The US is the world capital of evil, has been nearly throughout its history. This is what it does. It exists for one reason only: to enrich the already rich, profit über alles. If it has to steal, murder, genocide, bomb, destroy, lie, cheat, rape, etc., to achieve its goal, so be it. The US must be dismantled so the world can breathe (and survive).
"Capitalists keep telling you socialism can't work, but socialism in defiance of US hostility was still better for the Bolivian people than capitalism with US support. Now imagine how socialism could thrive without US interference..."
Just imagine! The Bolivians know what they want and need--and it's definitely not "freedom and democracy" from the Trump administration. (And what took so long with running Paz out of office? That traitorous a**hole should have been gone in six days!)
Please to not forget that in US and on Wall Street the corporate captured often, in fact cyclically avail themselves of the Socialist instrument of State Bail Out, not unlike 2008 here on our newer ould sod:
Inside Job is a 2010 American documentary film, directed by Charles Ferguson, about the late 2000s financial crisis.
The global financial meltdown that took place in Fall of 2008 caused millions of job and home losses and plunged the United States into a deep economic recession.
This documentary provides a detailed examination of the elements that led to the collapse and identifies key financial and political players.
Director Charles Ferguson conducts a wide range of interviews and traces the story from the United States to China to Iceland to several other global financial hot spots.
Ferguson, who began researching in 2008, says the film is about "the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption". In five parts, the film explores how changes in the policy, environment and banking practices helped create the financial crisis.
Timestamps
0:00 - Deregulation in Iceland and privatization of banks
12:05 - Part I - How We Got Here
31:02 - Part II - The Bubble (2001-2007)
57:04 - Part III - The Crisis
1:17:23 - Part IV - Accountability
1:33:33 - Part V - Where Are We Now
Some useful group discussion on the cyclical nature of Market Forces Go Bust ( In Need of Bail Out at regular or irregular intervals depending on levels of Institutional Corruption & failure to empower or enforce what Regulatory supervision of High Finance is allowed in our Pay2Ply Bank Bail-Out System... ):
Yes, me too. The majority of Americans are conditioned from birth to believe socialism and communism are 'evil,' without ever bothering to find out why they're so taught.
Ah, I'm British, but live in the US. Yes, there's a huge difference in schools. Parents in the UK can send their kids off to school in the morning without worrying if they'll see them alive at the end of the day. This country is SO messed up.
The more I hear of the US the more evil and destructive it becomes. This is magnified hugely by the current corrupt regime. Look at how well Mandami is doing in NY.
This is a tragic story that echoes well over a century of US imperialism in Latin America. The formula is simple: install a fascist regime (supported by the military) that is sympathetic to US corporate interests* and to Hell with human rights, the will of the people, and any other such concerns. Torture? Rape? Disappearances? No problem! Whether we talk about Argentina (Videla), Chile (Pinochet), Cuba (Batista), Dominican Republic (Trujillo), Guatemala (Rios Montt), Nicaragua (Somoza), Paraguay (Stroessner), or many others, the pattern is the same. So, too, in Bolivia.
*In his writings, Mussolini describes his fascism as "a merger of State and corporate power." Isn't that what the US has imposed in Latin America and elsewhere (in the name of "democracy")? Isn't that what Trump & Co. effectively plan for their own country?
Here's Yanis going deeper when guest lecturing to special event packed large auditorium (in English) at Tubingen University in Germany. Superb Q&A with media, students, faculty at conclusion:
"Yanis Varoufakis: From an Economics without Capitalism to Markets without Capitalism" | DiEM25
699,846 views Jan 26, 2021
"A lecture organised by University of Tübingen economics students, delivered on Monday February 3, 2020, on the theme "From an Economics without Capitalism to Markets without Capitalism".
"Mainstream economic models lack some important features of really-existing capitalism, including money, time and space. Its models offer ideological cover for a capitalist system that has usurped competitive, free markets.
"The result? Unbearable inequality, climate catastrophe and permanent stagnation. A fork on the road is approaching: It will take us either into deeper stagnation and environmental degradation or to a society with markets but no capitalism. Prof. Yanis Varoufakis talks about the future of our economy and the current state of economics with special regard to pluralism in economics."
Love your way of thinking as it is right and historically correct - without USA as it is, the world would be much better, happier and more peaceful place. Yes, they helped to defeat Nazi Germany, Italian Fascism and Japanese Imperialism - only to replace all that with themselves as a new Empire that plunged entire world after 1945 in the state of permanent war, assassinating world leaders who think for themselves and forcing regime changes, imposing economic and political blockades and starving many nations, weather warfare, financing and inciting terrorism internationally, openly stealing natural resources of other countries, wagging illegal regional wars, openly conducting piracy at sea, supporting genocide and extermination of millions of innocent people - and the list goes on.
(Corporate Capture of U.S. Broadcasting system and increasingly of the U.S. Higher Education system, see Glenn Hubbard speaking for the Columbia University School of Journalism in broadcast excerpts from Amy Goodman's Democracy Now daily hourlong community radio and online TV series from the Pacifica Network and various other syndicators of Public Broadcasting in U.S.)
"Inside Job" Director Charles Ferguson: Wall Street Has Turned US Into a "Predatory Nation" via Amy Goodman broadcast archives of "Democracy Now"
29,388 views May 29, 2012
DemocracyNow.org - Two years after directing the Academy Award-winning documentary, "Inside Job," filmmaker Charles Ferguson returns with a new book, "Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America." Ferguson explores why no top financial executives have been jailed for their role in the nation's worst economic crisis since the Great Depression."
"We also discuss Larry Summers and the revolving door between academia and Wall Street as well as the key role Democrats have played in deregulating the financial industry. According to Ferguson a "predatory elite" has "taken over significant portions of economic policy and the political system and also, unfortunately, major portions of the economics discipline."
Once again, a country suffers because of the US and their attitude that everything belongs to the US regardless of what country its in. Damn the US, may their downfall come sooner rather than later.
The reason why BOLIVIAN Lithium is and was never viable is because it is located in a mountain lake at the top of the world. At an altitude anyone not grown-up there cannot cope with without being suited up for Life on Mars. In a country with poor infrastructure. The cost of getting that Lithium to the world is simply not viable. There is a reason why TESLA has procured most of their Lithium from AUSTRALIA and that is First World infrastructure matters. While Lithium remains very important in LFP batteries for both vehicles and energy storage that contain ZERO COBALT and ZERO NICKEL; the future of batteries shall be SODIUM-ION that contain ZERO LITHIUM, ZERO COBALT and ZERO NICKEL. Plus CATL's top of the range NMC batteries are already made from 93% recycled material. SODIUM-ION is literally replacing LITHIUM with SALT. To liberate themselves what Bolivia needs to be doing is exporting finished products or at least fully formed parts not the rocks or liquids.
Agreed. Exporting raw materials and importing finished products is a colonial economy, even if the country isn't a colony anymore. But easier said than done. Look at the US: it wants China to buy soybeans while it imports Chinese manufactured goods.
I am not against importing Chinese goods they have what the world needs. But countries need to have something substantial to send in the other direction. Food should not be dismissed given China's vast population and needs. Biden and Trudeau cost American and Canadian farmers a terrible price when they both put 100% Tariff on Chinese electric cars. China immediately hit back by ripping up farm orders and giving the contracts to Brazil.
Good, hopefully more US regime change failures coming.
are you shocked lol
would love to hear your take on my take and series on south america
https://thefourthturningpoint.substack.com/p/bolivia-the-proof-of-concept?r=64a3r9
The US is the world capital of evil, has been nearly throughout its history. This is what it does. It exists for one reason only: to enrich the already rich, profit über alles. If it has to steal, murder, genocide, bomb, destroy, lie, cheat, rape, etc., to achieve its goal, so be it. The US must be dismantled so the world can breathe (and survive).
"Capitalists keep telling you socialism can't work, but socialism in defiance of US hostility was still better for the Bolivian people than capitalism with US support. Now imagine how socialism could thrive without US interference..."
Just imagine! The Bolivians know what they want and need--and it's definitely not "freedom and democracy" from the Trump administration. (And what took so long with running Paz out of office? That traitorous a**hole should have been gone in six days!)
Oh NO NOT Socialist!!!!!!!!!!
I would like to see a conversation in the USA; What Socialism means.
SO bloody fed up with people who cannot think for themselves.
Please to not forget that in US and on Wall Street the corporate captured often, in fact cyclically avail themselves of the Socialist instrument of State Bail Out, not unlike 2008 here on our newer ould sod:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilization_Act_of_2008
Good doc film on 2008 yet to be broadcast on US corporate-captured Pay2Play TV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2IaJwkqgPk&t=5631s
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Inside Job is a 2010 American documentary film, directed by Charles Ferguson, about the late 2000s financial crisis.
The global financial meltdown that took place in Fall of 2008 caused millions of job and home losses and plunged the United States into a deep economic recession.
This documentary provides a detailed examination of the elements that led to the collapse and identifies key financial and political players.
Director Charles Ferguson conducts a wide range of interviews and traces the story from the United States to China to Iceland to several other global financial hot spots.
Ferguson, who began researching in 2008, says the film is about "the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption". In five parts, the film explores how changes in the policy, environment and banking practices helped create the financial crisis.
Timestamps
0:00 - Deregulation in Iceland and privatization of banks
12:05 - Part I - How We Got Here
31:02 - Part II - The Bubble (2001-2007)
57:04 - Part III - The Crisis
1:17:23 - Part IV - Accountability
1:33:33 - Part V - Where Are We Now
Some useful group discussion on the cyclical nature of Market Forces Go Bust ( In Need of Bail Out at regular or irregular intervals depending on levels of Institutional Corruption & failure to empower or enforce what Regulatory supervision of High Finance is allowed in our Pay2Ply Bank Bail-Out System... ):
https://www.chronicle.com/article/larry-summers-and-the-subversion-of-economics/
"Larry Summers and the Subversion of Economics"
By Charles Ferguson (Director of documentary film described above: INSIDE JOB)
October 3, 2010
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Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers
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Yes, me too. The majority of Americans are conditioned from birth to believe socialism and communism are 'evil,' without ever bothering to find out why they're so taught.
I had a kid in School in the US.........had to get her out. Why?
Drugs on the Campus/then the Police
You Americans are in deep shit.
Ah, I'm British, but live in the US. Yes, there's a huge difference in schools. Parents in the UK can send their kids off to school in the morning without worrying if they'll see them alive at the end of the day. This country is SO messed up.
OH. British. Not the same in GB
Hideous people.........do not talk to me about the Great British which still not come to terms with the fact that they lost their Empire.
Meanwhile MI6 (blithering idiots) keep thinking if they align with the US they will come back as a superpower!
God forbid.
That kind of domination by the US used to be considered more or less normal. People put up with it, perhaps because they had no choice. Not anymore.
The more I hear of the US the more evil and destructive it becomes. This is magnified hugely by the current corrupt regime. Look at how well Mandami is doing in NY.
This is a tragic story that echoes well over a century of US imperialism in Latin America. The formula is simple: install a fascist regime (supported by the military) that is sympathetic to US corporate interests* and to Hell with human rights, the will of the people, and any other such concerns. Torture? Rape? Disappearances? No problem! Whether we talk about Argentina (Videla), Chile (Pinochet), Cuba (Batista), Dominican Republic (Trujillo), Guatemala (Rios Montt), Nicaragua (Somoza), Paraguay (Stroessner), or many others, the pattern is the same. So, too, in Bolivia.
*In his writings, Mussolini describes his fascism as "a merger of State and corporate power." Isn't that what the US has imposed in Latin America and elsewhere (in the name of "democracy")? Isn't that what Trump & Co. effectively plan for their own country?
Fuck every US government ever.
Great article and good information.
Democratic socialism and social liberalism are a good recipe for a safe and free society.
Just don't let the Economic system known as Neo-Liberalism become a state religion. Mind the Gaps!
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Neo-Liberalism+fails+Yanis+Varoufakis+
Here's Yanis going deeper when guest lecturing to special event packed large auditorium (in English) at Tubingen University in Germany. Superb Q&A with media, students, faculty at conclusion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aK4OztueuE&t=415s
"Yanis Varoufakis: From an Economics without Capitalism to Markets without Capitalism" | DiEM25
699,846 views Jan 26, 2021
"A lecture organised by University of Tübingen economics students, delivered on Monday February 3, 2020, on the theme "From an Economics without Capitalism to Markets without Capitalism".
"Mainstream economic models lack some important features of really-existing capitalism, including money, time and space. Its models offer ideological cover for a capitalist system that has usurped competitive, free markets.
"The result? Unbearable inequality, climate catastrophe and permanent stagnation. A fork on the road is approaching: It will take us either into deeper stagnation and environmental degradation or to a society with markets but no capitalism. Prof. Yanis Varoufakis talks about the future of our economy and the current state of economics with special regard to pluralism in economics."
Source: https://timms.uni-tuebingen.de/tp/UT_...
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/neoliberalisms-bailout-problem/
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Leave out the Democratic bit.
Love your way of thinking as it is right and historically correct - without USA as it is, the world would be much better, happier and more peaceful place. Yes, they helped to defeat Nazi Germany, Italian Fascism and Japanese Imperialism - only to replace all that with themselves as a new Empire that plunged entire world after 1945 in the state of permanent war, assassinating world leaders who think for themselves and forcing regime changes, imposing economic and political blockades and starving many nations, weather warfare, financing and inciting terrorism internationally, openly stealing natural resources of other countries, wagging illegal regional wars, openly conducting piracy at sea, supporting genocide and extermination of millions of innocent people - and the list goes on.
Russia defeated Nazi Germany.
Not by themselves.
The U.S. Finance Elite is always so eager to note it was Washington coming to the rescue. On the battlefields of Europe and Wall Street...
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Wall Street always wins. The poor bastards bleeding on the battlefields never do.
Here's some footage from the carnage on Wall Street with some camera work backtracking on the shameful shams our finance system is built upon...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byD4k-pumMo
(Corporate Capture of U.S. Broadcasting system and increasingly of the U.S. Higher Education system, see Glenn Hubbard speaking for the Columbia University School of Journalism in broadcast excerpts from Amy Goodman's Democracy Now daily hourlong community radio and online TV series from the Pacifica Network and various other syndicators of Public Broadcasting in U.S.)
"Inside Job" Director Charles Ferguson: Wall Street Has Turned US Into a "Predatory Nation" via Amy Goodman broadcast archives of "Democracy Now"
29,388 views May 29, 2012
DemocracyNow.org - Two years after directing the Academy Award-winning documentary, "Inside Job," filmmaker Charles Ferguson returns with a new book, "Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America." Ferguson explores why no top financial executives have been jailed for their role in the nation's worst economic crisis since the Great Depression."
"We also discuss Larry Summers and the revolving door between academia and Wall Street as well as the key role Democrats have played in deregulating the financial industry. According to Ferguson a "predatory elite" has "taken over significant portions of economic policy and the political system and also, unfortunately, major portions of the economics discipline."
Via
Tio Mitchito
TM
Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers
Lay-Low Studio, Ore-Wa (Refuge of A-Tone-ment Seekers)
Media Discussion List\Looksee
Once again, a country suffers because of the US and their attitude that everything belongs to the US regardless of what country its in. Damn the US, may their downfall come sooner rather than later.
He did not go unoticed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XCIQzV-go4
The reason why BOLIVIAN Lithium is and was never viable is because it is located in a mountain lake at the top of the world. At an altitude anyone not grown-up there cannot cope with without being suited up for Life on Mars. In a country with poor infrastructure. The cost of getting that Lithium to the world is simply not viable. There is a reason why TESLA has procured most of their Lithium from AUSTRALIA and that is First World infrastructure matters. While Lithium remains very important in LFP batteries for both vehicles and energy storage that contain ZERO COBALT and ZERO NICKEL; the future of batteries shall be SODIUM-ION that contain ZERO LITHIUM, ZERO COBALT and ZERO NICKEL. Plus CATL's top of the range NMC batteries are already made from 93% recycled material. SODIUM-ION is literally replacing LITHIUM with SALT. To liberate themselves what Bolivia needs to be doing is exporting finished products or at least fully formed parts not the rocks or liquids.
Agreed. Exporting raw materials and importing finished products is a colonial economy, even if the country isn't a colony anymore. But easier said than done. Look at the US: it wants China to buy soybeans while it imports Chinese manufactured goods.
I am not against importing Chinese goods they have what the world needs. But countries need to have something substantial to send in the other direction. Food should not be dismissed given China's vast population and needs. Biden and Trudeau cost American and Canadian farmers a terrible price when they both put 100% Tariff on Chinese electric cars. China immediately hit back by ripping up farm orders and giving the contracts to Brazil.
excellent read, i identify a little lighter more sarcastic tone? I like :)