organizers said the parades were to promote equality and emancipation those joining the rally in paris marched through the center of the city holding banners against violence and sexism towards women. and masked men disrupted a women's day rally in central asian republic of kyrgyzstan tearing down the banners of the protesters as marching had been demanding for women and children's rights in the country as well as protesting against domestic violence there authorities claim they arrested the man along with some of the women demonstrating local media reports claim it was mostly women detained as the rally was not authorized there either. that's a recap of just some of the stories that help shape the world these last 7 days and the latest news for more follow us on twitter or facebook. we're going to adoption is driven by banks failing and countries trailing and now

in lebanon they've got a huge crisis and of course big points come to the rescue. welcome to front running 2025 max kaiser stacy herbert and we're taking a forensic deep dive into all the candidates and their positions stacey i think

today we're going to take a close look at what we call antiwar yes because we actually had a candidate in these democratic primaries who is anti-war this is one of the really radical positions in u.s. politics because usually we always have a pro-war candidate and you actually have to show your credentials constantly about how pro-war you are remember hillary clinton was her famous line was we came we saw he died ha ha ha ha ha ha cackle and that was referring to khadafi and libya and joining us to talk about anti war is james howard kunstler and dr michael hudson you were the author of super imperialism so you know about the role of war in exerting this imperialism 1st of all tell us a gabbers position on anti-war has incurred the wrath of the entire political and

certainly of the media spectrum is anti-war even a possibility for america well the 1st thing you have to ask any democratic candidate for president is where do you plan to go to war and your administration because that has been the policy of the democratic party. world war one of course republicans that's. their standard position is we love war we love the military will love the police we love military we're spending it is spending it well yeah us the jobs program but the democrats always have to pretend like we love the women and children of afghanistan that's why we're going to go bomb them libya we love the people of benghazi we must save these people in benghazi now they don't think about them told to gabbert she always points out that we've been at war since 2001 she signed up because of right across the river here from brooklyn we see the twin towers used to be there now it's freedom tower she joined up to go fight in iraq

she fought in iraq and now she's the one coming back very rarely do we ever have a candidate who actually did get some sort of deferment from ever going to war but she fought this war in terms of the budget the department of defense takes 20 percent of the u.s. spend do you think it's just a jobs program or do we really need to occupy all these countries where our special forces are in 70 percent of all nations across the world what is this about war has become of very ambiguous project in our life time you know it has lately evolved to more like occupying certain countries in kind of a desperate attempt to stabilize problems that we've created i think we have to consider that a lot of it comes from the evolution of what the condition of the world was in 1905 after the 2nd world war our intentions were not always wholly bad and probably still are not wholly bad but they have become distorted in perverted and it

certainly doesn't help that so much of our gross domestic product is now dedicated to the enterprise of the ambiguous warfare yes seems like the war is definitely the number one export for the u.s. but i would posit that trump is anti-war and this is one of the reasons why he's. being attacked by what's called the deep state of the deep state is the war state and he's always been kind of anti war when you think about that dr michael hudson. the question is what kind of war you're going to have and in a democracy like the united states there's only one military strategy that you have and that's the bomb and no democracy can field an army to occupy you can have a few people there but you can't really occupy there are no ground troops if there were any attempt to really occupy a country you'd have something like the vietnam war protests and the country would go against that so no american wants to go to war they want to drop bombs and they

want to bomb the civilian centers to make the civilians so angry that they'll overthrow the government so you can't really say that it's a humanitarian war this is the kind of orwellian rhetoric you have so you have a democracy that can only be. and there are all sorts of and so eerie results of that that people don't discuss i found out in the 1950 s. 1960 s. and 1970 s. the entire us balance of payments deficit was military the private sector of america just exactly in balance the entire deficit is military so the question is how can america arrange a world monetary system where other countries fund the balance of payments deficit to enable america to maintain 800 military bases and all of the military operations that they have so when you talk about going to war you're talking about . creating a international monetary system that actually is

a tributary system very much like what rome set up with the provinces so to america the rest of the world europe especially. asia africa the 3rd world countries are provinces to fund the american military control of other countries and be. because we can't have our own draft we have a foreign legion which means it's support basically so i would be arabia and the wahabi crazies and that's the 2nd aspect of war why do we go to war because we view the key to economic growth as oil and energy we go to war is vice president cheney said for the oil that's why they invaded iraq for the oil that's why trump says the one thing we want in syria we really don't want to go to war with russia we want to just control oil. and the gas lines and the pipeline through afghanistan so the military is really an extension of controlling

a world energy and oil and to prevent any attempt to stopping global warming it's really a war for to maintain global warming under the control of the united states let's follow up on that because i did say that just openly and blatantly forget all the people and helping the kurds and that stuff we want the oil so it's not the anti-war stance the rhetoric he uses is the fact that he's so blatant about and i think especially the democrats like to have a higher social thing that we want to have transgender bathrooms in libya or we want women's rights in iraq or they justify their warmongering for that but gal bird she called hillary clinton who is the ghost haunting the democratic primaries the democratic election she called him the queen of warmongers so is it possible however now that it's become more transparent now that we have social

media and during the forty's and fifty's and sixty's the lead up to vietnam it used to be able to be easy to hide what we were doing a lot of people didn't know we were bombing over there are ready for years before we officially declared war in vietnam so a lot of these things like we hear from the people of libya now we hear from the people on the ground in syria and an independent journalists go there so you. think back in change she think psychologically the population jim do you think this could change for the mining elson seen that there are against these wars i think all the dynamics of geopolitics are going to change in ways that we're not expecting and me you know my my read of what's going on is that as usual we expect everything that's happening now to continue exactly as it has and i don't think that's the case at all i think that what we're going to see is that the world is going to become a wider place again rather than a smaller place and that the various geo political regions of the world are going to be much more regionally centered and it doesn't necessarily mean there's going

to be less conflict but it's going to be a very different thing and what we're seeing now in the middle east and central asia which are places that couldn't be farther away from the united states are really expressions of the ending of that old era of you know let's say the you know the post vietnam to the 2015 era of how we conducted ourselves in the world and a lot of this of course as michael has pointed out is connected to the condition of the dollar and the global economies effect on it and its effect on our own relations i do want to point something out though. a lot of the imperial activity that's gone on has also been directed against our own citizens for example we are in new york city and you can't fail to notice the tremendous level of prosperity in new york city right now i'm amazed actually compared to my childhood in the 1960 s.

but remember what we're seeing is really the results of financialization of the economy and what we're seeing is that all of the asset stripping the fly over states and the midwestern rustbelt all that those assets have been removed financial ised in recess and concentrate. it in the place like new york city so our own citizens have suffered as much from imperialism as the other people in the world the candidates who are anti-war get very hated by the media and i do notice if you tune into m s n b c is the democratic media you see ads for boeing or a lockheed martin number one in 2 of the defense contractors why do lockheed martin and boeing and raytheon advertise on the cable or that's a good question it's a little hard to imagine because the average joe who's watching him is n.b.c.

is not he's not going to go look for a contract with weight the on you know they're selling war who knows maybe they're trying to attract shareholders you know well it's feels to me like they're rewarding rachel maddow our anderson cooper or you know selling the war to the population to take their product the product is what they're selling more than war their product is like the f. $35.00 it's really like buying 100 year old wine and the wine will be sold at auction and somebody will buy it and try to drink it it's all gone sour and then no this isn't one for drinking this is wine for trading these arms the 3rd making are not arms for fighting their arms for producing and armaments makers have factories and outlets and every single congressional district in order to get congressmen to fight for employers it's one of the few manufacturing sectors of the economy that is probably less efficient than the other manufacturing sectors because of seymour

melman showed way back in the 1960 s. makers aren't after profits in the sense that cutting costs and selling it at a markup they have cost plus you know the cost plus contract for arms means you want to maximize the cost of producing absolutely everything which is why you have a $5000.00 toilet seat. no the problem is that you have engineers that try try to maximize the cost there's no spillover for domestic industry that all of the technology that the arms industry makes can be duplicated by japan or china or other countries wanted to minimize cost instead of maximize the costs so you have the arms industry is $1.00 of the major reasons seymour moments said that america is losing its industrial advantage because of the idea of cost maximisation instead of cost minimisation right well with that we have to go to break and when we come back let's talk about the deadliest weapon of all the u.s.

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coming up. on the left coast of portugal about 4 to 6 months because in the south. back to front running 2020 maximizers day sir but what do yeah the deadliest weapon of them on the us dollar stacey we're going to talk about the u.s. dollar as a deadly weapon against the world's countries to force them into obedience we're here in brooklyn we're talking about the economic policies and the platform of tulsi gabbert has been anti-war she is of course millennia old generation the millennial have been paying they've grown up with never ending war since 2001 across the river here in manhattan we've been nonstop war we've spent $4.00 to $6.00 chilean dollars on these foreign wars of course we have no money for our own

nation but let's talk you both have mentioned the u.s. dollar what about the fact that the u.s. dollar is used as a weapon the fact that we own the financial grid they all commerce and trade basically has to settle through the new york fed michael hudson you've written about this you've written about the super imperialism if the u.s. dollar is no longer the one sole reserve currency in the world if there are alternatives to the swift financial system how much power does the u.s. lose well the dollar is a free ride in the sense of what happens when the u.s. runs a balance of payments deficit all of these dollars that are turned over ultimately to the central banks of europe and china what do they do with the dollars there's really nothing they can do except either buy gold or buy u.s. treasury securities because some troll banks don't usually buy stocks they don't buy they buy treasury securities and so most of the u.s.

domestic budget deficit is not funded by americans it's funded by foreign central banks refinancing america's budge balance of payments deficit that's recycled into the purchase of treasury secure. to fund the domestic budget deficit now to the extent that foreigners are not doing this americans would have to finance their own budget deficit now what trump is doing is very helpful in saying you know this is a wrong system we want to make russia and china and iran and other countries independent of the dollar so they're not really doing it because they've sort of followed the american neo liberalism but i'm going to help here that i'm going to impose sanctions against them and threaten to cut them off from the swift system which is the bank clearing system we can just come in and cut off their bank credit at any time we can pull the plug on the electrical fine bank settlement system whereby one bank sends money to another when you're right

a track we can force them into independence from the united states' economy and if he were a enemy of american imperialism he couldn't be doing a better and more wonderful job in making china russia iran ultimately europe all independent of the american dollar so that they have their own mutual currency clearing system which is what the shanghai. defense organization has created and. now russia china are dealing in their own currencies domestically and essential late there is no way that america can finance its war spending which is the budget deficit except now from europe and other 3rd world countries which are now being so oppressed by the international monetary fund and the austerity programs that it's squeezing out more money to pay the american bondholders. centrally america's

isolating the whole rest of the world and saying in effect we know we're poison go your own way that's trumps policy and one tulsi gabbard does that in just a very minor way she said to. act right so there's tons of dick lobel ization dollar as a show same day the hallmark of the trump administration you talk about the connection between the dollar and oil and of course that's a quid pro quo they're going back to the original $971.00 bargain the petro dollar as it was introduced so it's a petro dollar is severed if that's no longer how we measure the global economy and that relationship no one really is the largest purchaser of my book super imperialism was the defense department in the cia and defense department gave an institute where i work a contract for me to explain how this free ride turned when and so i went with herman come to the white house and we were told that they've told us so many arabia

and other oil exporting countries you can charge whatever you want for the oil the more you charge the more i wrote companies make but the condition is you have to recycle all of the earnings into the u.s. bond market and you can buy stocks too you can't buy control of a given company but you can buy a 1000000 shares of every country and company in the dow jones leverage right i understand that and now with this new paradigm it seems as though that is breaking up a little bit and these countries are going their own way their dollar rising china will countries that oil countries are told you know if you don't do what we say you know 30 rock could be overthrown in 24 hours ok russia is just as big an oil producer as saudi arabia they have totally ready dollar eyes they find us certainly seeking ways to deal dollar rising gas prices they already are not i inquired away near eastern countries so that would mean you have a world multi-polar in terms of currencies the dollar dollar is dollar rising as we're talking about then the deficits in the trade imbalances that you speak of

they lose the ability to have foreigners fund us wars this is what we're saying and if the u.s. had to sign this own wars suddenly that's an item that deep. well are not going to want to accept because you have inflation right that's exactly what president putin says in his speeches and what foreign minister lavrov sergey lavrov says they've spelled it out you can read it on johnson's russia list somehow all of these speeches are most cited in the in the mainstream press and it's all very explicit oh you have to do is read what they're saying and what the chinese are saying my 1st book translate into china was super imperialism and i was made a professor there to explain how this works to the chinese there used to be a concept called mutually assured destruction and of course that was between the u.s. and soviet union and they could both destroy each other so we can't use a nuclear weapon because they'll use it against us with the us dollar it was only

like a suicidal destruction like only once can you weaponize the us dollar because alternatives would erupt so do you think we're going to see a world where there is a whole bunch of different alternatives to the us dollar and if so what happens domestically how does that blowback domestically what does the us look like if our dollar is not a weapon that we can be the hallmark of the kind of transition that we're going through now with that we called the globalization is that it produces a lot of disorder. and disorder as we know is non-linear in other words it produces all kinds of effects that people aren't prepared for and don't understand and you put that on top of the fact that the movement of currencies and values which are very abstruse things are among the ideas that are least understood by the public and in fact probably our leaders as well including our leaders in banking and right

now we see that in the united states with a great deal of. would be about whether we want a cheaper dollar or $30.00 and we don't really don't. no which way we want to go or what we're going to do about it but behind all of those arguments is the great specter of the enormous amount of debt that we're piling up in the meantime because of the basic proposition that we can't afford to keep running america the way we've been running it on the basis of our actual revenue income and the the wealth that we produce it was not this common theme that is money is dead so only money we owe ourselves and that they they accept as well but there is who is the way and who is ourselves the we that owe the money or the 99 percent the ourselves we owe it to or the one percent so the 99 percent owes it to the one percent that's basically the principle of the private sector debt in terms of the government debt the united

states never intends to pay off its debt that's the key this is not. there is a liability this side of the balance sheet and that's either the banks or it's foreign central banks but the united states is never itself going to impose the kind of austerity here that the international monetary fund which is run out of a small office in the basement of the pentagon implies imposes on latin america and other countries to create i.m.f. riots so the idea that we could continue along that path indefinitely is insane because you know we're really reaching the kind of hockey stick inflection point that want to follow up on that because our debt is owed to china obama did the asia pivot it certainly looks like trump is ready to go to war in china we have the democratic party all the candidates except for tulsi gabbert are ready to go to war with russia do we see a hot war if somebody like tulsi gabbert doesn't get it and china and russia are

minimizing their holdings of the dollar they've been cutting them back only for what they need to stabilize their exchange rate almost all of the growth in russian and china reserves is spent in gold not in dollars they've been avoiding it every country needs dollar. in foreign currency to trade and buying our bonds yes they do that's what i mean they they've sold off their foreign reserves do not include treasure they've been scaling them all back regarding war there's no way in which america can win a war in russia they may say look let's just test let's agree let's fight in germany and london you know america doesn't care if europe's wiped out there what rumsfeld called a dead zone the euro zone so i don't think they'll fight each other they'll decide to fight in europe or asia or some 3rd countries not their sort of a mutual agreement to wipe out each other's proxies not each other is there a generational war brewing in other words the response to debt selling money we ourselves is the correct response ok boom or another this is

a meme that's out there as they x. and millennial is really realizing that the boomers have loaded them up with debt and ecological destruction isn't it mostly a generational thing even beyond the 99 percent of one percent is about this new generation basically inheriting a handful of nothing no not at all because the boomers are as much and are is much in debt. when the millennial is the fault and student loans the parents of kotor slime and they're broke and have to go back to work instead of living on social security it's the financial sector against the rest of the economy and that's what you're always talking about on your show and that's what the mainstream says you must not talk about who owns the dept to whom it's really the financial sector and the one percent that is polarizing the economy and taking all of the g.n.p. growth for itself not leaving anything for the rest of the economy well following up on china and keeping with the china theme trump has introduced in the 2020

department of defense budget the space force china is also announced a 10 trillion dollar economic zone between here and the moon is space go. to be the next frontier of war and if so how do you even get anti-war about it well it already is kind of the next frontier you know we've been developing all kinds of things you know beginning with just a lot of g.p.s. stuff that helps you guide weapons to where you want them to go but you know i kind of think that this is going to end up in the same place where musk's journey to mars is going to go which is to say it ain't going to happen that before we get to that point we're going to have such enormous financial problems that are going to convert into geo political mess that disorder that you know it's really not going to happen despite the wishes in the fantasies of many people who are paid to do

that why do all these you know on my skin jeff bezos why did they want to go to mars like what's up there a lot of government funding. right well that's going to do it from running $22.00 and the only show you will still be able to see in outer space well that's going to do it thanks for watching mask hazara stay sarah burton till next time buy off. the great american box and mama dolly once said he who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life the risk of us is one thing that seemed to catch these notes from being a key member of the mit blackjack team to investing in promising migrants into print. but what is

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