Just before disbanding for the Christmas holidays, the US Congress passed a $45 billion “aid” package for Ukraine.

Yves here. Michael Hudson was interviewed Thursday on MEGA, a German news radio program, focusing on the economic impact of the war with Russia on major players, particularly Europe. We have a translated transcript below and will embed the YouTube version (in German) which is expected to be posted early next week.

The Ukraine crisis has more or less reinforced the nearly global view that the world is better served with multipolarity and multilateralism.

Greenwald explores the twisted dynamic that the corporate journalist who lie most casually and aggressively on behalf of the US Security State are those who advance most rapidly – starring The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg and and RussiaGate conspiracist Natasha Bertrand of CNN.

Western leaders can no longer hide the truth about Ukraine.

Quincy Brief No. 36

Towards the end of 2021, the Kremlin made an attempt to push the West to negotiate on Russia’s long-standing political and defense grievances

In the 1980s and 1990s, I was a member of the Russian studies group sponsored by the Brookings Institution. In the 1980s, members of the Reagan administration would present papers that inflated the military and economic power of the Soviet Union to justify increased U.S. defense spending.

Bill Clinton 1998: Expanding NATO after Western leaders declaration that it would not move one inch East. According to George Kennan, former Counselor of the US Department of State and U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union: “A fateful error. Why, […]

In 2019, my father, Boris Zapesochny, retired as a violinist from the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra after nearly 40 years. Before that time, he played in the Leningrad in the seventies.