Geopolitical Economy Report

An analysis of the geopolitics behind the proxy war in Ukraine, from Russia's oil and gas exports and the Nord Stream pipelines to Washington's strategy to prevent Eurasian integration and keep Germany's economy dependent on the US. Ben Norton is joined by historian Aaron Good and Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nyitwFjX0GI You can support Am...

Colombia's first ever left-wing President Gustavo Petro delivered a historic UN speech declaring, "The war on drugs has failed." He warned capitalism is destroying the environment, with its "addiction to money and oil," and called for debt relief for the Global South. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qbiIoIAgxws Read the speech here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/09/24/war-drugs-un-colombia-gu...

Journalist Ben Norton analyzes the UN speech of Honduras’ new left-wing President Xiomara Castro. She denounced colonialism, “neoliberal injustice,” and corporate exploitation while calling for multipolarity. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=udvjVaxP96s Read more here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/09/22/un-speech-honduras-xiomara-castro Report on Honduras' unpayable odious debt: https://multi...

Journalist Ben Norton fact-checks the deeply misleading claims US President Joe Biden made in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=khzHWQSxwg0 SOURCES: https://multipolarista.com/2022/09/22/un-speech-biden-war

Two former US diplomats admitted that 87% of the world's population has refused to enforce the West's sanctions on Russia, showing neutrality over the proxy war in Ukraine. They said "the outbreak of Cold War II" has led countries "to become increasingly multi-aligned," especially in the Global South. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OG7UPNGRWH4 Read more here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/09...

The FBI harassed Black revolutionary Darren Seals and compiled a 900-page report on his organizing against racism and police brutality in Ferguson, Missouri, birthplace of the Black Lives Matter movement. He was shot to death in 2016, then set on fire in his car in an unsolved murder. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=scBiUIaBx9s

US imperial court philosopher Francis Fukuyama once declared liberal capitalist democracy was the "end of history." Now he is openly praising the deep state. Ben Norton is joined by political scientist Aaron Good of the American Exception podcast to analyze his fallacious arguments. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rr1a4BshPo8 You can support Aaron's show American Exception at https://patreon.co...

Ben Norton and Danny Haiphong discuss the absurd concepts of MAGA "communism" and "patriotic socialism" in the imperialist US. Pro-Trump opportunists are posing as leftists to recruit the right - and make lots of money. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=y9YI57XWFQg Support Danny at https://patreon.com/dannyhaiphong

The US military launched at least 251 interventions between 1991 and 2022, according to the Congressional Research Service. Washington’s meddling abroad drastically increased after the end of the first cold war. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=h4Pr9g_7Nhc Maps, graphs, and sources here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/09/13/us-251-military-interventions-1991

In his 1956 book "The Power Elite," New Left sociologist C. Wright Mills detailed how decision-making in the United States is not democratic; it is determined by (1) Wall Street capitalists and large corporations, (2) the Pentagon and military-industrial complex, and (3) the corrupt political class. This is PART 8 of the Empire and the Deep State series Multipolarista editor Ben Norton is co-hosti...

Economist Michael Hudson joins Multipolarista host Ben Norton to discuss partial student debt relief in the US, inflation and the Fed, disaster capitalism in Ukraine, and China's challenge to the petrodollar. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AEZBOaPKWjw TRANSCRIPT: https://multipolarista.com/2022/09/08/michael-hudson-debt-inflation-ukraine-petrodollar Prof. Hudson's official website: https://mic...

While Palestinians are forced off of buses for being Arab, apartheid Israel is now requiring foreigners to officially notify the regime if they fall in love with a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank. If they marry, they must leave Palestine for a 6-month "cooling-off period." VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=D6M_Q3R97jw SOURCES: https://multipolarista.com/2022/09/07/israel-palestinians-report...

An analysis of the deeply undemocratic structure of the US government, exploring the academic research on the concepts of the dual state and double government. This is PART 7 of the Empire and the Deep State series I am co-hosting with historian Aaron Good, of the American Exception podcast, along with producer Seamus McGuinness. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=siGbth6AwtA

In a blatant violation of international law and its 1947 hosting agreement, the US government has blocked countries from participating in events at the UN headquarters in New York. The Biden administration is banning Russian diplomats, while the Trump admin illegally prohibited Venezuela and Iran. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WfjqzAY_mEc SOURCES: https://multipolarista.com/2022/09/04/biden-t...

Russia and Ukraine agreed to a negotiated settlement to end the conflict in April, but British Prime Minister Boris Johnson intervened to stop the peace deal, and the US and EU escalated the proxy war to try to weaken Moscow. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LpJMqs1yG1A SOURCES: https://multipolarista.com/2022/09/03/west-peace-proposal-ukraine-russia

South Koreans held huge protests against the US military and its largest joint war exercises in years, simulating attacks on the DPRK (North Korea) and the assassination of its leader. We are joined by activists from the peace groups Women Cross DMZ and Korea Peace Now to discuss the mass movement against US militarization and imperialism. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lqocug-NGRs You can sup...

The Joe Biden administration pledged Ukraine $39.87 billion in military aid between February and August 2022, for an average of $228 million per day, fueling a brutal proxy war causing tens of thousands of deaths. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sGQFTwvHM_4 SOURCES: https://multipolarista.com/2022/08/30/us-ukraine-military-aid-proxy Credit to researcher Stephen Semler: https://stephensemler.sub...

Malaysia’s longest-serving Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad warned that the US is trying to start a war with China over Taiwan. He also explained how imperialism is rooted in capitalism and detailed its economic exploitation of the Global South. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1xUV4qT97TI SOURCES: https://multipolarista.com/2022/08/29/war-china-malaysia-imperialism-capitalism

France’s President Emmanuel Macron, a former banker, warned "we are living the end of what could have seemed an era of abundance." Western wars and sanctions are boomeranging back at home. The neoliberal phase of capitalism is collapsing. Neoliberalism has lost the key pillars it was built on: cheap energy and raw materials from Russia, cheap labor and consumer goods from China, an unsustainable b...

Pakistan's elected Prime Minister Imran Khan was overthrown in a US-backed regime-change operation due to his independent foreign policy. Now the coup regime has charged him with "terrorism." Pakistani scholar Junaid S. Ahmad discusses the desperate attempt to crush the mass movement and protests that Khan has led. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=g9IzwCAYbZY Our previous interview with Junaid:...

The Donald Trump White House and CIA ran "black ops" to intimate close US "ally" Britain to cut all ties with China's tech giant Huawei, hurting the UK's own economic interests in order to advance Washington's trade war on Beijing. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QwL1V93xXm0 Read more at https://multipolarista.com/2022/08/24/cia-britain-china-huawei

China is forgiving 23 interest-free loans for 17 African countries, after already cancelling $3.4 billion and restructuring $15 billion of debt from 2000-2019. This debunks the US government's propaganda myth of supposed Chinese "debt-trap diplomacy." VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AMTVoZKrCPo Read more here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/08/20/china-forgives-debt-africa Report on disinforma...

A discussion of different theoretical concepts of imperialism and hegemony and how they relate to the United States empire. This is PART 4 of the Empire and the Deep State series Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton is co-hosting with historian Aaron Good and producer Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OYywVTzV524 You can support American Excep...

Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton responds to smears from a neoconservative think tank funded by Western governments and corporations, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), which attacked him over his factual journalism reporting on NATO support for far-right extremists in Ukraine. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cHPKpUJBfZ4 Read the Multipolarista article being attacked: https://mult...

Biden's top Latin America advisor Juan González threateningly said of Colombia's new left-wing president: "40 years ago, the United States would have done everything possible to prevent the election of Gustavo Petro, and once in power it would have done almost everything possible to sabotage his government." VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pVQy88AzQ5A Read more at https://multipolarista.com/202...