Saturday, April 15, 2023

Links — 15 March 2023

Cision PR
The Digital Currency Monetary Authority (DCMA) Launches an International Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)  ["at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Spring Meetings 2023, the Digital Currency Monetary Authority (DCMA) announced their official launch of an international central bank digital currency (CBDC) that strengthens the monetary sovereignty of participating central banks and complies with the recent crypto assets policy recommendations proposed by the IMF"]
News release by Digital Currency Monetary Authority

Strategic Culture Foundation (sanctioned by the US Treasury Department)
All Roads Lead to Beijing [Western culture meets Chinese culture]
Pepe Escobar

Strategic Culture Foundation (sanctioned by the US Treasury Department)
We are Closening to a Move Through the Cycle – But First Will Come Disorder [the social and political dysfunctionality of Western "liberalism" taken to the extreme]
Alastair Crooke | founder and director of the Conflicts Forum, and former British diplomat and senior figure in British intelligence and in European Union diplomacy

Asia Times
China’s Asia export boom bedevils US friend-shoring  [China is not being isolated economically]
David P. Goldman

Global South
Daily Chronicles April 15 [intersection of geopolitics and geoeconomics]

Lars P. Syll’s Blog
Model vs reality  [Economic models are about economic relations among agents, which is only a small part of social relations. So naturally such models don't represent reality but only the aspects they model. This is the difference between the approach of conventional economics and that of economic sociology, economic anthropology, cognitive science, and much of heterodox economics.]
Lars P. Syll | Professor, Malmo University]

RayMcGovern.com
Tucker Carlson Pulls a Walter Cronkite on Ukraine [classic rant against "the man"]
Ray McGovern, co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, and retired 27-year career CIA whose tasks included preparing and briefing The President’s Daily Brief and leading the Soviet Foreign Policy Branch

The Market Ticker [Karl sums it up]
Karl Denninger

CLUSTERFUCK NATION – BLOG
Disorder is the Order of the Day [Kunstler adds his inimitable style to the conversation]
James Howard Kunstler

Beijing Review 
The West vs. the rest? [China has survived and progressed historically not by conquest by absorption.]
John Pang, former Malaysian government official and a senior fellow with the Perak Academy

RT — Question More (Russian state-sponsored media)
Multipolar world risks new Cold War – IMF chief [translation: neoliberal globalism is tanking]

RT — Question More (Russian state-sponsored media)
Andrey Korobov-Latintsev, an officer of the People's Militia of the Donetsk People's Republic

Middle East Eye
The IMF's punitive loan system makes struggling countries poorer. It must end. [The IMF is an enforcement arm of neoliberalism, neo-imperialism, and neocolonialism.]
Frederik Johannisson, Rasmus Alenius Boserup

Common Dreams
Oxfam Report Highlights Deep Harms of IMF 'Austerity Drive' in Poor Nations ["For every $1 the IMF encouraged a set of poor countries to spend on public goods, it has told them to cut four times more through austerity measures,"…]
https://www.commondreams.org/news/oxfam-imf-austerity-poor-nations

Geopolitical Economy Report
Brazil’s Lula travels to China and calls to end US dollar dominance  ["Lula’s meeting with President Xi Jinping in Beijing came just weeks after China and Brazil reached a deal to use their local currencies in bilateral trade, excluding the US dollar. While visiting China, Lula made it clear that de-dollarization is a top priority for his country."
Ben Norton

Covert Geopolitics
India’s New Foreign Trade Policy Aims to Smash Dollar’s Hegemony [India proposes the rupee as a dollar alternative for settlement in its region]
Joydeep Sen Gupta, Asia RT Editor





13 comments:

Footsoldier said...

The "restrict act " will give the US government extraordinary powers. It's like the patriot act for the internet.


My view is this " leak " regarding the Ukraine war. Is a controlled leak by the intelligence community in order to get the " restrict act " approved.


It's just like when they sent Anthrax to those who wouldn't pass the patriot act to push it through. Of course the " restrict act " will be used to fight an into war against Americans.


Larry Johnson view on the " leak " explains why he thinks it was beyond doubt an intelligence community controlled leak.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lX1HBlnKl0E

Matt Franko said...

What did they leak? That US troops are in Ukraine?

So what? Democrats want US troops in Ukraine… so what’s the problem?

They disclosed they are doing what their own people want them to do?

So what…

Peter Pan said...

You can thank the MSM for exposing the leaker. No wonder Assange is in jail.

Peter Pan said...

Glenn Greenwald: The government is lying about the war in Ukraine
Tucker Carlson - Fox News
https://youtu.be/BesXzq2Cdlg

State Rottweiler journalism.

Footsoldier said...

" You can thank the MSM for exposing the leaker. "


That's what they want you to believe. That the Washington Post in no time at all found out who the leaker was before the FBI.


The Washington Post FFS.


For me it was a controlled intelligence community leak.

Peter Pan said...

Douglas Macgregor interview: "Fall back or be destroyed by the Russians"
https://youtu.be/HMl_dKEjkOA

The colonel weighs in.

Peter Pan said...

That's what they want you to believe. That the Washington Post in no time at all found out who the leaker was before the FBI.

They're on the same side.

Matt Franko said...

Democrats…. support… the…, war…. in…. Ukraine….

It’s called Democracy…

Matt Franko said...

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/brad-paisley-ukraine-performs-same-here-1234714090/

Matt Franko said...

We see Democracy in action…

You guys: “this is outrageous!”

What are you a bunch of commies?

Peter Pan said...

Ignorance is not democracy.

Matt Franko said...

They know exactly what they are doing…

Peter Pan said...

Propagandists know what they're doing...