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How much does the US benefit from printing the global reserve currency? An economist calculated that US average daily income would fall by 27-57% if the dollar lost its "exorbitant privilege". Ben Norton explains how wealthy investors not only in North America but around the world hold much of their wealth in the dollar.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jYkiMcR1Rj8
Link to Philip Pilkington's report and Twitter account: https://twitter.com/philippilk/status/1782409654519128497
Topics
0:00 US dollar dominance
2:00 Economics of exorbitant privilege
5:23 Current account
9:29 Balance of payments
12:31 Effects of dollar hegemony
14:45 Neoliberalism & financialization
17:41 Foreign capital funds US deficits
19:28 Global 1% invests in US assets
20:35 Super Imperialism
22:25 Fed inflates asset bubbles
25:22 De-industrialization in West
28:06 Industrialization in BRICS
28:57 Investment & FDI
33:08 Wages & manufacturing
35:00 Re-industrialization?
38:16 Outro -
US President Joe Biden signed a law that will force TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to sell the app, or it will be banned in the US. Ben Norton explains how this is part of Washington's economic war, aimed at protecting Big Tech monopolies in Silicon Valley.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_WFYov2kfLI
Topics
0:00 Biden signs law to ban TikTok
1:39 US tech war on China
5:00 India banned Chinese apps, giving US Big Tech total control
6:38 Protectionism or economic war?
8:30 Silicon Valley lobbied against TikTok
9:37 Donald Trump tried to ban TikTok... before doing 180
12:15 Role of Israel/Palestine/Gaza?
13:42 US trade war with Japan in 1980s
15:38 "Free market" hypocrisy
18:25 US does not truly want "competition" with China
19:39 Outro -
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If Ukraine loses in the NATO proxy war with Russia, "it will be the end of Western hegemony", lamented former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Ben Norton explains the geopolitics of the conflict, and how most of the Global South has not joined the Global North in opposing Moscow.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=M8ZmkIhs8r0
Check out our related report - "‘Western dominance has ended’, EU foreign-policy chief admits, warning of ‘West against the Rest’": https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/02/26/western-dominance-ended-eu-josep-borrell -
Jill Stein explains why she decided to run for US president on an anti-war, pro-worker platform, challenging the duopoly of the Democrats and Republicans as the candidate for the Green Party. She is interviewed by political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=oDUb7-MPH48
Read the transcript here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/04/20/jill-stein-president-green-party-candidate/
You can watch other episodes of their program Geopolitical Economy Hour here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP -
The US vetoed a resolution in the UN Security Council that called to recognize Palestine as a member state, while Israel launched attacks on Iran. Ben Norton shows how Washington is opposing peace.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VndvgbR51D4
Topics
0:00 Intro
1:29 Israel attacks Iran
4:39 US vetoes Palestinian UN membership
7:31 What is Palestine's status at UN?
8:57 Which countries recognize Palestine?
10:18 "Two-state solution" hypocrisy
12:01 How USA prevents peace in Palestine
15:35 US defended South African apartheid at UN
18:30 South Africa's anti-apartheid leaders support Palestine
21:02 China supports Palestine
22:56 Russia supports Palestine
23:47 UNSC Gaza resolutions vetoed by US
25:53 US sponsors Israel's crimes against humanity
27:23 Outro -
A major Congress member and top former Trump administration official published an article calling to overthrow China's government. They boasted that the US is waging a new cold war and must win it, while proposing a military budget of $1.4 trillion per year. Ben Norton debunks the deceptions of the warmongers in Washington.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q3RMl33SqNE
Check out our related report: CIA director threatens China & Russia, says Ukraine war benefits US economy - https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/02/07/cia-director-china-threat-russia-ukraine-war/
Topics
0:00 Topic
1:07 2024 election
1:59 Council on Foreign Relations & CIA
3:30 Matt Pottinger & Mike Gallagher
5:07 US new cold war on China
8:21 Deceptively distorting Xi Jinping's speeches
12:50 Information warfare
16:00 Colonialism
17:32 Misquoting Chinese officials
20:29 Militarization of Asia
21:49 $1.37 trillion military budget
22:44 US domination of Asia
24:51 Recruit "cold warriors"
26:44 Regime change: Rollback, not just containment
28:05 Manufacturing consent for war
29:21 Outro -
Israel attacked Iran's embassy in Syria on April 1, in a blatant act of war. Iran had a legal right to respond in self-defense, according to article 51 of the UN Charter, which is exactly what it did by launching missiles and drone strikes on April 13. But Western governments are absurdly portraying Tehran as the aggressor. Ben Norton explains.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1p1-Psc0Un8
Topics
0:00 Intro
1:11 Israel attacked Iran first
2:50 Biden & Sunak erase history
3:57 US, UK, France blocked UN Security Council condemnation
5:14 Iran invoked article 51 of UN charter
7:02 UN chief Antonio Guterres' hypocrisy
8:32 West is destroying international law
10:46 World War III?
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Washington accuses China of producing too many goods and demands "free market" policies. But the US government is spending trillions on industrial policy to protect its own manufacturing sector. Ben Norton details the hypocrisy of the allegations, the latest strategy in the US economic war on China.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GUpWxNcdnYU
Topics
0:00 Intro
1:00 Chinese 'overcapacity' allegations
3:38 Janet Yellen
5:21 US vows to 'slow down China's rate of innovation'
8:02 Elon Musk begs for tariffs on Chinese EVs
10:40 US wants China to be economically subordinated
12:27 US tech war on China
14:39 Western industrial policy
16:31 Protectionism
18:38 US Inflation Reduction Act
20:12 US Chips Act
22:03 US undercapacity is the real problem
25:11 BYD has just 1.5% of EU EV market share
27:04 China's car exports vs Japan & South Korea
30:37 Is overcapacity a problem?
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Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson analyze how the United States is waging an economic war against China.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4l3EbRUOGsI
Transcript: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/04/09/us-waging-economic-war-china-radhika-desai-michael-hudson/
You can watch other episodes of their program Geopolitical Economy Hour here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP -
In the United Nations Human Rights Council, the West voted against the rest of the world, supporting illegal sanctions (known as unilateral coercive measures). Ben Norton analyzes how the 14% of the population in the Global North constantly opposes the Global South, representing the Global Majority.
VIDEO with maps and graphics here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VHBIfmxkHh4
Links here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/04/06/west-vote-rest-un-human-rights-council-sanctions/ -
Argentina's libertarian President Javier Milei ordered his intelligence agency to give full power to the CIA, while the US spy agency's director is welcomed to Buenos Aires. Ben Norton discusses how self-declared "anarcho-capitalist" Milei withdrew from BRICS, allied with Israel, and is implementing neoliberal shock therapy, selling off the South American nation in mass privatizations, as most workers live in poverty.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4VBlUW4BpYs
Check out our related video "How extremist Javier Milei became Argentina's president: A story of debt, crisis, and empire": https://youtube.com/watch?v=FN6hoIb-QqA
Topics
0:00 Foreign meddling in Argentina
1:08 Javier Milei
1:41 CIA
3:24 Billionaire oligarch
4:03 Anarcho-capitalism
5:05 IMF
7:17 Inflation
8:25 Poverty
9:43 Israel
11:00 Milei's geopolitical alignment: US & Israel
11:33 BRICS
12:13 US corporations
13:32 Beat the status quo... by joining it
14:24 US-backed coup & dictatorship
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The US government has sent troops to Taiwan, just a few kilometers from mainland China, while also selling billions of dollars of weapons and military equipment. Is Washington preparing for war? Ben Norton analyzes the geopolitical situation.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sWWABuHjSvU
After Ukraine, US readies ‘transnational kill chain’ for Taiwan proxy war: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/03/01/ukraine-us-kill-chain-taiwan-war
Topics
0:00 Intro
2:15 US sends troops to Taiwan
4:39 US general threatens war on China
5:28 Nuclear weapons
7:03 US once had nukes in Taiwan
10:22 US "arms Taiwan to the teeth"
13:27 US military surrounds China
16:22 Pentagon's "kill chain for the Pacific"
18:23 Elon Musk's role
19:19 US military interoperability with Taiwan
20:57 Washington threatens Chinese sovereignty
22:58 US communiqués recognizing One China policy
27:46 US violates agreements
29:28 Parallels to Ukraine
31:48 Outro -
Israel is carrying out genocide against the Palestinian people and "systematic destruction of every aspect necessary to sustain life in Gaza", United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese detailed in her report titled "Anatomy of a Genocide". Ben Norton analyzes the political context.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=o4e4fI_r3b0 -
The world economy is structured in an unjust way in which the West drains the wealth of the Global South. Ben Norton discusses the economics of imperialism, and how China has tried to reverse it.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PlAN5-Lk0hw
China is ‘world’s sole manufacturing superpower’, with 35% of global output: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/01/31/china-world-manufacturing-superpower-production
Topics
0:00 Global inequality
3:01 World-systems analysis
4:37 Prebisch-Singer thesis
6:55 Dependency theory & commodity supercycles
8:27 Unequal exchange
11:01 Haiti & Honduras: Wage suppression in the periphery
13:57 New International Economic Order
15:22 China & the Asian Tigers
19:27 The Global South rebels
22:41 South Africa's President Ramaphosa on industrialization
25:13 Indonesia's economic development
26:34 (Neo)colonialism in Indonesia
29:29 Indonesia bans raw mineral exports
32:18 Protectionism (for the West, not for the rest)
37:38 China helps Indonesia industrialize
42:04 The myth of Chinese "imperialism"
43:04 India's economy vs. Indonesia's
46:41 China's South-South integration
49:33 Outro -
Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are joined by Beijing-based scholar Mick Dunford to discuss China's economy and debunk Western media myths, addressing accusations that consumption is too low, fears of "Japanification", the role of exports, and the new Chinese growth strategy.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=isJR5dS27qA
This is part 2 of their discussion. Watch part 1 here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3K1Vku1SDd8
You can watch other episodes of their program Geopolitical Economy Hour here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP -
The US government's plan to either ban TikTok or force owner ByteDance to sell it to a (US) company is part of Washington's economic war on China, and an attempt to protect Big Tech monopolies in Silicon Valley. Ben Norton explains.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1I7reuh86CM
Sources and links here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/03/18/us-tiktok-ban-china-tech-monopolies/
Topics
0:00 US Congress moves to ban TikTok
2:04 US tech war on China
6:12 India bans Chinese apps, giving US Big Tech total control
7:51 Protectionism or economic war?
9:18 Silicon Valley lobbied against TikTok
10:49 Donald Trump tried to ban TikTok... before doing 180
13:27 Role of Israel/Palestine/Gaza?
14:54 US trade war with Japan in 1980s
16:51 "Free market" fundamentalist hypocrisy
18:45 The Washington Consensus
20:24 US does not truly want "competition" with China
21:38 Outro -
Several reports in mainstream US media outlets show how the CIA has helped to direct the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, and played a role in causing the conflict in the first place. Ben Norton examines the evidence.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=C-PdT8ZUamQ
US govt knew NATO expansion to Ukraine would force Russia to intervene: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/02/27/us-nato-expansion-ukraine-russia-intervene/
Topics
0:00 CIA's role in Ukraine proxy war
2:52 Germany reveals UK/France have troops in Ukraine
4:08 Western special ops commandos are in Ukraine
6:09 CIA trained Ukrainian forces before war with Russia
9:22 US knew NATO expansion would cause Russian intervention
12:26 NY Times reveals CIA operations in Ukraine
21:26 CIA was using US embassy in Ukraine
22:23 2014 US-backed Maidan coup
25:45 CIA spying inside Russia
27:59 NATO/EU member Estonia rewrites WWII history
30:04 Assassinations by CIA-trained Ukrainian forces
34:27 CIA collaborated with UK's MI6 and Netherlands
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Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are joined by Beijing-based scholar Mick Dunford to discuss what is actually happening in China, explaining its economic transition and move toward a new industrial revolution.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3K1Vku1SDd8
You can watch other episodes of their program Geopolitical Economy Hour here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP -
The US government has sent Israel more than 100 arms shipments since October 7, to help it bomb Gaza. Polls show 52% of North Americans oppose these weapons sales. Biden is defying the Democratic Party's base, while allying with Trump and the Republicans. Ben Norton reviews the evidence.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yoj8Sleb9XQ
US kills 4th UN call for peace in Gaza, helping Israel violate Hague's genocide ruling: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/02/21/us-veto-un-resolution-gaza-israel-hague-genocide/
Topics
0:00 Most Americans oppose US arms sales to Israel
2:57 Youth & Democrats say Israel commits genocide
5:10 ICJ: genocide case against Israel is "plausible"
5:30 Top UN expert: Israel commits genocide in Gaza
6:03 US court: Israel "plausibly" committing genocide
7:00 Biden admin sends Israel 100+ arms shipments
9:17 US vetoes ceasefire resolutions in UN Security Council
9:50 Israel's war on Gaza is most destructive in modern history
10:50 Biden's cynical "food aid" PR stunt
11:19 Israel is starving Palestinian children to death
12:01 Amnesty: Israel violates Hague's Gaza ruling
12:46 UN warns Gaza kids are dying of hunger
13:50 China condemns Israel's "disgrace for civilization"
14:23 Malaysia's PM blasts West's "murderous" hypocrisy
16:21 Western colonialism continues
18:57 Outro -
Why is the United States waging economic war on China? Ben Norton discusses how China became the world's industrial superpower and a leader in important technologies, why the US is unable to compete, and the clash between Western neoliberal capitalism and Chinese socialism.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=c3ngd__0ok0
China is now the 'world's sole manufacturing superpower': https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/01/31/china-world-manufacturing-superpower-production/
Topics
0:00 Bipartisan US economic war
2:19 China is world's #1 manufacturer
4:28 Clash of systems
6:29 Elon Musk laughed at Chinese competitors. Now they're beating him.
9:27 TikTok: Why US wants to ban it
10:56 EU threatens tariffs on China
11:20 West's hypocrisy on climate change
12:25 Solar panels: China installs more than rest of world combined
13:46 Clean energy is top driver of China's growth
14:56 China leads world in green transition
16:57 Neoliberal West can't outcompete China's state-led industrial development
18:27 The death of "free market" dogma
20:31 The myth of "free trade"
23:23 US opposes industrial policy when China does it
29:10 "Washington Consensus" failed, Washington admits
38:01 Ronald Reagan's trade war on Japan
43:25 Outro - Mostra di più