This week's Global Research News Hour debuts in 2019 with a special look at key stories from the past year and what they portend for 2019.
Andy Lee Roth, Associate Director of Project Censored, speaks to some of the key themes running through the top 25 most censored stories of the past year, and this year's CENSORED 2019 compendium. Dr. Jack Rasmus, a political economist and instructor at St. Mary’s College in California, assesses the fundamentals underlying the global economy and the key events from 2018 affecting those fundamentals. Rick Rozoff, journalist, anti-war activist and manager of the STOP NATO list-serve, takes a look at the geostrategic developments in 2018 on the world stage and what they indicate about near future military conflicts.
Finally, Dmitry Orlov brings us his end of year take on the ongoing collapse of the US Empire in the context of Russia's military capability, the global energy map, and climate change impacts.