The Real News Network has a 5 part series Michael Hudson on TRNN ‘J is for Junk Economics’.

Economist Michael Hudson, author of the newly released ‘J is for Junk Economics,’ says the media and academia use well-crafted euphemisms to conceal how the economy really works.

I am just now getting to understand why I want to read this book.

Here is the first segment.

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‘J is for Junk Economics’: Michael Hudson on TRNN (4/5).

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Mint Press News has the interview Syria’s Grand Mufti Hassoun Discusses Peaceful Coexistence, Love, and an Inclusive, Nonsectarian Syria

Syria is a civilized country — it embraces all the civilizations of the world because it is the gate to the Orient. So [historically] those who wanted to go to China from Europe passed through Syria. And those who want to go back to Europe pass through Syria. Syria a hundred years ago was far bigger than Syria today. In Syria in 1900, 118 years ago, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria were one country. One bank, one currency, one president, and one nation. There were no religious minorities in it. The reason is that it is the land of Abraham, and Abraham was the forefather of all prophets. He was the forefather of Moses, and of Jesus, and the forefather of Muhammad, may prayers and peace be upon them.

This gives quite a different look at the origins of sectarianism in the Middle-East. You won’t hear this from the oligarchs’ news media.