Geopolitical Economy Report
Ben Norton
Geopolitical Economy Report is an independent news outlet that provides original journalism and analysis to understand the changing world.
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Sep 6, 2022 • 1h 11min
The undemocratic structure of the US state (with historian Aaron Good)
Historian Aaron Good discusses the undemocratic structure of the US state. Topics include the dual state concept, secret plans for nuclear war, influence of Dr. Strangelove, American exceptionalism, myth of checks and balances, role of Supreme Court, and US government structure.

Sep 5, 2022 • 26min
Biden, like Trump, breaks international law, violating UN neutrality by blocking countries
In a blatant violation of international law and its 1947 hosting agreement, the US government has blocked countries from participating in events at the UN headquarters in New York. The Biden administration is banning Russian diplomats, while the Trump admin illegally prohibited Venezuela and Iran.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WfjqzAY_mEc
SOURCES: https://multipolarista.com/2022/09/04/biden-trump-un-neutrality-visas

Sep 4, 2022 • 28min
West killed peace proposal to end Ukraine war, Russia supported negotiated settlement
Russia and Ukraine agreed to a negotiated settlement to end the conflict in April, but British Prime Minister Boris Johnson intervened to stop the peace deal, and the US and EU escalated the proxy war to try to weaken Moscow.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LpJMqs1yG1A
SOURCES: https://multipolarista.com/2022/09/03/west-peace-proposal-ukraine-russia

Sep 2, 2022 • 59min
South Koreans protest US military drills simulating war with North
South Koreans held huge protests against the US military and its largest joint war exercises in years, simulating attacks on the DPRK (North Korea) and the assassination of its leader.
We are joined by activists from the peace groups Women Cross DMZ and Korea Peace Now to discuss the mass movement against US militarization and imperialism.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lqocug-NGRs
You can support their work at https://koreapeacenow.org
You can get involved at https://koreapeacenow.org

Aug 30, 2022 • 28min
US sends Ukraine $228 million per day in military aid to wage proxy war on Russia
The Joe Biden administration pledged Ukraine $39.87 billion in military aid between February and August 2022, for an average of $228 million per day, fueling a brutal proxy war causing tens of thousands of deaths.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sGQFTwvHM_4
SOURCES: https://multipolarista.com/2022/08/30/us-ukraine-military-aid-proxy
Credit to researcher Stephen Semler: https://stephensemler.substack.com/p/how-much-military-aid-has-biden-sent
CIA and Western special ops commandos are in Ukraine, directing proxy war on Russia: https://multipolarista.com/2022/06/26/cia-special-ops-ukraine-proxy-war-russia

Aug 29, 2022 • 41min
US pushing war on China: Malaysia's ex PM explains imperialism's roots in capitalism
Malaysia’s longest-serving Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad warned that the US is trying to start a war with China over Taiwan. He also explained how imperialism is rooted in capitalism and detailed its economic exploitation of the Global South.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1xUV4qT97TI
SOURCES: https://multipolarista.com/2022/08/29/war-china-malaysia-imperialism-capitalism

Aug 27, 2022 • 45min
West's neoliberal 'age of abundance' is over, as war and sanctions boomerang home
France’s President Emmanuel Macron, a former banker, warned "we are living the end of what could have seemed an era of abundance." Western wars and sanctions are boomeranging back at home. The neoliberal phase of capitalism is collapsing.
Neoliberalism has lost the key pillars it was built on: cheap energy and raw materials from Russia, cheap labor and consumer goods from China, an unsustainable bubble of household debt, low to zero interest rates, and Washington's ability to organize regime-change operations in any country where a government tried a socialistic or state-led economic model.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dw84vwYS8YE
SOURCES: https://multipolarista.com/2022/08/27/west-end-neoliberalism-abundance

Aug 25, 2022 • 1h
Pakistan's Western-backed coup regime hits PM Imran Khan with 'terrorism' charges to silence dissent
Pakistan's elected Prime Minister Imran Khan was overthrown in a US-backed regime-change operation due to his independent foreign policy. Now the coup regime has charged him with "terrorism." Pakistani scholar Junaid S. Ahmad discusses the desperate attempt to crush the mass movement and protests that Khan has led.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=g9IzwCAYbZY
Our previous interview with Junaid: https://multipolarista.com/2022/04/13/us-coup-pakistan-imran-khan-foreign-policy
Read Junaid's article warning about the coup: https://multipolarista.com/2022/03/31/pakistan-foreign-regime-change-china-russia

Aug 24, 2022 • 18min
CIA intimidated Britain to force 'ally' to cut ties with China's Huawei
The Donald Trump White House and CIA ran "black ops" to intimate close US "ally" Britain to cut all ties with China's tech giant Huawei, hurting the UK's own economic interests in order to advance Washington's trade war on Beijing.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QwL1V93xXm0
Read more at https://multipolarista.com/2022/08/24/cia-britain-china-huawei

Aug 22, 2022 • 27min
China forgives 23 loans for 17 African countries - debunking 'debt trap' myth
China is forgiving 23 interest-free loans for 17 African countries, after already cancelling $3.4 billion and restructuring $15 billion of debt from 2000-2019. This debunks the US government's propaganda myth of supposed Chinese "debt-trap diplomacy."
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AMTVoZKrCPo
Read more here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/08/20/china-forgives-debt-africa
Report on disinformation blaming China for debt crisis in Sri Lanka: https://multipolarista.com/2022/07/11/debt-trap-sri-lanka-west-china


