Michael Hudson, Ben Norton - How the World Can Free Itself From US Financial Colonialism - Brave New Europe

Michael Hudson, Ben Norton - How the World Can Free Itself From US Financial Colonialism - Brave New Europe

6 August 2025 Economist Michael Hudson describes how the Western powers designed the international financial, legal, and political system in a way that benefits North American corporations at the expense of the countries of the Global South. Hudson also proposes ways for the Global Majority to resist US neocolonialism, in this interview with host Ben Norton. Transcript (Introduction) BEN NORTON: We are all living in a time of great change. There…

How Can the Global South Free Itself From International Finance Capitalism?

Michael Hudson writes that the BRICS countries are a good start. Their extended version has 20 countries with 40% of GDP wealth but they lack an overall economic philosophy. The King of Orange’s hobby-horse “tariffs” are impacting 60% of the Global South. The Global South is starting to free itself from the imperialists with  Pan-Africanism but everyone is plagued by the United States’ veto power in the United Nations. Hudson suggests that a new…