Israel's war on Iran was made in USA: Trump supported attacks, while faking peace talks
Israel attacked Iran in an aggressive act of war. The US government supported the strikes, providing intelligence and planning with Netanyahu. Donald Trump cynically used nuclear negotiations with Tehran as cover, as he oversaw the joint US-Israeli operation. Ben Norton reviews the evidence.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0s7O8RU9V0
Topics
0:00 USA supported Israeli attacks
1:38 Trump's fake "peace talks" with Iran
3:13 USA provided Israel intelligence
3:49 Trump gave Israel green light
5:07 US military helped Israel
6:01 Marco Rubio's lies
6:40 Israel: unsinkable US aircraft carrier
7:15 Netanyahu is an American
8:07 USA arms Israel
8:45 USA protects Israel at UN
9:37 ICC charges Netanyahu
10:34 Trump threatens Iran
12:41 Trump's 60 day deadline
13:37 Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA)
15:24 Lessons from Libya
17:24 Israel's nuclear weapons
18:37 Nuclear weapon free zone
19:20 Alliance with apartheid South Africa
20:26 Germany condemns Iran
21:37 Western neo-colonialism
22:20 France's Macron criticizes Iran
23:07 Iranian civilian victims
24:11 Human shields
27:29 US & Israel: imperial bullies
28:44 Iran hits back
29:13 US military aid to Israel
29:55 Outro
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Trump sends military to repress protests in Los Angeles: US empire's tactics come home
Donald Trump deployed the US military to repress protesters in Los Angeles, California, as people flooded the streets to denounce the abuse of immigrants by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement). Ben Norton discusses how the oppressive tactics used by the empire eventually return home.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYcRBkB2KCw
Topics
0:00 LA protests
0:28 California government rebukes Trump
1:10 Police shoot journalists
1:48 Empire's tactics come home
2:11 Militarization of US police
2:59 Private prison corporations
3:43 Trump wages war inside his country
4:43 Foreign flags and Israel
5:27 Trump deports pro-Palestine protesters
6:13 Mahmoud Khalil, political prisoner
7:05 Lawlessness of ICE
8:26 ICE targets children
8:50 ICE's criminal behavior
12:54 ICE targets migrants with tattoos
14:11 Trump's police state budget
15:24 Scapegoating immigrants
16:26 Unemployment
17:14 Essential workers
18:03 Taxes
18:47 Crime rates
19:34 US imperial hypocrisy
19:46 Hong Kong riots
21:02 US coups in Latin America
22:18 US guns in Mexico
23:38 Obama, Biden, and Trump
24:12 Imperial boomerang
24:38 Outro
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24:51
Asia is uniting, creating a new post-West global order
Everywhere you look, you can see the decline of Western hegemony, as the world is increasingly multipolar. Ben Norton analyzes the rise of China, development of Global South economies, and increasing unity in Asia. A symbol of this was the historic ASEAN-GCC-China Summit held in Malaysia, which supplements BRICS in pursuit of dedollarization, South-South economic integration, and infrastructure construction.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRGkCw-Sqk0
Topics
0:00 Weakening US dominance
0:22 Industrial production
0:46 China is world's largest economy
1:22 Decline of Western hegemony
1:53 Rise of Global South
2:45 Global South is Global Majority
3:44 Trump is accelerating US decline
4:28 BRICS expansion
5:46 ASEAN-GCC-China Summit
7:21 ASEAN
7:41 Southeast Asia's population
8:54 Southeast Asia's economy
9:41 GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council)
10:50 ASEAN-GCC-China Summit joint statement
11:26 ASEAN's trade with China
11:47 RCEP
12:22 Palestine
12:54 Opposition to Trump's tariffs
13:44 De-dollarization
14:57 Petroyuan challenges petrodollar
16:09 Infrastructure
16:32 Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
16:57 New Silk Road
17:32 Railroads linking China to SE Asia
18:59 Energy
19:54 China: world leader in renewable energy
20:08 China's solar power capacity
20:44 China's affordable green energy tech
24:38 Nuclear power
27:16 Other issues discussed
27:55 Multipolarity
28:41 The ASEAN Way
29:35 Cautious optimism
30:31 Global South-led alternatives
31:05 Outro
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31:29
'We are preparing for war' with China 'threat', says US military
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivered an extremely hawkish speech in which he demonized China as a "threat" and said, "We are preparing for war". Ben Norton analyzes the top Trump admin official's aggressive remarks at the Shangri-La Dialogue 2025 summit. He explains the geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific region, and Washington's unsuccessful attempt to pressure countries to join its new cold war on Beijing.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLOTTVI_LAA
US defense secretary declared 'holy war' on China, left & Islam: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/03/07/us-defense-secretary-hegseth-overthrow-china-crusade/
Is war on China coming? The US military is seriously preparing: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/04/28/us-military-war-china-silicon-valley/
Topics
0:00 (CLIPS) US defense secretary speech
0:30 US military prepares for war
1:05 (CLIP) "We are preparing for war"
1:25 Trump admin's war threats
1:55 (CLIP) Trump "will never hesitate to" use force
2:13 (CLIP) "Deterrence" and war
2:24 Shangri-La Dialogue 2025 summit
2:41 Asia-Pacific region
3:59 (CLIP) USA is "here to stay" in "Indo-Pacific"
4:19 US empire seeks hegemony
4:50 (CLIP) Pentagon says China is a "threat"
5:11 Pete Hegseth, extremist US "crusader"
6:31 Myth of Chinese "hegemony"
7:24 (CLIP) Hegseth on China "threat"
8:01 China opposes hegemony
9:34 China doesn't want hegemony
10:33 US pressures Asia to cut ties with China
11:17 (CLIP) USA opposes "economic cooperation"
11:47 Taiwan
13:05 (CLIP) Hegseth on Taiwan
13:32 Hegseth's hawkish rhetoric
13:56 (CLIP) US "warfighters" and "warfighting"
14:31 US military budget of $1 trillion
14:40 (CLIP) Trump boosts US military spending
15:02 Military interventions
15:32 (CLIP) USA tells Asia: Join us against China
15:48 US divide-and-conquer strategy is failing
16:23 China, Japan, South Korea cooperate
16:47 Trump's tariff threats
17:25 RCEP trade deal
17:55 ASEAN-GCC-China summit
18:36 India
18:43 (CLIP) Hegseth on US-India partnership
19:00 India-China relations
20:24 Philippines volunteers to be Ukraine of Asia
21:21 US military bases and missiles in Philippines
21:51 Militarization of first island chain
22:48 Regional non-alignment
23:19 Philippines and Australia
24:40 Colonialist Monroe Doctrine
25:03 (CLIP) Hegseth threatens Panama Canal
25:31 US imperialism is bipartisan
26:03 Biden official praises Trump's China policy
27:02 Republicans vs Democrats
27:39 US empire says war is peace
28:32 (CLIP) USA doesn't seek encirclement?
28:45 US "grand encirclement plan" for China
29:34 Biden admin's China policy
30:02 (CLIP) Antony Blinken on China containment
30:15 Imperial hypocrisy
31:05 Cold War Two
31:54 Silicon Valley profits from war preparations
32:15 Outro
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32:49
This is why Trump's tariffs will NOT bring manufacturing back to the US
Donald Trump claims his tariffs will bring back good manufacturing jobs and help to reindustrialize the United States, but all the evidence suggests this will fail, because he has no coherent industrial policy, is gutting the state's capacities, and refuses to challenge Wall Street. Ben Norton explains how the US economy was financialized, and what it would take to truly revive industry.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxWBnA_bQN0
Topics
0:00 (CLIPS) Intro
1:07 Trump's tariffs
2:09 Wells Fargo study
3:23 Industrial policy
3:51 China's industrial policy and planning
6:49 Biden's half-baked attempt
8:00 Survey: US manufacturing is not coming back
11:08 Tariff revenue was paid as subsidies
11:43 US government debt and deficit
12:28 Contradictions in tariff policy
13:25 Data on deindustrialization of US economy
15:45 The American System
18:44 Abraham Lincoln
19:13 Henry Clay
19:26 (CLIP) Trump on Henry Clay
19:59 (CLIP) Trump invokes the American System
20:22 Trumpism = Reaganism + protectionism
20:47 Financialization of US economy
21:20 Trump's tax cuts on the rich
21:55 Corporate incentives
22:43 GE and Boeing
23:28 Wall Street
24:24 US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick
25:41 (CLIP) Howard Lutnick on factory jobs
26:46 Manufacturing jobs
27:33 Views on manufacturing in USA
28:22 Lack of skilled labor in USA
29:01 Apple
29:42 (CLIP) Apple CEO Tim Cook on China
32:09 Wages in China
33:50 Vietnam and market socialism
35:37 Elon Musk and Tesla
36:57 US oligarchs
37:39 Policy proposal for reindustrialization
39:52 Challenging capital
40:38 Neoliberal globalization
42:31 Trump's tax policy helps rich, hurts poor
44:52 Outro
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