Geopolitical Economy Report

Historian Aaron Good discusses different theories of imperialism and hegemony in relation to the US empire. Topics include regional hegemony, theories of imperialism from Lenin, Helferding, Hobson, and Schumpeter, exploitation and underdevelopment in India, impacts of imperialism on self-sufficient economies, the Alba trade group in Latin America, and political mentors of John Bolton.

Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton responds to smears from a neoconservative think tank funded by Western governments and corporations, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), which attacked him over his factual journalism reporting on NATO support for far-right extremists in Ukraine. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cHPKpUJBfZ4 Read the Multipolarista article being attacked: https://multipolarista.com/2022/03/10/nato-arming-training-nazis-ukraine-azov This is a clip from the Unauthorized Disclosure podcast hosted by Kevin Gosztola and Rania Khalek. Support Unauthorized Disclosure here: https://thedissenter.org/unauthorized-disclosure-podcast

Biden's top Latin America advisor Juan González threateningly said of Colombia's new left-wing president: "40 years ago, the United States would have done everything possible to prevent the election of Gustavo Petro, and once in power it would have done almost everything possible to sabotage his government." VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pVQy88AzQ5A Read more at https://multipolarista.com/2022/08/17/biden-colombia-petro-coup

After dropping two atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945, top US government officials lied to the media and Congress, claiming there was "no radioactive residue" in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that Japanese reports of deaths due to radiation were "propaganda," that civilians did not face "undue suffering," and that it was "a very pleasant way to die." VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Cu4KnCPjwys Report on US-backed fascism in Japan and Shinzo Abe: https://multipolarista.com/2022/07/09/fascism-japan-shinzo-abe-empire

The US military spends more than the next 9 biggest countries combined. The expected 2023 Pentagon budget is $840 billion. Donald Trump and Joe Biden have spent $220 billion more than even cold warrior Ronald Reagan. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=h0BZso9Yb30 Research by Stephen Semler at https://stephensemler.substack.com

Under Ukrainian government pressure, CBS News censored its own documentary “Arming Ukraine,” which showed that just around 30% of the weapons Western governments have sent actually go to the frontlines, with widespread corruption and black markets. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4MQNjmbDadg Read more here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/08/10/cbs-censors-report-ukraine-weapons-corruption

Silicon Valley Big Tech corporations, which are all US government contractors, censor Russian media while allowing Australian state outlets to spread anti-China propaganda without even a label. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YHUctJi2EWw Read more at https://multipolarista.com/2022/08/10/big-tech-state-media/

Analyzing the geopolitical crisis, Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega said the US war on China and Russia is an attack on the new world of “multipolarism,” because “North American imperialism is trying to maintain its hegemony at all costs, even at the risk of sinking its own economy.” VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lkPyT8fDymk Read more here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/08/05/us-war-china-russia-multipolar-world-nicaragua-ortega

The US government has been preparing for war with China over Taiwan. The extremely provocative trip by top official Nancy Pelosi was only the latest development in years of US escalation. The Pentagon has made plans for war with China, top CIA officials openly call for fighting Beijing, and US troops are on the ground in Taipei. Washington has sold Taiwan tens of billions of dollars worth of military equipment, and influential DC think tanks are even calling to send it nuclear weapons. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hUjHZ5z8W90 SOURCES: https://multipolarista.com/2022/08/02/us-war-china-taiwan-nuclear

Historian Aaron Good discusses the deep state and the history of the US empire pre-WWII. They explore topics such as American exceptionalism, the origins of the American deep political system, the expansion of the US empire into China, the Spanish-American war and yellow journalism, and the historical context of the US empire and deep state. They also mention upcoming episodes on topics like Bretton Woods, the Korean War, and Vietnam.