I'm delighted to introduce our next speaker who's been a friend of mine for a very long time and she hasn't spoken at one of our events before.

We've worked together in journalism and I consider her one of the finest and most fearless investigative journalists.

There's not a lot of them around anymore, most are stenographers for the state and it's the first time her speaking here.

It's a great reminder to all of us that the Ron Paul Institute is not a libertarian organization, it's not a right wing or a left wing organization.

It's a continuation of Dr. Paul's efforts on Capitol Hill to create broad coalitions across the board and cooperate across the board on items that are of shared importance.

And those, of course, are the tyranny of the ruling class, the attacks on civil liberties and the warfare state.

So I would like to welcome, I would like us all to welcome a great friend of mine, fearless journalist, Anya Parampil.

Hello everyone, how are you today?

Thank you, Daniel, for inviting me and for that introduction and thank you to the Ron Paul Institute for hosting this.

It's an honor for me to be included and to be among so many friends, actually.

Daniel, someone I used to interview on RT all the time and Dr. Paul, I don't know if he's in the room, but I learned so much from him.

People might not know this because we get put in these political boxes, but I can say with confidence that Dr. Paul and his explanation of the Fed and our monetary policy or lack, they're of impacted a lot of my own work.

And so I'm grateful for that and grateful for the opportunity to speak here.

I just returned from South Africa where I covered the Brick Summit, which surprised a lot of people, I think especially in the West with the announcement that six new countries, including the UAE and Saudi Arabia would join and Iran, in fact.

The countries we thought were one-dimensional long-term enemies, Iran and Saudi Arabia coming together to join an alternative financial network, global financial network opposed to the neoliberal IMF model that has rained since the end of World War II.

And I've been covering events like Bricks for several years now, meeting the diplomats from U.S. designated enemy countries, from all around the world, who really formed this, what they describe as a multi-polar world order.

That is rising in opposition to the unipolar hegemonic U.S. led transatlantic order that I think we kind of took for granted in the United States would continue to reign supreme.

And whenever I come back from these events, but particularly now, I feel a lot of the time that I've come back from the future because I'm hearing what the rest of the world is talking about.

I think that the ideologues in Washington and who run our government are so secluded from there not even interested, I don't think in realizing how these other countries operate.

But because of my exposure to this other world, I've seen the writing on the wall for years now that, for example, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and even aligning with Iran would eventually break away from the

Western hegemonic unipolar order. It was just inevitable, and I will get into why shortly.

But I just can't emphasize that a lot of times when we're talking about what are they going to do in the future in terms of currency, we might be playing ketchup because these conversations have already been going on for years.

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