Geopolitical Economy Report

As Donald Trump hits the EU with tariffs and threatens to colonize Greenland (an autonomous territory of NATO member Denmark), European leaders are improving relations with China and seeking new trade partners. Is this the end of the political West and the transatlantic alliance? Ben Norton explains.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpngJ3tC7Xw

Topics
0:00 Western alliance & US empire
0:59 NATO
2:04 Cold War One
2:42 Rise of China
4:20 Cold War Two
5:11 Europe's trade with China
5:33 Trump strategy: exploit Europe
6:55 Why Trump wants Greenland
8:18 Critical minerals & rare earths
9:37 End of NATO?
10:28 UK PM Keir Starmer visits China
11:07 Europe improves China relations
11:39 Trump threatens Europe over China
12:26 Splits with European Union
13:10 German industry
14:44 Would a Democrat repair EU ties?
15:46 EU trade deal with India
16:25 EU agreement with Mercosur
17:06 EU trade dependence on USA
17:50 UK trade dependence on USA
18:13 Canada trade dependence on USA
19:04 Canada PM Mark Carney visits China
19:33 US military presence in Europe
21:02 EU energy dependency
21:38 US oil exports to EU
22:06 US LNG exports to EU
23:41 EU dependence on US technology
25:52 Artificial intelligence (AI)
26:35 US Big Tech companies
27:05 EU card: ASML machines
28:09 Will EU dump US financial assets?
28:54 European holdings of US assets
29:56 US bond market vulnerability
30:58 Trump threatens "big retaliation"
32:30 INSTEX & US sanctions
34:12 Merkel & Macron promised EU army
35:02 Strategic autonomy?
35:37 Vassals of US empire
36:40 Change will be slow
37:33 Independence would be good
38:26 Outro

The Donald Trump administration is waging a war against all multilateral institutions and international law itself. He withdrew the US from most global organizations and created a "Board of Peace" as an alternative to the UN that is entirely controlled by the USA. Ben Norton explains the imperialist strategy to impose unipolar hegemony on the world.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3nGsmSI3EQ

Topics
0:00 New phase of imperialism
1:17 US war on international law
2:03 US colonial expansionism
3:05 USA withdraws from international orgs
4:30 Board of Peace: Trump's UN alternative
6:27 Board of Peace isn't about Gaza
7:39 Board members: US officials & oligarchs
9:10 Most countries reject invitation
10:04 Trump didn't invite Africa
11:10 China opposes US-led world order
12:08 Trump's US unipolar pay-to-play plan
13:25 USA attacks Canada over China deal
15:19 Importance of international law
17:20 UN Charter upholds sovereignty
18:27 Goal of US imperialism
19:34 Outro

So-called "peace president" Donald Trump has bombed 10 countries, more than any other US leader. He attacked 7 countries in 2025 alone. Now he wants to raise the USA's military budget to $1.5 trillion. Ben Norton explains how the self-declared "peacemaker" is waging war around the world.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Div95RNXX0M

Topics
0:00 Donald Trump's promises
0:13 (CLIP) Trump: I'm a "peacemaker"
0:50 Trump promises no new wars
1:14 (CLIP) "I'm going to stop wars"
1:27 Trump bombed 7 countries in 2025
1:50 Map of 10 countries Trump bombed
2:49 US presidents are war criminals
4:06 Post-9/11 US wars: 4.5 million deaths
5:01 Trump the "peace president"
5:51 Joe Biden, war criminal
6:09 Trump, war criminal
6:50 Victims of US attack on Venezuela
8:26 US Department of War
9:06 Pete Hegseth threatens China, Russia
9:36 Trump's $1.5 trillion military budget
10:25 Military spending by top countries
11:09 Share of world defense spending
12:13 US national debt
14:26 Cut taxes on rich, raise on poor
15:41 Elon Musk's DOGE
16:28 Food stamp cuts
16:58 Class war
17:21 Money buys US elections
17:54 (CLIP) Trump praises Big Tech oligarchs
18:17 Imperialism
18:48 Outro

When Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado gave her Nobel "Peace" Prize to warmonger Donald Trump to thank him for bombing her country, it showed how the prize is a tool of war that serves Western foreign policy interests. The winner is very often a US-funded regime-change activist who tries to overthrow independent governments deemed "authoritarian" by NATO. Ben Norton reports.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ow1WRl0Axw

Topics
0:00 Trump gets prize from Venezuela's Machado
2:12 Trump has bombed 10 countries
3:01 Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite
3:52 Nobel Peace Prize serves US foreign policy
4:39 Henry Kissinger, war criminal
5:42 Barack Obama, war criminal & Nobel laureate
7:07 Nobel Peace Prize: regime-change tool
9:07 Prize money
9:46 National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
11:07 Philippines' pro-US "dissident"
12:54 Russian pro-US "dissident"
14:33 Ukraine & neocons
15:36 Anti-Russian groups
16:23 Anti-Soviet "dissident"
16:51 Belarusian pro-US "dissident"
18:09 Iranian pro-US "dissident"
19:26 Iranian pro-US, pro-war activist
22:07 War is peace: US empire über alles
22:54 Iranian Revolution & imperialism
23:19 USA supports protests in Iran
26:15 NED continues under Trump & Rubio
27:24 China targeted by USA
28:07 Chinese pro-US "dissident"
29:11 US gov't links to Human Rights Watch
30:02 "Color revolution" attempt
31:21 Pro-colonialist fanatic Liu Xiaobo
34:53 Far-right warmonger Solzhenitsyn
35:59 Jean-Paul Sartre rejected Nobel Prize
36:56 Dalai Lama & CIA support
38:22 Nobel "Peace" Prize for war
39:07 Outro

The US government is openly backing the violent protests in Iran. An Israeli media outlet admitted foreign powers are arming Iranian rioters with weapons to try to overthrow the government. Ben Norton explains the geopolitical context and why the USA has sought regime change ever since the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4_eu-TF68

Topics
0:00 (CLIP) Trump supports Iran protests
0:11 Riots in Iran
0:42 Israeli media on arming Iranian 'protesters'
1:49 US-backed regime change attempt
3:14 (CLIP) Trump pushes Iran regime change
3:41 Trump threatens to attack Iran (again)
5:15 CIA coup in Iran in 1953
5:56 Crimes of US-backed shah
6:50 Iranian Revolution
7:53 US imperialism: Wolfowitz Doctrine
8:43 Geopolitics of Middle East (West Asia)
10:12 Iran: BRICS, SCO, China, Russia
11:14 US plans to 'remake Middle East'
12:18 (CLIP) Wesley Clark: 7 countries in 5 years
12:56 Trump's threats against Iran
14:52 Trump spreads fake news
15:24 Trump threatens tariffs
16:21 Trump: "take over [Iranian] institutions"
17:23 US withdraws troops from Qatar
18:06 US plans to attack Iran
19:20 'Protesters' burn down buildings
21:22 Iran 'protesters' have weapons
22:58 Similarities to Syria & Libya
25:15 USA backs Iranian 'crown prince'
27:49 (CLIP) 'Crown prince': "This is a war"
29:31 Sacrifices to empire
30:24 Israel supports Iranian 'crown prince'
31:25 Mike Pompeo: Mossad supports protests
32:30 US boasts of 'maximum pressure'
33:06 US sanctions devastate Iranian economy
34:47 Outro