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Numerous mainstream media outlets have reported that the US military is preparing for war on China, as soon as 2025. Japan is re-militarizing and collaborating closely in these war plans. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Iy5FALVrULM Sources and more information in Danny Haiphong's article here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/16/us-preparing-war-china German foreign minister: ‘We are fighting a war against Russia’: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/26/german-foreign-minister-baerbock-war-russia

Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia have refused to send weapons to Ukraine, despite pressure by the US and EU. Left-wing leaders in Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Honduras have also urged peace with Russia and opposed the West’s new cold war. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vde5cB8N6Fc Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/29/latin-america-ukraine-weapons-brazil-colombia-argentina 87% of world doesn’t support West’s new cold war on Russia: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/09/21/global-south-west-cold-war-russia

Historian Aaron Good explains how Western colonial powers meddled in Indonesia to try to control its massive gold reserves. He also discusses the Suez Crisis in Egypt in 1956, and the Dwight Eisenhower administration's response. This is PART 16 of the Empire and the Deep State series Geopolitical Economy Report editor Ben Norton is co-hosting with Aaron Good and Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xYLGNw-GZ8w PLAYLIST with past episodes in the series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL

In this episode of Geopolitical Economy Hour, economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss inflation: what it is, what causes it, and what are the problems in how the Federal Reserve and other central banks respond to it. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZhZbB0jjDTM Transcript here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/27/inflation-economists-radhika-desai-michael-hudson

"We are fighting a war against Russia", Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told the Council of Europe. "We can fight this war only together" she said, calling to send tanks and more weapons to Ukraine. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=U0Ae6P0OVFs Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/26/german-foreign-minister-baerbock-war-russia CIA and NATO are waging sabotage attacks inside Russia: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/12/29/cia-nato-sabotage-attacks-russia

In a video address to a US corporate lobby group, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky thanked companies like Black Rock, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and Starlink, insisting “everyone can become a big business by” investing in Ukraine, where “we are defending freedom and property”. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LYkQO5fOXH8 Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/25/ukraines-zelensky-thanks-us-corporations-big-business Zelensky is literally selling Ukraine to US corporations on Wall Street: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/09/09/zelensky-selling-ukraine-wall-street West prepares to plunder post-war Ukraine with neoliberal shock therapy: privatization, deregulation, slashing worker protections: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/07/28/west-neoliberal-recovery-conference

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis published a jaw-droppingly misleading graph that portrays China as spending more on its military than the US. In reality, the Pentagon’s budget is roughly three times larger. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tD4P-vWWGLc Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/23/china-military-spending-st-louis-fed-graph

Brazil and Argentina are making plans for a Latin American currency called the Sur, to “boost regional trade and reduce reliance on the US dollar”. Lula had pledged it while running for president. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mudBO1iffOo Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/22/brazil-argentina-latin-american-currency-dollar Latin America’s plan to challenge US dollar with new currency and ‘regional financial architecture’: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/12/01/latin-america-us-dollar-currency

Historian Aaron Good explains how the CIA organized a coup against Guatemala's democratically elected left-wing President Jacobo Árbenz to stop land reform and help the United Fruit Company (Chiquita today). He also discusses the Dwight Eisenhower administration's policies in Southeast Asia and the Vietnamese national-liberation struggle against French colonialism. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JTfMOH-j4Oc This is PART 15 of the Empire and the Deep State series we are co-hosting with historian Aaron Good and producer Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast. PLAYLIST with past episodes in the series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL

The BRICS bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) is “developing a fairer system of monetary exchange” to challenge the “dominance of the dollar”. Saudi Arabia is considering selling oil in other currencies. Economist Zoltan Pozsar says the US “unipolar era” is over. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ryKuoB9JEBE Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/21/brics-us-dollar-saudi-oil-currency-multipolar China ‘counters US dollar hegemony’ with gold reserves, Argentina yuan currency swap deal: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/08/china-dollar-gold-reserves-argentina-yuan

Peru has large reserves of copper, gold, zinc, silver, lead, iron, and natural gas. After a coup overthrew left-wing President Pedro Castillo, the US ambassador, CIA veteran Lisa Kenna, met with mining and energy ministers to discuss “investments”. Europe is importing Peruvian LNG to replace Russian energy. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WNR_CI2U__w Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/19/peru-resources-mining-gas-investment Interview with Peruvian activist about the coup: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/12/10/peru-coup-president-pedro-castillo CIA agent turned US ambassador met with defense minister day before Peru coup: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/12/14/coup-us-ambassador-peru-cia US now world’s top LNG exporter, as Europe boycotts cheaper Russian gas: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/04/us-lng-exporter-europe-russia-gas

In 2020 and 2021, the wealthiest 1% of the world’s population took nearly two-thirds of all new wealth – six times greater than the wealth made by the poorest 90% of workers. Yet while billionaires get richer, global poverty is increasing, Oxfam warns. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3YL_iAA06nY Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/17/rich-global-wealth-inequality-oxfam

The US claimed unelected coup leader Juan Guaidó was "interim president" of Venezuela from January 2019 to December 2022, when his former allies in the right-wing opposition removed him from the position. Washington however still refuses to recognize elected President Nicolás Maduro. Geopolitical Economy Report editor-in-chief Ben Norton discusses the end of the meme-worthy character with Venezuelan journalist Jesús Rodríguez Espinoza, who runs the independent news website Orinoco Tribune. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sTjKvZmY7w4 Support Orinoco Tribune at https://orinocotribune.com

Prominent French intellectual Emmanuel Todd argues the Ukraine proxy war is the start of WWIII, and is “existential” for both Russia and the US “imperial system”, which has restricted the sovereignty of Europe, making Brussels into Washington's “protectorate”. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=82WPLWEN_9M Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/14/world-war-3-us-russia-china-emmanuel-todd French ambassador: US ‘rules-based order’ means Western domination, violating international law: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/11/21/gerard-araud-france-us-rules-based-order CIA and NATO are waging sabotage attacks inside Russia: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/12/29/cia-nato-sabotage-attacks-russia

Introducing Geopolitical Economy Hour: This is the first episode of a show being hosted every two weeks by economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson. They present the program and discuss the rise of the multipolar world and decline of US hegemony. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6adqdNCSVhU TRANSCRIPT: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/13/radhika-desai-michael-hudson-multipolarity

Former DIA analyst Ana Belén Montes was imprisoned for 20 years for sharing intelligence with Cuba that helped it prevent US attacks and sabotage. Upon being released, she condemned the “suffocating embargo” that makes Cubans “suffer.” VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KuE7tVbD7qY Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/10/ana-belen-montes-20-years-prison-cuba-blockade Illegal US blockade against Cuba continues harming millions on 60th anniversary: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/02/03/illegal-us-blockade-cuba-60th-anniversary Entire world votes 185 to 2 against blockade of Cuba – US and Israel are rogue states at UN: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/11/03/un-vote-blockade-cuba-us-israel

China is advancing the global movement toward de-dollarization. Beijing's central bank is boosting its gold reserves while signing currency swap deals in yuan with countries like Argentina, encouraging the use of renminbi instead of US dollars. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bdASCjEeJ0I Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/08/china-dollar-gold-reserves-argentina-yuan Russia dropping US dollar for Chinese yuan – and fast: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/12/26/russia-us-dollar-chinese-yuan IMF admits US dollar hegemony declining, due to rise of Chinese yuan, sanctions on Russia: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/03/31/imf-us-dollar-decline-china-russia How Argentina has been trapped in neocolonial debt for 200 years: An economic history: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/12/18/argentina-neocolonial-debt-history

We are excited to announce the creation of the independent media outlet Geopolitical Economy Report - an evolution and expansion of Multipolarista. Our team will be growing, and we have exciting new projects planned, including a regular show with economists Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai. Editor-in-chief Ben Norton explains the changes (and the continuity). VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=v8h8viUeDr4

The USA has rapidly become the world's top exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG), tied with Qatar. Europe replaced Asia as the top market for US LNG in 2022, after pledging to boycott Russian energy over the proxy war in Ukraine. Europe is now paying significantly more for expensive US LNG than it had been for Russian pipeline gas. As of 2022, Europe had the highest energy prices on the planet, fueling an inflation crisis. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QDdmbPni6BI Sources and more information here: https://multipolarista.com/2023/01/04/us-lng-exporter-europe-russia-gas Europe angry that US profits from Ukraine proxy war while destroying EU economy: https://multipolarista.com/2022/11/28/europe-us-profits-ukraine-war-economy Who sabotaged Nord Stream pipelines? US boasts ‘tremendous opportunity’ to weaken Russia. CIA knew: https://multipolarista.com/2022/10/06/sabotage-nord-stream-pipelines-us-russia-cia

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.com/BrianMteleSUR

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-pakistan-non-aligned-neutral-ukraine Pakistan’s Imran Khan compares his ouster to CIA coup in Iran, criticizes Western colonialism: https://multipolarista.com/2022/12/30/pakistan-imran-khan-cia-coup-iran

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/pakistan-imran-khan-cia-coup-iran Analysis of the coup in Pakistan by scholar Junaid Ahmad: https://multipolarista.com/2022/11/08/assassination-imran-khan-pakistan-us-coup

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-campaign-inside-russia

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/watch?v=ffFseEPa62M Sources and more information here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/12/26/russia-us-dollar-chinese-yuan IMF admits US dollar hegemony declining, due to rise of Chinese yuan, sanctions on Russia: https://multipolarista.com/2022/03/31/imf-us-dollar-decline-china-russia Iran & Russia pledge to cut US dollar from global trade, strengthen China alliance: https://multipolarista.com/2022/07/23/iran-russia-dollar-china-alliance

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 our related report "UN expert: ‘Outrageous’ Western sanctions are ‘suffocating’ Syria, may be crimes against humanity": https://multipolarista.com/2022/11/12/un-expert-western-sanctions-syria

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 with Peru's defense minister one day before the coup: https://multipolarista.com/2022/12/14/coup-us-ambassador-peru-cia Joint statement by Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, and Bolivia: https://multipolarista.com/2022/12/13/mexico-argentina-bolivia-colombia-peru-castillo-coup ALBA's statement: https://multipolarista.com/2022/12/15/alba-peru-castillo-coup-argentina-kirchner Honduras' statement: https://multipolarista.com/2022/12/13/honduras-coup-peru-pedro-castillo

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-ambassador-peru-cia En español aquí: https://geopoliticaeconomica.com/2022/12/15/embajador-eeuu-peru-cia-golpe

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 yuan, directly challenging the petrodollar VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RdeeeTdwVDw

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-million-india-deaths-colonialism

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 elites. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ek2evCbKYKU TRANSCRIPT: https://multipolarista.com/2022/12/10/peru-coup-president-pedro-castillo Daniela's website: https://daniela-ortiz.com Follow Daniela on Twitter at https://twitter.com/danillaortiz

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 system to free itself from the hegemony of the US dollar and sanctions, as well as the Latin American left's leading role in campaigning for the freedom of political prisoner Julian Assange. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kf1b95SGUp0 Support Lee Camp at https://LeeCamp.net

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?v=cPLLuBUAhRk Sources and more information here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/12/06/free-julian-assange-latin-america-left-leaders

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 Empire and the Deep State series Multipolarista editor Ben Norton is co-hosting with Aaron Good and producer Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast. PLAYLIST with past episodes in the series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL You can support American Exception at https://patreon.com/americanexception

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-dollar-currency Brazil’s Lula proposes creating Latin American currency to ‘be freed of US dollar’ dependency: https://multipolarista.com/2022/05/04/brazil-lula-latin-america-currency-us-dollar

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-ukraine-war-economy

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 which has received longstanding support from Washington. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qIbZ-7mVN0k Follow Ollie at https://twitter.com/OVargas52 Support Kawsachun News at https://kawsachunnews.com

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-poland

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-rules-based-order

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, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy." VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iWEsD2Tm9mk This is PART 13 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 past episodes in the series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL

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-iran-venezuela-2014 Check out our interview with historian Aaron Good for more information on how oil is used as a geopolitical weapon: https://multipolarista.com/2022/11/16/oil-geopolitical-weapon-opec-saudi-petrodollar

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.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL Follow Aaron on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Aaron_Good_ Support Aaron's podcast American Exception at https://patreon.com/americanexception

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 Empire and the Deep State series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL Follow Aaron on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Aaron_Good_ Support Aaron's podcast American Exception at https://patreon.com/americanexception

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.com/2022/11/11/capaya-us-meddled-ecuador-election-assange

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 increase production. SOURCES here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/11/09/macron-kerry-venezuela-maduro-oil VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ONakKTA87Bs Check out our related report "How Trump and John Bolton attempted a coup in Venezuela": https://multipolarista.com/2022/07/14/trump-john-bolton-coup-venezuela CIA backed failed 2020 invasion of Venezuela, top coup-plotter says: https://multipolarista.com/2022/02/02/cia-invasion-venezuela-cliver-alcala

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 "Third World debt crisis" of the 1980s. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lPTiSi8h8oQ Follow Prof. Desai on Twitter at https://twitter.com/raddesai Read her article on inflation: https://multipolarista.com/2022/11/07/inflation-neoliberal-financialization Geopolitical Economy Research Group: https://geopoliticaleconomy.org Check out the International Manifesto Group: https://internationalmanifesto.org

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. PLAYLIST with past episodes in the series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL

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 Read more here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/11/02/colombia-petro-visits-venezuela-unity-bolivar Petro's powerful UN speech: https://multipolarista.com/2022/09/24/war-drugs-un-colombia-gustavo-petro John Bolton admits planning US coup in Venezuela: https://multipolarista.com/2022/07/12/trump-john-bolton-coups-venezuela Trump wanted US military attacks on Venezuela: https://multipolarista.com/2022/05/19/trump-us-military-venezuela-mark-esper