Geopolitical Economy Report

The Second Cold War that the United States is waging against China includes a trade war, tech war, and now a mineral war. In alliance with Silicon Valley Big Tech corporations, the US government is trying to recruit countries into Pax Silica, a coalition to create a new global supply chain for critical minerals that cuts out China. Ben Norton explains.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHHeug0APxk

Topics
0:00 Cold War Two against China
0:30 (CLIP) Marco Rubio on China "threat"
1:33 Trade war
2:26 Why China won the trade war
3:25 Critical mineral supply chain
4:10 Trump plans to restart trade war
4:47 Trump tariffs and SCOTUS ruling
6:15 Tech war against China
7:05 Chip war
8:32 AI chip supply chain
9:58 Military-industrial complex
11:28 Plans for new supply chain
12:14 Project Vault: US mineral stockpile
12:53 Japan deal with USA
13:35 Pax Silica
14:13 Critical minerals ministerial
14:57 Members of US-led Pax Silica
16:17 India
17:03 Other countries
18:04 US State Department narrative
19:41 China is the target
21:10 Big Tech corporations
21:30 Google
22:14 Public-private partnership
23:23 Under Secretary Jacob Helberg
24:32 US attacks on Iran target China
26:00 China oil imports
27:11 Geostrategic oil chokepoints
27:48 Strait of Hormuz
28:27 Strait of Malacca
29:27 Silicon Valley oligarchs
31:04 AI & crypto czar David Sacks
31:32 PayPal Mafia
32:41 Billionaires make US govt policy
33:19 AI race with China
34:57 Silicon Valley fears China
35:32 Billionaires run US government
36:46 India joins US-led Pax Silica
39:22 India's foreign policy
40:41 Non-Aligned Movement
41:23 New cold war
43:24 Outro

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered an overtly pro-colonialist speech at the Munich Security Conference in which he praised "the great Western empires" and said North America and Europe should unite to recolonize the Global South. Ben Norton reports on the increasing desperation of the imperialist West as its global dominance declines.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mWRy7A1cJI

Topics
0:00 (CLIP) Marco Rubio praises colonialism
1:13 From colonialism to decolonization
2:17 Western colonies today
3:24 USA wants to reverse decolonization
4:30 Marco Rubio's pro-colonialist speech
6:06 (CLIP) Rubio loves "great Western empires"
6:58 Demonizing anti-colonial movements
7:55 (CLIP) US plan to reverse West's decline
8:57 (CLIP) Erasing colonial crimes
9:32 Proud of colonialism
10:21 (CLIP) "Purported sins" of colonialism
10:37 Crimes of Western colonialism
11:39 (CLIP) Armies fight for "civilization"
11:49 EU leaders applaud colonialist speech
12:31 (CLIP) EU standing ovation for Rubio
12:40 Western media coverage
13:16 Munich Security Conference (MSC)
13:43 (CLIP) Europe's colonial "sigh of relief"
14:15 Defeat of European colonialism
14:57 US imperial message to Global South
15:58 (CLIP) "Western civilization"
16:30 Western civilization built on colonialism
17:00 (CLIP) Trump invites Europe to join
17:15 Rubio identifies as European, not Cuban
18:28 (CLIP) Rubio praises European colonizers
19:21 (CLIP) Rubio's ancestry in Italy & Spain
20:07 Capitalism vs anti-imperialist socialism
21:26 (CLIP) Anti-communism unites West
22:47 Cold War Two against China
23:42 New supply chain to cut out China
25:26 (CLIP) "Western supply chain"
25:49 US goal: reverse decolonization
26:19 Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi
27:05 China opposes imperialism
27:42 China's speech at MSC
28:38 Need to reform the UN
29:36 Equality for countries
30:20 China opposes new cold war
30:59 Multipolar world based on sovereignty
32:34 Global South is rising
33:13 US empire wants global dictatorship
33:49 USA vs China: polar opposites
35:18 Outro

The Donald Trump administration has imposed an extreme oil blockade to prevent Cuba from getting fuel from any country. Marco Rubio wants to collapse the economy, causing millions of civilians to starve and suffer in order to overthrow the revolutionary Cuban government. Ben Norton explains the monstrous history of US imperialism and its siege of Cuba.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ykeYsIRqKQ

Topics
0:00 US oil blockade of Cuba
1:09 USA starves Cuban women & children
2:23 Interview with Cuban mother
3:57 Far-right Miami Congress members
4:40 Shutting down Cuba's free universities
5:41 US blockade is illegal
6:06 Trump threatens tariffs on oil sellers
6:40 US empire attacks international law
7:48 US war on Cuban Revolution
8:08 Goal: "Hunger, desperation, & overthrow"
9:29 Trump's war on Cuba
10:25 (CLIP) Marco Rubio wants regime change
10:58 Marco Rubio, warmonger in chief
12:42 Miami Mafia wants to exploit Cuba
13:16 Narco Rubio's links to drugs
15:12 Trump admin attacks Cuba
16:13 Trump executive order on Cuba
17:05 Monroe to Donroe Doctrine
17:57 Russia vows to send Cuba oil
18:43 USA seizes oil tankers
19:26 (CLIP) Trump vows to steal oil tankers
20:09 China supports Cuba
21:30 US-China trade
22:01 Will Brazil help Cuba?
22:34 Mexico is in a tough spot
23:35 US attack on Venezuela
24:26 World opposes US embargo (UN votes)
26:12 US threatens secondary sanctions
27:28 How the embargo works
29:24 Gains of the Cuban Revolution
30:56 Extremist Miami Congress members
31:36 US politicians call to asphyxiate Cuba
32:06 US corporate colonization
33:33 US imperialism
34:24 Outro

The USA is waging a new cold war on China, and trying to recruit countries in the Asia-Pacific region to join it. Vietnam refuses, and is making plans for a potential second war with the United States. Ben Norton explains the complex geopolitics of Southeast Asia and the US empire's strategy.

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

Topics
0:00 Cold War Two against China
1:00 Vietnam's "bamboo diplomacy"
2:18 Vietnam prepares for new war with USA
4:07 US-Vietnam relations
5:38 Fears of US interventionism
7:22 US National Security Strategy
8:10 Monroe (Donroe) Doctrine
9:08 US "Indo-Pacific" strategy
10:55 US imperialism
12:51 China-Vietnam relations
13:38 Non-Aligned Movement
14:10 BRICS
14:49 Vietnam's economy: GDP
15:38 Incomes in Vietnam
16:54 Investment-led growth
17:44 Vietnam's manufacturing exports
18:18 Socialist market economy
19:30 Vietnam's "Four Nos" policy
20:51 Vietnam's "2nd US Invasion Plan"
23:48 US-backed "color revolution" fears
25:03 Shift in US imperial strategy
27:17 Divide and conquer
28:24 Trump, Biden, Obama
29:07 Vietnam & China share vision
30:02 China & Vietnam deepen ties
30:43 China-Vietnam conflict
32:21 ASEAN
33:28 Thailand foreign policy
34:41 Southeast Asian model
35:39 Outro

The United States is waging medieval economic war. Donald Trump's "maximum pressure" campaign on Iran is "designed to collapse its already buckling economy", boasted Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Ben Norton explains how the US is trying to suffocate Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba by collapsing their currencies and causing extreme inflation, using illegal sanctions and blockades.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AQWr6Rtybg

Topics
0:00 Economic war
1:02 USA has sanctioned 1/3rd of countries
1:40 Sanctions kill 560,000 people per year
2:46 US sanctions on Iran
3:54 Trump threatens to bomb Iran (again)
5:20 Map of US troops in Middle East
6:58 Economic war against Iran
8:21 (CLIP) Scott Bessent: "Collapse" Iran
10:17 (CLIP) Bessent: Crash Iran currency
11:13 (CLIP) Bessent: Stop Iran oil exports
11:34 Dollar hegemony & financial system
12:33 "Making Iran broke again"
13:09 Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman
14:20 Inflation & US sanctions on Iran
20:40 Goal: "hunger, desperation and overthrow"
22:25 "Make the economy scream"
23:15 More US sanctions
23:50 UN experts: US sanctions are illegal
25:25 How to help the Iranian people
26:29 Outro