Ben Norton
Journalist || Videos: https://t.co/nttyf01rBw || Editor of @GeopoliticaEcon || English/español
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BRICS and BRICS-curious countries have been buying lots and lots of gold. Why? Gold, when physically held in a country's reserves, can't be sanctioned by the West. But the US and...
Bangladesh's overthrown leader Sheikh Hasina said the US government backed the regime-change operation against her. She said the US told her she could stay in power if she let it...
The economics of imperialism: A new study shows how "the US’ exorbitant privilege has become a rich world privilege". The world system has persistent capital income transfers from...
Far-right extremist Javier Milei won Argentina's presidential election. Milei wants to: -legalize the sale of children and human organs -abolish public healthcare, education, and...
The US government is rewriting the history of the Holocaust, portraying the Soviet Union - which DEFEATED Nazism - as the villain. More than 80% of Nazi casualties were on the Eas...
A document proves the US State Department pressured Pakistan's government in March 2022 to overthrow PM Imran Khan, due to his neutrality over the proxy war in Ukraine This is exa...
When Modi visited Washington in June, he signed key military agreements with Biden. The US plans to turn India into a center for maintaining and resupplying naval vessels, in orde...
Differences in the declines of the US and British empires, analyzed by political economist Giovanni Arrighi back in 2007: The US transitioned from being a creditor to a debtor nat...
I wrote this article in 2022, when only 2021 data was available. Well, now the Sri Lankan government has published data from 2022, and it shows: - Just 14% of Sri Lanka's foreign...
.@RadDesai explains how Britain's settler colonies (USA, Canada, Australia, etc.) were industrialized with wealth that was stolen through the surplus produced by workers in its non...
A decade of proxy war and US/EU sanctions devastated Syria, blocking humanitarian aid. Now an earthquake killed thousands. To save face, the US agreed to a *temporary* suspension,...
This is ridiculous propaganda, trying to justify illegal sanctions that UN experts say amount to crimes against humanity. The Syrian Arab Red Crescent president told AP, "There is...