Geopolitical Economy Report

Lula da Silva has returned as Brazil's president. This will cause a major geopolitical shift. Meanwhile, far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro fled to Florida, fearing legal consequences for his corruption. Brazil-based journalist Brian Mier joins to discuss what a third Lula government means for Latin America and the world. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CQq1kTubYQQ Follow Brian at https://twitter....

Ex Prime Minister Imran Khan argued Pakistan should have been non-aligned in the first cold war and in the new one between the US and China/Russia, as well as independent in the Ukraine proxy conflict. He also praised Beijing's historic poverty reduction program. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NjuKZIBvgO4 Sources and more information here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/12/31/imran-khan-pakis...

Pakistan’s ex Prime Minister Imran Khan compared the US-backed coup against him in April 2022 to the CIA plot that overthrew Iran’s elected PM Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953. He praised Tehran’s sovereignty, criticized Western colonialism, and reaffirmed support for Palestine. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AeRL-POPV94 Sources and more information here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/12/30/pakist...

The CIA is using the intelligence agencies of a European NATO ally to launch sabotage attacks inside Russian territory, according to a report by journalist Jack Murphy. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=m47oAKOYePE Sources and more information here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/12/29/cia-nato-sabotage-attacks-russia Read Jack Murphy's article: https://jackmurphywrites.com/169/the-cias-sabotage...

In response to Western sanctions, Russia's central bank is dropping the US dollar and plans to buy Chinese yuan on the foreign exchange market. The yuan's share of Russia's currency market increased from 1% to 40-45% in less than a year, while dollar trade halved from 80% to 40%. Moscow has quickly become the world's fourth-biggest offshore trading center for renminbi. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/w...

Top United Nations experts wrote a letter to the United States government, emphasizing that its illegal unilateral sanctions on Iran violate the human rights of the Iranian people, calling for them to “be eased or lifted completely.” VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VTFBsXnUcnk Sources and more information here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/12/24/un-us-sanctions-iran-human-rights Check out ou...

The West opposed the rest of a planet in United Nations General Assembly votes that called for a new international economic order based on sovereign equality, sustainable development, and biological diversity. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hfcvmxieug4 Sources and more information here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/12/22/west-un-vote-economic-system-equality

Most of Latin America has opposed the US-backed coup in Peru, standing with elected President Pedro Castillo, including Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, and several Caribbean nations. Meanwhile, the unelected regime is massacring protesters, with Washington's support. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0-bbzsiqFN0 Report on CIA agent turned US ambassador meeting wi...

The US ambassador in Peru, Lisa Kenna, worked for the CIA for 9 years, as well as the Pentagon. One day before the coup against elected left-wing President Pedro Castillo, Kenna met with Peru’s defense minister, who then ordered the military to turn against Castillo. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QhVdgvgCBtA Source and more information here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/12/14/coup-us-ambas...

In this joint stream of Multipolarista with Ben Norton, the Left Lens with Danny Haiphong, and Friends of Socialist China with Carlos Martinez, we discuss the latest developments in China, including: - the government's response to protests, - relaxation of its zero-Covid policy, - President Xi Jinping's historic visit to the Persian Gulf, - Beijing's plan to buy oil and gas in its currency the yua...

A scholarly study found that British colonialism caused approximately 165 million deaths in India from 1880 to 1920, while stealing trillions of dollars of wealth. The global capitalist system was founded on European imperial genocides, which inspired Adolf Hitler and led to fascism. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ob_lIQRAnYM Sources here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/12/12/britain-100-mill...

Peru's elected left-wing President Pedro Castillo was overthrown in a coup by the right-wing-controlled congress. Ben Norton speaks with Peruvian activist Daniela Ortiz about the protests demanding a new constitution and the freedom of Castillo, a humble teacher and union organizer from a rural, indigenous-descent community in a country whose political system has long been dominated by racist elit...

Multipolarista host Ben Norton was invited on Lee Camp's show to explain the two coups that happened in Latin America in two days: the right-wing judicial coup against Argentina's Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on December 6 and the right-wing congressional coup against Peru's President Pedro Castillo on December 7. We also discuss Latin America's attempt to create a new financial s...

Latin America’s leftist presidents are leading the campaign to free Julian Assange. The WikiLeaks journalist has the support of Brazil’s Lula da Silva, Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Argentina’s Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Colombia’s Gustavo Petro, Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega, Bolivia’s Evo Morales, and Honduras’ Manuel Zelaya. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?...

Historian Aaron Good explains how the Western Big Oil corporations that dominated the global crude industry, known as the "Seven Sisters," had significant influence in the government of US President Dwight Eisenhower and inspired the CIA's first ever coup, the 1953 putsch against Iran's elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kv9n4q7IM64 This is PART 14 of the...

Advising Brazil’s President-elect Lula, Ecuadorian economist and leftist presidential candidate Andrés Arauz made a blueprint for a “new regional financial architecture” to unite Latin America, including an international currency to challenge the hegemony of the US dollar and IMF. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4acHVf_rnJ8 Sources here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/12/01/latin-america-us-do...

EU leaders are furious that the US is making lots of money from the proxy war in Ukraine by selling weapons and exporting expensive natural gas. Meanwhile European industries are being destroyed as high energy prices and US subsidies push its companies to go overseas. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=N3wWaoOtVZI Sources in our article here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/11/28/europe-us-profits...

The Nazi-saluting fascist gangs that carried out the US-backed coup against Bolivia's democratically elected socialist President Evo Morales in 2019 are once again using violence to try to topple current leader Luis Arce, burning down farmers' unions buildings. Bolivia-based journalist Ollie Vargas discusses the violent tactics of the right-wing extremists in Santa Cruz, a bastion of separatism wh...

A leaked confidential strategy paper shows Germany is preparing for a potential war with Russia, as it boosts its budget and plans to become the world’s third-biggest military spender. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=toyPvPg7Yaw Sources here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/11/24/germany-military-war-russia

Top news outlet the Associated Press falsely claimed Russia fired a missile at NATO member Poland, risking World War III. This fake story came from an anonymous US spy. AP’s correspondent insisted, “I can’t imagine a U.S. intelligence official would be wrong on this.” VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZQNDOT2IivI Sources here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/11/23/ap-fake-news-us-spy-russia-polan...

France's ex US Ambassador Gérard Araud criticized Washington for frequently violating international law and said its so-called "rules-based order" is an unfair "Western order" based on "hegemony." He condemned the new cold war on China, instead calling for mutual compromises. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XrGjuGpj5bI Sources here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/11/21/gerard-araud-france-us-r...

A history of how the US military-industrial complex was created, with its deep links to Wall Street, following the National Security Council's top secret memo NSC 68: a blueprint for the first cold war. First cold war architect George Kennan wrote in 1987: "Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial complex would have to go on, substantia...

Multipolarista host Ben Norton discusses an important yet little known US-Saudi "oil war" in 2014, when Washington pressured Riyadh to overproduce crude and make prices plummet on the global market in order to hurt the export-reliant economies of Russia, Iran, and Venezuela. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OuArMYIZ-Ck SOURCES: https://multipolarista.com/2022/11/18/oil-war-us-saudi-crash-russia-...

Multipolarista host Ben Norton is joined by historian Aaron Good joins to discuss how oil is used as a geopolitical weapon, analyzing the 1973 OPEC oil embargo, Saudi-US alliance, petrodollar, Nixon shock and Volcker shock, and Washington-orchestrated 2014 oil crash. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Cq8z3Cwgk6Q Check out the playlist for our US Empire and the Deep State series: https://youtube.c...

On the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world is closer than ever to nuclear apocalypse, with the NATO-Russia proxy war in Ukraine. Historian and political scientist Aaron Good discusses the important lessons to learn. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=veAEYf6ZxJE SOURCES: https://multipolarista.com/2022/11/15/nuclear-war-cuban-missile-crisis Check out our playlist for the US Emp...