Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff discuss Iran, oil, US decline, regional security and the global retreat from dollar dependence.
Nima Alkhorshid: Hi, everybody. This is Wednesday, June 24th, 2026, and our dear friends, Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson, are here with us. Welcome, Mike, Richard, Mike. Let me start with a clip of Donald Trump talking about what's going on with the case of Iran.
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Al di là di tutta la volgarità, delle menzogne e della rabbia furiosa manifestate dall'impero barbaro, questa è la settimana che passerà alla Storia come quella in cui l'Iran ha consolidato il proprio status di Stato-civiltà inderogabile - orgoglioso della sua storia millenaria e della sua coesione nazionale
Era del tutto prevedibile.
Il "Babbuino di Barbaria" e i suoi tirapiedi hanno infranto la promessa di sospendere le sanzioni petrolifere contro l'Iran.
The European Parliament has become a Nazi whitewashing machine.
European lawmakers appeared to back Poland over grievances with the Kiev regime's honoring of WWII-era Nazis. But a closer look at the wording reveals a sinister cover-up, calling the Kiev move "regrettable" and avoiding a clear condemnation.
The bottom line is that Members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg voted by a large majority (460 versus 136) on a resolution for Ukraine to join the EU.
By George F. Smith
July 11, 2026
On July 4, 2026 Americans celebrated various people for their role in founding this country. We can start with Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Franklin, Henry, and continue debating into the night. Somewhere on the list would be Paine - Robert Treat Paine, a Harvard graduate and signer of the Declaration. And grudgingly for some, another Paine but without a middle name - Thomas Paine - who lacked any of the usual credentials to be considered a founder.
AI customers can support having entrepreneurs manage safe, reliable modular molten salt reactors with deep borehole disposal.
By James Anthony
July 11, 2026
Electric lighting became a solution when General Electric created a complete system, providing power generation, power distribution, and lights. Express mail became a solution when Federal Express created a network, connecting customers to recipients.
By David Stockman
David Stockman's Contra Corner
July 11, 2026
An alert observer from the "World of Statistics" posted this warning shot on X, recently. It seems as if the Chinese have dumped $448 billion of their US Treasury holdings in recent years, and have been buying what J.P. Morgan famously called real money more than a century ago. Said he:
"Gold is money. Everything else is credit."
By Drago Bosnic and Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research
July 11, 2026
Video debate featuring Michel Chossudovsky and Drago Bosnic published in English (original)
The complex history of Contemporary Russia and its "Relationship with The West".
During the Cold War it was "From Russia with Love".
Hot "Cold War 2.0"
Today in the words of War Secretary Pete Hegseth: "To ensure peace, we must prepare for war".
By Thomas S. Karat
AntiWar.com
July 11, 2026
There was a time when the arms dealer waited in the corridor. He financed the campaign, endowed the think tank, took the general to dinner, and hoped the man inside the office would remember him when the contract came up. The wall between the money and the decision was thin, often corrupt, but it was there. Someone held the public trust, and someone else tried to buy it, and you could at least tell the two apart.
Ned Ryun has a new documentary that you should see.
By J.B. Shurk
American Thinker
July 11, 2026
There is an eighty-five minute documentary that you should youtube . It is called The Thread of Liberty: Keeping Our Republic. It comes from Ned Ryun, the author and American Majority CEO who wrote a very good book called American Leviathan two years ago, a work that was subsequently turned into an excellent youtube about our country's oppressive administrative state.
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
July 11, 2026
John Helmer believes that Putin's strategy of being toady to Trump and relying on Trump to solve the Ukraine conflict for him has failed and that Putin will have to abandon his naïveté for realism or be removed.
Putin's inability to understand that Russia is at war with the West and that his prevarication for 4.5 years has vastly widened the war and totally changed its character has created the opinion among Russia's patriotic elements that "Putin is a lost cause."
By Paul Dragu
The New American
July 11, 2026
For nearly the entire duration of his second term, U.S. President Donald Trump has incessantly griped about NATO and its leaders. But he emerged from this week's summit in Ankara, Turkey, with renewed dedication to the entangling alliance. It seems the Europeans may have softened him up by promising to buy more American-made weapons.
Trump arrived in Ankara on Tuesday.
The Day the Grid Failed
By Milan Adams
Preppgroup
July 11, 2026
By the time the first official statement reached the public, the statement itself no longer mattered. Television networks were already off the air across much of the continent, mobile networks had fragmented into isolated pockets, and the internet-once assumed to be nearly indestructible-had become a collection of disconnected islands separated by an invisible wall of silence.
Plus vite nous abandonnerons les énergies fossiles, mieux nous nous porterons ainsi que notre portefeuille.
Source : Basav Sen, Truthout
Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises
Tout au long de son second mandat, le président Donald Trump n'a cessé de promouvoir les combustibles fossiles, de saper les énergies renouvelables et de mettre fin à toute réglementation fédérale visant à lutter contre le changement climatique.
Par Addameer
À l'occasion de la Journée des Nations unies pour les victimes de la torture, les associations de défense des prisonniers palestiniens dénoncent une cruauté sans précédent dans le contexte d'un génocide en cours.
Ramallah, Palestine occupée - À l'occasion de la Journée internationale des Nations Unies de soutien aux victimes de la torture, célébrée chaque année le 26 juin, les organisations de défense des prisonniers palestiniens ont déclaré que des milliers de prisonniers politiques palestiniens sont soumis, quotidiennement et à chaque instant, à de graves crimes de torture et à des traitements cruels, inhumains et dégradants au sein des prisons et des camps militaires de l'occupation israélienne.
Le ministre iranien de la Défense par intérim, le général de brigade Majid Ebnolreza, affirme que l'affluence massive aux funérailles du Leader martyr de la Révolution islamique, l'Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, constitue un "atout stratégique" pour les capacités de défense et de dissuasion de la République islamique d'Iran.
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