The USA is an oligarchy: This scholar explained how in 1956 (with historian Aaron Good)
In his 1956 book "The Power Elite," New Left sociologist C. Wright Mills detailed how decision-making in the United States is not democratic; it is determined by (1) Wall Street capitalists and large corporations, (2) the Pentagon and military-industrial complex, and (3) the corrupt political class.
This is PART 8 of the Empire and the Deep State series Multipolarista editor Ben Norton is co-hosting with historian Aaron Good and producer Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast.
From inside Russia, economists Radhika Desai and Alan Freeman report on the impact of Western sanctions and the Ukraine war. They discuss Moscow's integration with Asia and move away from neoliberal economics.
Radhika and Alan are directors of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group: https://geopoliticaleconomy.org
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Ben Norton discusses the rise and fall of US-led neocolonial financial order, from the 1944 Bretton Woods conference that established the US dollar as the global reserve currency; to the 1971 Nixon Shock that ended the gold standard, Volcker Shock, Third World debt crisis, and emergence of neoliberalism; and finally to the historic growth of China and consolidation of the Global South-led BRICS bloc.
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Major media outlets falsely claimed North Korea killed someone for watching Squid Game. This is fake news. The "source" for this bogus rumor is Radio Free Asia (RFA), a propaganda outlet created by the CIA to spread disinformation against US Official Enemies. In reality, DPRK media praised Squid Game as a critique of South Korean capitalism.
(This video was originally published on December 3, 2021.)
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Condemning Washington's "hegemonic mindset" and sanctions, China strengthened its strategic partnership with Venezuela. The oil-rich South American nation's President Nicolás Maduro took a historic trip to Beijing, and applied to join BRICS. Ben Norton analyzes the important geopolitical and economic consequences.
How Trump and John Bolton attempted a coup in Venezuela: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tzoJ_UVBV7w
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I briefly spoke about US imperialism and economic warfare on Latin America, including Bolivia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba. This was part of a panel organized by the National Network on Cuba calling for an end to the US blockade.
You can watch the full panel here: https://www.facebook.com/1380547238836761/videos/688066375177963
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Benjamin Norton reports from inside Nicaragua on the 43rd anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution.
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The US government’s Helsinki Commission held a Congressional briefing plotting ways to break up Russia as a country, in the name of supposed “decolonization.”
Read more here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/06/23/us-government-decolonize-russia
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China’s Foreign Ministry published a lengthy report condemning “US hegemony” and its crimes around the world, including wars with millions of victims, coups and “regime change” against elected leaders, and 400 foreign military interventions.
Read more here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/22/china-report-us-hegemony-wars-coups-intervention
The Chinese Foreign Ministry's full report "US Hegemony and Its Perils": https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjbxw/202302/t20230220_11027664.html
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Under Ukrainian government pressure, CBS News censored its own documentary “Arming Ukraine,” which showed that just around 30% of the weapons Western governments have sent actually go to the frontlines, with widespread corruption and black markets.
Read more here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/08/10/cbs-censors-report-ukraine-weapons-corruption
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