Geopolitical Economy Report

US Big Tech corporations based in Silicon Valley are manipulating politics across the world. Meta and TikTok are censoring critics of Donald Trump and Elon Musk in the United States, while repressing protesters in Albania and blatantly meddling in Brazil's elections.

Ben Norton explains how Meta censored Brazil's left-wing President Lula da Silva, while promoting far-right, US-backed candidate Flávio Bolsonaro.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHnZc_EJ0Hs

Topics
0:00 US oligarchy
0:41 Big Tech meddles in Brazil election
1:22 Big Tech meddles in Albania
2:08 TikTok censors Elon Musk documentary
2:58 Elon Musk tries to buy US elections
3:28 Musk documentary
3:54 Billionaire Larry Ellison takes over TikTok
4:52 Skydance: Paramount buys Warner Bros
5:31 Meta censors No Kings on Instagram
6:15 USA is an oligarchy
6:55 Albanian protesters censored by Meta
8:44 Trump family backs Albanian criminals
9:44 Trump frees Honduran narco-dictator
10:25 USA meddles in Brazil's election
10:49 Meta censored Lula's accounts
12:12 Why the US opposes Lula
12:43 Lula & BRICS challenge US dollar
13:46 Trump hits Brazil with tariffs
14:18 Jair Bolsonaro coup attempt
16:19 Flavio & Eduardo Bolsonaro
17:49 Bolsonaristas ask Trump to bomb Brazil
18:35 US-backed coups in Latin America
19:22 Elon Musk: "We will coup whoever"
20:13 Flavio Bolsonaro's promises to Trump
20:40 Brazil's Pix payment system
21:55 Silicon Valley fears regulation
22:46 Meta censors pro-Lula accounts
23:14 Bolsonaro hires US AI company
24:33 AI fake social media accounts
27:51 US imperialism in Latin America
28:55 Donroe Doctrine
30:05 New era of AI coups

Global public opinion has rapidly shifted and polls show Israel is now the most unpopular country on Earth. So Israeli regime officials are becoming even more desperate and extreme. A top Israeli official who led the IDF's military intelligence directorate published a white paper outlining plans for never-ending war, in a "permanent Israeli-Arab conflict". The report explicitly opposes peace, calling it "weakness". It says a "peace agreement is unattainable" and insists "no solution is possible", only endless conflict and colonization. Ben Norton reports.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z5--p8bhp4

Topics
0:00 Israel is most disliked country on Earth
1:06 Most Americans disapprove of Israel
2:10 International recognition of Palestine
2:29 Israel rejects a Palestinian state
3:11 Israel is an apartheid regime
3:38 Israeli colonialism
4:21 Israel lays out its plan
5:51 Israel calls for permanent war
6:47 Israel opposes peace
8:15 Israel seeks to destabilize Arab neighbors
9:52 Hypocrisy of settler-colonialism
10:58 Plan: "permanent Israeli-Arab conflict"
12:23 Official: "no solution is possible"
13:09 Israel wants to take more territory
14:45 Nuclear weapons threat
15:25 Israel openly opposes democracy
17:15 Neo-fascism
18:37 Declining US support
19:54 Israel can't fight without US weapons
21:56 Fall of apartheid South Africa
23:12 Poll: most Americans oppose Israel
24:29 Young Americans dislike Israel
25:22 Desperation of Israeli regime

The US government has called to revive Western domination of the planet. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a speech in Greece that openly praised colonialism and erased history. He claimed the West is "the greatest civilization in the world" and insisted it must "maintain its place at the head of the world".

Ben Norton explains how the idea of a unified "Western civilization" is a political myth used to justify imperialism. He fact-checks Rubio's remarks and provides important historical context that the Donald Trump administration refuses to acknowledge.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iPKlFKY_F8

Topics
0:00 (CLIP) Marco Rubio on Western civilization
0:33 USA wants West to dominate world
1:47 Marco Rubio speech in Athens
2:57 (CLIP) Rubio: West must dominate world
3:56 The "Clash of Civilizations" narrative
7:06 Trump admin erases history
7:51 Colonization of the Americas
9:05 (CLIP) Rubio praises colonialism
10:00 Native Americans erased by US govt
10:33 Double standards on imperialism
12:33 Rubio demonizes Iran
13:04 Greece is not "Western"
14:02 Christianity and East-West Schism
15:09 Russia, the West, and NATO
16:01 Western civilization is a political myth
17:42 Rearmament of Europe
18:17 (CLIP) Rubio on militarization of EU
18:44 Christian nationalism
19:55 Using Christianity to support imperialism
21:33 Religion in Ancient Greece
22:15 Church persecution of scientists
23:29 Christian attack on Ancient Greece/Rome
24:18 Islamic Golden Age
24:41 European book-burning
25:22 Western chauvinism is ridiculous
26:43 Rubio identifies with Spain, not Cuba
30:26 (CLIP) Rubio's pro-colonialist speech
32:06 Latin America's right-wing elites
33:33 What is the "West"? A political construct
35:09 Trump admin's extreme imperialism
35:52 (CLIP) Rubio condemns anti-colonialists
37:06 USA wants to reverse decolonization
38:32 Real goal of US foreign policy

The US war against Iran is expanding into a regional conflict. Saudi Arabia restarted its war in Yemen against the Houthis (officially known as Ansarallah), the political movement that governs 80% of the Yemeni population. Pakistan and Turkey (Türkiye) have joined the war. Syria supports it. Ben Norton explains how this crisis is growing, why the Donald Trump administration is fueling it, and how it is further destabilizing the oil market and global economy.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK9KxLbKuYk

Topics
0:00 War on Yemen starts again
0:22 Pakistan joins Saudi war
1:11 Turkey joins war
1:57 Syria backs war on Yemen
2:23 USA helps Saudi bomb Yemen
3:14 What is happening in Yemen?
3:37 Who are the Houthis (Ansarallah)?
5:05 Revolution on 21 September 2014
5:30 Map of Yemen war territory
6:04 Saudi Arabia controls south Yemen
6:55 Yemen's Saudi puppet "presidents"
9:06 UAE loses proxy war with Saudi
10:53 War crimes
12:15 Goals of US-Saudi war on Yemen
12:49 Bab al-Mandab Strait
14:43 Strait of Hormuz
15:15 Largest oil crisis in history
16:21 Why Ansarallah blockaded Saudi
17:54 EU supports Saudi monarchy
19:36 Attack on Saudi oil pipeline
21:05 Oil prices skyrocket
22:09 Shipping costs break records
23:27 Heating oil price up 80%
25:02 US attacks on Yemen in 2025
26:59 USA could not defeat Ansarallah
28:48 US-Saudi war on Yemen (2015)
31:21 New war could help Ansarallah
32:49 This war affects entire world

Why are executives of AI companies, like Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, suddenly warning that artificial intelligence poses an "existential risk" to humanity? And why did Donald Trump invite Big Tech billionaire oligarchs to the White House for a "morally binding" agreement to "self-regulate"?

There are more and more signs that the AI bubble is getting dangerously large, and could pop soon. Corporate insiders want to cash out before it's too late -- and the US government is helping them. Ben Norton explains.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsFHQ81nMHk

Topics
0:00 Does AI pose existential risk?
1:42 Trump meeting with Big Tech CEOs
3:19 AI is in biggest bubble in history
4:09 IPOs of Anthropic and OpenAI
5:28 China is now leading in AI
6:53 Silicon Valley wants to ban Chinese AI
8:30 Trump warns of AI race with China
9:09 Data centers push up electricity price
10:01 Anthropic is losing tons of money
10:57 OpenAI has huge losses
11:34 Only 2% of US households pay for AI
12:34 AI industry delusion: 9% of GDP
13:45 AI bubble is largest ever
14:29 US economy in recession, excluding AI
15:16 Circular financing of AI companies
16:27 Hyperscaler capex exceeds $1 trillion
17:25 Debt of AI companies is growing
17:59 US bond yields rise rapidly
19:00 AI companies taking on more debt
20:29 Michael Burry warns bubble may pop
21:38 US stock market concentration
24:13 Buffett Indicator: 235% of GDP
25:07 Anthropic's cynical marketing
26:06 Largest IPOs in history
27:47 SpaceX stock crashed after IPO
28:31 US government denies bubble