Tereza, "So now that Putin has accomplished his mission to protect the Donbass, what is Zelensky’s strategy"? The 'mission', Russia - Putin is/will incorporate all eastern - southern terrorizes *ethnic Russians* back into the Russian Federation. Zelensky is finished! Russia will have a friendly puppet government under it's control in Kiev!!! The 'rump' nation of Ukraine will be a neutral buffer zone.
Washington is now busy pointing fingers of blame like Afghanistan! Lack of Intelligence, again, haha. Nuland - Kagan family's Slavocaust plan (weaken and bleed Russia) is over. Washington's unipolar hegemony is collapsing rapidly, almost if by design.
I read the article and I'm grateful to you for sending me to the whole Unz site. Lots of articles by different authors I'm going to go back and read, including Ron Paul and Hudson himself.
It was useful to get a better sense of Hudson's solution, since I agree with his definition of the problem completely. It seems very Henry George. I've never been completely sure I understand Georgist economics but my reservation has been that it leaves land ownership in the hands of the rentier class but just charges them rent. It doesn't prevent monopolies but it taxes them.
The question that Hudson doesn't ask is "what's the best size for sovereignty?" Is it 1B+ people, like China and India, or 340,000 like Iceland? If we look at nations as a legal fiction, a definition where I agree with Harari, 'national sovereignty' is a meaningless concept. What's a nation?
To me, it depends on sovereignty for what. I think food sovereignty is best accomplished through small commonwealths interconnected into trade groups with the commonwealths around them. I think that resources underground, like water, need to be shared and protected in watersheds. Same for forests, ecosystems, air. But resources deep underground, like oil, gas & minerals, belong to the whole continent.
This could be accomplished through protectionist economic policy for local microcurrencies that gives a less favorable exchange rate the farther away a buyer is. No oil should ever cross oceans, I'm thinking, especially if a country is both exporting and importing. Just some thoughts, since I was pondering it after reading this article. Thanks for sending!
Many of the articles allow you to download an audio reading of the article (by Ron himself) - I either download them onto my iPod and listen while walking or burn them onto a CD and listen in the car. I doubt that I will every get through reading the full extent of what Ron Unz has actually written. Extraordinary!!
Thank you, Stan, for the referral to Pepe's article on Michael Hudson. I love both of them and can't wait to check it out!
You raise an interesting point with "almost if by design." That's an open question in my mind, whether Putin and Xi Jinping are in cahoots with Schwab. There are so many narratives that I'm now questioning because of what I'm learning from Matt Ehret and others. One is Tiananmen Square. I no longer know if these countries are operating as empires or federations. But I'm certain which one of those the US is so, no matter what, there is an opportunity coming to use that collapse. Thanks for responding!
I'm really enjoying your posts and videos Tereza. Interesting you mention Tiananmen Square because someone questioned me recently because my understanding of what Mao did which was the "western understanding" and I asked my Chinese friend, a student as the time of TS, and who would have been there had she not been completing her experiment. She has quite a different view of who was to bless and who was to blame. She throws a different light on Mao and Deng too. I'm learning not to cement any knowledge in because it can change depending on new information. What an amazing world we live in.
Thank you for the compliment, Gail, and for adding that first hand knowledge. There are so many things I thought I knew but I'm just not certain now. Isn't there a song that says something like that?
Tereza, "So now that Putin has accomplished his mission to protect the Donbass, what is Zelensky’s strategy"? The 'mission', Russia - Putin is/will incorporate all eastern - southern terrorizes *ethnic Russians* back into the Russian Federation. Zelensky is finished! Russia will have a friendly puppet government under it's control in Kiev!!! The 'rump' nation of Ukraine will be a neutral buffer zone.
Washington is now busy pointing fingers of blame like Afghanistan! Lack of Intelligence, again, haha. Nuland - Kagan family's Slavocaust plan (weaken and bleed Russia) is over. Washington's unipolar hegemony is collapsing rapidly, almost if by design.
Pepe Escobar breaks down M. Hudson's latest book. June 9, 2022: Will the Global South Break Free from Dollarized Debt? https://www.unz.com/pescobar/will-the-global-south-break-free-from-dollarized-debt/
I read the article and I'm grateful to you for sending me to the whole Unz site. Lots of articles by different authors I'm going to go back and read, including Ron Paul and Hudson himself.
It was useful to get a better sense of Hudson's solution, since I agree with his definition of the problem completely. It seems very Henry George. I've never been completely sure I understand Georgist economics but my reservation has been that it leaves land ownership in the hands of the rentier class but just charges them rent. It doesn't prevent monopolies but it taxes them.
The question that Hudson doesn't ask is "what's the best size for sovereignty?" Is it 1B+ people, like China and India, or 340,000 like Iceland? If we look at nations as a legal fiction, a definition where I agree with Harari, 'national sovereignty' is a meaningless concept. What's a nation?
To me, it depends on sovereignty for what. I think food sovereignty is best accomplished through small commonwealths interconnected into trade groups with the commonwealths around them. I think that resources underground, like water, need to be shared and protected in watersheds. Same for forests, ecosystems, air. But resources deep underground, like oil, gas & minerals, belong to the whole continent.
This could be accomplished through protectionist economic policy for local microcurrencies that gives a less favorable exchange rate the farther away a buyer is. No oil should ever cross oceans, I'm thinking, especially if a country is both exporting and importing. Just some thoughts, since I was pondering it after reading this article. Thanks for sending!
In passing - regarding Ron Unz (The Unz Report), the American Pravda series is an excellent place to start.
https://www.unz.com/page/american-pravda-series/
Many of the articles allow you to download an audio reading of the article (by Ron himself) - I either download them onto my iPod and listen while walking or burn them onto a CD and listen in the car. I doubt that I will every get through reading the full extent of what Ron Unz has actually written. Extraordinary!!
Thank you, Stan, for the referral to Pepe's article on Michael Hudson. I love both of them and can't wait to check it out!
You raise an interesting point with "almost if by design." That's an open question in my mind, whether Putin and Xi Jinping are in cahoots with Schwab. There are so many narratives that I'm now questioning because of what I'm learning from Matt Ehret and others. One is Tiananmen Square. I no longer know if these countries are operating as empires or federations. But I'm certain which one of those the US is so, no matter what, there is an opportunity coming to use that collapse. Thanks for responding!
I'm really enjoying your posts and videos Tereza. Interesting you mention Tiananmen Square because someone questioned me recently because my understanding of what Mao did which was the "western understanding" and I asked my Chinese friend, a student as the time of TS, and who would have been there had she not been completing her experiment. She has quite a different view of who was to bless and who was to blame. She throws a different light on Mao and Deng too. I'm learning not to cement any knowledge in because it can change depending on new information. What an amazing world we live in.
Thank you for the compliment, Gail, and for adding that first hand knowledge. There are so many things I thought I knew but I'm just not certain now. Isn't there a song that says something like that?