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  Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire with Michael Hudson Source:   Michel Hudson excerpt: MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, I think you’re talking also about the Nord Stream Two pipeline that the Germans and the Europeans were blocking. So when a European politician said we would rather all starve in the dark than have to buy from the Russians, what they mean is, we would rather take the bribes that we’re getting into our bank accounts from the Americans. We would rarely get the high prices and all of the support from the Americans, and let our 99 percent of the population starve, so that we can get rich off what the Americans are paying us to starve the Europeans of energy and freeze in the dark, just so that Russia won’t get get the payment for this. So obviously, Russia is thinking, well, it can now sell all the gas that it wants to China. At some point, it’ll decide, if Europe doesn’t want to buy our gas, if it’s not going to open the Nord Stream Two pipeline...

ABOUT: The Hampton Institute (HI) is a proletarian (working class) think tank that was founded in 2013. The HI was founded by Colin Jenkins, a socialist, with the purpose of giving a platform to everyday, working-class people to theorize, comment, analyze, and discuss matters that exist outside the confines of their daily lives, yet greatly impact them on a daily basis. We are named as a tribute to former Black Panther Party member and revolutionary martyr, Fred Hampton, and also take inspiration from Italian Marxist theorist, Antonio Gramsci, and educator and philosopher, Paulo Freire. We exist to fill the historical void that Gramsci once termed, "Organic Intellectualism" – the collective politicization and critical analysis of and from the working class itself.... We seek to build class consciousness. We seek to end oppressive systems like capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. We seek the liberation of all. All power to the p...

 Joe Biden Got a Cut: "10% Held By H for the Big Guy"

 

  Rhinoceros  attacks political conformity Ionesco's play challenges acquisence to fascism by John Erwin Romanian-born Eugène Ionesco's  Rhinoceros  is a Kafkaesque example of Theater of the Absurd in which totalitarianism is symbolized as a disease that transforms thoughtful human beings into savage rhinoceroses, and is being performed this weekend. The main plot consists of three characters: Berenger, Jean and Daisy. Sophomore Morgan Dowsett is quite adept at playing a drunken Berenger who works for a publishing company with his love, a facile Daisy (sophomore Jordan Phaup), and a scintillating interpretation of Jean by junior Cory Wallace. Although Jean is Berenger's closest friend, Berenger seems to always criticize him. Berenger epitomizes the simple, drunken Everyman; Jean seems to be the astute, open-minded intellectual. Problems begin when both see rhinoceroses charging down the main street of town. After much argument and debate, everyone realizes that the p...