Crushing Colleges, Controlling Europe
Dr Wilmer Leon and I had a great conversation about all things Trump, from Russia to Europe to Tariffs and Universities…. Click below to watch full video on Youtube...
David Gordon Memorial Lecture: Imperialism in Marx, the Marxist Tradition, and Today
In 2025, the 27th Annual David Gordon Memorial Lecture will be delivered via webinar Friday 28 March 2025, at 12:00 p.m. Eastern US time/4:00 p.m. London time Speaker: Dr. Radhika Desai, University of ManitobaSession...
How sanctions and trade wars are backfiring on the US
As the post-WWII economic institutions crumble amid sanctions, populism, and global conflicts, a new multipolar world is emerging. The global South, led by nations like BRICS, is creating alternative systems of trade, finance, and...
Defending Free Speech and Academic Freedom on Our Campuses
As censorship in the west intensifies and hardens, I explore what is happening, why and how it is happening, what its effects and what we should do. Of particular note is my emphasis on...
Can a Bigger BRICS Rewrite the Rules of Global Power?
China’s President Xi Jinping and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi were among the world leaders joining Vladimir Putin in Kazan this week for the 2024 BRICS summit. This marks the first such gathering since...
How can BRICS de-dollarize the financial system?
Dedollarization is all the rage in the alternative media. However, while most grandly about new institutions, arrangements, currencies and even crypto, few understand the constraints within which any alternative must emerge. This discussion, with...
The successes of China in the geopolitical economy
The PRC’s onward march, its remarkable successes, and in particular, its widening and deepening advances on the technological frontier, underline that capitalism, which briefly thrived in the decades after the Second World War only...
How will China’s stimulus package drive economic growth?
The stimulus package announced by the Chinese government in September 2024 has been discussed very tendentiously in the Western press. It is assumed that the measures have the same goals as in the West....
What lies at the core of the U.S. ailing economy?
The latest U.S. Consumer Price Index report shows inflation further dropping to 2.9 percent, the first time to fall below 3 percent in more than three years. Though this is good news, it’s not...