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Honduras' leftist President Xiomara Castro announced her government will recognize China. Now only 12 UN member states have formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan separatists. They have a combined population of less than 39 million, or 0.49% of the planet. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KklV9438o1w Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/03/16/taiwan-honduras-china-12-countries US military plans for war on China, backing Taiwan separatists: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ODbrpimBgKo US-backed coup regimes trapped Honduras in unpayable odious debt, warns new President Xiomara Castro: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/01/31/coup-honduras-unpayable-odious-debt

Economist Michael Hudson analyzes the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate, and Signature Bank, explaining the similarities to the 2008 financial crash. He also addresses the US government bailout (which it isn't calling a bailout), the role of the Federal Reserve and Treasury, the factor of cryptocurrency, and the danger of derivatives. TRANSCRIPT: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/03/14/us-banks-collapsed-economist-michael-hudson VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=uvm9qrXhqf8 Check out the playlist for the show that Michael Hudson co-hosts here, Geopolitical Economy Hour: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP Michael's column "Why the US banking system is breaking up": https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/03/12/michael-hudson-why-the-us-banking-system-is-breaking-up Michael's other article "Why the US bank crisis is not over": https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/03/13/michael-hudson-us-bank-crisis

China sponsored peace talks that led Saudi Arabia and Iran to normalize diplomatic relations, in a big blow to the petrodollar. Both countries are major oil producers that have applied to join BRICS and are discussing selling energy in other currencies. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DyAFerEouN0 BRICS challenges US ‘dollar dominance’, Saudi considers selling oil in other currencies: New multipolar economic order: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/21/brics-us-dollar-saudi-oil-currency-multipolar

Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss the evolution of the US dollar system after it was taken off the gold standard in 1971. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dRlOfxWR-qE Check out other episodes of their show Geopolitical Economy Hour here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP

Historian Aaron Good explains US President John F. Kennedy's policies on the wars on Vietnam and Laos, and JFK's conflict with the generals in the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vkslqu9_q0w This is from the Empire and the Deep State series that Geopolitical Economy Report editor Ben Norton is co-hosting with Aaron Good and Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast. This is part 2 of our historical analysis of the JFK administration. (This episode was recorded in November 2022.) PLAYLIST with past episodes in the series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL

President Xi Jinping denounced the US-led Western attempt to "contain, encircle, and suppress China". Foreign Minister Qin Gang condemned Washington's "hysterical neo-McCarthyism" and "malicious confrontation", opposing the "cold war mentality". VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4laXMaMhbPo Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/03/07/xi-us-containment-encirclement-china US ambassador arrogantly lectures China ‘threat’: ‘We’re the leader in this region (Asia)’!: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/03/04/us-ambassador-china-leader-region US admits weather pushed Chinese balloon off course, US shot down hobbyists’ $12 balloon in $2M missile attack: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/18/us-weather-chinese-balloon-hobbyist

In an interview with the Chamber of Commerce, US Ambassador Nicholas Burns referred to China as a “threat”, “great challenge”, and “very difficult government”, stating arrogantly, “The United States is staying in this region. We’re the leader in this [Indo-Pacific] region”. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BEqmQkKlcjo Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/03/04/us-ambassador-china-leader-region US admits weather pushed Chinese balloon off course, US shot down hobbyists’ $12 balloon in $2M missile attack: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/18/us-weather-chinese-balloon-hobbyist China report excoriates ‘US hegemony’, war crimes, CIA coups, 400 foreign interventions: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/22/china-report-us-hegemony-wars-coups-intervention

Economist Radhika Desai and Ben Norton analyze imperialism, the failure of neoliberalism, and the new cold war that the US is waging against China and Russia. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RVIpyOwJRW4 This is part 2 in a series discussing Radhika's new book "Capitalism, Coronavirus and War: A Geopolitical Economy". You can download Radhika's book for free here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/17/capitalism-coronavirus-war-geopolitical-economy-radhika-desai Other episodes in the series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNZoKp0XsLFwSxxlMQu6ye8 Check out the International Manifesto Group at https://internationalmanifesto.org

Malaysia’s longest-serving Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said “the present war between Ukraine and Russia is caused by the Europeans’ love of war, of hegemony, of dominance”. He warned it “can be interpreted as the start of the Third World War”. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3zUJAvB56a4 Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/25/ukraine-europe-love-war-hegemony-malaysia

Top US military officials have stated openly that Washington is preparing to wage war on China, supporting separatists on Taiwan island. Geopolitical Economy Report editor Ben Norton gave this presentation as part of the panel discussion "Will there be a war in the Taiwan Strait?", organized by the International Manifesto Group. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ODbrpimBgKo Watch the full panel here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=McRkNqd7waM

Historian Aaron Good explains the rise of US President John F. Kennedy, the First Cold War, his criticism of European colonialism, and how the CIA's Bay of Pigs attack would later reverberate in the 1963 JFK assassination. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5N5bs1IGLQo This is from the Empire and the Deep State series that Geopolitical Economy Report editor Ben Norton is co-hosting with Aaron Good and Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast. This is part 1 of our historical analysis of the JFK administration. (This episode was recorded in November 2022.) PLAYLIST with past episodes in the series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL

A study by the EU-funded European Council on Foreign Relations found that the West is increasingly out of touch politically with the rest of the world. Most people in China, India, and Türkiye see Russia as an important ally, and they want a multipolar world, not continued “American global supremacy”. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6onX5CKS3hM Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/25/west-rest-world-eu-study

Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson explain the rise of the US dollar system, its central role in imperialism, and why it ultimately failed to accomplish Washington's hegemonic goals. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=q3q7p_IElpY Check out other episodes of their show Geopolitical Economy Hour here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP

China’s Foreign Ministry published a lengthy report condemning “US hegemony” and its crimes around the world, including wars with millions of victims, coups and “regime change” against elected leaders, and 400 foreign military interventions. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HTiBksEHGrU Read more here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/22/china-report-us-hegemony-wars-coups-intervention The Chinese Foreign Ministry's full report "US Hegemony and Its Perils": https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjbxw/202302/t20230220_11027664.html

German Member of Parliament Sevim Dağdelen, of the Left Party, Die Linke, condemns the NATO "proxy war" in Ukraine, saying the EU is acting as US "vassals". In this interview with Ben Norton, she also denounces the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines as a "terrorist attack" that "should have resulted in a huge outcry". VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NYn0ODIL0Qg TRANSCRIPT: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/22/germany-ukraine-nord-stream-sevim-dagdelen

The foreign ministers of the US, Germany, and Ukraine told the world at the Munich Security Conference, “Neutrality is not an option” in the West’s proxy war against Russia, implicitly criticizing the vast majority of Global South countries, which are independent. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UXjDazqxAPo Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/20/west-global-south-neutral-ukraine German foreign minister: ‘We are fighting a war against Russia’: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/26/german-foreign-minister-baerbock-war-russia 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

US officials acknowledged the Chinese balloon they shot down on February 4 had likely been blown off course by unexpected weather. The US Air Force later spent $2 million using missiles to blow up what appeared to be a $12 hobbyist balloon. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mL9Jz-Qruho Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/18/us-weather-chinese-balloon-hobbyist Our report documenting how the US military is preparing for war on China - and soon: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Iy5FALVrULM

Economist Radhika Desai and Ben Norton discuss the neoliberal myth of "globalization", the contradictions of US hegemony, and the crisis of capitalism. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GRKHCwVzvTs This is part 1 in a series discussing Radhika's new book "Capitalism, Coronavirus, and War: A Geopolitical Economy". You can download Radhika's book for free here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/17/capitalism-coronavirus-war-geopolitical-economy-radhika-desai Other episodes in the series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNZoKp0XsLFwSxxlMQu6ye8 You can get Radhika's previous book "Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization, and Empire" here: https://plutobooks.com/9781849648400/geopolitical-economy

Ecuadorian economist Andrés Arauz, who came close to winning the 2021 presidential elections, explains Latin America's attempt to create a new currency and regional financial architecture, to challenge the "hegemonic, neo-colonial" US dollar-dominated system. (NOTE: Andrés' internet connection was a bit unstable in this interview, so some parts are hard to hear. Below you can find links to a transcript and a full video with subtitles.) VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MQ-LTmT3Zuc TRANSCRIPT: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/15/latin-america-currency-plan-ecuador-andres-arauz

Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky admitted he refused to implement the 2015 Minsk II peace deal with Russia. Germany and France said Kiev used the agreement to “buy time” to prepare for war. Israel's ex Prime Minister Naftali Bennett revealed the West "blocked" attempt to hold negotiations. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QLJDROnssgA Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/10/ukraine-zelensky-minsk-peace-russia West killed peace proposal to end Ukraine war, Russia supported negotiated settlement: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/09/03/west-peace-proposal-ukraine-russia US, UK, France promised USSR not to expand NATO east of Germany, newly discovered document proves: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/02/20/us-uk-france-russia-expand-nato-east-germany US gov’t body plots to break up Russia in name of ‘decolonization’: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/06/23/us-government-decolonize-russia

A decade of proxy war and illegal US and EU sanctions have devastated Syria, and blocked some humanitarian aid after a crushing earthquake killed thousands of people. To save face, Washington agreed to a temporary suspension, but UN experts have demanded a permanent end to the “suffocating” sanctions, saying they “may amount to crimes against humanity”. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mtiNw3PxRyY Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/09/us-sanctions-aid-syria-earthquake UN expert: ‘Outrageous’ Western sanctions are ‘suffocating’ Syria, may be crimes against humanity: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/11/12/un-expert-western-sanctions-syria

Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson explain the relations between money and debt, their role in imperialism, and the rise of the US dollar system. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ew21FOlftkU TRANSCRIPT: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/10/money-dollar-system-radhika-desai-michael-hudson Check out other episodes of their show Geopolitical Economy Hour here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh reported the US government destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines that delivered Russian gas to Germany. The Biden administration approved the CIA operation, which used explosives and Navy divers, with help from NATO member Norway. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bZ5VLdqac-0 Read Seymour Hersh's article: https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/08/us-nord-stream-pipelines-seymour-hersh Our report from back in October - "Who sabotaged Nord Stream pipelines? US boasts ‘tremendous opportunity’ to weaken Russia. CIA knew": https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/10/06/sabotage-nord-stream-pipelines-us-russia-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

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said sanctions on Venezuela “have exacerbated the economic crisis and hindered human rights”, calling for the unilateral coercive measures to be lifted. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mSjCEKopBzo Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/02/un-human-rights-chief-sanctions-venezuela/

Historian Aaron Good explains the final years of the Dwight Eisenhower administration, including the start of the CIA's war on Cuba's revolutionary government and the coup against Congo's anti-colonialist leader Patrice Lumumba. This is PART 17 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=Qc7nuSZN2GU PLAYLIST with past episodes in the series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL

Greece’s former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis explains the US system of “neo-imperialism” based on the dollar, an “IOU issued by the hegemon”, which finances a huge trade deficit by letting foreign capitalists “extract colossal surplus value from their workers and then stash it away in America’s rentier economy”. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yohXMsuxzDA Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/03/us-imperialism-dollar-hegemony-yanis-varoufakis German lawmaker condemns ‘US-led proxy war against Russia’ and EU’s ‘servile vassals’: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/28/german-lawmaker-us-proxy-war-russia-ukraine-eu Varoufakis' full speech: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6MfuGSlDRsc

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