.
par Transition Protocol
Vance a signé la lettre. Les services de renseignement iraniens estiment que Trump l'a rédigée, selon une source proche de Mohsen Rezaei, responsable de la sécurité iranienne - et Pepe Escobar a contesté cette analyse à l'antenne.
Selon la même source, après une heure d'entretien avec le Guide suprême iranien, le chef de l'armée pakistanaise a pris les négociations en main, et la réponse de l'Iran est claire : récupérer son argent et obtenir la levée du blocus avant toute discussion sur le nucléaire.
par Hachem Al
Marco Rubio, le perroquet de service de l'administration Trump, s'est maintes fois exprimé sur les conséquences de la guerre d'agression perpétrée par son pays contre la République islamique d'Iran. Mais là n'est pas la première question de fond. Au fond, il s'agit plutôt de comprendre pourquoi cette administration américaine - mise en place par des lobbies impérialistes liés au secteur pétrolier - a agressé l'Iran sous des prétextes totalement fallacieux ?