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We Need a Guns and Butter Debate Over the Costs of the Iran War

Where is today’s public discussion on how much the U.S. economy will have to pay to rebuild an even vaster military-industrial complex to restock...

01.05.2026 20

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Postponing the World’s Financial Winter, But For How Long? Iran’s MAD Standoff with the Rest of the World

Today’s world is threatened with an economic kind of global collapse. Iran is defending itself against the prospect of U.S. and Israeli military...

20.04.2026 10

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Michael Hudson

Thinking About the Unthinkable: Iran’s Grand Plan to End U.S. Presence in the Middle East

Iran and Donald Trump have each explained why failure to fight the current war to the end would simply lead to a new set of mutual attacks. Trump...

09.03.2026 40

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The US/Israeli Attack Was To Prevent Peace Not Advance It – OpEd

Last Friday, the mediator of the U.S. and Iranian nuclear negotiations in Oman, that country’s foreign minister Badr Albusaidi, pulled

03.03.2026 9

Eurasia Review

Michael Hudson

The US/Israeli Attack Was to Prevent Peace Not Advance It

Last Friday, the mediator of the U.S. and Iranian nuclear negotiations in Oman, that country’s foreign minister Badr Albusaidi, pulled the rug out...

02.03.2026 20

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Michael Hudson

Trump’s Destruction Of The US Economy – OpEd

Trump has created a crisis for U.S. agriculture with his Cold War weaponization of foreign trade with China and Russia,

22.09.2025 20

Eurasia Review

Michael Hudson

Trump’s Destruction of the US Economy

Trump has created a crisis for U.S. agriculture with his Cold War weaponization of foreign trade with China and Russia, for manufacturing as a result...

19.09.2025 20

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Michael Hudson

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization And BRICS 2025: Eurasia’s Re-Alignment In The Face Of Late Stage Barbarism – OpEd

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s meetings in China last week (September 2 and 3) took a remarkable step forward in defining

09.09.2025 10

Eurasia Review

Michael Hudson

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS 2025: Eurasia’s Re-alignment in the face of Late Stage Barbarism

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s meetings in China last seek (September 2 and 3) took a remarkable step forward in defining how the world...

08.09.2025 20

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Michael Hudson

Why America Is At War With Iran – OpEd

The Neocon logic for needing to defeat Iran and break it into ethnic parts Opponents of the war with Iran

24.06.2025 20

Eurasia Review

Michael Hudson

Why America is at War With Iran

The Neocon logic for needing to defeat Iran and break it into ethnic parts Opponents of the war with Iran say that the war is not in American...

23.06.2025 20

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Michael Hudson

What Are the Origins of the Money We Use Today?

The late 19th century saw economists, mainly German and Austrian, create a mythology of money’s origins that is still repeated in today’s...

07.03.2025 20

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How Mesopotamia’s Urban and Industrial Revolution Started Politics as We Know It Today

For the king, the aim was to make “submission not just tolerable but actually desirable.” That enabled Mesopotamian rule to be personal and indeed...

06.03.2025 20

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Michael Hudson