Daily Archives: February 14, 2022


Russia/Ukraine, and Avoiding Catastrophic War

Project Censored has a podcast Russia/Ukraine, and Avoiding Catastrophic War.

Mickey spends the hour with American University historian Peter Kuznick, co-author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United States. They discuss the current U.S. and NATO confrontation with Russia over Ukraine; summarize the recent history of Ukraine and U.S. relations, while placing current affairs in Cold War context; and emphasize the urgency of settling the crisis peacefully.

On Facebook, Walter Kloefkorn commented:

“Project Censored’s” show this week is a one hour discussion with historian Peter Kuznick about the Ukraine situation. Highly recommended if you’d like a sane analysis, as opposed to the blather from the talking heads of all stripes on MSM.

If we are going to get this type of explanation heard in the USA, we are going to have to be the ones to spread this.


Economic Update: Fascism

Democracy At Work has the episode Economic Update: Fascism.

On this week’s show, Prof. Wolff talks about the US’ 2021 trade deficit and its implications, the FED’s inflation policy dilemma, and the political economy of the Baltimore and Bronx fires. In the second half of the show, Wolff uses the actual history of fascism in Italy, Germany and Spain to analyze the positions and prospects of fascism in the US today.


My comment to Prof. Wolff was:

If only you understood MMT. The interest rate we pay on Treasury securities is close to zero. If we didn’t pay interest, what would China do with its excess dollars?

Eventually China will de-dollarize its international trade. However, that won’t happen quickly unless we threaten them with economic sanctions. You didn’t mention that before I gave up watching this episode in disgust.