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The Loss of Dollar Hegemony

By Rod Brana 4 April 2023 At the end of World War II, the US emerged as the only power without wholesale destruction of its cities and towns, with its manufacturing at its peak, and its infrastructure unscathed. This position of dominance was further enforced and cemented by the US dollar becoming the currency of trade and reserve that is the basis of economic activity in the world. The advantage of having the dollar, which the US could “print” (now...

The Macabre Shock and Awe Show: US/NATO War on Iraq 20th Year Anniversary

By Rod Brana. Twenty years ago on this date, the American people were subjected to a macabre form of “reality TV” show, set in Baghdad, in the form of the “premier episode” of Shock and Awe, a joint production of the Military Industrial Complex and CNN. The devastation of Iraq by an illegal US/NATO war had started, and the “entertainment value” was not going to be wasted by the mainstream media. We were invited to take a seat, pop the...

Understanding And Preventing Wars

One of the biggest factors leading to war is how economically ignorant the public and intellectual leaders are regarding how awful war really is. War is the absolute worse thing homo sapiens can do. It is pure destruction of life and property and a clear sign that the public and their “leaders” are essentially executing pure tribalism and economic ignorance. Consider the following. In August 10, 1915, British physicist Henry Mosely, who would have probably won the Nobel Prize that...

The Sovietification of American Medicine

Presented at ‘Liberty Speaks II’ Oct 9th, 2022 by Irene Mavrakakis MD. Hi Let’s do a mini review of some economic concepts discussed by Jorge yesterday. The great ‘Austrian Economist’ and 1974 Nobel Laureate F.A. Hayek, in some of his writings like ‘The Use of Knowledge in Society’ and  ‘Competition as a discovery procedure’ helped us realize that economic competition is how we discover and spread superior information throughout society. For example, a Honda engineer in Tokyo, may have invented...

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