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WATCH: Professor Ellen Meiksins Wood: The Imperial Paradox: Ideologies of Empire [2008]

WATCH: Professor Ellen Meiksins Wood: The Imperial Paradox: Ideologies of Empire [2008]

"The Imperial Paradox: Ideologies of Empire" lecture was given by Prof. Ellen Meiksins Wood, Professor Emerita of Political Science at York University.

Before Collapse, Credit Suisse Quietly Conquered an Obscure Debt Market – Debt-for-nature Swaps

"Analysts expect the global debt-for-nature swaps market to eventually exceed $800 billion."

WATCH: Next Floor (A Short Film by Denis Villeneuve)

WATCH: Next Floor (A Short Film by Denis Villeneuve)

Prix Canal + for best short film, Semaine de la Critique, Cannes...

WATCH: How American Imperialism Works [in 5 Minutes]

WATCH: How American Imperialism Works [in 5 Minutes]

Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends. He is the author of Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire.

Where Are We Now? The Epidemic as Politics

"Fear makes thinking harder, yet there is an urgent need to think and to question every aspect of our current situation. The philosopher, which Agamben truly embodies, is a figure that must be heeded."

Liberalism in India – a Beast that Devours By Way of Shapeshifting

"...the class hierarchy is itself continuously reimposed and reiterated, but under capital instead of religion, while pretending to uplift the working class and neutralise the abuse and injustice."

A SYSTEM ON LIFE SUPPORT

"Is it not yet clear to the left that the political face of “breakdown capitalism” is fascism, albeit articulated in new and more sophisticated (progressive!) forms of violence and repression?"

WATCH: The Betrayal by Technology: A Portrait of Jacques Ellul

"In 1950, Ellul finished his manuscript La Technique ou l'enjeu du siècle (The Technological Society), his seminal analysis of the way technology shapes every aspect of society. The Betrayal by Technology is one of the very few existing filmed recordings of Jacques Ellul speaking."

Forgive Us Our Debts

"If today a government - in Italy as elsewhere - really wants to move in a different direction from the one that is being sought everywhere to impose, it is above all the money/credit/debt system that it must resolutely question as a system of government."

‘Our Defeats’ Review: A striking Post-Mortem of the Revolutionary Dream

"Périot starts a dialogue between the past and the present by confronting the future of the revolution that has been laid to rest by youthful cynicism, censorship and the bourgeois constructs of modernity."