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China has rebuked the United States for destabilizing global finance and leveraging the dollar's dominance as a geopolitical weapon, following President-elect Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs on BRICS nations pursuing de-dollarization efforts. "The U.S. has long used its dollar hegemony to shift crises, spread U.S. inflation to other parts of the world, and made it become a geopolitical tool, which damages international economic and financial stability, and disrupts international order," Liu Pengyu, spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in the U.S., told Newsweek. He contrasted this with BRICS, which he said would continue to promote economic cooperation and a financial...

The war in Ukraine has dominated the past year. Other global crises of soaring energy and food costs are collateral damage from the conflict in Ukraine. The conflict is not simply a localized one in the center of Europe on Russia’s doorstep involving a reactionary anti-Russian regime in Kiev. The conflict represents a historic showdown between the United States and its allies in the NATO military alliance it leads, and Russia. The showdown has been a long time coming. It didn’t have to happen in this violent, atrocious way. Russia had long warned the United States and its NATO partners...

Excellent conversation with Garland Nixon about the United States plan for stealing Europe's industry in order to reindustrialize the U.S allowing it to become more competitive with China and to maintain hegemony. Europe had to give up low cost Russian gas and oil to weaken them enough that their industries would be forced to relocate here or go bankrupt. Europe is in the process of a complete collapse. He believes that the U.S. always uses their vassals and then discards them as empires have throughout history. One of the most interesting points he makes is that the U.S. like Britain...