Trump wages economic war on US allies, while BRICS builds alternative system
Donald Trump is imposing tariffs and unequal treaties on longtime allies in Europe, Japan, and South Korea, forcing them to pay and move their factories to the US. Meanwhile, BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) are building a new multipolar world order based on mutually beneficial trade and investment. Ben Norton is joined by economist Michael Hudson to discuss.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpYgXMkzWc8
Read Michael's article on Trump's attacks on Europe, Korea, and Japan: https://www.geopoliticaleconomy.report/p/michael-hudson-trump-europe-korea-japan
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Topics
0:00 Trump attacks US allies
0:35 Exploitative US deal imposed on Japan
3:04 ICE detains South Korean workers
5:46 Trump to abolish Education Department
6:29 Angering US allies
7:19 US trade deal imposed on Europe
8:37 BRICS & SCO build multipolar order
10:20 Intro to Michael Hudson
10:46 Highlights of Michael Hudson
13:58 Interview starts
15:03 The BRICS alternative
18:54 US strategy of economic colonialism
26:01 Europe
33:06 India and Eurasia
35:15 Trump's tariff trap
37:28 Energy
41:03 Backlash in Europe
43:43 EU did not negotiate
46:48 European capital flows into US
49:40 BRICS sells US Treasuries
53:24 South Korea
56:59 Attacks on immigrants
1:05:37 Class politics
1:11:13 Japan
1:20:08 Latin America
1:21:48 Middle East (West Asia)
1:22:41 Dedollarization
1:24:18 Outro
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Trump's war on oil-rich Venezuela is based on lies: The real reasons why USA wants regime change
The US government has waged economic war on Venezuela for years. The Donald Trump administration is escalating this with threats of military intervention. Ben Norton discusses the history of sanctions and US-backed coup attempts against President Nicolás Maduro, explaining why Washington wants to topple this ally of China, Russia, and Iran, so US oil corporations can exploit the South American nation's natural resources.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU17g3DXwiY
Check out our related video on how the US government supports drug traffickers in Latin America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwCducQ8HHw
Topics
0:00 US-backed coups in Latin America
1:32 US economic war on Cuba
2:15 Venezuela's alliance with China & Russia
3:12 Dedollarization
4:17 Petrodollar system
5:45 US military threatens Venezuela
7:53 Drug production
8:37 US-backed drug trafficker in Colombia
9:24 US-backed drug trafficker in Ecuador
11:35 Fentanyl
12:52 UN data on drugs
13:39 Marco Rubio opposes international law
14:58 (CLIP) Marco Rubio attacks UN
15:42 "Cartel de los Soles" doesn't exist
16:32 Colombia's President Gustavo Petro
17:27 US-backed coup in Venezuela in 2002
18:53 Guarimbas: coup attempts in 2014 & 2017
19:28 Obama dubs Venezuela "threat"
19:54 US economic war & sanctions
21:16 Oil exports
22:16 US collapses Venezuela's oil industry
23:24 Coup attempt with Juan Guaidó in 2019
24:09 (CLIP) John Bolton boasts of coup
24:59 Trump admin discussed military attacks
26:02 Failed invasion in 2020: Operation Gideon
28:41 Bolivarian Revolution
30:25 Marco Rubio's drug lies
31:46 US bounty on Maduro's head
33:27 Scholar: "Cartel of the Suns" doesn't exist
35:10 US invasion of Panama in 1989
36:19 US turned against Saddam Hussein
36:52 Coup strategy
37:34 US intel debunks Trump admin's drug lies
39:49 Tattoos as "proof" of cartel membership
41:17 Juan Guaidó worked with drug cartels
43:06 Guaidó gang's corruption
43:52 US empire's puppets in Latin America
44:51 Colonialist Monroe Doctrine
45:46 (CLIP) John Bolton on Venezuela's oil
46:53 Trump wants Venezuela's oil
47:52 Goals of US empire
49:16 Outro
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Trump failed to divide Russia and China: They're closer than ever, building a new multipolar order
US President Donald Trump claimed he would "un-unite" Russia and China, but the divide-and-conquer strategy failed. Instead, Moscow and Beijing are closer than ever, and they are at the heart of a Global South-led movement to build a new multipolar world order, challenging Western hegemony and imperialism. Ben Norton explains.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-bq4347Z18
US attacks blow back, uniting China, India, Russia, Iran; encouraging dedollarization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsFGCUtzzQ8
Topics
0:00 China and Russia: close partners
0:59 USA fears "near-peer" competitors
1:51 (CLIP) Trump: divide Russia and China
2:06 US divide-and-conquer strategy
2:31 (CLIP) Marco Rubio: "partner with the Russians"
3:04 Marco Rubio, top US war hawk
3:33 (CLIP) Marco Rubio: China is top "threat"
4:16 China and Russia's political ties
5:33 China's trade with Russia
6:28 US and Russia: economic competitors
7:37 Trump doesn't have anything to offer
8:23 Global South leaders meet in China
9:41 USA failed to divide India and China
10:28 China's 80th anniversary WWII victory parade
12:09 Trump laments China-Russia-India ties
13:02 Xi-Putin meeting in Beijing
14:19 USSR and China in WWII
18:21 Dedollarization of China-Russia trade
19:44 Power of Siberia 2 pipeline
21:44 Russia integrates with Eurasia
22:19 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)
22:44 BRICS
23:33 Neocolonial financial system
25:30 Russia deepens ties with Global South
27:34 New multipolar world order
28:37 Outro
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US attacks blow back, uniting China, India, Russia, Iran; encouraging dedollarization
The US government has long tried to divide China, India, and Russia, but Washington's aggressive actions have only brought them together. Donald Trump's tariffs, in particular, angered Indian PM Modi, who visited the Chinese city Tianjin for the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, where the Eurasian countries deepened their relations. Ben Norton analyzes the important results of this historic meeting, and how the US empire's aggression has blown back.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsFGCUtzzQ8
Topics
0:00 US imperial overstretch
1:25 China, Russia, India unite
3:38 Shanghai Cooperation Org (SCO) summit
4:48 Global Governance Initiative
6:50 New multipolar order
8:08 Members of SCO
9:29 Population of SCO
10:07 Economy of SCO
11:01 US empire seeks to divide Eurasia
12:49 Trump attacks India
13:37 Donald Trump's tariffs
14:52 India moves closer to China
16:23 Views India and China share
18:59 Modi meets with Xi Jinping
21:33 US war hawks are furious
22:02 (CLIP) John Bolton on India-China ties
23:20 US war hawks are furious
24:05 (CLIP) Jake Sullivan on India-China ties
25:17 USA alienates its "allies"
25:53 Trump makes China great again (川建国 Chuan Jianguo)
26:50 Trump accelerates US imperial decline
29:09 Dedollarization
30:48 CBDCs
32:42 Dedollarization
33:30 China proposes SCO development bank
33:48 SCO Tianjin Declaration
35:51 Need for UN reform
40:20 Multipolarity
41:07 International financial system
42:53 Xi Jinping's speech
46:43 Open-source artificial intelligence (AI) tech
47:38 Oppose the new cold war
48:15 Global South vision of multipolar world
50:45 Outro
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US gov't supports drug traffickers in Latin America, while threatening Venezuela
The US government has a long history of supporting corrupt, drug-dealing, right-wing oligarchs in Latin America. The Donald Trump administration is threatening to attack Venezuela, accusing leftist President Nicolás Maduro, without any evidence, of leading a cartel, while Marco Rubio defends Colombia's drug-trafficking former leader Álvaro Uribe. Ben Norton documents Washington's imperial hypocrisy.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwCducQ8HHw
Topics
0:00 Hypocritical US meddling in Latin America
1:41 Colombia's ex President Álvaro Uribe
4:52 (CLIP) CIA director: "We lie, cheat, steal"
5:09 Drug cartels linked to Colombian leader
6:49 Paramilitaries linked to Colombian leader
9:16 False positives scandal
11:36 Plan Colombia
12:37 Left-wing President Gustavo Petro
14:55 US interventions in Latin America
15:39 Honduran dictator Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH)
16:48 US-backed coup in Honduras in 2009
18:27 US support for dictators
19:41 Drug trafficking in Honduras
22:36 US foreign policy in Latin America
22:59 CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras
24:09 Trump admin attacks Venezuela (again)
25:50 Outro
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