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 EH here. I can't say I love Taibbi, but when he's right he's right. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Myth of the Winnable Culture War Since the people we disagree with aren’t going anywhere, we might as well talk to each other Matt Taibbi 1 hr ago In response to the predictably voluminous criticisms of yesterday’s article, “ Spying and Smearing is ‘Un-American,’ not Tucker Carlson ”: I disagree with Tucker Carlson on a variety of issues. I’m not saying this to “distance myself,” but rather to make a point that imagine he’d agree with, also the point of the article: there’s a difference between disagreeing, and what we’ve begun to do in media since Trump’s arrival. Take one of Carlson’s most-criticized recent statements: Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson #Tucker : Why does America benefit from having tons of people from failing countries come here? @FoxNews June 30th 2017 2,127 Retweets 6,450 Likes I disagree with the assumption that people who come to America from countries mo...

  Interview with Swedish Positiva Pengar Group Interview with Swedish Positiva Pengar group, by Jessi Ora, May 27, 2021 MICHAEL HUDSON  • JULY 13, 2021  • 11,300 WORDS   •  5 COMMENTS   •  REPLY Tweet Reddit Share Share Email Print More Share to Gab TRANSCRIPT Jussi:  So welcome all and welcome Michael. Good to have you here again. How are you? Hudson:  It’s good to be back. Jussi:  Our pleasure as usual. Let me just introduce you shortly first. I think most people know quite a lot about you. I’ll make it short. You have been an advisor to governments, warned correctly about the debt crisis in Latin America and the great financial crisis 2008. You worked on Wall Street as an economist. One of your assignments was to calculate how much it was possible to indebt Latin American countries so all their export income was used to pay interest on loans. Another way to put it, how much can you put these countries in debt. As an associat...