Geopolitical Economy Report

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.com/americanexception

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-hosting with historian Aaron Good and producer Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1PGah9yfulw

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://michael-hudson.com

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-relationships

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-trump-un-neutrality-visas

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 support their work at https://koreapeacenow.org You can get involved at https://koreapeacenow.org

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.substack.com/p/how-much-military-aid-has-biden-sent CIA and Western special ops commandos are in Ukraine, directing proxy war on Russia: https://multipolarista.com/2022/06/26/cia-special-ops-ukraine-proxy-war-russia

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 bubble of household debt, low to zero interest rates, and Washington's ability to organize regime-change operations in any country where a government tried a socialistic or state-led economic model. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dw84vwYS8YE SOURCES: https://multipolarista.com/2022/08/27/west-end-neoliberalism-abundance

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: https://multipolarista.com/2022/04/13/us-coup-pakistan-imran-khan-foreign-policy Read Junaid's article warning about the coup: https://multipolarista.com/2022/03/31/pakistan-foreign-regime-change-china-russia

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 disinformation blaming China for debt crisis in Sri Lanka: https://multipolarista.com/2022/07/11/debt-trap-sri-lanka-west-china

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 Exception at https://patreon.com/americanexception American Exception website: https://americanexception.com

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://multipolarista.com/2022/03/10/nato-arming-training-nazis-ukraine-azov This is a clip from the Unauthorized Disclosure podcast hosted by Kevin Gosztola and Rania Khalek. Support Unauthorized Disclosure here: https://thedissenter.org/unauthorized-disclosure-podcast

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/2022/08/17/biden-colombia-petro-coup

After dropping two atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945, top US government officials lied to the media and Congress, claiming there was "no radioactive residue" in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that Japanese reports of deaths due to radiation were "propaganda," that civilians did not face "undue suffering," and that it was "a very pleasant way to die." VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Cu4KnCPjwys Report on US-backed fascism in Japan and Shinzo Abe: https://multipolarista.com/2022/07/09/fascism-japan-shinzo-abe-empire

The US military spends more than the next 9 biggest countries combined. The expected 2023 Pentagon budget is $840 billion. Donald Trump and Joe Biden have spent $220 billion more than even cold warrior Ronald Reagan. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=h0BZso9Yb30 Research by Stephen Semler at https://stephensemler.substack.com

Under Ukrainian government pressure, CBS News censored its own documentary “Arming Ukraine,” which showed that just around 30% of the weapons Western governments have sent actually go to the frontlines, with widespread corruption and black markets. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4MQNjmbDadg Read more here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/08/10/cbs-censors-report-ukraine-weapons-corruption

Silicon Valley Big Tech corporations, which are all US government contractors, censor Russian media while allowing Australian state outlets to spread anti-China propaganda without even a label. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YHUctJi2EWw Read more at https://multipolarista.com/2022/08/10/big-tech-state-media/

Analyzing the geopolitical crisis, Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega said the US war on China and Russia is an attack on the new world of “multipolarism,” because “North American imperialism is trying to maintain its hegemony at all costs, even at the risk of sinking its own economy.” VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lkPyT8fDymk Read more here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/08/05/us-war-china-russia-multipolar-world-nicaragua-ortega

The US government has been preparing for war with China over Taiwan. The extremely provocative trip by top official Nancy Pelosi was only the latest development in years of US escalation. The Pentagon has made plans for war with China, top CIA officials openly call for fighting Beijing, and US troops are on the ground in Taipei. Washington has sold Taiwan tens of billions of dollars worth of military equipment, and influential DC think tanks are even calling to send it nuclear weapons. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hUjHZ5z8W90 SOURCES: https://multipolarista.com/2022/08/02/us-war-china-taiwan-nuclear

Part two of the Empire and the Deep State series that Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton is co-hosting with historian Aaron Good, of the American Exception podcast. We discuss deep politics and the history of the US empire up until World War Two. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vJmEwRRsjbo American Exception website: https://americanexception.com

Western governments and corporations met in Switzerland to plan harsh neoliberal economic policies to impose on post-war Ukraine, calling to cut labor laws, “open markets,” drop tariffs, deregulate industries, and “sell state-owned enterprises to private investors.” VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rbxudlFTN1E Read more here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/07/28/west-neoliberal-recovery-conference

The 1997 Hollywood film "Wag the Dog" perfectly predicted the propaganda tactics the US government and media would use decades later in its wars in Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and beyond. In this special joint episode, Multipolarista host Benjamin Norton is joined by Sina Rahmani of The East Is a Podcast to discuss the movie and how shockingly relevant it still is today. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BIZFAOtD5rM Support The East Is a Podcast at https://patreon.com/east_podcast Follow Sina at https://twitter.com/urorientalist

After the corporate media spent years spreading the fake "Havana Syndrome" conspiracy theory, CIA Director William Burns admitted there is no evidence that a foreign country like Russia, China, or Cuba has attacked US spies and diplomats with "sonic attacks" or "directed energy weapons." VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=R_BI7eiNdjE Credit to Kawsachun News: https://kawsachunnews.com/cia-director-admits-theres-no-havana-syndrome Our report "CIA’s ‘Havana Syndrome’ conspiracy implodes: Here are media’s worst fake news stories": https://multipolarista.com/2022/01/23/cia-havana-syndrome-conspiracy-media

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Iran, signed a $40 billion energy cooperation agreement, and pledged to strengthen their economic and military alliance with China. Moscow and Tehran also called to drop the US dollar and use local currencies for trade. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=n60R8NooXa0 SOURCES: https://multipolarista.com/2022/07/23/iran-russia-dollar-china-alliance

Part one of the Empire and the Deep State series that Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton is co-hosting with historian Aaron Good, of the American Exception podcast. We discuss the origins of the US empire and deep state, why US foreign policy remain unchanged across administrations, and why democracy has declined with the rise of the US global dominance. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=i1FlXcwhsp4 American Exception website: https://americanexception.com For early access, subscribe to Multipolarista at Patreon: https://patreon.com/multipolarista For early access, subscribe to American Exception at Patreon: https://patreon.com/americanexception

US President Joe Biden visited Saudi Arabia not only to discuss oil but also to pressure Riyadh to cut ties with China and Russia. This comes after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) killed key CIA ally Jamal Khashoggi and purged rivals in the royal family who were most loyal to Washington. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yf1raQ4FBt8 SOURCES: https://multipolarista.com/2022/07/17/biden-saudi-china-russia-cia-mbs

Donald Trump's neoconservative US National Security Advisor John Bolton admitted he “helped plan coups d’etat” in Venezuela and “other places,” in a CNN interview. Benjamin Norton analyzes Bolton's book "The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir," which details the US hybrid war on Venezuela. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tzoJ_UVBV7w Read more here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/07/12/trump-john-bolton-coups-venezuela

Sri Lanka owes 81% of its external debt to US and European financial institutions and Western allies Japan and India. China owns just 10%. But Washington blames imaginary “Chinese debt traps” for the nation’s crisis, as it considers a 17th IMF structural adjustment program. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=U52tT5hgtSk SOURCES here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/07/11/debt-trap-sri-lanka-west-china

Japan's longest serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe tried to rewrite the genocidal history of the fascist Japanese empire. And he and his Nazi-collaborating grandfather enjoyed staunch Western support. After World War II, the US government pardoned and recruited many of the fascists who had led imperial Japan, like Abe's grandfather Nobusuke Kishi, putting in power war criminals who had committed genocide in China, Korea, and Southeast Asia, carrying out biological warfare, human experimentation, and mass sexual slavery. Benjamin Norton discusses how Japan's political system still today is a one-party right-wing regime run by descendants of these fascist war criminals. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5WWJ3EOmPkY SOURCES: https://multipolarista.com/2022/07/09/fascism-japan-shinzo-abe-empire

While condemning China and Russia as “threats” to “democracy,” British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss refused to admit that Saudi Arabia is authoritarian, declined to condemn the monarchy’s execution of 81 people in one day, and would not acknowledge a single human rights abuse. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZX3ZEt4SahM Read more at https://multipolarista.com/2022/07/06/liz-truss-uk-saudi-arabia-authoritarian

CNBC pundit Jim Cramer called for “cyber terrorism” against Russia and a “blank check” for US weapons corporations – including the same companies he encourages his viewers to invest in. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VYthL0qmoi8 Read more at https://multipolarista.com/2022/07/05/cnbc-jim-cramer-cyber-terrorism-russia

Neoconservative ex CIA Director and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo admitted NATO seeks to prevent a “Russian-Chinese axis” and “pan-Eurasian colossus.” Benjamin Norton analyzes a speech in which Pompeo outlines Washington’s imperial strategy in the new cold war, to maintain “economic hegemony” and control over fossil fuels and other resources. Read more at https://multipolarista.com/2022/06/30/nato-eurasia-us-hegemony-mike-pompeo

The US government’s Helsinki Commission held a Congressional briefing plotting ways to break up Russia as a country, in the name of supposed “decolonization.” VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LfWYtRMbMnk Read more at https://multipolarista.com/2022/06/23/us-government-decolonize-russia

The US organized a meeting with top military officials from apartheid Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt, the UAE, and Bahrain to conspire against Iran, as Jordan’s king calls for a “Middle East NATO.” VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=siPtgYa-Efo Read more at https://multipolarista.com/2022/06/27/israel-saudi-arabia-qatar-uae-iran

Economist Michael Hudson explains the inflation crisis and the US Federal Reserve's "austerity program to reduce wages." So-called experts are openly calling to boost unemployment. A depression is coming, in which the poor will suffer so the rich can get richer. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-AJwMvCxwm0 Read Prof. Hudson's article "The Fed’s Austerity Program to Reduce Wages": https://michael-hudson.com/2022/06/the-feds-austerity-program-to-reduce-wages