🇺🇸 In an interview with Sputnik, Dr. Richard Wolff discussed inflation in the United States and how it has been handled in the past.

▪️ He provided an example of the wage price freeze policy implemented by President Nixon in 1971, which brought down inflation by threatening to arrest anyone who raised prices or demanded higher wages.

▪️ Dr. Wolff suggests that this policy could be explored as a possible solution to current inflation issues, which are difficult to control without worsening the bank crisis.

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⚡️ Blinken officially stated at a congressional hearing that the United States was not involved in the Nord Stream explosions.

⚡️ The Biden administration sees TikTok as a threat to US national security that needs to be "ended one way or another," said United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Dan Lazare, investigative journalist and author of "America's Undeclared War," joins us to discuss possible political instability in Europe and the collapse of NATO if the truth on Nord Stream is revealed

🗣️”I think that the truth about Nord Stream will emerge sooner rather than later. But if this happens, the US will be left completely isolated and the EU will be left in complete disarray,” he claims

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Finland Makes Exception for Passage of Russian Fertilizer Cargo in Kotka Port

The Finnish Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that it has allowed the transportation of a cargo of Russian fertilizers detained in connection with EU sanctions against Russia in the port of Kotka.

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Brian Berletic, ex-US Marine Corps independent geopolitical researcher and writer based in Bangkok, joins us to discuss another US provocation in the form of American drone flights over the Black Sea and Taiwan

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Denmark Believes Object Found Near Nord Stream Located There Long Before Blasts, Media Reports

The object, which Russian President Vladimir Putin stated was near the Nord Stream pipelines during the blasts last September, had been located there long before the attack, as it was considerably overgrown, a Danish newspaper reported on Thursday, citing experts and government documents.

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🇺🇸 Dr. Richard Wolff discussed the collapse of private banking and the government's role in rescuing it.

▪️ He argues that this is either the end of private capitalism or a very deep change.

▪️ The government had to save private capitalism from itself, which goes against the self-repairing qualities of private capitalism that are often touted. This has resulted in a hybrid society with both a private sector and a government operating with enormous power, similar to the People's Republic of China.

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Serbs Aware of UK's 'Gift' for Ukraine: NATO Poisoned Serbia's Soil for Billions of Years to Come

Dr. Zorka Vukmirovic, a former scientific advisor at the Institute of Physics in Belgrade, spoke to Sputnik about the ongoing effects of the radioactive substance that contaminated Serbian soil during NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999.

She highlighted the depleted uranium bombing of a telecommunications station near Vranje in Serbia’s south as a clear example of the terrible consequences, as workers who cleaned up the area around the destroyed facility have since died of cancer.

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🇺🇸 Dr. Richard Wolff warns of potential consequences for Silicon Valley if the Silicon Valley Bank collapse makes borrowing more difficult.

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🔺Africa turns away from ‘ex-masters’: Burkina Faso and Eritrea deepen cooperation with Russia
🔺A wave of discontent floods Europe: Italy's PM is ready to risk unpopularity over her support for Ukraine, while pension protests continue in France
🔺If Germany decides to 'arrest' Putin, it will mean declaring war on Russia, Medvedev says

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Brian Berletic, ex-US Marine Corps independent geopolitical researcher and writer based in Bangkok, joins us to discuss Ukraine’s sovereignty which ‘was taken’ by the US, as well as the reasons why America is interested in the conflict

🗣️”It is just further proof that this is not about fighting for Ukraine's sovereignty. Its sovereignty ended in 2014. The decisions being made for Ukraine's future are being made in Washington,” he says

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'Political Theater': Why Does US Seek Full Ban of TikTok?

TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew confirmed on Tuesday that the app now has around 150 million monthly active users in the US, who are coming to the platform "to connect, to share, to learn, or just to have some fun."

The Biden administration recently demanded that TikTok's Chinese owners must sell their stakes in the company or else face a nationwide ban. So why does Washington want to ban the short video-sharing app, and is it on the right side of the law?

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Brian Berletic, ex-US Marine Corps independent geopolitical researcher and writer based in Bangkok, joins us to discuss the UK’s decision to supply Ukraine with depleted uranium ammo

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Dr. Richard Wolff discussed the multiple crises that the United States is facing in terms of its foreign policy, economy, politics, and military.

▪️ He cited inflation as a catastrophic problem, with the US experiencing an average of 7% inflation and some European countries experiencing even higher rates, which can price the West out of the market and change the structure of world trade.

▪️ He also mentioned that raising interest rates to slow down inflation could worsen the crisis for banks because of the effect on the value of government bonds held by banks.

⚡Pentagon: US carried out airstrikes in Syria after American forces were struck by 'Iranian' UAV near coalition base

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Dan Lazare, investigative journalist and author of "America's Undeclared War," joins us to discuss the difficulties that the United States is currently dealing with in the face of China and the declassification of information about the explosions on the Nord Stream pipelines

🗣️”Now China is strengthening its alliance with Russia and there's no easy way out for the US, and then in Germany of course the US faces a huge problem which is of course called Nord Stream where this seems more and more clear that the US is the one that blew up the pipeline,” he stated

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US Conducts Airstrike in Syria After American Forces Struck by 'Iranian' UAV Near Coalition Base

The US Department of Defense announced late Thursday that it ordered airstrikes against targets in eastern Syria after a suspected Iranian drone struck a coalition base housing American forces.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin noted in a release issued by the Pentagon that the strikes were issued against "facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)."

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