Geopolitical Economy Report

A former minister of Ecuador testified that the US government conspired with a right-wing political party to run a disinformation campaign against the leftist Correísta movement, backing a millionaire banker for president in exchange for giving up journalist Julian Assange, who had asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SASR9NXIQpU SOURCES here: https://multipolarista...

After years backing a failed coup attempt, France's Emmanuel Macron and US climate envoy John Kerry met with Venezuela's constitutionally elected President Nicolás Maduro at the UN's COP27 conference in Egypt. The Biden administration still technically recognizes unelected coup leader Juan Guaidó, but is desperate to lower oil prices after Saudi Arabia and OPEC+ refused Washington's requests to in...

The US-dominated IMF has said a "wave of debt crises" may be coming in the Global South, warning "the worst is yet to come," as the depreciation of most currencies against the dollar and rising interest rates make it hard for countries to service their dollar-denominated debt. Political economist Radhika Desai discusses the imperialist nature of the international financial system, and parallels to...

The history of how Wall Street capitalists helped to create the US national security state under the Harry S. Truman administration, as Washington built its post-World War II empire. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IOviqBC3o-0 This is PART 12 of the Empire and the Deep State series I am co-hosting with historian Aaron Good and producer Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast. PLAYLI...

For the 30th year in a row, almost every country on Earth voted at the United Nations General Assembly to oppose the illegal six-decade US blockade of Cuba. 185 nations voted against just two: the United States and Israel. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cpiF6JYepfI SOURCES here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/11/03/un-vote-blockade-cuba-us-israel

Colombia’s first-ever left-wing leader Gustavo Petro took a historic trip to Venezuela, pledging regional unity following the anti-imperialist model of Simón Bolívar. Meeting with President Nicolás Maduro, Petro said it is “suicidal” to divide the countries, “because we are the same people,” in "historically one single Bolivarian nation, reunited." VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=u3lJW3Y6Pqo Re...

The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly, 152 to 5, to tell the Israeli apartheid regime to get rid of its nuclear weapons, which are illegal under international law. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xxtl5oAIT5M SOURCES here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/10/31/un-vote-israel-nuclear-weapons

Brazil-based journalist Brian Mier discusses the importance of Lula da Silva's victory in Brazil's October 30 presidential election against far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. Lula has vowed to strengthen Latin American regional integration and expand the BRICS system, while fighting poverty and hunger at home. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HuDWw5l-yoU Follow Brian at https://twitter.com/Bria...

Independent researcher Moss Robeson documented how the vociferously pro-Ukraine, anti-Russia troll operation NAFO was founded by a Hitler-admiring anti-Semite. He discusses the campaign's far-right roots, and also how the fascist LaRouche cult has tried to disrupt the anti-war movement. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hG5XLThOpQY Read Robeson's report on the Nazi origins of NAFO: https://mossro...

The European Union’s top foreign-policy official Josep Borrell admitted the West’s new cold war on China and Russia is not a conflict of “democracies vs. authoritarians,” conceding, “On our side, there are a lot of authoritarian regimes.” He acknowledged that their economic “systems are in rivalry.” VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Avqt0Fie-wk Read more here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/10/2...

After Prime Minister Imran Khan was overthrown in a US-backed soft coup, Pakistan's unelected "imported government" has banned the country's most popular politician from office, sparking huge protests. Pakistani scholar Junaid S. Ahmad speaks with Ben Norton about army chief Bajwa's friendly trip to Washington and US efforts to pressure Pakistan to weaken ties with China, arm Ukraine in its war wi...

The Biden administration's aggressive sanctions aim to "kneecap" China's tech sector. A former Pentagon official acknowledged it is a "disproportionate" and "unilateral" attack, a "form of economic containment." VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SFnMY_rNWx4 Sources here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/10/24/us-economic-tech-war-china

An analysis of undemocratic dark power and how liberal capitalism and authoritarianism are not opposites; they are inextricably linked together. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IZ1P_b13l28 This is PART 11 of the Empire and the Deep State series Multipolarista editor Ben Norton is co-hosting with historian Aaron Good and producer Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast. PLAYLIST with...

The Communist Party of China (CPC) is holding its 20th national congress to plan the next five years of policies. It says its goal is to "write an even more magnificent chapter for socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era." Carlos Martinez, Danny Haiphong, and Ben Norton discuss the importance of the party congress in this joint production co-sponsored by Friends of Socialist China, T...

EU foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell confessed the West’s neoliberal economic model was “based on cheap energy coming from Russia,” “access to the big China market,” and low-paid Chinese workers. Europe has now lost that, and is thus in crisis. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ajIRkk1FOkM Read more here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/10/18/eu-prosperity-china-russia-energy-market Check out ou...

Ben Norton is joined by journalist Marlon Ettinger to discuss how the right wing has tried to infiltrate and co-opt the anti-war movement while supporting US imperialism, looking at Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump, and Tulsi Gabbard. We analyze the same phenomenon in France, where far-right politicians Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour superficially criticize war while advocating to strengthen French im...

EU foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell showed the West’s neocolonial mentality claiming “the world needs Europe” as a “beacon” and beautiful “garden” to civilize the barbarous “jungle” in the Global South. He also called for regime change to create a “post-Putin Russia.” VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=R4hRs1svQlk Read more here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/10/15/eu-europe-garden-jungle

European Union leader Ursula von der Leyen warned China and Russia are a “global challenge” to Western hegemony. She called for weakening their influence in the Global South, cutting their access to raw materials, opposing Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative, and expanding the EU. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fW4Sc6JAJEs Read more here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/10/13/von-der-leyen-eu-c...

Journalist Ben Norton and historian Aaron Good discuss what the deep state actually is -- a top-down structure used to maintain imperialism and override popular democracy so capitalists can maximize their profits -- and what it is not -- a right-wing conspiracy scapegoating a cabal of people of a particular ethnic, religious, or identity group. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2gaVtjKNWbY PLAYLI...

A scholarly explanation of the history of the deep state, a top-down structure used by capitalism to subvert democracy and maintain unaccountable corporate power. This is PART 10 of the Empire and the Deep State series I am co-hosting with historian Aaron Good and producer Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RiLTLUnNc3E You can support American E...

Russia’s Nord Stream pipelines with Germany were sabotaged mere hours before the EU opened its own Baltic Sea pipeline from Norway to Poland. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken gloated that the attacks were a “tremendous opportunity” to weaken Moscow. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nhux0KbAe-s Read our investigation, with links to all sources, here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/10/06/sabo...

Multipolarista host Ben Norton is joined by journalist Camila Escalante from Brazil, where she is reporting on historic elections. Leftist presidential candidate Lula da Silva won with 48.4% and over 6 million more votes than far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. We talk about the round two coming on October 30, the Workers' Party, and the PT's grassroots strategy. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v...

A sociological analysis of capitalist criminality and the imperial US deep state, based on the concepts of the "higher immorality" and "crackpot realism," introduced by scholar C. Wright Mills in his book "The Power Elite." This is PART 9 of the Empire and the Deep State series Multipolarista editor Ben Norton is co-hosting with historian Aaron Good and producer Seamus McGuinness of the American E...

Bolivia’s leftist President Luis Arce used his platform at the United Nations General Assembly to propose a revolutionary 14-point program to transform the world. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kqzrvo_vC68 Translation and more info here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/09/27/luis-arce-un-bolivia-14-point-program Our report ‘War on drugs has failed’: At UN, Colombia condemns ‘addiction to money...

At the United Nations General Assembly, Nicaragua’s Sandinista government called for a global rebellion against the “imperialist and capitalist system” that is “bleeding the world dry.” Condemning illegal sanctions and war, it urged a new multipolar order. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DcsYtdEIQu0 Read the transcript here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/09/26/imperialism-capitalism-un-nicara...