Happy New Year!!!
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James Petras Website
The New Year Past and Future
James Petras | Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York and adjunct professor at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Ian Welsh
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The New Year Past and Future
James Petras | Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York and adjunct professor at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Looking Back At The Year That Was, And Forward To Hell (pessimistic)
Counterpunch
Thinking about American Totalitarianism (very pessimistic)
Thinking about American Totalitarianism (very pessimistic)
Meher Baba
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Russia’s $75 trillion in resources is why sanctions are impossible
ReplyDeleteAfter reading this article, I looked at Russian metrics, and they are indeed doing very well. Even better, most of Russia’s biggest industries are at least 51% state-owned. This sustains the profit motive, while letting the Russian government have the last say in corporate decisions, so that corporate greed does not commandeer and destroy Russia as it is destroying the USA.
The Russians have enough natural resources that they can low-ball most competitors. But when the US tells various nations that they cannot buy from Russia, and that they must pay more money, the USA looks like an a**hole.