In the fall of the berlin wall im joined by my guest John Laughlin in paris he is a political scientist and historian in washington we have harold james hes a professor of history and International Affairs at Princeton University as well as author and editor of a number of books including when the wall came down reactions to german unification and in cork we cross to Geoffrey Roberts he is emeritus professor of history at University College cork and a member of the Royal Irish Academy all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated let me go to john and paris 1st i mean 30 its been 30 years now believe it or not because i remember it so vividly when it happened a few months before i had been living in poland for a number of years and an avid student of Eastern European communist affairs at the time john 30 years on what is its meaning because i look at cursory reviews of you know that and commenting on it. It is the pe
The i. M. F. Is like bailing out half the world over there i made a good job themselves of it because theyve become somebody in this world you know the i. M. F. From from being almost completely marginalized and worthless well back about 100 years ago we had this notion of communism and socialism and the workers would gain all the power and the workers would gain all the wealth but now weve discovered that nobody actually has to work theres no work anymore and we find out when everybodys quarantined because nothings being made right there is and still like the economy their stock markets are floating up higher and higher and everything seems ok right now but now everybody has discovered the magic of the Printing Press and this is the danger of here its like well they could just print out money like what was all that stuff about with greece why were they forcing austerity on them when apparently they have a trillion dollars like how does the i. M. F. Which cant produce wealth right they
In just under half an hour from now. Greetings and sal you take action. On a previous episode of watching the hawks we cover how the United States was running a wild west style smash and grab when it came to securing valuable medical supplies during this pandemic germany brazil and other countries around the world were claiming that the United States government was either swooping in and out bidding them after sales were already finalized or the us was just playing down right stealing or as we like to call it here confiscating everything from face masks to ventilators as the item sat on the tarmac in china waiting to be shipped off to the country that rightfully purchased them well appears that theres no holds barred loop grab perpetrated by the new. States bedroom government has of correspondents way back home yes multiple state officials and local Health Groups from massachusetts to illinois to texas have been sounding the alarm the various federal agencies have been scooping up ship
6. Max kaiser this is the is the report you know still you see i was thinking about this whole World Economy and the way things are going and its like were flying over the Bermuda Triangle you know and all the dials and everything and the best part of going in opposite directions are were going upside down our way up side up were not sure its like all so confusing thats because things are getting real and were seeing what some in the alternative finance space would call a 4th turning theres a huge shift going on weve been covering here for 10 years the whole process of digital bliz ation and the dollar is ation the dollar is ation of course has been happening as we all see around the world the Central Banks start accumulating gold then weve seen the de globalization and trump and brags that were a sign of that but now of course is the accelerating rapidly thanks to this pandemic and i want to look at how the break in this supply chain the Global Supply chain happening right now is with
Heres how the structure is going to work. Im going to give very brief introductions for the poor people who are sitting here at the table with me, and i will do all of them at once. And then im going to go in the order in which the images are going to appear and have each of our Panel Members talk about why they decided to be part of this project and why they selected the image that they selected. And they will talk for a little while about the image and then well see where the conversation goes after that and at the end, youre going to be able to have some questions. Very briefly, let me introduce everybody up. I will start with Carol Reardon was a professor of American History at penn State University. We tossed together for a long time. Shes the author of one of the first important books on civil war memory, especially the military side of it in many ways. Hand, therd in one problem of military thought in the civil war north. And she is a coauthor with tom mosler of two field guideb