MARGARET KIMBERLEY—Dr. Anthony Monteiro is a Duboisian scholar and founder of the Saturday Free School for Philosophy and Black Liberation . He joins us from Philadelphia to talk about the 2024 presidential election, the aftermath of the Trump and Biden debate and of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
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MAIN EDITORS—Israel’s prospects may be worse than most of the world suspects, as, despite its brutal campaign of extermination against Palestinians, fully enabled by the West, it is emerging exhausted militarily and the loser, as the war on several fronts shows up the weaknesses of the IDF. The looming clash with Hezbollah will be an all-out punch, says Ritter, as neither can afford to have the opponent survive and go on a successful counteroffensive. But Hezbollah’s conquest of Northern Palestine (Israel), will only accelerate the flight of settlers to other areas and Israel’s net depopulation—internal refugees for the first time. These people will probably go back to their countries of origin. Those who choose to stay will have to eventually integrate themselves into a two-state solution, or one fully non-Apartheid state, this signifying the end of Israel as a Zionist entity.
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ROGER BOYD—Japan may also be harbinger of what is to become of South Korea with its own population decline and turn to neoliberalism after the 1997 Asia Financial Crisis, and a pointer to the fundamental weakness of the US position in Asia with respect to China. We are now seeing reports such as this below, with an average of only 0.68 children being born for each South Korean woman (far below the Japanese level of 1.2); the natural replacement rate at which the population remains stable is 2.1. As with Japan, given the brutal Chinese competition and its already high GDP per capita of US$33,000 at market interest rates and US$59,000 at purchasing power parity, there is a very restricted ability for the nation to offset working-age population decline with increases in GDP per capita. Even more than Japan, South Korean industry is concentrated in areas wide open to Chinese competition, such as car manufacturing (Hyundai and Kia), electric batteries (LG Energy, Samsung SDI and SK On), steel (POSCO), and electronics (Samsung, LG, SK Hynix). Its car industry, with its exports predominantly dependent on the now protected US market (although exposed in Canada, Australia and the UK) may have a better chance of withstanding Chinese competition; it no longer sells cars in China.
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The History of Ukraine’s War, as I State and Document It, vs. As Russia’s Government States
by eric zuesse50 Mins readERIC ZUESSE—[Quoting]—”Where are all the trappings of the free market that the United States and its allies have taught everyone for so many years? The market economy, fair competition, inviolability of property, the presumption of innocence, freedom of movement of people, goods, capital and services – all this is now being scrapped. Geopolitics has buried the once sacred laws of the market for the West. Recently, we have heard public demands from US and EU officials for China to reduce “excess production” in high-tech industries, as the West has begun to lose its long-standing advantages in these areas. Now, instead of market principles – the same “rules”.”
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Now Trying to Blame Iran for Plot To Kill Trump! How Stupid You Think We Are?
by Jimmy Dore9 minutes readJIMMY DORE—Always on the lookout for a scapegoat when the sh*t hits the fan, the intelligence community is now alleging that Iran was behind the plot to kill Donald Trump. US Secret Service says that protection for the former president surged recently as a result, which makes the failure to protect Trump even more egregious. Iran denies the reports, by the way. Jimmy finds these allegations implausible, but understands the Deep State’s need to find a scapegoat, and recognizes that Iran is a likely candidate for the CIA to pin the blame on.