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"The West Cannot Save Ukraine" - The Nation presents a video roundtable hosted at Verso Books Brooklyn

Haneen Adi12 June 2015

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The Nation's Alexander Reed Kelly hosts a video roundtable at the Brooklyn office of Verso Books. Contributing to the conversation are three experts. They are Michael Hudson, a former balance-of-payments economist for Chase Manhattan Bank, distinguished research professor of economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and an author of a major study of the IMF; Jeffrey Sommers, associate professor of political economy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a visiting lecturer at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga; and James Carden, a former adviser to the State Department on Russia and a regular contributor to The Nation.

The three videos below are excerpts from our discussion.

unfolds between three  featuring Michael Hudson, Jeffrey Sommers and James Carden. Their discussion on the IMF, Europe, and Western corporations begs the question: Who has Ukraine's best interest at heart? questions the fundamental intention behind the 

Below is an excerpt from their discussion.  

Read the article and watch the full excerpts here