2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado, a US government-funded far-right coup leader, vowed to privatize Venezuela's oil and give it to US corporations. "We are going to privatize all our industry", she told Donald Trump Jr. "American companies ... are going to make a lot of money", she promised. Ben Norton exposes the neocolonial US war on Venezuela.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E7pHmYUCMk

Check out our related video on how Machado supports US and Israeli wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks9uDtd7Msc

Topics

0:00 (CLIP) "We are going to privatize all our industry"

0:54 Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado

1:41 (CLIP) María Corina Machado supports Israel

2:07 Nobel "Peace" Prize for warmonger

2:28 Venezuela's oil & US coup attempts

3:31 (CLIP) Machado vows to sell off Venezuelan oil

3:46 Machado: Far-right opposition leader

4:23 Machado wants US invasion

5:19 CIA-linked NED funds Machado

6:00 Machado interview with Donald Trump Jr.

6:53 (CLIP) Donald Trump Jr. & Machado

8:23 Venezuela's Pinochet + Margaret Thatcher

8:46 (CLIP) US companies will "make a lot of money"

9:05 Selling their countries to USA: vendepatrias

9:23 Machado's meeting with George W Bush

9:59 Trump's war on Venezuela

11:04 (CLIP) Regime change plans

11:24 Targeting US empire's adversaries

11:56 (CLIP) Machado's US first foreign policy

12:12 Donald Trump

12:25 (CLIP) Machado praises Donald Trump

12:45 Trump's coup attempts

14:06 (CLIP) "Biggest opportunity" for regime change

14:34 Marco Rubio: chief coup-plotter

15:06 Targeting Cuba & Nicaragua as well

15:57 (CLIP) US officials supporting Machado

17:03 Rubio lied about Cuban parents

17:54 Miami, Florida: coup capital

18:24 Elon Musk

19:15 (CLIP) Musk gave Starlink to Venezuelan opposition

19:33 Starlink: tool of US imperialism

20:08 Bitcoin & Trump's corrupt crypto schemes

21:39 BlackRock: world's biggest Bitcoin holder

23:11 (CLIP) Machado loves Bitcoin

23:40 Machado: US coup puppet

23:57 Outro

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado, a far-right Venezuelan coup-plotter who has long been funded by the US government. She strongly supports Israel as it commits genocide against the Palestinian people, and she is at the center of Donald Trump's war on Venezuela, pushing for regime change against President Nicolás Maduro. Ben Norton exposes the ugly truth.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks9uDtd7Msc

Topics

0:00 María Corina Machado: US-funded coup-plotter

0:45 Nobel "Peace" Prizes for US war criminals

1:44 Machado supports genocidal Israeli regime

2:38 Venezuela supports Palestine

3:04 Machado requested Israeli military intervention

3:46 UN experts: Israel is committing genocide

4:24 Trump's war on Venezuela

6:26 Machado wants to privatize Venezuela's oil

7:32 Trump's 2019 coup attempt in Venezuela

8:12 (CLIP) Trump wants Venezuela's oil

8:24 Trump backs Venezuelan opposition

9:09 (CLIP) Machado called & thanked Trump

9:34 US-backed coup attempt in 2002

10:16 Obama declared Venezuela a "threat"

10:49 US sanctions on Venezuela

11:43 Machado called for foreign intervention

12:06 (CLIP) Machado requests "international force"

12:38 Norwegian politician criticizes Nobel committee

14:14 Machado lobbies for more sanctions

15:04 Sanctions kill many Venezuelans

16:08 Sanctions cause millions of deaths

17:31 Marco Rubio lobbied Nobel committee

19:00 Machado met with George W Bush

20:10 US government funded Machado

21:52 National Endowment for Democracy (NED)

22:56 NED congratulates Machado

24:59 Nobel laureate Obama: war criminal

26:53 Nobel laureate Kissinger: war criminal

28:02 Nobel laureate Dalai Lama: CIA asset

29:29 Nobel "Peace" Prize for war

30:13 Outro

Leaders from dozens of countries condemned the USA and Israel in their speeches at the UN General Assembly, demanding international intervention to save Gaza. Diplomats staged a mass walkout to protest Netanyahu's speech. Ben Norton shows how Latin American governments are standing in solidarity with Palestine, and resisting US imperialism.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mik74Pri9bY

Topics

0:00 Countries condemn US & Israel

0:45 (CLIPS) World leaders support Gaza

1:54 UN diplomats protest Netanyahu in walkout

3:33 USA abuses veto at UN

4:49 Perspectives of non-Western countries

6:13 Latin America resists US imperialism

6:59 (CLIP) Cuba supports Palestine

8:03 USA vetos UN Gaza resolutions

9:02 (CLIP) Brazil's Lula on Gaza

9:30 Colombia demands action on Gaza

10:43 (CLIP) Colombian President Gustavo Petro

13:38 Nicaragua's Sandinista government

14:00 (CLIP) Nicaragua supports Palestine

14:33 (CLIP) Venezuela supports Palestine

14:58 US fascism

15:20 (CLIP) Petro: USA is new Nazi Germany

16:01 US revokes Petro's visa

17:02 Venezuela compares US to Nazi Germany

17:48 (CLIP) Venezuela warns of new Nazis

18:32 Western colonialism

18:56 (CLIP) Nicaragua: West looted our wealth

19:42 Decline of US unipolar order

20:09 (CLIP) Cuba on US imperialism

20:49 Wall Street debt traps

21:18 (CLIP) Debt as neocolonialism

21:31 Debt for climate swaps

22:38 (CLIP) Gustavo Petro on climate debt

23:17 Trump denies climate science

23:47 (CLIP) US politicians "don't believe in science"

24:00 Trump's attacks on Venezuela

24:40 (CLIP) History of US war on Venezuela

26:22 (CLIP) USA wants Venezuela's oil

26:45 Trump's WMD lies about Venezuela

27:54 (CLIP) Venezuela condemns US wars

28:43 Illegal US attacks on Venezuela

29:06 (CLIP) Cuba on threat of US war

30:07 (CLIP) Colonial Monroe Doctrine

30:40 (CLIP) Nicaragua denounces neocolonialism

31:56 Need for UN reform

33:22 (CLIP) UN members "no longer have power"

33:37 USA fuels war

34:02 (CLIP) Honduras on need for global reform

35:58 UN's colonial structure

36:40 (CLIP) Need for new international order

38:19 Multipolarity vs US unipolarity

40:38 (CLIP) Cuba's vision for a new world

41:17 (CLIP) Venezuela's vision for a new world

41:47 Voices silenced by Western media

42:25 Outro

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gathered top generals and encouraged the military to commit war crimes and ignore international law. Donald Trump ordered the Department of War to use US cities as "training grounds" to fight the "enemy within". Ben Norton reports on the increasingly authoritarian US empire.

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

Topics

0:00 (CLIP) Pete Hegseth message to US military

0:54 US Department of War takes mask off empire

1:31 US empire's wars come home

2:25 (CLIP) Trump threatens "enemy within" USA

3:00 Special event in Quantico, Virginia

3:21 (CLIP) "Era of Department of Defense is over"

4:07 (CLIP) "Strongest, most lethal military on planet"

4:21 War is peace

4:46 (CLIP) "Peace through strength"

5:31 Trump admin attacks "wokeness" & DEI

6:21 Missing the forest for the trees

7:06 (CLIP) Hegseth encourages war crimes

8:09 USA attacks international law

8:51 Pete Hegseth: Fox News pundit

10:25 (CLIP) Hegseth wants to "rewrite rules of war"

11:36 Hegseth's "American Crusade"

12:48 War with China

13:23 (CLIP) "We are preparing for war"

13:45 (CLIP) Targets: western hemisphere & China

14:07 Donald Trump's speech

14:30 US war on Venezuela

14:50 (CLIP) Trump threatens Venezuela

15:17 Colonial Monroe Doctrine

16:26 US seeks regime change in Venezuela

18:12 (CLIP) Trump wants Venezuela's oil

18:39 (CLIP) $1 trillion US military budget

19:09 (CLIP) Nobel Peace Prize for war

20:29 (CLIP) Trump boasts of NATO arms sales

22:11 US empire's wars

22:54 (CLIP) Department of Defense was "woke"

23:26 Conservative identity politics

23:41 USA: a country of war

24:21 Trump targets "enemy within"

25:17 (CLIP) "America is under invasion from within"

27:20 US authoritarian regime

28:01 (CLIP) US, British, & Roman empires

28:32 Outro

The US and China are the world's two most powerful countries, but they have very different visions for the global order. Compare the speeches delivered at the UN General Assembly by Donald Trump and Chinese Premier Li Qiang. The United States wants a unipolar system based on unilateralism, aggression, and hegemony, whereas China wants a multipolar system based on multilateralism, peaceful development, and sovereign equality, centered in the United Nations. Ben Norton explains.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzCf8XlrKKU

Topics

0:00 (CLIP) Highlights of Trump's speech

0:59 Rise of China

2:25 US empire in decline

3:02 Contrasting visions of world order

5:11 Unilateralism vs multilateralism

7:16 (CLIP) China's Premier Li Qiang

8:07 Geopolitical adult in the room

9:20 China opposes new cold war

10:08 (CLIP) Dangers of war

11:07 Compare Li Qiang to Trump

11:36 (CLIP) Trump: "we're the hottest country"

12:24 Fact-checking Trump on US economy

14:07 (CLIP) Trump on stock market

14:34 Inflation

15:35 Electricity prices

16:18 Job growth

16:54 Trump's approval rating

17:55 Trump claims to end 7 wars

18:48 (CLIP) Trump condemns UN

19:54 US sabotages UN, abusing veto

21:50 China upholds international law

22:26 (CLIP) China defends UN & Global South

23:19 Reform of international organizations

23:50 (CLIP) Global Governance Initiative

24:26 80th anniversary

25:30 (CLIP) China on World Anti-Fascist War

26:19 Trump wages war

26:55 (CLIP) Trump wants Nobel Peace Prize

27:14 Trump boasts of attacking Iran

27:40 (CLIP) Trump's war on Iran

28:25 Trump boasts of attacking Venezuela

28:55 (CLIP) Trump's war on Venezuela

29:37 Expanding NATO military spending

29:54 (CLIP) Trump on NATO

30:11 Immigration

31:05 Dementia

31:25 (CLIP) Trump attacks immigrants

32:31 China defends diversity

33:21 (CLIP) China on civilizational respect

33:42 Climate change

34:42 (CLIP) Trump lies about climate change

35:29 China's wind & solar power

36:28 China values science

37:52 (CLIP) China on climate change

38:10 Technology for development

38:31 (CLIP) China on technology

39:03 The future vs the past

39:42 Trump serves fossil fuel corporations

40:27 (CLIP) US as #1 oil & gas producer

41:20 China's vision vs USA's vision

42:37 The emperor has no clothes

43:38 Outro

Donald Trump wants to use tariffs to force countries to buy more US oil and natural gas. Instead, China and Russia signed a deal to build the massive Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, which could transform the global energy market. Russia is integrating with Asia, while Europe faces a crisis that is devastating its manufacturing sector. Political economist Ben Norton explains.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6wtK8Hrpl4

Topics

0:00 Close China-Russia relations

1:28 Power of Siberia 2 pipeline

3:23 Dedollarization

4:04 Europe boycotts Russian energy

5:28 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage

6:28 (CLIP) Trump on Nord Stream & US energy

7:06 Crisis in Europe

9:14 Russia integrates with Asia

10:13 Russia tried to join the West

11:03 NATO expansion

11:47 Ukraine coup & war

13:26 Russia's trade with China

14:16 De-dollarization

14:43 Trump's tariffs

17:01 Why Trump hit India with tariffs

18:22 (CLIP) Trump on US oil & gas

18:34 USA: #1 producer of oil & gas

19:17 Weaponizing energy

19:46 China's natural gas imports

22:11 China & Russia: long-term partnership

23:22 Colonial Monroe Doctrine & oil

25:02 China's oil imports

25:41 Trade chokepoints

27:04 Europe becomes US vassal

28:17 (CLIP) Trump boasts of imposing EU deal

28:55 EU imports of oil & gas

30:38 Deindustrialization of Europe

31:16 EU prosperity depended on China & Russia

31:50 (CLIP) Ex EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell

32:35 Germany's "existential" industrial crisis

34:15 China's car manufacturers & electric vehicles (EVs)

36:44 Europe loses out as Asian Century advances

37:40 Outro

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

This is part of the program Geopolitical Economy Hour. You can watch other episodes of the show here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP

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Michael's website: https://Michael-Hudson.com

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