Today’s show focuses on the Neocon/Trump strategy to escalate the war with Russia. Why the August 2025 Anchorage agreement between Trump and Putin was just a PR event. And why Trump’s MOU with Iran last month was also just a tactical deception as well. The Empire’s two forever wars now continue. What’s behind the recent gains by Social Democrats in recent Dem party primaries and how both the Dem party leaders and Trump are gearing up to stop it.
Watch my presentation on my forthcoming book later this summer, ‘The Twilight of American Imperialism’ during which I review and discuss the major themes and research on the decline of the American Empire in the 21st century, now accelerating. Why the Empire is no longer affordable as currently structured, how the practices of Empire are not as successful as in past decades, and what the Institutions of Empire are under-performing. Why the Empire can no longer fund its expanding costs from real economic growth and debt financing is also reaching its limits. The focus is on the time period 1992 through 2026. The one hour presentation is followed by a half hour of Q&A with the audience. To watch go to:
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Today’s show reviews the recent ‘deal’ announcement for ceasefire in the Iran war. What’s a ‘deal’. This is just an MOU, an outline of items to be negotiated over next 60 days. A framework for negotiation. Is it the beginning of US retreat from middle east? Why did the regime change fail. How do regime change ops succeed? Why not Iran. Takeaways from the ‘deal’. Economic fallouts for US: inflation. Military spending. Austerity. US growth. Global economy impacts to come
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Listen to my June 12 Alternative Visions show discussion of the June US inflation and jobs reports. Why more inflation is inevitable in July-Sept. and jobs growth will slow. Why the May jobs report is inaccurate and will be ‘corrected’ in August, as has occurred the past two years showing 1 million more jobs lost than the monthly jobs reports show.
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Watch my interview with host Garland Nixon on the Jimmy Dore show this past week as we discuss the US-Iran war’s economic impact on the US and global economies, the crisis and decline of the American Empire, Trump and the November 2026 upcoming elections, the threat of Zionist-US Oligarch influence on American Politics and threat to Democracy.
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Listen to my Friday May 29, 2026 Alternative Visions show, which starts with review of latest US GDP, inflation and income numbers showing inflation accelerating and GDP slowing sharply in latest 2nd GDP numbers. Rest of show focuses on dangerous new events in the Ukraine war as Europe pushes drone attacks deep inside Russia and Russia public opinion demands more aggressive action by Putin. Russia warns ‘get out of Kiev’ as something big coming soon. Russia talks directly about attacking Baltics sites where drones are being launched into northern Russia and warns will target drone production in the EU. EU NATO political leaders keep saying they’re preparing for war with Russia inevitably by 2030.
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What’s happening to bonds in US and global as interest rates surge to 2007 and 2023 levels precipitating financial crash events? Bond markets way bigger and more important than stock markets. Iran war re-escalation expectations by investors, with more inflation and Federal Reserve expected to start raising interest rates again. Consequences for stocks, especially AI bubble. What’s impact of Trump’s just preventing all controls on AI negative impacts on jobs, autonomous weapons development, political system legitimacy (and his family’s AI investments?). Trump’s IRS deal. Cuba next regime change before US elections.
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My video interview explaining how US investors are using insider information from the Trump administration to make $7 billion shorting oil price swings from March to May 7 alone.
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Watch my April 26 presentation to the Mt. Diablo Peace & Justice Center conference on ‘The Middle East in Crisis’, in which I summarize the recent 2 months economic consequences (to US and global economies) and likely continuing costs and consequences as the US Empire’s war with Iran continues. The presentation also provides a partial view of my research and arguments, in my forthcoming June 2026 book ‘The Twilight of American Imperialism’ from Clarity Press, on why empirically the American Empire is in decline and how the war and Trump administration is accelerating the process.
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Latest news on Trump’s attack on the Fed, the US military industry complex short of weapons, and the AI job bloodbath now accelerating. Second half of the show provides an update on Iran war negotiations: Trump’s lies on Hormuz and events of the past week. Once again, immediately after the negotiations last week Trump declared the strait was completely open and Iran agreed as well. Except that’s not what happened. Iran agreed to keep the strait open, providing it continued under the control of Iran and its revolutionary guard; that the US lifted its blockade in the Arabian sea; and that Israel stopped attacking Lebanon. Non of that happened, so Iran within 24 hours said the strait was closed. Trump makes statements just to ensure US markets don’t collapse and to keep oil prices from surging.
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While the capitalist system has undergone numerous restructurings throughout its history, capitalist elites purpose in restructuring has remained the same: to restore and/or extend their hegemony. The current restructuring, operative since 1978, is called Neoliberalism. The book examines Neoliberalism as both an Idea and an historical practice composed of a particular mix of fiscal-monetary-trade-industrial policies that began with the latest US capitalist restructuring in the late 1970s, continuing to evolve to this day. The book further explains the deeper material forces giving rise to - as well as now undermining - the Neoliberal policy regime, with special focus given to the crisis of Neoliberalism in the wake of the 2008-09 global crash, Obama's failure to resurrect it, and Trump's current doomed effort to restore it in a new, more aggressive form. Evidence why Neoliberalism is destroying US Democracy concludes the book's analysis.
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Describes how US federal governments, often in cooperation with the largest US private banks, introduced and expanded central banking functions from 1781 through the creation of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. Based on an analysis of the evolution of the US banking system - from pre-1781, through the 1787 US Constitutional Convention, Congressional debates on Hamilton's reports to Congress, the rise and fall of the 1st and 2nd Banks of the United States, and through the long period of the National Banking System form 1862-1913, the book shows how central banking in the US evolved out of the private banking system, and how following the financial crash of 1907 big New York banks pushed through Congress the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, creating a central bank which they then managed for their interests.
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(Click on image) CENTRAL BANKERS is a comprehensive critique of central banks’ policies in the 21st century, explaining why the massive injections of free money to the banking system since the 1970s enabled the creation of excess corporate debt that has led to financial bubbles and repeated crises. The book addresses the growing contradictions of central banking, why they are failing in their functions, targets and tools, and proposes a radical democratization and restructuring to transform them to serve the public interest and not the private banks.
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(Click on image) LOOTING GREECE, A New Financial Imperialism Emerges. This book - Reveals clearly who calls the shots in the Eurozone—the hardliners, not the remnants and political residue of what was once European social democracy, - Follows the negotiations in their excruciating detail as the Troika tightens the screws from 2009 to the present, - Shows how Europe’s financial elite enriches itself on Greek debt, privatizations and financial manipulations, turning Greece into an Economic Protectorate.
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(Click on image): This book offers a new approach to explaining why mainstream economic analyses have repeatedly failed and why fiscal and monetary policies have been incapable of producing a sustained recovery. It explains why the global economy is slowing long term and becoming more unstable, why policies to date have largely failed the trend, and why the next crisis may therefore prove even worse than that of 2008-09.
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(Click on image) Obama's Economy: Recovery for the Few, explains how the weakest and most lopsided economic recovery since 1947 has been the direct outcome of failed economic policies of the Obama administration and US Federal Reserve bank since February 2009. Includes a detailed 'alternative program' in the final chapter. Includes the book, a video DVD presentation, and 66-slide PPT slideshow.
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(Click on image) Obama's Economy: Recovery for the Few, explains how the weakest and most lopsided economic recovery since 1947 has been the direct outcome of failed economic policies of the Obama administration and US Federal Reserve bank since February 2009. Includes a detailed 'alternative program' in the final chapter.
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(Click on image) A theoretical analysis, with historical case examples, of origins, causes and future evolution of the recent--and continuing--economic crisis in the U.S. and global economy. Includes predictions in 2009 of the inevitable failure of Obama policies and more serious crisis to come, 2013-15.
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(Click on image) Seven specific reasons why economic recovery under Obama since 2009 has failed for all but the wealthiest few and largest corporations. The book spells out eight specific areas as an Alternative Economic Recovery Program.
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(Click on image) The War At Home: The Corporate Offensive From Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush, is a 534 page, extensively researched, nonfiction book that describes the evolution of corporate-government policies from 1980 to 2005 that have shifted more than a $1 trillion dollars a year, every year, from 90 million American middle and working class households to the wealthiest 10% and corporations.
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