Geopolitical Economy Report

Why are executives of AI companies, like Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, suddenly warning that artificial intelligence poses an "existential risk" to humanity? And why did Donald Trump invite Big Tech billionaire oligarchs to the White House for a "morally binding" agreement to "self-regulate"?

There are more and more signs that the AI bubble is getting dangerously large, and could pop soon. Corporate insiders want to cash out before it's too late -- and the US government is helping them. Ben Norton explains.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsFHQ81nMHk

Topics

0:00 Does AI pose existential risk?

1:42 Trump meeting with Big Tech CEOs

3:19 AI is in biggest bubble in history

4:09 IPOs of Anthropic and OpenAI

5:28 China is now leading in AI

6:53 Silicon Valley wants to ban Chinese AI

8:30 Trump warns of AI race with China

9:09 Data centers push up electricity price

10:01 Anthropic is losing tons of money

10:57 OpenAI has huge losses

11:34 Only 2% of US households pay for AI

12:34 AI industry delusion: 9% of GDP

13:45 AI bubble is largest ever

14:29 US economy in recession, excluding AI

15:16 Circular financing of AI companies

16:27 Hyperscaler capex exceeds $1 trillion

17:25 Debt of AI companies is growing

17:59 US bond yields rise rapidly

19:00 AI companies taking on more debt

20:29 Michael Burry warns bubble may pop

21:38 US stock market concentration

24:13 Buffett Indicator: 235% of GDP

25:07 Anthropic's cynical marketing

26:06 Largest IPOs in history

27:47 SpaceX stock crashed after IPO

28:31 US government denies bubble

The CIA has organized coups d'etat in countries around the world. But this is not just history; it still happens today. US ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle, a top ally of Donald Trump (and former fiancée of his son), threatened a Greek minister by pointing to the collapse of Romania's government and saying, “We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here”. Her remarks recalled a comment from oligarch Elon Musk, who declared, "We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it". Ben Norton analyzes US imperialism.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW24Pp__UTA

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0:00 US interventions and coups

1:39 US ambassador threatens Greece

4:56 Collapse of Romanian government

5:52 US-backed coup in Greece in 1967

6:48 Europe becomes US vassal

7:43 EU surrenders to Trump on trade

9:10 Trump demands EU buy US gas

10:26 Vertical gas corridor to Ukraine

11:48 EU imports of US LNG

12:40 Corruption and imperialism

14:13 Elon Musk vows more coups

15:43 US-backed coup in Bolivia in 2019

16:36 CIA coup in Chile in 1973

17:05 CIA coup in Guatemala in 1954

17:47 US coups in Brazil and Argentina

18:48 US coups in Venezuela

20:05 (CLIP) John Bolton boasts of coups

21:14 US coup in Honduras

22:13 Coup against Pakistan's Imran Khan

22:52 US blockade of Cuba

23:39 Global imperialist dictatorship

Donald Trump has been a China hawk for years, and he waged a brutal trade war against the country. So why did the US leader invite Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington, DC for a summit? The White House dinner, featuring the CEOs of top corporations, helps explain why. Ben Norton analyzes the complex state of US-China relations following Trump's failed trade war.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueqdJ8vjInE

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0:00 Xi Jinping visits USA

1:20 Cold War Two

2:07 Cold War One history

3:16 USA sees China as threat

4:48 Trump's trade war backfired

6:02 US-China economic integration

7:10 Trump's tariffs hurt manufacturing

8:05 Rare earths and critical minerals

9:52 Strategic stability meaning

11:26 Trump-Xi summit in Washington

12:16 Corporate CEOs attend dinner

15:53 Scott Bessent met at JPMorgan

16:33 China: largest consumer market

17:47 Trump's trip to Beijing

19:26 US corporations want market access

19:51 Windows loses market share

20:34 Apple faces restrictions in China

21:44 Tesla makes most cars in Shanghai

22:12 Google kicked out of China

22:43 Meta wants access to Chinese market

23:54 AI arms race

25:17 Trump: "Whoever wins AI, wins!"

26:31 Silicon Valley demonizes China

27:08 China's open-source AI models

28:26 Chip war

30:35 US attacks blow back

31:57 New cold war continues

Gasoline prices are skyrocketing, breaking records, after the US war against Iran caused the biggest oil supply disruption in history. Ben Norton explains the geopolitical and economic reasons for the energy crisis, including the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and disruption of the Bab al-Mandab Strait, sabotage of the Saudi East-West Pipeline, Ukraine's attacks on Russian refineries and diesel storage depots, China's reduction of crude imports and renewable energy policies, and falling global oil reserves.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTSgA8qwIZ8

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0:00 Largest oil crisis in history

1:30 Price of gasoline skyrockets

2:03 Diesel prices break records

3:07 US midterm election approaches

3:59 Inflation and Donald Trump

5:09 Fed raises interest rates

5:49 US bond market problems

7:13 Trump is unpopular, and desperate

8:19 Saudi oil pipeline attacked

10:59 Bab al-Mandab Strait

11:34 US-Saudi war on Yemen backfires

13:59 US deal with Houthis (Ansarallah)

14:45 Crisis in Saudi Arabia

16:11 Ukraine hits Russian oil facilities

17:37 China reduces crude oil imports

18:56 Chinese electric vehicles (EVs)

19:41 China's solar and wind power

20:33 China increases oil imports

21:39 Global oil reserves running low

22:27 US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR)

23:23 Energy crisis will get worse

25:09 Outro

The USA uses the dollar as a weapon to control countries, by imposing sanctions; cutting governments, banks, and companies out of the US-dominated financial system; and taking over the oil revenue of nations like Iraq and Venezuela. Ben Norton explains how US financial colonialism works.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkza5cRBuG4

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0:00 US empire

1:16 CIA-backed coups

1:42 US sanctions one-third of world

2:23 Why sanctions are so destructive

4:23 US financial attacks blow back

4:49 BRICS seeks alternatives

5:56 Petrodollar system in crisis

7:02 How USA controls Iraq's oil revenue

10:26 USA threatens Iraq over Iran

12:12 Economic difficulties for Iraqis

13:34 US colonial scheme in Venezuela

14:39 China, world's biggest oil importer

15:18 Iraqi plans to sell oil in yuan

17:07 US attacks China-built schools

18:34 Trump attack on Iraq in 2020

20:08 US military occupation of Iraq

21:00 Iran attacks US military bases

21:49 Petrodollar system is breaking

25:30 US bond market problems

27:15 Iran war fuels inflation

27:50 US aggression is backfiring

29:16 Outro

Trump's attacks on BRICS have backfired, forcing China, India, and Russia closer together. The Global South-led organization held a summit in New Delhi, where leaders discussed plans to challenge the US dollar system, by connecting new payment systems using local currencies. Ben Norton explains.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feQmxuMB2xw

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0:00 Rise of BRICS

1:04 BRICS summit in New Delhi

2:52 China and India improve relations

5:10 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)

7:28 BRICS challenges US dollar system

9:32 Local currency payment systems

14:13 Debates about replacing US dollar

16:19 Central banks stockpile gold

17:43 Gold overtakes US Treasuries in reserves

18:40 Trump threatens BRICS

19:10 Trump's aggression against India

20:29 US strategy to recruit India against China

23:28 Modi, BJP, and Congress

25:41 US attacks on BRICS backfire

27:18 India-Russia relations

29:40 BRICS+: 10 members and 10 partners

30:28 BRICS: 56% of world population

30:51 BRICS: 44% of global GDP

31:56 BRICS overtakes G7 in economy

33:21 Indonesia's PM Prabowo

33:55 Ethiopia's PM Abiy Ahmed

34:35 Vietnam participates in BRICS summit

35:52 Malaysia's PM Anwar supports Iran

37:20 India balances between Iran and Israel

38:27 Internal conflict: UAE attacks Iran

39:43 BRICS agrees to joint statement

40:46 Reform of UN Security Council

42:32 US unilateralism strengthens BRICS

43:12 Outro

More and more US politicians are promoting crypto rug pull scams targeting their own supporters. Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, created a meme coin called the Laptop token, the price of which crashed by 99% an hour after launching. Donald Trump and his wife Melania also launched meme coins that immediately imploded, with fans losing their money while insiders cashed out. Ben Norton explains the extreme corruption in the United States, which is spreading to other countries like Argentina.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCf0Kd7w57g

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0:00 US financial schemes

1:11 Hunter Biden's Laptop meme coin

2:26 Hunter Biden's excuses

3:57 Extreme hypocrisy

5:20 Cynical US politics

6:37 Trump meme coin rug pull

7:15 Melania meme coin rug pull

7:46 Trump family makes billions on crypto

8:31 Impunity for US politicians

9:03 NYC Token of ex Mayor Eric Adams

9:46 Javier Milei promotes Libra token scam

10:54 Argentina's political scandal

12:14 Blatant corruption in Washington

14:07 Trump tries to buy midterm elections

15:08 Insider trading in US Congress

16:54 China imprisons corrupt billionaires

18:40 Rule of law: China vs USA

The United States votes against the entire world in a United Nations General Assembly resolution that called for the UN to adopt a more accurate Equal Earth world map, replacing the colonial-era Mercator projection (of year 1569), which distorts the size of the West, making it look much larger, while Africa appears small. Ben Norton explains how the US empire opposes decolonization and is trying to revive colonialism.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJBb87BUP4M

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0:00 US is a rogue state

0:43 UN vote: 164 to 1 (USA)

1:15 More accurate world map

1:39 Mercator projection

2:34 True size of Africa

3:26 African proposal

3:48 How countries voted at UN

4:21 Ukraine opposes Global South

4:59 US calls it "radical ideology"

5:53 USA is NOT center of universe

6:55 US rewrites history

7:51 Imperialist McKinley

8:55 Trump vows to expand US empire

9:04 (CLIP) Trump: 'enlarge' US territory

9:55 Trump threatens to annex neighbors

11:17 US empire revives colonialism

11:57 Donroe Doctrine

13:56 USA wants to reverse decolonization

14:54 (CLIP) Marco Rubio colonialist speech

16:19 It's not just about a world map

17:34 Outro

Liberal feminist icon Gloria Steinem, a close ally of warmonger Hillary Clinton, has passed away at age 92. What many people don't know is that she was a CIA agent. Ben Norton explains how the CIA has cultivated a pro-imperialist, anti-communist "compatible left", who spread propaganda portraying the US empire as a "progressive" force, while the USA oppresses the Global South, waging nonstop wars and organizing countless coups d'etat.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQCeMM9fOK8

Topics

0:00 Gloria Steinem, CIA agent

1:42 Hillary Clinton, warmonger

2:57 US-NATO war brought slavery to Libya

3:44 Imperialist 'feminism'

4:38 Steinem's work for the CIA

6:18 CIA's 'compatible left'

8:18 (CLIP) Steinem admits to CIA work

9:37 CIA coup in Iran

10:46 CIA coup in Guatemala

12:08 CIA meddling in foreign elections

12:26 CIA interfered in Italy's 1948 elections

13:41 US empire opposes real democracy

14:31 US-backed atrocities in Indonesia

17:45 Imperialist feminists for war

19:02 US wars cause millions of deaths

20:42 US interventions

21:31 Congress for Cultural Freedom

22:52 Propaganda on 'totalitarianism'

23:17 Soviet Union defeated Nazi Germany

25:02 CIA supported Hannah Arendt

27:58 CIA funded anti-communist intellectuals

30:48 'Democracy vs autocracy' narrative

33:24 AOC's liberal imperialism

34:49 US empire's true face

36:22 Outro

Poll after poll shows that the world increasingly prefers China over the United States. So why are people in so many countries, especially the youth, "Chinamaxxing"? Ben Norton explains how China has developed a new political, economic, and technological model; promoted a non-interventionist foreign policy, which supports the sovereignty of the Global South; and built a socialist market economy, which offers an alternative to the neoliberal capitalism imposed by the West.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYgRMgKtup0

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0:00 Polls show China more popular than USA

0:54 Global South prefers China

2:31 Global South tired of US interventions

4:21 Even Europe now prefers China

5:41 Younger people prefer China

6:17 Why China is more popular

6:47 Multipolarity vs US-led unipolarity

7:11 Media propaganda on "Chinamaxxing"

8:12 Media attacks Hasan Piker

9:06 Why are people "Chinamaxxing"?

9:35 War on Iran

10:36 US empire's war on international law

12:23 China's alternative vision for world

12:57 US vs China: imperialism vs multipolarity

13:31 (CLIP) Marco Rubio praises colonialism

15:11 (CLIP) Wang Yi promotes multilateralism

16:26 Foreign policy: China vs USA

17:32 Why young people like China

19:27 US political-economic system in crisis

20:17 Increasing interest in socialism

22:10 China's poverty reduction

24:36 Alternative to neoliberal capitalism

26:09 China's socialist market economy

27:37 Public ownership in China

28:40 State-owned enterprises (SOEs)

29:15 Perspective on socialism: USA vs China

31:13 Capitalist propaganda

32:27 China's peaceful alternative

33:03 China's technological progress

34:45 Global Governance Initiative

37:08 Growth of new multipolar world order

38:19 Why China is increasingly popular

39:11 Outro