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Top UN human rights experts called on Western weapons corporations to stop sending arms to Israel, saying they could be complicit in war crimes. Asset managers like BlackRock and Wall Street banks are also profiting. Ben Norton looks at the evidence.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur2xRJzbyJE
Topics
0:00 Western complicity in Israel's war crimes in Gaza
1:07 Statement by UN human rights experts
1:26 Weapons corporations aiding Israel
2:41 US, Germany, Italy are arming Israel
3:09 Israel is violating Hague rulings
4:01 Financial companies profiting from Israel
5:10 BlackRock investments in Israel
6:53 Wall Street banks underwrite Israeli bonds
8:52 US states invest in Israeli bonds
10:55 Biden continues arming Israel (despite misleading media claims)
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Economists Radhika Desai and Prabhat Patnaik analyze India's 2024 general election and why Prime Minister Narendra Modi's far-right Hindu-nationalist party BJP lost its majority. They discuss the state of the economy, rising unemployment and inequality, and Modi's neoliberal model.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4xfHMkIPJ4
Transcript here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/06/27/india-modi-2024-election-economy/
You can watch other episodes of their program Geopolitical Economy Hour here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP -
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Countries around the world are seeking alternatives to the US dollar. IMF economists say de-dollarization is "broad-based". The Federal Reserve reluctantly admits that it is happening. Ben Norton analyzes the latest research.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3Dsy7q1Miw
Topics
0:00 Examples of de-dollarization around the world
3:11 IMF paper on decline of dollar dominance
6:39 Dedollarization is "broad based", IMF says
8:07 Western sanctions lead central banks to de-dollarize
8:56 Gold: Why central banks are buying it up
12:37 US Federal Reserve acknowledges dedollarization
13:18 (Clip) Fed governor on de-dollarization "challenges"
14:28 Fed governor's speech on de-dollarization
15:38 Bitcoin & crypto are NOT an alternative to the dollar
17:29 CBDCs: China-led mBridge system challenges dollar hegemony
18:58 Fed governor discusses de-dollarization examples
20:21 Fed paper on de-dollarization
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The United Nations Human Rights Council published a report that concluded that Israel has committed war crimes and "the crimes against humanity of extermination" in Gaza. Ben Norton analyzes the statements of UN legal experts.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCIEdThk2jc
Topics
0:00 Intro
0:42 (Clip) UN expert: Israel is committing crimes against humanity
1:11 Quotes from UN report
2:25 Israeli army is "criminal", says UN expert
3:01 (Clip) UN expert: Israeli army is "criminal"
3:39 Israel is ethnically cleansing Palestinians with West's complicity
5:10 UN expert: Israel is committing g -- cide in Gaza
6:40 Israel ignores Hague rulings
8:09 (Clip) UN expert details Israeli crimes in Gaza
10:17 The problem with bothsidesism and false equivalence
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The vast majority of the world population, in the Global South, rebuked the West's pro-war so-called "Summit on Peace in Ukraine", which was held in Switzerland in June. Russia was not even invited. Ben Norton discusses NATO's hypocrisy and explains why only 78 countries (mostly in Europe) endorsed the "Bürgenstock declaration", while China and Brazil propose genuine peace talks.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY4e2kKcuhk
Topics
0:00 Intro
0:17 Map of countries
1:24 Western media admits conference failed
4:35 Zelensky claims China & Brazil aren't "civilized"
7:07 Joint statement & signatories
10:26 China proposes real peace plans
13:54 West is out of touch with rest of world
17:32 Colombia's president criticizes Swiss summit
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Western governments invited billionaire BlackRock CEO Larry Fink to the G7 summit in Italy to speak about "public-private partnerships" and why oligarchs should buy up global infrastructure (to compete with China's state-led Belt and Road Initiative). Ben Norton discusses how capitalism is becoming so extremely monopolized and unequal that it is devolving into neo-feudalism.
(One correction: At 26:17, I meant to say "over 90%", well above 60%.)
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88VU1JjmEps
How Wall Street buys US elections: Blackstone funds Trump, BlackRock backs Biden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJaJ4BST6Nc
Topics
0:00 Global inequality
0:56 G7 summit in Italy
1:57 BlackRock CEO invited to G7 summit
2:32 What is BlackRock?
4:45 PGI: US' corporate alternative to China's Belt & Road
7:50 (Clip) BlackRock CEO Larry Fink speaks at G7 summit
8:44 Wall Street vulture funds
10:51 BlackRock buys up infrastructure
14:40 BlackRock buys Malaysia's airports
15:34 BlackRock veterans run Biden's Treasury
16:00 Blackstone CEO funds Trump campaign
17:53 Investment companies buy up houses
18:40 BlackRock runs world's largest Bitcoin fund
19:58 Privatization of infrastructure
23:34 WEF: "You'll own nothing. And you'll be happy"
25:56 Home ownership under socialism vs. capitalism
26:17 Correction: over 90%* (I misspoke)
26:21 Home ownership under socialism vs. capitalism
28:38 World Economic Forum
29:33 Return on capital exceeds economic growth
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Ukraine is a "gold mine" with $12 trillion worth of critical minerals, US Senator Lindsey Graham insisted in a TV interview. Ben Norton discusses how Western companies want these resources, and how Washington hopes to block China's access to them to hurt its technology industries.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TRPk3N8FyQ
Zelensky is literally selling Ukraine to US corporations on Wall Street: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/09/09/zelensky-selling-ukraine-wall-street/
Topics
0:00 Intro
1:35 Clip: US Senator Lindsey Graham wants Ukraine's minerals
2:24 Ukraine war has nothing to do with democracy
5:44 US also wants to 'weaken' Russia in Ukraine
6:21 Wall Street buys up Ukraine
8:08 Military-industrial complex profits
10:07 Washington Post on Ukraine's 'battle for minerals'
11:55 Russia
12:48 US seeks to block China's access to minerals
15:44 Multiple reasons for Ukraine war
17:10 Trump wanted to take Venezuela's oil
19:16 Exxon CEO ran US State Department
20:29 US plan to seize Russia's $300B in FX reserves
21:20 Clip: Lindsey Graham calls to seize Russia's reserves
21:43 Debate over Russia's central bank reserves
23:07 De-dollarization
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Polling shows that the vast majority of people in the US and Western Europe want a negotiated settlement to end the war in Ukraine, but NATO opposes a peace proposal made by China and Brazil, while refusing to invite Russia to a so-called "peace conference" in Switzerland. Ben Norton explains.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=l5eQd1E_Huo
Topics
0:00 Intro
1:30 Biden authorizes attacks inside Russia
2:12 France plans to send military forces to Ukraine
3:52 US discusses increased nuclear weapon deployments
4:57 Poll: most people in US & W Europe want peace
7:04 China & Brazil propose peace plan
9:38 West's "peace conference" didn't invite Russia
11:26 China wants peace in Ukraine
15:45 Nicaragua backs China-Brazil peace plan
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In Mexico, a new independent left-wing movement has defeated the country's elites. Following current President AMLO, President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum and their Morena party won the 2024 election in a landslide. Ben Norton is joined by journalist José Luis Granados Ceja to discuss what their "Fourth Transformation" (4T) means for the US, China, Russia, Latin America, and the global economy.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=M0k0WU7JKgM
Check out Soberanía, the Mexican Politics Podcast: https://youtube.com/@SoberaniaPodcast
Follow José Luis on Twitter: https://x.com/GranadosCeja
Mexico Solidarity Media website: https://mexicosolidarity.com
Our related video "Mexico's AMLO has 80% approval, despite media lies & US meddling": https://youtube.com/watch?v=-2PQPJUn6KU
Topics
0:00 Claudia Sheinbaum wins election
1:36 Geopolitics: Mexico, US, China, Russia
3:19 AMLO boosts minimum wage, reduces poverty
3:45 Economy & natural resources
6:09 US corporations are angry
7:34 Introducing guest
8:18 Why Sheinbaum's victory is historic
13:01 AMLO & 4th Transformation
21:43 Morena & defeat of PRI-PAN-PRD establishment
32:38 Mexico's economy
44:24 Geopolitics: US new cold war on China & Russia
53:28 Latin American regional integration
1:01:02 Everyday life in Mexico
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While BlackRock veterans run Joe Biden's Treasury, Donald Trump's presidential campaign is financed by Wall Street's highest-paid CEO, of Blackstone, the world's largest commercial landlord. Ben Norton explains how Wall Street investment companies, asset managers, and banks essentially buy US elections.VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZJaJ4BST6NcCheck out our related video - "How the dollar's 'exorbitant privilege' enriches the USA (and global elites)": https://youtube.com/watch?v=jYkiMcR1Rj8TOPICS0:00 Wall Street always wins US elections0:57 Blackstone CEO funds Trump2:58 BlackRock backs Biden3:48 BlackRock vs Blackstone - What's the difference?7:30 Wall Street's highest paid CEO, Stephen Schwarzman10:15 Oil & gas industry moguls fund Trump10:53 Fossil fuel profits tripled under Biden13:15 Oligarchs back fellow billionaire Trump15:14 Biden promised: "Nothing would fundamentally change"15:54 10% of Americans own 93% of stocks & 67% of all wealth17:23 USA is not a democracy; it's an oligarchy18:43 Wall Street funded Barack Obama19:20 Wall Street funded Mitt Romney20:07 US government represents Wall Street21:54 BlackRock veterans run Biden's Treasury25:08 Goldman Sachs veterans ran Trump's Treasury27:16 Blackstone: the largest landlord in the US (& on Earth)30:53 De-industrialization & financialization32:25 Private equity destroyed Toys“R”Us33:11 Private equity firms buy up retirement homes, hospitals, vets34:53 2008 crisis & subprime mortgages37:22 Financial parasites38:39 Outro
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As Israel bombs Rafah with US support, both are blatantly defying the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and International Criminal Court (ICC). Ben Norton documents the hypocrisy of the Biden administration's claims to uphold the "rules-based international order" as it sponsors Netanyahu's crimes against humanity in Gaza.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q2B6wkbO6vw
Check out our related video - "US threatens ICC, warning 'If they [prosecute] Israel, we're next!'": https://youtube.com/watch?v=ChZZ3GKiNE0
Topics
0:00 Intro
1:30 ICJ orders Israel to stop attacking Rafah
2:38 Israel bombs tent camp in Rafah
3:51 US & UK help Israel violate ICJ rulings
4:34 UN expert calls for sanctions on Israel
6:28 Netanyahu: "Nobody will stop us - not the Hague"
7:19 US threatens to sanction ICC
8:19 Israeli spy chief threatened ICC
9:23 Trump & Biden attack ICC
9:50 Hypocrisy of "rules-based order"
13:02 US House Speaker Mike Johnson threatens ICC
13:48 US "rules-based order" vs. international law-based order
14:40 UK PM Rishi Sunak praises "rules-based order"
15:00 Germany's hypocrisy on Israel
17:55 Western neocolonialism
23:58 China defends international law
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Putin met with Xi Jinping in Beijing, where China and Russia released a joint statement blasting Western "colonialism and hegemonism", supporting a multipolar world and more representation for the Global South, and calling for de-dollarization and expansion of BRICS. Ben Norton analyzes the historic document.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ufjxmDLQyBU
Full text of the joint statement with links here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/05/24/china-russia-joint-statement-new-era-75th-anniversary/
Topics
0:00 Intro
0:49 Putin's visit to China
1:42 Summary of the joint statement
4:58 Russia deepens economic integration with China
7:18 China expands trade with anti-hegemonic nations
8:50 Note on translation of joint statement
11:20 75th anniversary of China-Russia relations
13:46 Supporting Global South & multipolar world
17:58 Condemning Western neocolonialism & hegemony
20:49 Expanding cooperation
23:03 "True multilateralism"
25:14 Group of Friends in Defense of the UN Charter
27:35 Shanghai Cooperation Organization
28:33 Expanding BRICS
30:10 Nuclear weapons
30:33 Condemning US militarism
34:26 Climate change & pollution
36:01 Ukraine war
38:58 Non-interference
40:29 ASEAN
40:46 East Asia
41:33 North Korea
42:36 West Asia (Middle East) & Palestine
44:07 Afghanistan
45:18 Africa
46:25 Latin America
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has applied for an arrest warrant for Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu over crimes against humanity in Gaza. The Biden administration is threatening sanctions on Prosecutor Karim Khan. US Senator Lindsey Graham warned, "if they'll do this to Israel, we’re next!" Ben Norton discusses Washington's extreme hypocrisy and shows the real face of the so-called "rules-based international order".
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ChZZ3GKiNE0
US politicians threaten to invade Int'l Criminal Court if Israel faces war crimes charges: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/05/07/us-threat-icc-israel/
US senator says Israel should drop nuclear bombs on Gaza: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/05/12/senator-lindsey-graham-israel-nuclear-weapons-gaza/
Intro
0:00 "We're next!"
0:15 ICC seeks to arrest Israeli officials
1:50 US gov't threatens ICC
4:08 Lindsey Graham quote: "if they'll do this to Israel, we’re next!"
5:01 Protest
5:27 Bipartisan barbarism
6:57 Karim Khan dropped previous investigation into US/NATO war crimes
8:26 Both sides-ism
9:35 ICC charges against PM Netanyahu & DM Yoav Gallant
10:38 ICJ or ICC?
11:59 Western officials says ICC "was built for Africa"
12:39 Netanyahu responds: "No one will stop us"
13:16 20,000 US citizens in IDF
14:04 Israel is an outpost of the US empire
15:29 Biden, Blinken, & Republicans agree
16:54 Trump imposed sanctions on ICC
18:53 US hypocritically backs ICC charges against Putin
20:15 US & Israel: rogue states
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Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash, sought to unite the Global South against Western imperialism. He joined BRICS, advocated de-dollarization, supported Palestine, promoted a "Look East" strategy toward China and Russia, and allied with Africa and Latin America. Ben Norton analyzes the late Iranian leader's anti-colonial foreign policy.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pzPKOhHcnvc
Topics
0:00 Raisi's death & Iran's future
2:51 Raisi's anti-colonial foreign policy
4:54 Palestine
6:10 Anti-imperialism
8:42 BRICS
10:53 Dedollarization
11:45 Shanghai Cooperation Organization
12:46 "Look East" strategy
13:19 China
18:11 Russia
20:02 Indonesia
20:42 Africa
23:32 Latin America
28:40 Nicaragua & Iran: sister revolutions
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Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are joined by Professor C.P. Chandrasekhar to discuss what is really happening in India's economy, if its government growth statistics and other official data are accurate, the policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party BJP, and the country's 2024 elections.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3zt1ZYzWP7k
You can watch other episodes of their program Geopolitical Economy Hour here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP -
The Joe Biden White House imposed high tariffs on Chinese technological products, including electric vehicles (EVs), solar panels, batteries, and semiconductors. Ben Norton analyzes the hypocrisy of US government accusations that Beijing provides unfair subsidies to its industries, while Washington is spending trillions on industrial policy -- and how this exposes the "free trade" dogma spread by neoliberal economists as a myth.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=a7okuN2qJU8
Our related video: "Is China producing too much? US 'overcapacity' accusations: new tactic in economic war" - https://youtube.com/watch?v=GUpWxNcdnYU
Topics
0:00 Biden puts tariffs on China
1:05 Elon Musk demanded tariffs on Chinese EVs
1:55 US "overcapacity" allegations
2:40 Europe threatens tariffs too
3:19 Biden condemned tariffs in 2019
4:58 Climate change hypocrisy
6:13 "Free market" myth
8:47 "Forced" technology transfer myth
13:12 BYD outcompetes Tesla
13:56 Neoliberalism: de-industrialization & financialization
18:26 Subsidies: US gov't plans trillions in benefits
23:52 More tariffs on Chinese products
25:30 Washington Consensus
29:01 US destroys WTO (after creating it)
31:28 Protectionism: How US & UK really developed
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US Senator Lindsey Graham insisted in a TV interview that Israel should drop nuclear bombs on Gaza, where more than 2 million Palestinian civilians, including 1 million children, are trapped under what the Israeli defense minister called a “complete siege”. Ben Norton discusses Washington's bipartisan complicity in crimes against humanity.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4jJpA11Z5N8
Atomic bombing of Japan was NOT necessary to end WWII. US gov't documents admit it: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/08/07/atomic-bombing-japan-not-necessary/
Links and sources here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/05/12/senator-lindsey-graham-israel-nuclear-weapons-gaza/
Topics
0:00 Intro
0:31 Lindsey Graham says Israel should nuke Gaza
1:11 Fact check
1:59 Israeli minister called to nuke Gaza
3:55 Crimes against humanity
4:47 US support is bipartisan
5:26 Israel's nuclear weapons
6:45 Israel offered nukes to apartheid South Africa
9:05 US atomic bombing of Japan was not necessary
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143 countries, representing the vast majority of the world, voted at the UN General Assembly to support giving Palestine full membership. They were opposed by the US, Israel, and seven other small countries, representing just 5% of the global population. Ben Norton analyzes the geopolitics.VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JtHx7hhpFDYSources and links here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/05/11/us-israel-vote-palestine-un-memberTopics0:00 Intro0:56 Map of UN vote on Palestine membership1:44 Countries that oppose Palestine3:13 Europe is divided3:35 Ukraine supports Israel & opposes Global South5:11 Global South supports Palestine5:44 Biden is allied with Hungary's Viktor Orbán6:20 UNGA resolution6:47 Venezuela's voting rights taken away8:02 Read the UNGA resolution9:02 Hypocrisy of US "two-state solution" rhetoric10:29 Most Democrats condemn Israel; Republicans support it11:11 Countries with bilateral relations with Palestine11:47 Palestine's rights as UN observer state13:04 China supports Palestine13:46 Russia supports Palestine14:11 Outro
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While visiting Serbia, China's President Xi Jinping condemned the US and NATO for bombing Beijing's embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1999. Ben Norton discusses why Washington launched the attack, and lied about it. Then Ben analyzes China-Serbia relations and the Belt and Road Initiative.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MILgSmiBLA8
Topics
0:00 Xi condemns US/NATO for bombing China's embassy
1:50 US attack was intentional
4:44 Protests in China
5:58 Civilian victims of NATO's war on Yugoslavia
7:34 China's relations with Yugoslavia
9:05 Belt and Road Initiative
10:21 Chinese investment in Serbian steel plant
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US Senators sent a letter to International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan, threatening to impose sanctions and even invade the Hague if he issues arrest warrants for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Biden administration is also pressuring the ICC not to charge Israeli officials over their war crimes in Gaza. Ben Norton discusses Washington's deep hypocrisy.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pM29iLpZMJU
Sources and links: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/05/07/us-threat-icc-israel
Topics
0:00 Intro
0:48 US politicians threaten ICC
2:26 Trump sanctioned ICC
3:17 Biden's hypocrisy
3:56 Republican senators' letter to ICC
6:47 Hague Invasion Act
8:44 Israel's gen0c1de in Gaza
9:48 Israel unleashed famine in Gaza
10:37 Israeli minister demands "total annihilation" of Gaza
11:26 Amalek
13:16 US hypocrisy on ICC warrant for Russia's Putin
14:51 Africa criticizes ICC
15:42 US/Israel lobbied for ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan
16:46 US & Israel refuse to join ICC
17:02 ICC vs ICJ
18:40 Save face, or save your empire?
21:13 Outro - Visa fler