Geopolitical Economy Report

The US-based right-wing Chinese billionaire Miles Guo (Guo Wengui), who worked closely with Donald Trump advisor Steve Bannon, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for committing $1 billion of fraud. Ben Norton explains how Western governments and media outlets support "dissidents" from countries they don't like, who are often corrupt grifters and con artists; and how fake "experts" make money by spreading absurd disinformation about China, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, etc.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSVBsyDz1ks

Topics
0:00 Billionaire fraudster Miles Guo
1:03 Links to Trump, Steven Bannon
4:34 US DOJ prosecution
6:31 China's charges
8:06 US media whitewashing
12:25 Corrupt West-backed "dissidents"
15:23 US support for dictators
17:12 Pro-West Chinese "dissidents"
19:40 Soviet "dissidents"
21:07 North Korean defector Yeonmi Park
24:18 Yeonmi Park becomes a meme
25:36 (CLIP) Yeonmi Park on Joe Rogan
26:12 Absurd propaganda
26:53 Park jumps on the Trump train
27:47 Western media has no standards
28:56 Fake China "expert" Gordon G Chang
34:00 Ai Weiwei change of heart
39:16 Western imperialist hypocrisy
41:17 Outro

US Big Tech corporations are paying influencers to spread anti-China, pro-AI disinformation on social media. Ben Norton explains why Silicon Valley fears Chinese competition and seeks to monopolize artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies, to impose the global dominance of the USA in an imperialist unipolar order.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BLnM-gxj-o

Topics
0:00 Silicon Valley spreads propaganda
2:08 US govt helps Elon Musk pollute
4:52 Scapegoating China
5:32 AI arms race
7:34 (CLIP) Ex Google CEO Eric Schmidt
7:52 Silicon Valley wants monopolies
10:02 (CLIP) Peter Thiel loves monopolies
10:20 Sam Altman lobbies US govt
12:40 OpenAI is losing lots of money
14:02 Pentagon works with Big Tech
15:54 Anthropic conflict with Trump admin
17:25 Dario Amodei backs Cold War Two
18:28 USA wants unipolar world
20:01 Palantir and techno-fascism
23:26 Totalitarian police state
26:10 Larry Ellison buys up US media
26:44 Surveillance Valley
30:58 Monopoly and hegemony
32:27 Imperialism and Big Tech
34:48 Outro

The USA and Iran are holding negotiations to end the war, but Tehran condemned Washington for violating the agreement, because Israel keeps attacking Lebanon. US Vice President JD Vance appeared to criticize Israel, but Ben Norton explains the deep hypocrisy of the United States, which is still giving Netanyahu billions of dollars of weapons and military aid.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wogLemf3er4

Topics
0:00 Talks between USA & Iran
0:35 Iran says US violates agreement
1:50 Will Israel sabotage Iran deal?
2:58 Israel needs US military support
4:12 JD Vance: US is Israel's only ally
5:04 (CLIP) JD Vance: US military aid
5:47 (CLIP) JD Vance on Israel
7:57 Put up or shut up
8:40 Billions in US aid to Israel
9:42 Military-industrial complex
11:03 Unsinkable aircraft carrier
11:48 Tails don't wag dogs
12:36 Trump warns of oil shortages
13:25 (CLIP) Trump: 4 weeks of reserves
14:07 Trump threatens Iran again
14:33 (CLIP) Fox News on Trump threats
15:14 Iran has more leverage
16:08 Israel's goals in Lebanon
17:28 Israel takes over Gaza
18:40 US sends more weapons to Israel
19:14 Hypocrisy
19:45 Outro

The US government has signed an agreement to end its war on Iran. It is now widely admitted that Washington lost, and Tehran won. Ben Norton explains why Donald Trump failed, and how this has massive geopolitical implications for the Global South.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NOUxBUSM64

Check out our related report on how Iran destroyed US military bases: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_wC4KuEcWI

Topics
0:00 USA & Iran sign deal
0:53 US lost the war
2:21 US lifts oil sanctions
4:14 Details of US-Iran deal
7:25 Strait of Hormuz
8:56 US agrees to end sanctions
10:13 $300 billion investment fund
14:08 Frozen assets
14:36 Nuclear weapons
15:37 Previous nuclear deal, JCPOA
18:00 Why USA lost the war
21:33 Victory for Global South
25:35 Destroyed US military bases
26:43 Historic defeat of imperialism
27:46 Outro

Elon Musk has become the world's first trillionaire, with the IPO of his company SpaceX. He is a symbol of how the United States has become an oligarchy, where elections are bought by rich elites and large corporations, and extreme wealth is concentrated in a few hands. Ben Norton explains.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj-hd3l4dSo

Topics
0:00 Elon Musk, world's first trillionaire
0:50 Oligarchy
1:54 SpaceX IPO
3:06 SpaceX is losing lots of money
4:13 Wall Street changes the rules
5:39 Trump coin pump and dump
6:14 Reasons to avoid SpaceX
7:04 Musk: symbol of US oligarchy
8:45 Wealth concentration
9:55 Gilded Age & robber barons
11:13 Money wins US elections
13:06 Elon Musk funded Trump
14:52 Larry Ellison buys up media
17:14 Capitalist class
18:19 Progressive Era
19:27 Great Depression & New Deal
20:08 Golden Age of capitalism
20:59 Tax rates
22:08 Tax burden shifts onto workers
23:24 Billionaires avoid taxes
24:34 Neoliberalism
25:18 Financial crisis & QE
26:54 Neofeudalism / technofeudalism
28:27 Artificial intelligence (AI)
29:24 Universal basic income (UBI)
30:50 Nationalize Big Tech
33:04 China's alternative
33:58 Outro