Jack Rasmus: American Empire Isn’t Going Quietly, War With China, Restricting Democracy & BRICS Antipole
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
4.2 • 568 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Jack Rasmus discusses the decline of American Empire which has suffered a serious financial blow and militarily is in retreat. He gives his view on the Ukraine War and the March 22nd terror attack in Russia and believes we will continue to see escalation. The dollar is the linchpin of the global empire and it continues to be used less as we see the acceleration of BRICS as an antipole. Decline will be protracted, it’s a process. The elites or the supranational financial capitalists/imperialists seek to continue maintaining and amassing global wealth. EU is done economically. The Pentagon is planning for war with China, but not before 2030. The empire isn’t going away quietly. The propaganda and censorship machine of the one-party system will intensify as our current neoliberal regime cannot continue without further restricting democracy.
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About Dr. Jack Rasmus
Dr. Jack Rasmus, Ph.D Political Economy, teaches economics at St. Mary’s College in California. He is the author and producer of the various nonfiction and fictional workers, including the books The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US Economic Policy From Reagan to Bush, Clarity Press, October 2019; Alexander Hamilton & The Origins of the Fed, Lexington books, March 2019; Central Bankers at the End of Their Ropes: Monetary Policy and the Coming Depression, Clarity Press, August 2018; Looting Greece: A New Financial Imperialism Emerges, Clarity Press, Sept. 2016; Systemic Fragility in the Global Economy, Clarity Press, January 2016; ‘Obama’s Economy: Recovery for the Few‘, Pluto Press, 2012, ‘Epic Recession: Prelude to Global Depression‘, Pluto Press, 2010, and ‘The War at Home: The Corporate Offensive from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush‘, Kyklosproductions, 2006. He has written and produced several stage plays, including ‘Fire on Pier 32‘ and ‘1934‘. Jack is the host of the weekly radio show, Alternative Visions, on the Progressive Radio Network, and a journalist writing on economic, political and labor issues for various magazines, including European Financial Review, World Financial Review, World Review of Political Economy, ‘Z‘ magazine, and others. Before his current roles as author, journalist and radio host, Jack was an economist and market analyst for several global companies for 18 years and, for more than a decade, a local union president, vice-president, contract negotiator, and organizer for several labor unions, including the UAW, CWA, SEIU, and HERE. Jack’s website is www.kyklosproductions.com where his published articles, radio-tv interviews, plays and book reviews are available for download. He blogs at jackrasmus.com, where weekly commentaries on US and global economic matters are available. His twitter handle is @drjackrasmus.
Jack is the owner and principal of Kyklos Productions LLC, which produces stage plays, books, and public presentations. Jack is also available for keynote and other speaking events on various economic and political topics.
*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another edition of Geopolitics and Empire. |
| 0:03.4 | A quick reminder that I do need your support to continue producing and developing this podcast, this rebel transmission. |
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| 0:13.7 | We're doing supporter-only group Zoom calls now, and there's a private chat on the substack for supporters. You can also buy me a coffee |
| 0:22.1 | or send reinforcements via donor box. We're joined today by Dr. Jack Rasmus, who's an economist, |
| 0:28.3 | radio show host, author, Professor Renaissance Man. I've been a fan of his work and analysis. |
| 0:33.9 | Welcome to the podcast, Dr. Rasmus. My pleasure. |
| 0:43.5 | And so, you know, as I've mentioned to you, I've known about your work for a number of years. |
| 0:45.0 | I've recently revisited it. |
| 0:53.4 | And, you know, just briefly, if you'd like to introduce yourself and your sort of focus and line of work for the geopolitics and empire audience. |
| 0:59.2 | Well, right now I'm writing a lot about and have been in last decade in several books and countless articles about the U.S. and global economy. |
| 1:03.8 | That's been a major focus, as well as what's going on with the U.S. elections here since 2008, financial instability, you know, |
| 1:13.9 | within the system growing, contradictions and policy growing. And, of course, you know, the wars going |
| 1:21.5 | on, particularly the one in Ukraine and NATO and preparations for similar war with China at some date here before 2030. So war, |
| 1:34.2 | is the economy, big political changes and trends going on. That's pretty much my focus. |
| 1:41.6 | Also, you know, my origins are in the U.S. labor movement decades ago. |
| 1:47.2 | So I pretty much follow what's happening with the working class and the unions in this country quite a bit. |
| 1:53.3 | So that's sort of a long-term thread underneath all of my recent interests. |
| 2:00.5 | And those are essentially some of my favorite topics that I like to cover on this Getty |
| 2:06.6 | transmission. And, you know, maybe to start, get your thoughts on the state of or the decline of |
| 2:14.6 | Pax Americana, the American Empire, I've been covering that now for a decade. |
| 2:19.1 | You know, I permanently expatriated from the US 2006 Peace Corps Mongolia was my ticket out. |
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