Geopolitical Economy Report

While claiming to fight a "war on drugs," US intelligence agencies have used drug trafficking to fund their dirty covert operations. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents were caught taking massive bribes to give sensitive information to Colombian cartels. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6XCDGCgvPYo

Economist John Ross analyzes China's economic model, refuting claims of neoliberalism and highlighting its success in poverty alleviation. He compares the Chinese model to western capitalism, debunking the Asian tigers' success as solely neoliberal. The chapter also discusses ideological diversity within the Communist Party of China and the US economic war against China.

Multipolarista host Benjamin Norton and journalist Robbie Martin discuss how neoconservative US imperialists like Fox News host Tucker Carlson (a CIA applicant) and Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis cynically tried to rebrand as "right-wing populists," while pushing war on China, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, and Palestine. These bogus "populists" portrayed Donald Trump as an "anti-war" president, while he killed top Iranian and Iraqi officials, imposed suffocating sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela, waged a hybrid war on China, bombed the hell out of Afghanistan, expanded the war on Yemen, strongly supported apartheid Israel and Saudi Arabia, militarily occupied Syria and Iraq to take their oil, and tore up arms control agreements with Russia. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_QHoW8Vf8wg Follow Robbie on Twitter at https://twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

Economist Michael Hudson discusses the decline of the US dollar, sanctions war with Russia, free-trade imperialism, and financial parasitism in this intriguing episode. Topics include the impact of finance capitalism, neoliberalism, the new Cold War, resilience of the Russian Ruble, Germany's gold reserves, and the decline of US dollar hegemony.

Benjamin Norton discusses the historic announcement by Brazil’s left-wing leader Lula da Silva that, if he wins the October 2022 presidential elections, “we are going to create a currency in Latin America,” called the Sur (“South”), to combat “the dependency on the dollar.” Read more here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/05/04/brazil-lula-latin-america-currency-us-dollar VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bRTr8o8EYiE

Journalist Asa Winstanley joins the host to discuss Operation Gladio, the NATO 'stay behind' networks that recruited former Nazis and right-wing terrorists. They explore the origins of Gladio, its connection to the CIA and MI6, and its role in manipulating political events. They also delve into the deep state's co-optation by right-wing Trumpist individuals and the normalization of Nazism in Europe. Additionally, they discuss US intelligence services supporting right-wing terrorism in Italy and the impact of social media on social manipulation.

Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton is joined by Mexican professor and activist Renata Turrent to discuss how the progressive government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) nationalized Mexico's lithium, an important resource needed to create electronic technologies, while also reversing privatization of oil by corrupt past neoliberal governments. (This was originally published on April 29, 2022.) VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-xmfX3fb7SQ

Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton is joined by journalist Abraham Marquez to discuss how the Joe Biden administration has continued many of Donald Trump’s brutal anti-immigrant policies, giving $284.7 million more to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and expanding detention centers, while turning away refugees of US wars and weaponizing displaced Ukrainians. (This was originally published on April 23, 2022.) VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zSQ4gEb_fiY

Benjamin Norton continues his discussion with Pakistani scholar Junaid S. Ahmad about Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan, his history, and how he challenged the two-party system that dominated the country for decades until being overthrown in a US-backed soft coup this April. Part 2 of 2 (This was originally published on April 14, 2022.) VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=prtjx1_hMAM

Benjamin Norton is joined by Pakistani scholar Junaid S. Ahmad to discuss how Pakistan's elected Prime Minister Imran Khan was overthrown in a US-backed coup aimed at reversing his independent foreign policy – like his close alliance with China, improved relations with Russia and Iran, and staunch support for Palestine. PART 1 OF 2 (This was first published on April 12, 2022.) VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XGh-aO2Xuic