Remember when Norman Finkelstein proved to everyone that Alan Dershowitz had plagiarized Joan Peters repeatedly in his “The Case for Israel”, and Dershowitz went on being a Professor at Harvard for another 10 years?
“De pacht die vroeger aan de erfelijke adel werd betaald, wordt nu aan banken betaald in de vorm van hypotheekrente. De pacht is alleen van ontvanger veranderd, maar blijft een quasi-tributaire heffing.”
- Michael Hudson, The Destiny of Civilization
My dear Europeans. 🇪🇺
I’m really sorry, but I have to confess.😳😳😬
This is my monthly gas bill. Unlimited consumption. An apartment in the center of St. Petersburg🇷🇺. A gas stove and a gas heater for kitchen and bathroom.
293,9 RUB - €3 EUR a month. Sorry.😬😳😳
"Once national rejuvenation is complete, China will occupy a unique position in world history. For among the contemporary powers, although they are new, they are not ancient; Greece & Rome have the ancient but not the present. Only our country is ancient and present, old & new"
Zhang Wenmu: "Brzezinski’s theory has made a decisive contribution to the decline of the United States today. He is a strategic scholar who suffered from right-wing infantile disorder."
Chinese strategists nearly unanimously believe this book underpins all U.S. foreign policy
Having read scholarship about the Nazi terror from below, I asked in my history of Communism class in the UK about whether there was similar scholarship about how Stalin's purges were not only his responsibility. The illustrious professor laughed at me.
What people fail to grasp is that the USSR was at war for its entire history.
It eventually lost. But for the 74 years that it survived, it consistently raised hundreds of millions out of feudalism and poverty into a dignified modern existence.