War on Iran is part of US plan for global domination: Economist Michael Hudson explains
War on Iran is part of the US empire's larger attempt to re-impose its unipolar dominance on the global political and financial system, argues economist Michael Hudson. Washington wants to preserve dollar hegemony and the petrodollar, while disrupting BRICS and Eurasian integration with China and Russia. He is interviewed by host Ben Norton.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DEXReFGb24
Transcript here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/06/27/war-iran-us-unipolarity-michael-hudson/
Michael Hudson's article - War on Iran is fight for US unipolar control of world: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/06/22/michael-hudson-war-iran-us-unipolar-control
Michael Hudson's website: https://michael-hudson.com
Topics
0:00 Intro: US war on Iran
3:45 Summary of US imperial strategy
8:15 Interview starts
9:00 History of US meddling in Iran
11:06 US divide-and-conquer plan
14:02 Israel: US empire's aircraft carrier
17:07 Geopolitics of Iran
18:56 China's Belt and Road Initiative
21:02 Attempt to encircle Russia & China
23:34 US aggression backfires on dollar
27:29 Oil and petrodollar
36:43 Super Imperialism
40:06 Sanctions & economic warfare
44:35 Military-Industrial Complex
51:33 Outro
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Palantir CEO predicted US war on Iran, Russia, and China
The US military will "very likely" fight a three-way war with Iran, Russia, and China, predicted Palantir CEO Alex Karp in 2024. American imperial strategist Zbigniew Brzezinski warned back in the 1990s of this Eurasian "anti-hegemonic coalition" that could challenge US global dominance. Ben Norton explains.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcZJ0eKfWFM
Topics
0:00 Trump bombs Iran
0:26 Iran hits US base in retaliation
1:21 A ceasefire?
1:53 US "peace talks" were a trap
2:07 Israel's fake Gaza "ceasefire"
2:53 Iran nuclear deal
3:40 Trump called for regime change
4:30 History of US coup, shah, & revolution
5:23 Geopolitical strategy
6:01 Palantir CEO predicted three-way war
6:41 Palantir's mass surveillance
7:05 CIA helped create Palantir
7:17 JD Vance and Peter Thiel
7:52 US calls for war on Iran
8:21 (CLIP) George Bush's "Axis of Evil"
8:44 John McCain wanted to bomb Iran
9:04 (CLIP) Senator McCain sings "bomb Iran"
9:11 John Bolton called to bomb Iran
9:45 Mike Pompeo wanted war on Iran
10:20 Trump backed war on Iran
10:49 Targets: Iran, Russia, and China
11:02 CRINK: new "Axis of Evil" rhetoric
11:42 Multipolarity challenges unipolar US empire
12:17 Rise of China
12:51 Brzezinski feared "anti-hegemonic coalition"
14:16 Palantir and US war plans
14:48 US-Israeli war on Iran
15:55 Iran fights back
16:50 Outro
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To sell US war on Iran, Trump recycles old Iraq War propaganda
Trump advisor admits: War on Iran targets China, seeking 'US global dominance'
The war on Iran seeks "US global dominance" and to "weaken China", said Donald Trump's former national security advisor, General Michael Flynn. He admitted that the US is giving Israel intelligence, weapons, and training. Ben Norton explains.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuNHt1-uWjE
The real reasons for the US-Israeli war on Iran, explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwH780cEcEQ
Topics
0:00 (CLIPS) US-Israeli war on Iran
0:41 Trump advisor Michael Flynn
1:56 Steve Bannon interview
2:43 (CLIP) US support for Israel
3:33 (CLIP) Fight for "Western civilization"
3:51 Mike Flynn's Christian nationalism
4:15 Pete Hegseth's "American crusade"
5:04 Germany: Israel does West's "dirty work"
5:48 Trump: US "controls" Iran's skies
6:22 Trump approved attack on Iran
6:38 Trump demands "surrender"
7:02 CIA coup in Iran in 1953
7:55 (CLIP) Install pro-US Iranian regime
8:13 Targeting China
8:28 (CLIP) To "focus on China"
8:42 Targeting China
8:57 (CLIP) Pivot to Asia
9:05 Pivot to Asia
9:33 (CLIP) "China, China, China"
10:33 Allying with India
11:05 (CLIP) India's role
11:47 Israel-India relations
13:04 Shanghai Cooperation Org (SCO)
14:42 US divide-and-conquer strategy
15:30 (CLIP) "US global dominance"
15:41 Goals of US-Israeli war on Iran
17:16 Outro
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The real reasons for the US-Israeli war on Iran, explained
The United States and Israel are waging war on Iran, but why? What are their real goals? Ben Norton explains the imperial strategy to impose US hegemony on West Asia (aka the Middle East), destroy the Axis of Resistance, colonize Palestine, destabilize the revolutionary Iranian government, preserve the petrodollar system, prevent de-dollarization, divide BRICS, and break up the Iran-Russia-China partnership.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwH780cEcEQ
How Israel's war on Iran was made in USA: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/06/14/israel-war-iran-us-trump-support/
US pressures Saudi Arabia to sell oil in dollars, not Chinese yuan: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/08/10/us-saudi-arabia-sell-oil-dollars-chinese-yuan/
Topics
0:00 US support for Israeli attacks
4:38 Goals of US-Israeli war on Iran
10:13 Israel: outpost of US empire
14:35 US imperial strategy
16:28 Geopolitics of West Asia (Middle East)
17:50 Oil and gas
21:11 Geostrategic chokepoints
24:53 Axis of Resistance
28:33 Syria: Fall of Assad government
31:44 US plan to overthrow 7 countries
33:54 Iranian Revolution
35:53 Anti-colonial movements
39:14 Dedollarization
41:49 Petrodollar and OPEC oil embargo
47:05 Super Imperialism
49:36 Petrodollar challenge
52:43 BRICS
55:55 Shanghai Cooperation Organization
58:53 Iran-Russia-China partnership
1:04:05 US divide-and-conquer strategy
1:06:03 Outro
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