Trump frees one of world's worst drug traffickers - while meddling in foreign elections
Donald Trump pardoned and freed from prison one of the world's worst drug dealers, the former dictator of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH), who was convicted of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine and machine guns into the US. Ben Norton explains how the United States has meddled in Honduran elections, backed fraud, and supported a military coup.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtKShReciYQ
Topics
0:00 Trump pardons notorious drug trafficker
2:16 US support for Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH)
2:59 Trump threatens war on Venezuela
5:45 Journalist addresses Trump's drug hypocrisy
7:04 (CLIP) Trump blames Biden for drug arrest
7:36 USA backed Honduran narco-regime
8:01 Coup in Honduras in 2009
9:04 Stolen elections of 2013 & 2017
10:33 Trump meddles in Honduras' 2025 election
14:13 Libre Party alleges fraud
14:59 Result transmission system changes votes
15:26 President Xiomara Castro warned of coup plot
17:03 No official winner declared in election
19:16 Very suspicious results
21:15 US-backed coups and fraud
21:54 US coups in Latin America
22:30 Honduras resists US imperialism
24:54 Outro
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Palantir executives sell their shares as the stock crashes - but they smear critics as 'crazy'
The most overvalued stock on Earth may be that of Palantir, the corporate Big Brother that is getting huge contracts from the Trump administration and helps the US government wage war and carry out mass surveillance. Executives have been selling billions of dollars worth of shares, yet CEO Alex Karp attacks short-sellers like "Big Short" investor Michael Burry, claiming they're "crazy" for thinking the company is in a bubble. Ben Norton explains.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_OuoAFp54Y
Topics
0:00 Financial bubbles
0:31 AI bubble
1:01 Palantir
1:35 Investors short Palantir stock
1:58 (CLIP) CEO Alex Karp attacks short sellers
2:10 Targeting retail investors
2:23 (CLIP) CEO Alex Karp is "triggered"
3:13 Palantir executives sell shares
4:58 Financialized US economy
5:27 Trump admin contracts with Palantir
5:57 Mass surveillance
6:28 Preparing for war on China, Russia, Iran
6:54 Most revenue is from governments
7:32 Palantir stock price
8:20 Insane price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio
10:28 Is the bubble popping?
10:45 Michael Burry: "Big Short" investor
11:14 US housing bubble & financial crisis
12:11 Michael Burry shorts Palantir
12:31 (CLIP) Alex Karp: short sellers are "crazy"
12:40 CEO Alex Karp's emotional rant
13:01 (CLIP) Attacks "wokeness" & Zohran Mamdani
13:27 "Anti-woke" CEO is "triggered"
13:45 (CLIP) Alex Karp: why do they pick on us?
14:12 Delusions of grandeur
14:26 (CLIP) "Most important software company"
15:03 War on the short sellers
15:22 (CLIP) Alex Karp: "make them poorer"
15:41 Palantir executives sell their shares
16:28 Alex Karp sold $96 million
16:40 Shyam Sankar sold $37 million
17:32 Stephen Cohen sold $66 million
17:59 David Glazer sold $4 million
18:18 Ryan Taylor sold $4 million
18:33 Palantir execs keep selling shares
19:17 Alex Karp sold $1.9 billion in shares
20:04 Telling retail to invest in Palantir
20:49 (CLIP) "Experts vs retail"
21:27 Cynical exploitation
22:28 Outro
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AI bubble madness: Why Nvidia's market cap fell $600,000,000,000 in ONE DAY
The US economy depends on an unsustainable stock market bubble driven by AI companies that are almost all losing money. Nvidia seems healthier, but serious red flags explain why its stock price is extremely volatile, and why its market capitalization dropped $600 billion in just one day. Ben Norton explains.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAZqYQBwWNY
Topics
0:00 AI bubble & Nvidia
2:40 Magnificent Seven (Mag7) Big Tech stocks
4:01 US GDP growth depends on AI capex
5:01 AI circular financing scheme
6:28 OpenAI is losing money, but owes $1.4 trillion
7:38 Nvidia profits rise in earnings report
9:27 US investor madness
12:04 China challenges Nvidia's chip monopoly
13:43 Crazy volatility in Nvidia stock
15:08 CEO Jensen Huang's private comments
17:11 $600 billion drop in one day
18:13 Four customers make up 61% of Nvidia revenue
20:25 IOUs: Nvidia's accounts receivable rises
21:43 GPU demand? Nvidia inventories surge
22:37 S&P 500 falls $2 trillion in 5 hours
24:12 US economy built on financial house of cards
26:13 Markets can remain irrational...
27:01 Dangers of a recession or depression
28:13 Outro
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Exposed: The US-Israeli plan to colonize Gaza
Donald Trump vowed to "take over" and "own" Gaza. The US government plans to divide the Palestinian territory into a "green zone" run by Western allies, while trapping Gazans in a "red zone", which won't be rebuilt. The USA hopes investors will make hundreds of billions of dollars. Ben Norton reports on the colonial scheme.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW3wX4bVoU4
Topics
0:00 Colonial US-Israeli plan for Gaza
1:29 Israel's fake Gaza "ceasefire"
4:27 Trump vows to "take over" Gaza
4:49 (CLIP) Trump: USA will "own" Gaza
5:04 Plan to divide Gaza
6:00 Map of Gaza divisions
6:50 European troops will occupy Gaza
8:04 "Green Zone" in Iraq War
9:38 Leaked blueprint for Gaza
10:38 Benjamin Netanyahu
11:34 Colonial plan for Gaza
12:32 IMEC: India-Middle East-Europe Corridor
13:07 China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
14:21 Gaza plan
14:54 "Investment" in Gaza
16:05 Colonialism
16:29 Geopolitical strategy
17:33 US vision of West Asia (Middle East)
18:18 Trump Gaza Riviera & Elon Musk zone
19:02 Corporations exploit low-paid Palestinian workers
19:57 Gaza's offshore natural gas fields
20:43 Colonial-style land leases
22:27 Tokenization scheme
23:07 "Voluntary relocation" of Palestinians
25:22 Jared Kushner is US "mediator" with Israel
26:10 (CLIP) Kushner on Gaza "waterfront property"
26:22 Western colonialism in Palestine
28:04 Outro
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This is Trump's plan to steal Venezuela's oil
Donald Trump admitted he wants to “take over” Venezuela and its oil. Marco Rubio is overseeing the war plans, aiming to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro and install US puppet María Corina Machado, who vowed to privatize Venezuela's natural resources and sell off $1.7 trillion of her country's assets to North American corporations. Ben Norton explains.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QukbgnkuPVY
Topics
0:00 US war on Venezuela
1:16 (CLIP) Trump wants to take Venezuela's oil
1:28 Venezuela has world's largest oil reserves
1:37 US coup attempt with Juan Guaidó
2:08 US support for dictatorships in Latin America
2:36 Venezuela has critical minerals, like rare earths
2:59 Colonialist Monroe Doctrine
3:31 Psychological war
3:58 (CLIP) Trump: Maduro's "days are numbered"
4:54 US war plans
6:15 "Cartel of the Sons" does NOT exist
7:44 Marco Rubio: war planner
8:20 US military buildup in Caribbean
9:26 CIA operations in Venezuela
10:18 Three options in US war plans
11:36 Chevron wants Venezuela's oil
12:26 Imperialist "Americas First" policy
14:11 War on Terror plus War on Drugs
14:44 Polls: North Americans oppose Trump's war
16:03 US government is an oligarchy
16:30 Coup leader: María Corina Machado
18:01 Nobel "Peace" Prize for US wars
19:17 Machado wants to privatize Venezuela's oil
19:44 (CLIP) Machado: US companies will profit
20:38 Machado speaks alongside Donald Trump
21:24 Miami Mayor Francis Suarez
22:01 (CLIP) Miami mayor praises María Corina Machado
22:13 US government supports Machado
22:49 (CLIP) Machado thanks US officials for support
23:41 Machado offers to sell $1.7 trillion in assets
24:22 (CLIP) Machado's "massive privatization program"
25:35 Machado's USA-first foreign policy
26:02 (CLIP) Machado attacks China, Russia, Iran
27:59 Next targets of US empire: Cuba & Nicaragua
28:40 (CLIP) Threatening regime change in Cuba & Nicaragua
29:18 Machado's Bloomberg interview
29:40 (CLIP) Machado vows to sell off natural resources
30:21 Privatizations create oligarchies
31:12 (CLIP) Machado: Make oligarchy great again
31:50 US-Venezuelan oligarch Vanessa Neumann
32:49 Obscene wealth of Venezuelan oligarchs
35:32 Thor Halvorssen: Venezuelan oligarch family
36:21 Leopoldo López: Venezuelan oligarch
37:04 Venezuelan oligarchs: corrupt tools of US empire
38:02 María Corina Machado conspires with USA
38:44 (CLIP) Machado admits US gov't support
39:53 Pro-war Nobel "Peace" Prize laureate
40:26 (CLIP) Machado supports Trump's war
40:56 Nobel "Peace" Prize: tool of US wars
41:25 (CLIP) Machado: Nobel Prize helps war
41:59 Summary
43:19 Outro
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