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Geopolitical Economy Report Ben Norton
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Geopolitical Economy Report is an independent news outlet that provides original journalism and analysis to understand the changing world.
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China & Russia help Global South develop & resist Western imperialism: Nicaragua explains
While the US and Europe have invaded and colonized countries around the world, China and Russia have helped the Global South develop and resist Western imperialism, argues Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega, leader of the Sandinista Revolution. Ben Norton reports.
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Nicaragua condemns Israel, says USA should disappear if Palestine can't have a state
Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega blasted Western support for Israel in its war on Gaza and asked, if a state of Palestine is not allowed to exist, why should the US be allowed to exist? He was joined at the 45th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution by Palestinian ex guerrilla Leila Khaled, who denounced imperialism and neocolonialism. Ben Norton reports.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je1wKlRUyFg
Read our related article - US legally owes Nicaragua reparations, but still refuses to honor 1986 Int’l Court of Justice ruling: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/06/28/us-owes-nicaragua-reparations-1986-icj/ -
EU admits it has hypocritical 'double standards' on Israel, Ukraine, Iraq, climate change
European Union foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell admitted the West has hypocritical "double standards" on international law, the Russia-Ukraine-NATO war, Israel's brutal bombing of Gaza, the US-led invasion of Iraq, and climate change. Ben Norton analyzes the revealing comments of the top EU diplomat.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQuUbBf6snA
Sources and links here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/07/18/eu-borrell-hypocrisy-double-standards-israel-ukraine-iraq/
EU confesses ‘our prosperity was based on China & Russia’: cheap energy, low-paid labor, big market: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/10/18/eu-prosperity-china-russia-energy-market/
‘Western dominance has ended’, EU foreign-policy chief admits, warning of ‘West against the Rest’ geopolitics: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/02/26/western-dominance-ended-eu-josep-borrell/
Topics
0:00 Intro
1:56 (Clip) EU foreign policy chief on West's "double standards"
4:25 (Clip) West values lives of Ukrainians more than Palestinians
5:06 (Clip) Hypocrisy on Israel's violations of UN resolutions
6:19 Historical carbon emissions by region
7:17 (Clip) Western hypocrisy on climate change
8:46 Who is Josep Borrell?
10:02 (Clip) West is prolonging Ukraine war
10:42 "Western dominance has ended"
11:55 (Clip) USA has lost its hegemony
12:11 China's economic rise
12:54 (Clip) China challenges Western dominance
14:21 Multipolarity
15:01 (Clip) "The world is much more multipolar"
15:54 "Democracy vs autocracy"?
16:33 (Clip) "On our side, there are a lot of authoritarian regimes"
17:00 How West relied on China & Russia
17:40 (Clip) "Our prosperity was based on China & Russia"
19:15 Borrell's racist "garden vs jungle" rant
21:30 (Clip) European exceptionalism
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Donald Trump is NOT a 'threat to the deep state'. Here is his warmongering record.
Following a shooting at a rally in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump's supporters have portrayed him as a so-called "threat to the US deep state". But in reality, Trump was a warmonger as president, and appointed top CIA officials and neoconservatives to run his foreign policy. Ben Norton reviews Trump's support for Israel and Ukraine and his aggressive policies against China, Russia, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Bolivia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wwm4OiYY5M
Topics
0:00 (Clips) Trump on Syria, Venezuela, Ukraine
0:32 US politics & bipartisan war crimes
3:29 Alleged assassination attempt against Trump
7:13 Trump's warmongering foreign policy: a summary
11:35 Israel - Palestine
16:56 Trump proposed bombing Russia & China
17:27 Russiagate
18:01 Trump tore up 2 arms treaties with Russia
18:55 Ukraine
20:33 (Clip) Trump boasts of arming Ukraine
20:56 Trump vs Obama on Ukraine weapons
23:02 NATO
24:24 "We're at war with China"
26:24 Trade war & new cold war on China
28:44 Democrats vs Republicans on Russia & China
29:48 Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA)
30:44 Assassination of Qasem Soleimani
31:20 Trump's war on Iraq
32:48 US hypocrisy on "political violence"
34:31 Syria
35:00 (Clip) Trump brags of taking Syria's oil
35:27 Afghanistan war & minerals
37:06 Trump wanted to take oil from Libya & Iraq too
38:15 Yemen
39:24 Trump plans to attack Mexico
41:06 Bolivia coup
41:54 Elon Musk & Bolivia's lithium
43:24 Venezuela
44:06 (Clip) Trump on "taking over" Venezuela
44:18 Venezuela coup attempt
46:00 Nicaragua coup attempt
46:37 Elliott Abrams
47:53 Cuba blockade & sanctions
50:09 Tax cuts for the rich
51:54 Billionaires for fellow billionaire Trump
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NATO vs Western voters and the Global Majority
In response to the NATO summit in Washington, political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss how Western governments are losing elections and ignoring their own people in order to expand the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and beyond, while seeking to impose control over the majority of humanity in the Global South.
Read the transcript here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/07/12/nato-west-war-democracy-global-south
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXIYInJUYp8
This is part of the show Geopolitical Economy Hour. You can watch other episodes of the program here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP -
Britain is not a democracy: How UK elites installed PM Keir Starmer by destroying Jeremy Corbyn
The UK's new Prime Minister Keir Starmer is a pro-war, neoliberal Blairite who is closely linked to British intelligence and the US government. He was backed by big business interests after the corporate media destroyed popular left-wing, anti-imperialist Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Ben Norton discusses how Britain is an oligarchy, not a democracy.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq7YDNrYsV8
Topics
0:00 UK PM Keir Starmer is Tony Blair 2.0
3:26 Biden & Starmer discuss new cold war on Russia & China
5:00 Keir Starmer's shady US government ties
7:13 CIA-linked Trilateral Commission
11:09 Neoliberalism: a class war
13:13 The coup against Jeremy Corbyn
19:12 Outro
Customer Reviews
Dimwit reviews
From semi literate serfs eager to fellate the same elite wrecking their future are hilarious if not sad. Ben does an excellent job on this show and it’s a departure from his previous work which could often come off as than less clinical and academic.
Motivated
Sometimes underestimates people’s experience (I’m 74, been around a long time), but Ben is incredibly motivated to learn and explain the world. Highly recommend, especially as his interests include economics and China.
Original journalism and analysis to understand the changing world?
I am a true believer of freedom of speech, moreover, I do not like when reporters claim themselves to be “speaking the truth” while just looking at what they want to see.
You can quickly see this see this is just anti-West propaganda when in the Milei episode Kirchnerism is not mentioned even once! How cam you objectively assess Argentina’s current situation without analyzing +20 years of failed socialism?
Or even blaming Venezuela solely on sanctions? As if Chavez never happened… My friend you are invited to come to Venezuela any day, you can stay at my place, and see how your socialist comrades live on ivory towers while all Venezuelans are dying of hunger.
It’s very easy to criticize the US from your comfortable couch, with a fridge full of food, electricity, water, transportation, a strong currency you can have savings, liberty, and freedom of speech. I understand the US are not saints, but please don’t come promoting toxic ideologies if you haven’t even lived on them! You don’t know what you have until you lose it… especially your freedom.