Geopolitical Economy Report

US President Joe Biden visited Saudi Arabia not only to discuss oil but also to pressure Riyadh to cut ties with China and Russia. This comes after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) killed key CIA ally Jamal Khashoggi and purged rivals in the royal family who were most loyal to Washington. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yf1raQ4FBt8 SOURCES: https://multipolarista.com/2022/07/17/biden-saudi-china-russia-cia-mbs

Donald Trump's neoconservative US National Security Advisor John Bolton admitted he “helped plan coups d’etat” in Venezuela and “other places,” in a CNN interview. Benjamin Norton analyzes Bolton's book "The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir," which details the US hybrid war on Venezuela. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tzoJ_UVBV7w Read more here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/07/12/trump-john-bolton-coups-venezuela

Sri Lanka owes 81% of its external debt to US and European financial institutions and Western allies Japan and India. China owns just 10%. But Washington blames imaginary “Chinese debt traps” for the nation’s crisis, as it considers a 17th IMF structural adjustment program. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=U52tT5hgtSk SOURCES here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/07/11/debt-trap-sri-lanka-west-china

Japan's longest serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe tried to rewrite the genocidal history of the fascist Japanese empire. And he and his Nazi-collaborating grandfather enjoyed staunch Western support. After World War II, the US government pardoned and recruited many of the fascists who had led imperial Japan, like Abe's grandfather Nobusuke Kishi, putting in power war criminals who had committed genocide in China, Korea, and Southeast Asia, carrying out biological warfare, human experimentation, and mass sexual slavery. Benjamin Norton discusses how Japan's political system still today is a one-party right-wing regime run by descendants of these fascist war criminals. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5WWJ3EOmPkY SOURCES: https://multipolarista.com/2022/07/09/fascism-japan-shinzo-abe-empire

While condemning China and Russia as “threats” to “democracy,” British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss refused to admit that Saudi Arabia is authoritarian, declined to condemn the monarchy’s execution of 81 people in one day, and would not acknowledge a single human rights abuse. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZX3ZEt4SahM Read more at https://multipolarista.com/2022/07/06/liz-truss-uk-saudi-arabia-authoritarian

CNBC pundit Jim Cramer called for “cyber terrorism” against Russia and a “blank check” for US weapons corporations – including the same companies he encourages his viewers to invest in. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VYthL0qmoi8 Read more at https://multipolarista.com/2022/07/05/cnbc-jim-cramer-cyber-terrorism-russia

Neoconservative ex CIA Director and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo admitted NATO seeks to prevent a “Russian-Chinese axis” and “pan-Eurasian colossus.” Benjamin Norton analyzes a speech in which Pompeo outlines Washington’s imperial strategy in the new cold war, to maintain “economic hegemony” and control over fossil fuels and other resources. Read more at https://multipolarista.com/2022/06/30/nato-eurasia-us-hegemony-mike-pompeo

The US government’s Helsinki Commission held a Congressional briefing plotting ways to break up Russia as a country, in the name of supposed “decolonization.” VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LfWYtRMbMnk Read more at https://multipolarista.com/2022/06/23/us-government-decolonize-russia

The US organized a meeting with top military officials from apartheid Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt, the UAE, and Bahrain to conspire against Iran, as Jordan’s king calls for a “Middle East NATO.” VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=siPtgYa-Efo Read more at https://multipolarista.com/2022/06/27/israel-saudi-arabia-qatar-uae-iran

Economist Michael Hudson explains the inflation crisis and the US Federal Reserve's austerity program to reduce wages. The discussion explores the impact on different socio-economic groups and the role of the oil industry, agricultural monopolies, and military-industrial complex. It also compares central bank policies and economic systems, highlighting China's approach. A discussion on the recent G7 Summit, the proposal of an excess profits tax, and the US government's pressure on African nations is included.