Seemed to be based on that understood superman in. Welcome to front running 2025 max kaiser Stacy Herbert and were taking a forensic deep dive into all the candidates and their positions stacey i think today were going to take a close look at what we call antiwar yes because we actually had a candidate in these democratic primaries who is antiwar this is one of the really radical positions in u. S. Politics because usually we always have a prowar candidate and you actually have to show your credentials constantly about how prowar you are remember Hillary Clinton was her famous line was we came we saw he died ha ha ha ha ha ha cackle and that was referring to khadafi and libya and joining us to talk about anti war is James Howard Kunstler and dr Michael Hudson you were the author of super imperialism so you know about the role of war in exerting this imperialism 1st of all tell us a gabbers position on antiwar has incurred the wrath of the entire political and certainly of the media spectrum is antiwar even a possibility for america well the 1st thing you have to ask any democratic candidate for president is where do you plan to go to war and your administration because that has been the policy of the Democratic Party. World war one of course republicans thats. Their standard position as we love war we love the military will love the police we love military were spending it spending it well yeah us the jobs program but the democrats always have to pretend like we love the women and children of afghanistan thats why were going to go bomb them libya we love the people of benghazi we must save these people in benghazi now they dont think about them gabbert she always points out that weve been at war since 2001 she signed up because of right across the river here from brooklyn we see the twin towers used to be there now its Freedom Tower she joined up to go fight in iraq she fought in iraq and now shes the one coming back very rarely do we ever have a candidate who actually did get some sort of deferment from ever going to war but she fought this war in terms of the budget the department of defense takes 20 percent of the u. S. Spend do you think its just a jobs program or do we really need to occupy all these countries where our special forces are in 70 percent of all nations across the world what is this about war has become of very ambiguous project in our life time you know it has lately evolved to more like occupying certain countries in kind of a desperate attempt to stabilize problems that weve created i think we have to consider that a lot of it comes from the evolution of what the condition of the world was in 1905 after the 2nd world war our intentions were not always wholly bad and probably still are not wholly bad but they have become distorted and perverted and it certainly doesnt help that so much of our Gross Domestic Product is now dedicated to the enterprise of the ambiguous warfare yes seems like the war is definitely the number one export for the u. S. But i would posit that trump is antiwar and this is one of the reasons why hes. Being attacked by whats called the deep state of the deep state is the war state and hes always been kind of anti war when you think about that dr Michael Hudson. The question is what kind of war youre going to have and in a democracy like the United States theres only one military strategy that you have and thats the bomb and no democracy can field an army to occupy you can have a few people there but you cant really occupy there are no Ground Troops if there were any attempt to really occupy a country youd have Something Like the vietnam war protests and the country would go against that so no american wants to go to war they want to drop bombs and they want to bomb the civilian centers to make the civilians so angry that theyll overthrow the government so you cant really say that its a humanitarian war this is the kind of orwellian rhetoric you have so you have a democracy that can only be. And there are all sorts of and so eerie results of that that people dont discuss i found out in the 1950 s. 1960 s. And 1970 s. The entire us balance of payments deficit was military the private sector of america just exactly in balance the entire deficit is military so the question is how can america arrange a World Monetary system where other Countries Fund the balance of payments deficit to enable america to maintain 800 military bases and all of the military operations that they have so when you talk about going to war youre talking about. Creating a international Monetary System that actually is a tributary system very much like what rome set up with the provinces so to america the rest of the world europe especially. Asia africa the 3rd world countries are provinces to fund the American Military control of other countries and be. Because we cant have our own draft we have a foreign legion which means its support basically so i would be arabia and the wahabi crazies and thats the 2nd aspect of war why do we go to war because we view the key to Economic Growth as oil and energy we go to war is Vice President cheney said for the oil thats why they invaded iraq for the oil thats why trump says the one thing we want in syria we really dont want to go to war with russia we want to just control oil. And the gas lines and the pipeline through afghanistan so the military is really an extension of controlling a world energy and oil and to prevent any attempt to stopping Global Warming its really a war for to maintain Global Warming under the control of the United States lets follow up on that because tom did say that just openly and blatantly forget all the people and helping the kurds and that stuff we want the oil so its not the antiwar stance the rhetoric he uses is the fact that hes so blatant about and i think especially the democrats they like to have a higher social thing that we want to have transgender bathrooms in libya or we want womens rights in iraq or they justify their warmongering for that but gal bird she called Hillary Clinton who is the ghost haunting the democratic primaries the democratic election she called her the queen of warmongers so is it possible however now that its become more transparent now that we have social media and during the fortys and fiftys and sixtys the lead up to vietnam it used to be able to be easy to hide what we were doing a lot of people didnt know we were bombing over there are ready for years before we officially declared war in vietnam so a lot of these things like we hear from the people of libya now we hear from the people on the ground in syria and an independent journalists go there so you. Think back in change she think psychologically the population jim do you think this could change for the mining elson seen that theyre against these wars i think all the dynamics of geopolitics are going to change in ways that were not expecting and you know my my read of whats going on is that as usual we expect everything thats happening now to continue exactly as it has and i dont think thats the case at all i think that what were going to see is that the world is going to become a wider place again rather than a smaller place and that the various geo political regions of the world are going to be much more regionally centered and it doesnt necessarily mean theres going to be less conflict but its going to be a very different thing and what were seeing now in the middle east and central asia which are places that couldnt be farther away from the United States are really expressions of the ending of that old era of you know lets say the you know the post vietnam to the 2015 era of how we conducted ourselves in the world and a lot of this of course as michael has pointed out is connected to the condition of the dollar and the global economies effect on it and its effect on our own relations i do want to point something out though. A lot of the imperial activity thats gone on has also been directed against our own citizens for example we are in new york city and you cant fail to notice the tremendous level of prosperity in new york city right now im amazed actually compared to my childhood in the 1960 s. But remember what were seeing is really the results of financialization of the economy and what were seeing is that all of the asset stripping the fly over states in the midwestern rust belt all that those assets have been removed financial ised and we centered and concentrate. Did in a place like new york city so our own citizens have suffered as much from imperialism as the other people in the world the candidates who are antiwar get very hated by the media and i do notice if you tune into m s n b c is the Democratic Media you see ads for boeing or Lockheed Martin the number one into the defense contractor is why do Lockheed Martin and boeing and raytheon advertise on the cable only way thats a good question its really hard to imagine because the average joe who is watching m. S. N. B c is not hes not going to go look for a contract with weight the on you know theyre selling war who knows maybe theyre trying to attract shareholders you know well it feels to me like theyre rewarding Rachel Maddow on our Anderson Cooper or you know selling the war to the population to say calling their product the product is what theyre selling more than war their product like the f. 35. 00 its really like buying 100 year old wine and the wine will be sold at auction and then somebody will buy it to try to drink it and say well its all gone sour and then no this is wine for drinking this is wine for trading these arms that theyre making are not arms for fighting their arms for producing and they armaments makers have factories and outlets in every single Congressional District in order to get congressmen and to fight for employers its one of the few manufacturing sectors of the economy that is probably less efficient than the other manufacturing sectors because the Seymour Melman showed way back in the 1960 s. Arms makers are after profits in the sense that cutting costs and selling it at a markup they have cost plus now the cost plus contracts for arms means you want to maximize the cost of producing absolutely everything which is why you have a 5000. 00 toilet seat. No the problem is that you have engineers that try to maximize the cost there is no spillover for domestic industry that all of the technology that the arms industry makes can be duplicated by japan or china or other countries wanted to minimize cost instead of maximized costs so you have the arms industry as one of the major reasons seymour moment said that america is losing its industrial advantage because of the idea of cost maximisation instead of cost minimisation right that we have to go to break and when we come back lets talk about the deadliest weapon of all the u. S. Dollar go a. Good number. Of. Good. And. A pretty long. Time to. Send some. Locals to the. Pool with them is true. Welcome back to front running 2020 maximizers days are over what do the deadliest weapon of them all the u. S. Dollar stacey were going to talk about the u. S. Dollar as a Deadly Weapon against the worlds countries to force them into obedience were here in brooklyn were talking about the economic policies and the platform of Tulsi Gabbert has been antiwar she is of course millennia old generation the millennial have been paying theyve grown up with never ending war since 2001 across the river here in manhattan weve been nonstop war weve spent 4. 00 to 6. 00 chilean dollars on these foreign wars of course we have no money for our own nation but lets talk you both have mentioned the u. S. Dollar what about the fact that the u. S. Dollar is used as a weapon the fact that we own the financial grid they all commerce and trade basically has to settle through the new york fed Michael Hudson youve written about this youve written about super imperialism if the u. S. Dollar is no longer the one sole reserve currency in the world if there are alternatives to the Swift Financial system how much power does the u. S. Lose well the dollar is a free ride in the sense of what happens when the u. S. Runs a balance of payments deficit all of these dollars that it spends are turned over ultimately to the Central Banks of europe and china what do they do with the dollars theres really nothing they can do except either buy gold or buy u. S. Treasury securities because Central Banks dont usually buy stocks they dont buy they buy treasury securities and so most of the u. S. Still must budget deficit is not funded by americans its funded by foreign Central Banks refinancing americas budge balance of payments deficit that is recycled into the purchase of treasury secure. To fund the domestic budget deficit now to the extent that foreigners are not doing this americans would have to finance their own budget deficit now what trump is doing is very helpful in saying you know this is a wrong system we want to make russia and china and iran and other countries independent of the dollar so theyre not really doing it because theyve sort of followed the american neo liberalism but im going to help here that im going to impose sanctions against them and threaten to cut them off from the swift system which is the Bank Clearing system we can just come in and cut off their bank credit at any time we can pull the plug on the electrical fine Bank Settlement system whereby one bank sends money to another when youre right a check we can force them into independence from the United States economy and if he were a enemy of american imperialism he couldnt be doing a better and more wonderful job in making china russia iran ultimately europe all independent of the american dollar so that they have their own mutual currency clearing system which is what the shanghai. Defense organization has created and. Now russia china are dealing in their own currencies domestically and essential late there is no way that america can finance its war spending which is the budget deficit except now from europe and other 3rd world countries which are now being so oppressed by the International Monetary fund and the austerity programs that its squeezing out more money to pay the american bondholders. Centrally americas isolating the whole rest of the world and saying in effect we know were poison go your own way thats trumps policy and one Tulsi Gabbard said in just a very minor way shes that. Act right so theres tons of dick lobel ization dollar as a show and same day the hallmark of the Top Administration you talk about the connection between the dollar and oil and of course thats a quid pro quo theyre going back to the original 971. 00 bargain the petro dollar as it was introduced so its a petro dollar is severed if thats no longer how we measure the Global Economy and that relationship you know it really is the largest purchaser of my book super imperialism was the Defense Department in the cia and Defense Department gave an institute where i work a contract for me to explain how this free ride turned when and so i went with herman come to the white house and we were told that theyve told us so many arabia and other Oil Exporting Countries you can charge whatever you want for the oil the more you charge the more i wrote Companies Make but the condition is you have to recycle all of the earnings into the u. S. Bond market and you can buy stocks to you cant buy control of a Given Company but you can buy a 1000000 shares of every country and company in the dow jones leverage right i understand that but now with this new paradigm it seems as though that is breaking up a little bit and these countries are going their own way their dollar rising china will countries that Oil Countries are told you know if you dont do what we say you know 30 rock could be overthrown in 24 hours ok russia is just as big an oil producer asked saudi arabia they have totally ready dollar eyes a china is certainly seeking ways to deal dollar rises after i say already are not i inquired away near Eastern Countries so that would mean you have a world multipolar in terms of currencies the Dollar Dollar is dollar rising as were talking about then the deficits in the trade imbalances that you speak of they lose the ability to have foreigners fund us wars this is what were saying and if the us had this on this own wars suddenly thats an item that deep. Well are not going to want to accept because you have inflation right thats exactly what president putin says in his speeches and what foreign minister Lavrov Sergey lavrov says theyve spelled it out you can read it on johnsons russia list somehow all of these speeches are not cited in the in the Mainstream Press and the flow very explicit oh you have to do is read what theyre saying and what the chinese are saying my 1st book translate into china was super imperialism and i was made a professor t