The US government has, six times now, unilaterally vetoed resolutions in the UN Security Council that called for peace and a ceasefire in Gaza. Meanwhile, a United Nations commission stated conclusively that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people, with the full support of the United States, under both Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Ben Norton reports.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thjVQp9wafs

Topics

0:00 US vetoes 6 UN Gaza resolutions

1:24 China calls for peace

2:04 Israel creates famine in Gaza

3:29 UN commission report on Israeli genocide

4:15 Legal definition of genocide

6:06 UN inquiry on genocide in Gaza

7:37 USA sells weapons to Israel

9:06 Genocide experts' opinion

9:50 ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu

10:43 ICJ case against Israel

11:36 Trump's plan to take over Gaza

13:26 US & Israel want "real estate bonanza"

14:11 Colonialism

15:28 Trump withdraws US from UN bodies

18:46 US imperialism vs the world

21:12 Outro

Why has Donald Trump consistently attacked the Federal Reserve and its chair Jerome Powell? And was the US central bank ever truly "independent"? Geopolitical economist Radhika Desai discusses with economist Michael Hudson.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fcwg6eFGu4

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Donald Trump is imposing tariffs and unequal treaties on longtime allies in Europe, Japan, and South Korea, forcing them to pay and move their factories to the US. Meanwhile, BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) are building a new multipolar world order based on mutually beneficial trade and investment. Ben Norton is joined by economist Michael Hudson to discuss.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpYgXMkzWc8

Read Michael's article on Trump's attacks on Europe, Korea, and Japan: https://www.geopoliticaleconomy.report/p/michael-hudson-trump-europe-korea-japan

You can support Michael on Patreon at https://Patreon.com/MichaelHudson

Topics

0:00 Trump attacks US allies

0:35 Exploitative US deal imposed on Japan

3:04 ICE detains South Korean workers

5:46 Trump to abolish Education Department

6:29 Angering US allies

7:19 US trade deal imposed on Europe

8:37 BRICS & SCO build multipolar order

10:20 Intro to Michael Hudson

10:46 Highlights of Michael Hudson

13:58 Interview starts

15:03 The BRICS alternative

18:54 US strategy of economic colonialism

26:01 Europe

33:06 India and Eurasia

35:15 Trump's tariff trap

37:28 Energy

41:03 Backlash in Europe

43:43 EU did not negotiate

46:48 European capital flows into US

49:40 BRICS sells US Treasuries

53:24 South Korea

56:59 Attacks on immigrants

1:05:37 Class politics

1:11:13 Japan

1:20:08 Latin America

1:21:48 Middle East (West Asia)

1:22:41 Dedollarization

1:24:18 Outro

The US government has waged economic war on Venezuela for years. The Donald Trump administration is escalating this with threats of military intervention. Ben Norton discusses the history of sanctions and US-backed coup attempts against President Nicolás Maduro, explaining why Washington wants to topple this ally of China, Russia, and Iran, so US oil corporations can exploit the South American nation's natural resources.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU17g3DXwiY

Check out our related video on how the US government supports drug traffickers in Latin America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwCducQ8HHw

Topics

0:00 US-backed coups in Latin America

1:32 US economic war on Cuba

2:15 Venezuela's alliance with China & Russia

3:12 Dedollarization

4:17 Petrodollar system

5:45 US military threatens Venezuela

7:53 Drug production

8:37 US-backed drug trafficker in Colombia

9:24 US-backed drug trafficker in Ecuador

11:35 Fentanyl

12:52 UN data on drugs

13:39 Marco Rubio opposes international law

14:58 (CLIP) Marco Rubio attacks UN

15:42 "Cartel de los Soles" doesn't exist

16:32 Colombia's President Gustavo Petro

17:27 US-backed coup in Venezuela in 2002

18:53 Guarimbas: coup attempts in 2014 & 2017

19:28 Obama dubs Venezuela "threat"

19:54 US economic war & sanctions

21:16 Oil exports

22:16 US collapses Venezuela's oil industry

23:24 Coup attempt with Juan Guaidó in 2019

24:09 (CLIP) John Bolton boasts of coup

24:59 Trump admin discussed military attacks

26:02 Failed invasion in 2020: Operation Gideon

28:41 Bolivarian Revolution

30:25 Marco Rubio's drug lies

31:46 US bounty on Maduro's head

33:27 Scholar: "Cartel of the Suns" doesn't exist

35:10 US invasion of Panama in 1989

36:19 US turned against Saddam Hussein

36:52 Coup strategy

37:34 US intel debunks Trump admin's drug lies

39:49 Tattoos as "proof" of cartel membership

41:17 Juan Guaidó worked with drug cartels

43:06 Guaidó gang's corruption

43:52 US empire's puppets in Latin America

44:51 Colonialist Monroe Doctrine

45:46 (CLIP) John Bolton on Venezuela's oil

46:53 Trump wants Venezuela's oil

47:52 Goals of US empire

49:16 Outro

US President Donald Trump claimed he would "un-unite" Russia and China, but the divide-and-conquer strategy failed. Instead, Moscow and Beijing are closer than ever, and they are at the heart of a Global South-led movement to build a new multipolar world order, challenging Western hegemony and imperialism. Ben Norton explains.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-bq4347Z18

US attacks blow back, uniting China, India, Russia, Iran; encouraging dedollarization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsFGCUtzzQ8

Topics

0:00 China and Russia: close partners

0:59 USA fears "near-peer" competitors

1:51 (CLIP) Trump: divide Russia and China

2:06 US divide-and-conquer strategy

2:31 (CLIP) Marco Rubio: "partner with the Russians"

3:04 Marco Rubio, top US war hawk

3:33 (CLIP) Marco Rubio: China is top "threat"

4:16 China and Russia's political ties

5:33 China's trade with Russia

6:28 US and Russia: economic competitors

7:37 Trump doesn't have anything to offer

8:23 Global South leaders meet in China

9:41 USA failed to divide India and China

10:28 China's 80th anniversary WWII victory parade

12:09 Trump laments China-Russia-India ties

13:02 Xi-Putin meeting in Beijing

14:19 USSR and China in WWII

18:21 Dedollarization of China-Russia trade

19:44 Power of Siberia 2 pipeline

21:44 Russia integrates with Eurasia

22:19 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)

22:44 BRICS

23:33 Neocolonial financial system

25:30 Russia deepens ties with Global South

27:34 New multipolar world order

28:37 Outro

The US government has long tried to divide China, India, and Russia, but Washington's aggressive actions have only brought them together. Donald Trump's tariffs, in particular, angered Indian PM Modi, who visited the Chinese city Tianjin for the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, where the Eurasian countries deepened their relations. Ben Norton analyzes the important results of this historic meeting, and how the US empire's aggression has blown back.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsFGCUtzzQ8

Topics

0:00 US imperial overstretch

1:25 China, Russia, India unite

3:38 Shanghai Cooperation Org (SCO) summit

4:48 Global Governance Initiative

6:50 New multipolar order

8:08 Members of SCO

9:29 Population of SCO

10:07 Economy of SCO

11:01 US empire seeks to divide Eurasia

12:49 Trump attacks India

13:37 Donald Trump's tariffs

14:52 India moves closer to China

16:23 Views India and China share

18:59 Modi meets with Xi Jinping

21:33 US war hawks are furious

22:02 (CLIP) John Bolton on India-China ties

23:20 US war hawks are furious

24:05 (CLIP) Jake Sullivan on India-China ties

25:17 USA alienates its "allies"

25:53 Trump makes China great again (川建国 Chuan Jianguo)

26:50 Trump accelerates US imperial decline

29:09 Dedollarization

30:48 CBDCs

32:42 Dedollarization

33:30 China proposes SCO development bank

33:48 SCO Tianjin Declaration

35:51 Need for UN reform

40:20 Multipolarity

41:07 International financial system

42:53 Xi Jinping's speech

46:43 Open-source artificial intelligence (AI) tech

47:38 Oppose the new cold war

48:15 Global South vision of multipolar world

50:45 Outro

The US government has a long history of supporting corrupt, drug-dealing, right-wing oligarchs in Latin America. The Donald Trump administration is threatening to attack Venezuela, accusing leftist President Nicolás Maduro, without any evidence, of leading a cartel, while Marco Rubio defends Colombia's drug-trafficking former leader Álvaro Uribe. Ben Norton documents Washington's imperial hypocrisy.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwCducQ8HHw

Topics

0:00 Hypocritical US meddling in Latin America

1:41 Colombia's ex President Álvaro Uribe

4:52 (CLIP) CIA director: "We lie, cheat, steal"

5:09 Drug cartels linked to Colombian leader

6:49 Paramilitaries linked to Colombian leader

9:16 False positives scandal

11:36 Plan Colombia

12:37 Left-wing President Gustavo Petro

14:55 US interventions in Latin America

15:39 Honduran dictator Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH)

16:48 US-backed coup in Honduras in 2009

18:27 US support for dictators

19:41 Drug trafficking in Honduras

22:36 US foreign policy in Latin America

22:59 CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras

24:09 Trump admin attacks Venezuela (again)

25:50 Outro

The dominance of the US dollar as the global reserve currency has been gradually declining for years, but Donald Trump's policies could rapidly accelerate de-dollarization and the transition to a more multipolar international financial order, warn even mainstream American economists like Barry Eichengreen and Kenneth Rogoff. Political economist Ben Norton reviews the evidence.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utvD1JiIgCM

Our related article - "Trump advisor reveals tariff strategy: Force countries to pay tribute to maintain US empire": https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/04/10/trump-advisor-miran-tariff-pay-us-empire/

Topics

0:00 Dedollarization

0:43 Trump's policies accelerate dedollarization

3:50 Economist Barry Eichengreen

5:25 (CLIP) Barry Eichengreen on dedollarization

6:54 Gradually, and then suddenly

7:49 Erosion of dollar dominance

9:18 Decline of US economy

11:36 Rise of China

12:50 Gold: why central banks keep buying it

15:42 Western sanctions

17:57 List of reasons driving dedollarization

18:42 Trump's tariffs & US trade deficit

20:10 Trump pressures Federal Reserve

22:58 Why Trump wants low interest rates

24:56 US Treasury market volatility

26:03 Fewer foreigners want US government debt

29:32 US economy: a financial house of cards

30:34 High corporate bond yields

32:26 Reasons driving dedollarization

32:56 Inflation

36:31 Trump fires BLS chief

37:40 Mar-a-Lago Accord plans

38:54 (CLIP) Trump economic advisor Stephen Miran

38:59 Plaza Accord redux

40:30 Century bonds: de facto US debt default

44:46 Private investors de-dollarize too

45:25 Post-US dollar world

47:14 Economist Kenneth Rogoff

48:09 Trump's own Nixon shock

48:51 Multipolar financial world

50:46 Outro

How do China's government, political system, and socialist market economy actually work? How does China see democracy, the USA, and Donald Trump's trade war? Renowned Chinese scholar Zhang Weiwei explains the China model in this interview with Ben Norton.

VIDEO with subtitles here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkVyYvWezI0

Topics

0:00 Highlights

1:30 Introduction to Zhang Weiwei

1:51 The China model

3:23 Civilization-state

4:13 Meritocracy

5:01 Socialist market economy

7:52 US capitalism vs Chinese socialism

9:36 Foreign investment in China

11:15 How China sees democracy

13:46 How laws are made in China

15:59 Economic planning

16:59 Debate with Francis Fukuyama

20:11 US trade war on China

23:36 Dedollarization of financial system

28:17 The multipolar future

29:36 Outro

One of the main goals of the US political and economic system is to protect corporate monopolies. Silicon Valley Big Tech corporations fear Chinese competitors, so the US government is trying to ban them. Political economist Ben Norton explains how imperialism works, and what drives Washington's Cold War Two against China.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EVwFJ7sM6c

Topics

0:00 US government seeks political monopoly

0:51 Billionaire Peter Thiel defends monopolies

2:53 (CLIP) Peter Thiel: "competition is for losers"

3:18 Cold War Two against China

4:49 Uber's monopolistic business model

9:18 Corporate lobbyists & donors

10:02 Trump admin opposes antitrust cases

12:12 Money buys US politics

13:42 Trump backs billionaire Big Tech oligarchs

15:45 Trump green-lights white collar crime

17:35 Trump promotes bribery & corruption

19:30 USA wants to control global infrastructure

20:03 (CLIP) Trump threatens Panama Canal

20:14 BlackRock buys Panama Canal ports

20:36 (CLIP) Trump boasts of BlackRock deal

21:00 Trump helps BlackRock buy up ports

21:58 Second Cold War on China

22:23 US Big Tech targets TikTok

24:14 DeepSeek & Chinese AI competitors

25:00 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

26:14 US states ban DeepSeek

26:57 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei

27:29 US AI companies lobby to ban competitors

28:37 Silicon Valley seeks "unipolar world"

30:23 Biden's chip export restrictions on China

31:09 USA seeks to stop China's innovation

31:57 Biden's tariffs on China

33:55 How imperialism works

34:45 Global value chain (division of labor)

36:20 USA wanted China to stay subordinate

37:50 VP JD Vance wants Global South on bottom

38:45 (CLIP) JD Vance on China & value chain

39:30 Industrial policy: Made in China 2025 plan

41:32 China enters commercial aircraft industry

42:14 US politicians lobby to ban China's Comac

43:58 How Boeing was destroyed by finance bros

45:47 How Jack Welch ran GE into the ground

46:39 Boeing attacked unions & skilled labor

47:56 Boeing CEO was Blackstone exec

48:51 Boeing prioritizes stock buybacks, not R&D

50:17 Private equity is "looting America"

51:22 Goal of Washington's new cold war

52:11 Outro