Podcasts about multipolarista

We look at JFK's admirable but doomed attempt to salvage US-Indonesia relations and avert catastrophe in Sukarno's Indonesia. This is the 25th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. Again I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange

We look at JFK's admirable but doomed attempt to repair US-Egyptian relations and stabilize the Middle East by working with Nasser. This is the 26th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. Again I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange

  We look at JFK's conflicting Latin America policies—specifically the Alliance for Progress and his Cuba policies in the wake of the Bay of Pigs fiasco. This is the 22nd installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. Again I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange We look at JFK's conflicting Latin America policies—specifically the Alliance for Progress and his Cuba policies in the wake of the Bay of Pigs fiasco. This is the 22nd installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. Again I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange

We are excited to announce the creation of the independent media outlet Geopolitical Economy Report - an evolution and expansion of Multipolarista. Our team will be growing, and we have exciting new projects planned, including a regular show with economists Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai. Editor-in-chief Ben Norton explains the changes (and the continuity). VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=v8h8viUeDr4

  In this episode, we start to look at JFK's presidency. Coincidentally, we are able to kick off our exploration of the Kennedy years right after our last episode (#87) on the 59th anniversary of the assassination in Dallas. In this episode, we discuss JFK's background—his rise from son of privilege to World War II hero to Congressman to Senator to President. We look at the forces he had to accommodate and confront, and we look at how the Bay of Pigs fiasco impacted the early months of his presidency. This is the 18th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange In this episode, we start to look at JFK's presidency. Coincidentally, we are able to kick off our exploration of the Kennedy years right after our last episode (#87) on the 59th anniversary of the assassination in Dallas. In this episode, we discuss JFK's background—his rise from son of privilege to World War II hero to Congressman to Senator to President. We look at the forces he had to accommodate and confront, and we look at how the Bay of Pigs fiasco impacted the early months of his presidency. This is the 18th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange

  In this episode, we look at how JFK approached American policy in SE Asia in 1961—the first year of his presidency. Specifically, we look at how handled Laos and Vietnam during this time—culminating in his November 22, 1963 NSAM which increased military support and training for South Vietnam, even as JFK resisted enormous Pentagon/CIA pressure to commit US ground troops. This is the 19th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange In this episode, we look at how JFK approached American policy in SE Asia in 1961—the first year of his presidency. Specifically, we look at how handled Laos and Vietnam during this time—culminating in his November 22, 1963 NSAM which increased military support and training for South Vietnam, even as JFK resisted enormous Pentagon/CIA pressure to commit US ground troops. This is the 19th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange

  In this episode, we look at how JFK approached the so-called Third World—examining Rostow's modernization theory as well as cases in Africa and Indonesia. This is the 20th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. Again I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange In this episode, we look at how JFK approached the so-called Third World—examining Rostow's modernization theory as well as cases in Africa and Indonesia. This is the 20th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. Again I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange

  We examine how JFK dealt with Wall Street and the domestic US economy—with a special focus on his showdown with US Steel, aka “The Corporation.” This is the 21st installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. Again I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange We examine how JFK dealt with Wall Street and the domestic US economy—with a special focus on his showdown with US Steel, aka “The Corporation.” This is the 21st installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. Again I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange

Please enjoy free access to a full and uncut episode of the Unauthorized Disclosure weekly podcast typically available for only subscribers. Ben Norton, editor for Multipolarista, returns to the podcast to discuss the United States-backed coups and lawfare in Peru and Argentina. Peru President Pedro Castillo, who came from a background as an indigenous peasant, was removed from power by the right-wing legislature and arrested. A show trial was held, and he has been sentenced to 18 months of "preventative detention." In Argentina, Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was barred by the judiciary from running for president again. The political charge against her bears a lot of similarity to the political charge that was leveled by the right-wing in Brazil against President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Ben challenges several misconceptions about Castillo and the coup in Peru while also recounting events that led up to the third impeachment against him that created the conditions for his removal. He also highlights how the US ambassador to Peru was in the CIA. While providing an overview of recent events in Argentina, Ben details the extent to which oligarchs in the country hold influence over the judiciary.

In this video version of the episode, we close out the Eisenhower years. Specifically, we look at Eisenhower's policies in Cuba and Congo—as well as how he made weak, half-hearted attempts to respond to the threats posed by the dangerously unaccountable CIA and the murderously greedy military industrial complex. As you will see, Ike's was indeed a legacy of Ashes! This is the 17th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange In this episode, we close out the Eisenhower years. Specifically, we look at Eisenhower's policies in Cuba and Congo—as well as how he made weak, half-hearted attempts to respond to the threats posed by the dangerously unaccountable CIA and the murderously greedy military industrial complex. As you will see, Ike's was indeed a legacy of Ashes! This is the 17th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange

As the U.S. government plans to send its most advanced surface-to-air missile system to Ukraine. Meanwhile, the masses of people in Ukraine and the rest of Europe are falling further into poverty as conditions worsen and prices rise. Rather than promoting peace and advocating for negotiations, the United States, European Union, and NATO are publicly discussing escalating the war, while the IMF, World Bank, and corporate interests speculate on how much profit they can make in the future rebuilding of Ukraine, having moved the country decisively away from Russia and into the Western fold. Brian is joined by Ben Norton, an investigative journalist based in Latin America, and editor of the independent news website Multipolarista, at multipolarista.com Please make an urgently-needed contribution to The Socialist Program by joining our Patreon community at patreon.com/thesocialistprogram. We rely on the generous support of our listeners to keep bringing you consistent, high-quality shows. All Patreon donors of $5 a month or more are invited to join the monthly Q&A seminar with Brian.

In this joint stream of Multipolarista with Ben Norton, the Left Lens with Danny Haiphong, and Friends of Socialist China with Carlos Martinez, we discuss the latest developments in China, including: - the government's response to protests, - relaxation of its zero-Covid policy, - President Xi Jinping's historic visit to the Persian Gulf, - Beijing's plan to buy oil and gas in its currency the yuan, directly challenging the petrodollar VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RdeeeTdwVDw

Multipolarista host Ben Norton was invited on Lee Camp's show to explain the two coups that happened in Latin America in two days: the right-wing judicial coup against Argentina's Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on December 6 and the right-wing congressional coup against Peru's President Pedro Castillo on December 7. We also discuss Latin America's attempt to create a new financial system to free itself from the hegemony of the US dollar and sanctions, as well as the Latin American left's leading role in campaigning for the freedom of political prisoner Julian Assange. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kf1b95SGUp0 Support Lee Camp at https://LeeCamp.net

Historian Aaron Good explains how the Western Big Oil corporations that dominated the global crude industry, known as the "Seven Sisters," had significant influence in the government of US President Dwight Eisenhower and inspired the CIA's first ever coup, the 1953 putsch against Iran's elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kv9n4q7IM64 This is PART 14 of the Empire and the Deep State series Multipolarista editor Ben Norton is co-hosting with Aaron Good and producer Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast. PLAYLIST with past episodes in the series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL You can support American Exception at https://patreon.com/americanexception

A history of how the US military-industrial complex was created, with its deep links to Wall Street, following the National Security Council's top secret memo NSC 68: a blueprint for the first cold war. First cold war architect George Kennan wrote in 1987: "Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial complex would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy." VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iWEsD2Tm9mk This is PART 13 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. PLAYLIST with past episodes in the series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL

Multipolarista host Ben Norton discusses an important yet little known US-Saudi "oil war" in 2014, when Washington pressured Riyadh to overproduce crude and make prices plummet on the global market in order to hurt the export-reliant economies of Russia, Iran, and Venezuela. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OuArMYIZ-Ck SOURCES: https://multipolarista.com/2022/11/18/oil-war-us-saudi-crash-russia-iran-venezuela-2014 Check out our interview with historian Aaron Good for more information on how oil is used as a geopolitical weapon: https://multipolarista.com/2022/11/16/oil-geopolitical-weapon-opec-saudi-petrodollar

Multipolarista host Ben Norton is joined by historian Aaron Good joins to discuss how oil is used as a geopolitical weapon, analyzing the 1973 OPEC oil embargo, Saudi-US alliance, petrodollar, Nixon shock and Volcker shock, and Washington-orchestrated 2014 oil crash. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Cq8z3Cwgk6Q Check out the playlist for our US Empire and the Deep State series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL Follow Aaron on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Aaron_Good_ Support Aaron's podcast American Exception at https://patreon.com/americanexception

In this episode we briefly discuss what the deep state is and is not before looking at the Eisenhower administration's imperial chicanery in Guatemala and Vietnam. This is the 15th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange In this episode we briefly discuss what the deep state is and is not before looking at the Eisenhower administration's imperial chicanery in Guatemala and Vietnam. This is the 15th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange

  We look at how Eisenhower and the Dulles Brothers handled two geopolitical hot spots of the Cold War: Indonesia and Egypt. This is the 16th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange We look at how Eisenhower and the Dulles Brothers handled two geopolitical hot spots of the Cold War: Indonesia and Egypt. This is the 16th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange

“We have to understand neoliberalism as a particular phase of capitalism dominated by US imperialism. So let's start with the last point I mentioned: regime change operation. Any country around the world, any government that tries to have state oversight over the economy opposing neoliberalism was overthrown through regime change.”Ben Norton's journalism, according to his bio, focuses primarily on US foreign policy and geopolitics, but that description doesn't do him justice. If any of our listeners are under the illusion the US government serves a purpose other than making the world safe for neoliberal monopoly capitalism, this episode is for you. If you believe neoliberalism is driven by bad ideas, this episode is for you. Ben and Steve discuss Lenin's prescience in ‘Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism,' writing about the predatory nature of finance capital a full century ago. But finance capital in 1916 was a far cry from that of today: “No one in 1916 could have imagined the level of financialization of the economy, especially the US economy – and also deindustrialization. Let's not forget that deindustrialization is something quite new in the history of capitalism. This is something that really emerges with the rise of neoliberalism, especially starting in the '70s, going into the '80s forward and this neoliberal phase of globalization.” As the mainstream media is getting our minds prepped for war, we would do well to revisit some of the other ‘enemies' in our recent past. They all had one thing in common. It had nothing to do with some crazy evil dictator threatening US national security. Ben Norton is a journalist, writer, and filmmaker. His journalism focuses primarily on US foreign policy and geopolitics. He is based in Latin America and speaks English and Spanish. @BenjaminNorton and @Multipolarista on Twitter

Matthew Furlong from our Dialectics Deep Dive series returns to the show to discuss Valentin Nikolaevich Voloshinov, a Russian Soviet linguist, whose work has been influential in the field of literary theory and Marxist theory of ideology. Other links:   Vijay Prashad - "Looking Over the Horizon at Non-Alignment and Peace" (2022) https://thetricontinental.org/studies-on-contemporary-dilemmas-2-non-alignment-and-peace/   Vijay Prashad - "Why the United States Opposed the Historical Integration of Eurasia" (2022)  https://youtu.be/i1ukha-IphA   Vijay Prashad - "What Gives Imperialists the Right to Use the Word 'Democracy'?" (2022) https://youtu.be/efEdxJrBcIg   Breakthrough News - https://www.youtube.com/c/BreakThroughNews   Multipolarista - https://www.youtube.com/c/Multipolarista   Michael Brooks & Felix Biederman - "Alex Jones' Advice for Man Unwilling to Leave Parents' House" (2018) https://youtu.be/-65HmxjIzPI   Color Theory podcast w/ Ed Charbonneau - https://www.buzzsprout.com/1859353 Outro music:  "Human Language" by Aceyalone  Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio

An analysis of undemocratic dark power and how liberal capitalism and authoritarianism are not opposites; they are inextricably linked together. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IZ1P_b13l28 This is PART 11 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. PLAYLIST with past episodes in the series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL

The Communist Party of China (CPC) is holding its 20th national congress to plan the next five years of policies. It says its goal is to "write an even more magnificent chapter for socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era." Carlos Martinez, Danny Haiphong, and Ben Norton discuss the importance of the party congress in this joint production co-sponsored by Friends of Socialist China, The Left Lens, and Multipolarista. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4IztA3jlUKs Read more in our report here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/10/21/china-20th-cpc-national-congress

  [Update: We fixed and replaced the original audio file which had a problem around the introduction] In this episode we look at the history behind NSC-68, the seminal document of the US military industrial complex. This is the 13th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. The latter portion of this episode was already posted on YouTube because we thought it was so timely after the Nord Stream attack. I hope the larger, book-related portion of the episode also provides good context for this. Strangely enough, I added that extra material to the episode plan because I thought that all of the historical exegesis from the book was really relevant to our current moment. With the Nord Stream bombing, it turned out that I was more correct than I knew. Check out the attached PDF to see the slides we refer to. Special thanks to Seamus for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange [Update: We fixed and replaced the original audio file which had a problem around the introduction] In this episode we look at the history behind NSC-68, the seminal document of the US military industrial complex. This is the 13th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. The latter portion of this episode was already posted on YouTube because we thought it was so timely after the Nord Stream attack. I hope the larger, book-related portion of the episode also provides good context for this. Strangely enough, I added that extra material to the episode plan because I thought that all of the historical exegesis from the book was really relevant to our current moment. With the Nord Stream bombing, it turned out that I was more correct than I knew. Check out the attached PDF to see the slides we refer to. Special thanks to Seamus for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange

  In this episode we look at Eisenhower's ties to Big Oil and how they influenced Operation AJAX--the CIA conspiracy which overthrew Iran's democratically elected Mohammed Mossedegh in order to install a US puppet, the Shah of Iran. This is the 14th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Check out the attached PDF to see the slides we refer to. Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange In this episode we look at Eisenhower's ties to Big Oil and how they influenced Operation AJAX--the CIA conspiracy which overthrew Iran's democratically elected Mohammed Mossedegh in order to install a US puppet, the Shah of Iran. This is the 14th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Check out the attached PDF to see the slides we refer to. Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange

The United States has acknowledged almost 500 military interventions, listed in detail in a report by congressional researchers. More than 200 were just in the last 31 years, since the fall of the Soviet Union, representing a significant increase over the hundreds of years prior. What does this explain about the nature of capitalism, war, and imperialism? Brian is joined by Ben Norton, an investigative journalist based in Latin America, and editor of the independent news website Multipolarista, which you can find at multipolarista.com. Ben's article that Ben and Brian discuss is here on his website: https://multipolarista.com/2022/09/13/us-251-military-interventions-1991. Please make an urgently-needed contribution to The Socialist Program by joining our Patreon community at patreon.com/thesocialistprogram. We rely on the generous support of our listeners to keep bringing you consistent, high-quality shows. All Patreon donors of $5 a month or more are invited to join the monthly Q&A seminar with Brian.

Multipolarista host Ben Norton is joined by journalist Camila Escalante from Brazil, where she is reporting on historic elections. Leftist presidential candidate Lula da Silva won with 48.4% and over 6 million more votes than far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. We talk about the round two coming on October 30, the Workers' Party, and the PT's grassroots strategy. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mkh1QKhZvC8 Follow Camila on Twitter at https://twitter.com/camilapress Support Camila and her work at Kawsachun News: https://patreon.com/KawsachunNews

A sociological analysis of capitalist criminality and the imperial US deep state, based on the concepts of the "higher immorality" and "crackpot realism," introduced by scholar C. Wright Mills in his book "The Power Elite." This is PART 9 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. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mxcyvUfrXsc You can support American Exception at https://patreon.com/americanexception

  In this episode, we begin our historical exploration of the post-World War 2 US empire. As explained in the book and in previous episodes of this history, the history of the post-World War 2 US empire is essentially the history of the US deep state. This is the 12th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Check out the attached PDF to see related images. Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange [Edit: The original episode file was missing the introduction as well as the final minutes.] In this episode, we begin our historical exploration of the post-World War 2 US empire. As explained in the book and in previous episodes of this history, the history of the post-World War 2 US empire is essentially the history of the US deep state. This is the 12th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Check out the attached PDF to see related images. Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange

  In this episode, we wrap up our social science exploration of imperial criminality. We discuss dark power—i.e., top-down or despotic political power. Dark power is to be contrasted with open or democratic power—power derived from consensus and persuasion. This is the 11th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Seamus for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange In this episode, we wrap up our social science exploration of imperial criminality. We discuss dark power—i.e., top-down or despotic political power. Dark power is to be contrasted with open or democratic power—power derived from consensus and persuasion. This is the 11th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Seamus for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange

  Aaron and Ben Norton of Multipolarista discuss Establishment scholar Francis Fukuyama and his strange intervention into deep state discourse. I am hoping that Fukuyama is just building up to addressing the deep state construct in future installments because he does mention some important aspects of the emergence of the state, even as he leaves out many other angles: Valuing the Deep State, Part I Valuing the Deep State Part II: The Origin of States Special thanks Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: “Nine Times” by Mock Orange Aaron and Ben Norton of Multipolarista discuss Establishment scholar Francis Fukuyama and his strange intervention into deep state discourse. I am hoping that Fukuyama is just building up to addressing the deep state construct in future installments because he does mention some important aspects of the emergence of the state, even as he leaves out many other angles: Valuing the Deep State, Part I Valuing the Deep State Part II: The Origin of States Special thanks Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: “Nine Times” by Mock Orange

Ben Norton from Multipolarista with a more in-depth take on "Maga-communism" feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1345663…aaron-good.mp3Jackson Hinkle admits to being a grifter youtu.be/EIAHdQ8PQwUCars & Comrades Podcast https://linktr.ee/CarsAndComradesCollective Action Comics Podcast: podbay.fm/p/collective-action-comics www.patreon.com/collectiveactioncomicsCosper's weekly Kant lecture discord.com/events/873020220380…1016486757405040713 discord.com/invite/GuvnFcgVzqDecolonized Buffalo: www.instagram.com/decolonized_buffalo/ open.spotify.com/show/5HNK0mWbkbxoynVEKwgvVC RadLeftDad: www.instagram.com/radleftdad/ twitter.com/radleftdadRootin' 4 Lenin youtube.com/channel/UC8rptl6HjNotk-2PAwrkfWwThe Intervention Podcast: theinterventionpod.buzzsprout.com/ instagram.com/intervention_podTransXBombshell: www.twitch.tv/transxbombshell twitter.com/transXbombshell Turn Leftist Podcast linktr.ee/turnleftist instagram.com/turnleftist

This week we talked about #MAGACommunism Ben Norton from Multipolarista with a more in-depth take on "Maga-communism" https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1345663672-multipolarista-fukuyama-deep-state-aaron-good.mp3 Jackson Hinkle admits to being a grifter https://youtu.be/EIAHdQ8PQwU Cars & Comrades Podcast https://media.rss.com/carsandcomrades/feed.xml https://instagram.com/cars_and_comrades_podcast/ https://twitter.com/CarsAndComrades https://facebook.com/Cars-Comrades-Po…-101908671824034 Collective Action Comics Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coll…cs/id1573028630 https://podbay.fm/p/collective-action-comics https://www.patreon.com/collectiveactioncomics Cosper's weekly Kant lecture https://discord.com/events/873020220380…1016486757405040713 https://discord.com/invite/GuvnFcgVzq Decolonized Buffalo on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/decolonized_buffalo/ https://twitter.com/decolonizedbp https://open.spotify.com/show/5HNK0mWbkbxoynVEKwgvVC https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deco…lo/id1530454129 RadLeftDad: https://www.instagram.com/radleftdad/ https://twitter.com/radleftdad Rootin' 4 Lenin https://youtube.com/channel/UC8rptl6HjNotk-2PAwrkfWw The Intervention Podcast: https://theinterventionpod.buzzsprout.com/ https://instagram.com/intervention_pod TransXBombshell: https://www.twitch.tv/transxbombshell https://twitter.com/transXbombshell https://www.instagram.com/transxbombshell/ Turn Leftist Podcast https://linktr.ee/turnleftist https://instagram.com/turnleftist https://twitter.com/turnleftistpod

  Aaron and Ben Norton of Multipolarista discuss Establishment scholar Francis Fukuyama and his strange intervention into deep state discourse. I am hoping that Fukuyama is just building up to addressing the deep state construct in future installments because he does mention some important aspects of the emergence of the state, even as he leaves out many other angles: Valuing the Deep State, Part I Valuing the Deep State Part II: The Origin of States Special thanks Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: “Nine Times” by Mock Orange Aaron and Ben Norton of Multipolarista discuss Establishment scholar Francis Fukuyama and his strange intervention into deep state discourse. I am hoping that Fukuyama is just building up to addressing the deep state construct in future installments because he does mention some important aspects of the emergence of the state, even as he leaves out many other angles: Valuing the Deep State, Part I Valuing the Deep State Part II: The Origin of States Special thanks Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: “Nine Times” by Mock Orange

To discuss the disinformation industry and how it's contributed to the collapse of foreign reporting in the West, Rania Khalek was joined by Ben Norton, a Latin America based journalist and founder of Multipolarista. Ben's article discussed in the episode: https://multipolarista.com/2022/04/14/new-york-times-attack-propaganda/Listen to every episode of Rania Khalek Dispatches anywhere you get podcasts.Apple: https://apple.co/3zeYpeW Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3za9DRK

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. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1PGah9yfulw

  We discuss trace the development of parapolitics, deep politics, and the deep state in this penultimate episode on the social science of imperial criminality. This is Part 10 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well as our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "World of Machines" by Mock Orange [Sorry for initially posting the wrong file--Aaron] We discuss trace the development of parapolitics, deep politics, and the deep state in this penultimate episode on the social science of imperial criminality. This is Part 10 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well as our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "World of Machines" by Mock Orange

In this incredibly fun episode, we talk with Ben Norton about multipolarity, from both theoretical and real-world analytical lenses.  Who better to discuss the topic of multipolarity with us than Mr. Multipolarista himself? The conversation itself was excellent, as is Ben's work more generally.  If you don't already check out Multipolarista's content regularly, this is your notice to do so!   Ben Norton is a journalist, writer, and filmmaker based in Nicaragua, and is the founder of https://multipolarista.com/.  You can also see his work on his personal website https://bennorton.com/ and on Twitter @BenjaminNorton.  Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory  We also have a new (free!) newsletter you can sign up for!

Economist Michael Hudson joins Multipolarista host Ben Norton to discuss partial student debt relief in the US, inflation and the Fed, disaster capitalism in Ukraine, and China's challenge to the petrodollar. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AEZBOaPKWjw TRANSCRIPT: https://multipolarista.com/2022/09/08/michael-hudson-debt-inflation-ukraine-petrodollar Prof. Hudson's official website: https://michael-hudson.com

  We discuss the higher immorality and crackpot realism as described in The Power Elite—the scholarly masterpiece of sociologist C. Wright Mills—and how these concepts can inform the sociology of the imperial American deep state. This is Part 9 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Seamus for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True"by Mock Orange We discuss the higher immorality and crackpot realism as described in The Power Elite—the scholarly masterpiece of sociologist C. Wright Mills—and how these concepts can inform the sociology of the imperial American deep state. This is Part 9 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Seamus for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True"by Mock Orange

West's neoliberal 'age of abundance' is over, as war and sanctions boomerang home (44:44) - Ben Norton of Multipolarista Ben Norton is a journalist, writer, and filmmaker. He is the founder and editor of Multipolarista, and is based in Latin America. Multipolarista is an independent news outlet reporting on the transition to a multipolar world. China's Economic CRASH: Why It's Coming & What It Means - The Coin Bureau - The Coin Bureau is your go-to informational portal to the Cryptocurrency galaxy. Guy, the Crypto guy is the captain of this crypto ship and he takes you on this epic journey into the cryptoverse.   How you are PROGRAMMED to be poor - Sorelle Amore Finance -Sorelle Amore is an Aussie entrepreneur who focuses on obtaining ultimate levels of freedom in every area of life and is an advocate for alternative and free living.

  We discuss the concepts of hegemony and empire in relation to the USA!  [We updated the file after a slightly incomplete file was missing...basically without the very brief intro] This is Episode 4 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange We discuss the concepts of hegemony and empire in relation to the USA!  [We updated the file after a slightly incomplete file was missing...basically without the very brief intro] This is Episode 4 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange

  We discuss the historians and historiography of the US empire. This is Episode 5 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "This Nation" by Mock Orange We discuss the historians and historiography of the US empire. This is Episode 5 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "This Nation" by Mock Orange

  We discuss American scholars and their failure to grapple with US imperialism. This is Episode 6 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange We discuss American scholars and their failure to grapple with US imperialism. This is Episode 6 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange

  We discuss The Power Elite—the scholarly masterpiece of sociologist C. Wright Mills—and how it informs our understandings of the imperial American deep state. This is Part 8 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series--and who did the art for this episode!  Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True"by Mock Orange We discuss The Power Elite—the scholarly masterpiece of sociologist C. Wright Mills—and how it informs our understandings of the imperial American deep state. This is Part 8 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series--and who did the art for this episode!  Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True"by Mock Orange

Six months into the war in Ukraine, Europe is still shooting itself in the feet while western countries pour an endless supply of weapons into the conflict to bleed Russia and censorship is ramped up to suppress any criticism of the policies leading us towards a dystopian nightmare. What does this mean for multipolarity? I'm joined by Ben Norton of Multipolarista to discuss. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

A discussion of different theoretical concepts of imperialism and hegemony and how they relate to the United States empire. This is PART 4 of the Empire and the Deep State series Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton is co-hosting with historian Aaron Good and producer Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OYywVTzV524 You can support American Exception at https://patreon.com/americanexception American Exception website: https://americanexception.com

Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton responds to smears from a neoconservative think tank funded by Western governments and corporations, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), which attacked him over his factual journalism reporting on NATO support for far-right extremists in Ukraine. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cHPKpUJBfZ4 Read the Multipolarista article being attacked: https://multipolarista.com/2022/03/10/nato-arming-training-nazis-ukraine-azov This is a clip from the Unauthorized Disclosure podcast hosted by Kevin Gosztola and Rania Khalek. Support Unauthorized Disclosure here: https://thedissenter.org/unauthorized-disclosure-podcast

Returning to the show, Ben Norton, journalist and editor of Multipolarista.com, discusses the FBI raiding former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate and some responses from people who are part of the left. BECOME A SUBSCRIBER: Sign up for the Unauthorized Podcast for $4/month here — https://thedissenter.org/#/portal/signup Ben also responds to an attack against his reporting by a neoconservative think tank that is funded by several Western governments, and he comments on the backlash among African countries to the US telling them what they can and can't import from Russia, when they are struggling and may have nowhere else to turn for particular goods.

  We discuss the creation of the US national security state and the rise of US exceptionism! This is Episode 3 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange We discuss the creation of the US national security state and the rise of US exceptionism! This is Episode 3 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series. Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange

This is the first episode of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series. We discuss the book's origins and the main research questions that propelled the research and scholarship. Essentially: Why does US foreign policy remain unchanged across administrations  and why has US democracy declined with the rise of the US global dominance in era following World War 2? Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange This is the first episode of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series. We discuss the book's origins and the main research questions that propelled the research and scholarship. Essentially: Why does US foreign policy remain unchanged across administrations  and why has US democracy declined with the rise of the US global dominance in era following World War 2? Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange

A preview of the latest bonus episode. Get access to it and hours and hours of bonus content by signing up at the $5 level.   Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) returns to the show to talk about the recent wave of left electoral victories across Latin America. Subscribe to Multipolarista!    

Part two of the Empire and the Deep State series that Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton is co-hosting with historian Aaron Good, of the American Exception podcast. We discuss deep politics and the history of the US empire up until World War Two. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vJmEwRRsjbo American Exception website: https://americanexception.com

*I was invited to friend of the show Ben Norton's Multipolarista to discuss Wag the Dog, an excellent, somewhat forgotten political satire of US media and war.* The 1997 Hollywood film "Wag the Dog" perfectly predicted the propaganda tactics the US government and media would use decades later in its wars in Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and beyond. In this special joint episode, Multipolarista host Benjamin Norton is joined by Sina Rahmani of The East Is a Podcast to discuss the movie and how shockingly relevant it still is today. Video edition available here  Support The East Is a Podcast at https://patreon.com/east_podcast Follow Sina at https://twitter.com/urorientalist || Multipolarista || Please support Multipolarista at https://multipolarista.com/support Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/multipolarista Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/multipolarista Telegram: https://t.me/multipolarista  

For the entire discussion, to receive bonus content, support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Ben Norton talks about China, Russia, Ukraine, NATO and a multipolar world. Ben Norton is a journalist, the editor of Multipolarista (https://multipolarista.com/) and a former editor at The Grayzone.

The 1997 Hollywood film "Wag the Dog" perfectly predicted the propaganda tactics the US government and media would use decades later in its wars in Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and beyond. In this special joint episode, Multipolarista host Benjamin Norton is joined by Sina Rahmani of The East Is a Podcast to discuss the movie and how shockingly relevant it still is today. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BIZFAOtD5rM Support The East Is a Podcast at https://patreon.com/east_podcast Follow Sina at https://twitter.com/urorientalist

 "Everyone can see that the U.S. has been in decline for several years,” Ben Norton told Watchdog host Lowkey today, explaining that the days of a unipolar world where Washington dominates the planet are over.Ben Norton is a journalist, writer, and filmmaker. He is the founder and editor of Multipolarista, a website dedicated to presenting international and geopolitical news through the lens of multipolarity. “Obviously this is going to be a decades-long process of decline,” he said of the United States, “But we are very clearly seeing alternatives emerging.”In the past two decades, the U.S. grip on global power has been slipping, and new nations and organizations have begun to emerge that challenge American dominance. One of these is the BRICS, an economic and increasingly political bloc of emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Argentina, Iran and others have expressed an interest in joining this alliance, which has now laid out plans for its own bank and international currency, two moves strike at the heart of American economic hegemony.“Now that the U.S. has sanctioned one-quarter of the global population, and especially now with the economic war on Russia, BRICS has emerged as this new economic infrastructure bringing countries together that want to get around Western sanctions,” Norton said.Russia's invasion of Ukraine has spurred the U.S. and its NATO allies to attempt to force poorer nations to turn their backs on Russia, politically and economically. And they have been trying to do the same in an effort to prevent China's continued economic rise. But it has been to little avail, as even nations not known for defying orders have refused to line up behind the West.For Norton, this is because these states see the writing on the wall: that U.S. economic and political power is waning and that the 21st century will be a multipolar one. As he explained:Not only are countries around the world saying they want to continue doing business with China and Russia because they want Chinese technologies and goods and Russian commodities but they are also saying ‘look, we can do business with these countries and they don't force us to privatize all of our state assets, they don't force us to cut social spending and the minimum wage,' [like the U.S. does]...Countries are saying that ‘we have done this neoliberal model for decades and it has resulted in disaster.'”China is now the world's manufacturing powerhouse, while Russia is a huge source of vital commodities such as oil and natural gas, food and fertilizer. The U.S., by contrast, has little to offer except missiles and Netflix. Yet through coups, sanctions and other forms of economic warfare, the U.S. has been able to dictate the economic path of the world.“What the U.S. is doing is trying to prevent any alternatives to the neoliberal capitalist model,” Norton said. Washington retains a strong military edge, however. The worry is that if all it has is a hammer, it will see nails everywhere it goes.Another region challenging the U.S.-run global order is Latin America, where we have seen a resurgence of left-wing anti-imperialist movements. Many of these have come to power already. Later on this year, however, Brazil is poised to elect Lula da Silva as president. If the largest and most populous country in the region re-elects an anti-imperialist socialist as its leader (as polls predict it will), it could be a significant and permanent blow against American power in the Western hemisphere, a region President Joe Biden calls “America's front yard.”Support the show

Calla Walsh, anti-imperialist writer and organizer, joins the show to discuss her article published in Multipolarista titled "Abortion in Cuba vs US shows which country is truly democratic".   We cover her organizing experiences and her recent visit to Cuba as a member of a her local Cuba solidarity group. In our in-depth discussion we compare the reality of Cuba's thriving socialist democracy to that of the illusory capitalist democracy of the United States through examining protections and status of abortion rights in the two countries.  Calla can be found on twitter: @CallaWalsh   To learn more about the National Network on Cuba check out: nnoc.info   The article and more information regarding our discussion can be found on the patreon posting of this episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/69206196/ Episode Credits Intro/Outro: (Internationale Trap Remix by Matt Cousins) Opening Interlude Voiceover: (When the People Rule by Fidel Castro - Read by Socialism For All) Opening Interlude Music:  ("Jump" - Hype Freestyle Type Beat by Zach)

Part one of the Empire and the Deep State series that Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton is co-hosting with historian Aaron Good, of the American Exception podcast. We discuss the origins of the US empire and deep state, why US foreign policy remain unchanged across administrations, and why democracy has declined with the rise of the US global dominance. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=i1FlXcwhsp4 American Exception website: https://americanexception.com For early access, subscribe to Multipolarista at Patreon: https://patreon.com/multipolarista For early access, subscribe to American Exception at Patreon: https://patreon.com/americanexception

  This is the first episode of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series. We discuss the book's origins and the main research questions that propelled the research and scholarship. Essentially: Why does US foreign policy remain unchanged across administrations  and why has US democracy declined with the rise of the US global dominance in era following World War 2? Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange This is the first episode of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series. We discuss the book's origins and the main research questions that propelled the research and scholarship. Essentially: Why does US foreign policy remain unchanged across administrations  and why has US democracy declined with the rise of the US global dominance in era following World War 2? Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange

Ben Norton, Host of 'Rules-Based Disorder' & Editor of Multipolarista, joins us to discuss how the election of Colombia's 1st leftist leader & other developments in South/Central America hint at a tilt towards a multipolar world Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Multipolarista host Ben Norton speaks with historian Aaron Good about his book "American Exception: Empire and the Deep State," detailing the breakdown of democracy, the criminality that lies at the heart of US government policy, and the corporate interests driving it. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mY82b8hC7JQ This is the first part in a joint series between Multipolarista and Aaron's podcast American Exception. You can get the book here: https://skyhorsepublishing.com/9781510769137/american-exception Follow Aaron on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Aaron_Good_

It takes one sun to set - for another one to rise. Today we're joined by Ben Norton from Multipolarista for a brilliantly insightful overview of the gradual "fall of empire".We strongly encourage you to check out his work and give him your support over at: Multipolarista website: https://multipolarista.com/Their Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/multipolaristaThe next episode, Episode 34 - Dr. Richard Wolff - what is to be done s available NOW 1 full week early on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/TheDeprogramBonus Episode 6: The Jihad squad is also available exclusively on Patreon.Support the show, get bonus episodes, early releases, discord access and a lot more by donating: https://www.patreon.com/TheDeprogramSupport the show

This episode is now available 1 week early on Patreon! Support the show, get benefits, and help us stay as independent as possible by telling sponsors to f*ck off: https://www.patreon.com/TheDeprogramIt takes one sun to set - for another one to rise. In this episode we're joined by Ben Norton from Multipolarista for a brilliantly insightful overview of the gradual "fall of empire".SUPPORT ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheDeprogramSupport the show

Multipolarista host Benjamin Norton speaks with Venezuelan journalist Jesús Rodríguez Espinoza, editor of independent news outlet the Orinoco Tribune, about the victory of left-wing candidate Gustavo Petro in Colombia's presidential election, the easing of a few US sanctions, and Venezuela's 20-year cooperation agreement with Iran. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wpouWfsvLYI Read the Orinoco Tribune at https://orinocotribune.com

Pat talks to journalist Ben Norton of Multipolarista about multiple countries and regions in Latin America. The interview focuses on what we miss as consumers of US media, namely the working-class opinion of Socialist regimes like Maduro in Venezuela and the Cuban government. The topic of Puerto Rico also came up and Ben explains the devastating consequences that have come from the privatization of national utilities after Hurricane Maria. As a show, we have always been dedicated to countering mainstream media narratives and this episode takes that same focus to examine Latin American countries that are often misrepresented in American media. In the open, CMoney, Dan, and Pat provide a lot of context that will help the listener understand the issues discussed in interviews. Also discussed is the recent Congressional passage of a law allowing for Puerto Rico to hold a vote deciding its future: will Puerto Rico join the Union as the 51st state, vote for independence, or vote for something in between? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/trickledownsocialism/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/trickledownsocialism/support

Multipolarista host Benjamin Norton is joined by Beijing-based journalist Ian Goodrum to discuss the Chinese government's campaign against inequality, its crackdown on billionaires, and its push for what it calls "common prosperity." VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TiJ2-Uw_0tA Follow Ian on Twitter at https://twitter.com/isgoodrum

Multipolarista host Benjamin Norton interviews the secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance (ALBA), Sacha Llorenti, about Latin America and the Caribbean's rebellion against the US government's Summit of the Americas. Presidents of eight countries in the region boycotted the conference. We discuss ALBA's alternative summit in Cuba, and growing efforts at economic integration against imperialism. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TQu4UcEKCwU TRANSCRIPT: https://multipolarista.com/2022/06/08/alba-summit-americas-sacha-llorenti

Multipolarista host Benjamin Norton interviewed US Congress candidate Geoff Young, who is running in Kentucky's 6th district on an anti-war platform calling for abolishing the CIA. We discussed Young's 12-point program, which also seeks to "End the failed 'War on Drugs,'" prevent nuclear war, establish a Medicare-for-All system of universal healthcare, dismantle the US military's Africa Command (AFRICOM), increase taxes on billionaires and millionaires, and "Get Big Money out of politics." VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JyKdEizCOII Young's website: https://young4ky.com

Colombia's presidential candidate Gustavo Petro of the left-wing Pacto Histórico coalition won round one of the May 29 elections in a landslide. He will compete against a far-right hundred-millionaire real estate mogul, Rodolfo Hernández, in a runoff vote on June 19. Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton speaks with members of the anti-imperialist Troika Kollective in Colombia to discuss the election and the political situation in the country. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SfIJ9uf40sU Troika Kollective website: https://troikakollective.com Support our work on Patreon at https://patreon.com/multipolarista

Ben Norton of Multipolarista talks with Aaron about the end of US unipolarity (i.e., global dominance) and the dawn of a new multipolar world. Unlike the previous multipolar eras which led to colonialism and two world wars, the emerging multipolar world is more than just white imperialist powers in competition with each other. After the discussion with Ben Norton, Aaron talks to Mike Lesiuk and Seamus McGuiness about the new American Exception website.  The first article at the site is Aaron's 2015 piece, "American Exception: Hegemony and the Dissimulation of the State." Follow Ben Norton on Twitter and visit his excellent website, Multipolarista.com Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: “The End of the World” by Mock Orange Ben Norton of Multipolarista talks with Aaron about the end of US unipolarity (i.e., global dominance) and the dawn of a new multipolar world. Unlike the previous multipolar eras which led to colonialism and two world wars, the emerging multipolar world is more than just white imperialist powers in competition with each other. After the discussion with Ben Norton, Aaron talks to Mike Lesiuk and Seamus McGuiness about the new American Exception website.  The first article at the site is Aaron's 2015 piece, "American Exception: Hegemony and the Dissimulation of the State." Follow Ben Norton on Twitter and visit his excellent website, Multipolarista.com Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: “The End of the World” by Mock Orange

Multipolarista host Benjamin Norton and journalist Robbie Martin discuss how neoconservative US imperialists like Fox News host Tucker Carlson (a CIA applicant) and Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis cynically tried to rebrand as "right-wing populists," while pushing war on China, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, and Palestine. These bogus "populists" portrayed Donald Trump as an "anti-war" president, while he killed top Iranian and Iraqi officials, imposed suffocating sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela, waged a hybrid war on China, bombed the hell out of Afghanistan, expanded the war on Yemen, strongly supported apartheid Israel and Saudi Arabia, militarily occupied Syria and Iraq to take their oil, and tore up arms control agreements with Russia. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_QHoW8Vf8wg Follow Robbie on Twitter at https://twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

Multipolarista host Benjamin Norton is joined by journalist Asa Winstanley to discuss Operation Gladio, the NATO "stay behind" networks in which the CIA and other Western intelligence agencies recruited, armed, and trained former Nazis, other fascists, and right-wing terrorists to wage a war on the left. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UPhFCAI4SnQ Read and support Asa's reporting at his Substack: https://asawinstanley.substack.com

Journalist and filmmaker Benjamin Norton joins Kiran Fatima for a discussion about being an anti imperialist, anti war, socialist and a journalist, especially in light of the ongoing deterioration of Western, bourgeois media.Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton (https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton)Ben's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwlvSJdcMc7iGdR-aducSog (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwlvSJdcMc7iGdR-aducSog)Multipolarista Website: https://multipolarista.com (https://multipolarista.com)Multipolarista YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/Multipolarista (https://www.youtube.com/c/Multipolarista)................Please consider supporting Red Life Planet by becoming a Patron:https://www.patreon.com/redlifeplanet (https://www.patreon.com/redlifeplanet) ❤️Join the Red Life Planet Substack email newsletter:https://redlifeplanet.substack.com (https://redlifeplanet.substack.com)Are you a socialist artist or writer? Submit your work for the upcoming Red Life Planet magazine! More details here:https://redlifeplanet.com/submissions (https://redlifeplanet.com/submissions) Get full access to Red Life Planet at redlifeplanet.substack.com/subscribe

Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton is joined by Mexican professor and activist Renata Turrent to discuss how the progressive government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) nationalized Mexico's lithium, an important resource needed to create electronic technologies, while also reversing privatization of oil by corrupt past neoliberal governments. (This was originally published on April 29, 2022.) VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-xmfX3fb7SQ

Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton is joined by journalist Abraham Marquez to discuss how the Joe Biden administration has continued many of Donald Trump's brutal anti-immigrant policies, giving $284.7 million more to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and expanding detention centers, while turning away refugees of US wars and weaponizing displaced Ukrainians. (This was originally published on April 23, 2022.) VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zSQ4gEb_fiY

The war in Ukraine has ushered in a new era of global politics, and it has also ushered in a new political witch hunt against dissenting voices. With more and more intensity, the corporate media – including social media giants – are closing ranks to squeeze out anyone who dares speak up in opposition to the Pentagon's narrative and against catastrophic confrontation between the United States and Russia. Brian is joined by Ben Norton. He is a journalist and editor of Multipolarista. You can find his work at BenNorton.com. Please make an urgently-needed contribution to The Socialist Program by joining our Patreon community at patreon.com/thesocialistprogram. We rely on the generous support of our listeners to keep bringing you consistent, high-quality shows. All Patreon donors of $5 a month or more are invited to join the monthly Q&A seminar with Brian.

As is the case with any war, the war in Ukraine is being fought on many fronts: in the streets, in the financial realm, and in the media. The battle over information about the war itself, how it started, and who is most at fault (and what their motivations are) is a critical factor shaping how governments and citizens around the world respond to the unfolding conflict. In this panel, TRNN contributor Radhika Desai speaks with Benjamin Norton and Daniel Haiphong about Western media's coverage of the war, corporate media's complicity in fomenting conflict and feeding the military-industrial complex, and about what critical media literacy tools people can develop to better navigate the fog of war.Benjamin Norton is a journalist, writer, and filmmaker based in Latin America. He is the founder and editor of Multipolarista and was formerly a producer and reporter for TRNN. Daniel Haiphong is a journalist, writer, political analyst, and host of The Left Lens. He is a weekly contributor to The Black Agenda Report and his work has been featured in a range of outlets, including MintPress, CounterPunch, and Friends of Socialist China. He is also the co-author of American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News—From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror.Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/how-the-war-in-ukraine-is-being-fought-in-the-mediaPre-Production: Paul GrahamStudio/Post-Production: Cameron Granadino, Adam ColeyHelp us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer: Donate: https://therealnews.com/donate-podSign up for our newsletter: https://therealnews.com/newsletter-podLike us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnewsFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnews

The MintPress podcast, “The Watchdog,” hosted by British-Iraqi hip hop artist Lowkey, closely examines organizations about which it is in the public interest to know – including intelligence, lobby and special interest groups influencing policies that infringe on free speech and target dissent. The Watchdog goes against the grain by casting a light on stories largely ignored by the mainstream, corporate media.For Episode 24 of The Watchdog Podcast, Lowkey is joined by journalist Ben Norton to discuss the recent U.S.-backed coup in Pakistan, the West's plan to turn Ukraine into a neverending war, and the new multipolar global order taking shape before our eyes.Ben Norton is a Nicaragua-based journalist whose work is focused on U.S. foreign policy and international politics. He recently launched his new journalism platform, Multipolarista. His video content can also be found at Rokfin and on YouTube.Today, he sat down to speak to Lowkey about the recent U.S.-backed coup against Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. Earlier this month, Khan was removed from his position following a vote of no confidence in his leadership, after several small parties from his coalition changed their allegiance.Join Lowkey today for a critically important discussion about current events and the future of the world, and do not forget to subscribe on YouTube or your favorite podcast platform.Lowkey is a British-Iraqi hip-hop artist, academic and political campaigner. As a musician, he has collaborated with the Arctic Monkeys, Wretch 32, Immortal Technique and Akala. He is a patron of Stop The War Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the Racial Justice Network and The Peace and Justice Project, founded by Jeremy Corbyn. He has spoken and performed on platforms from the Oxford Union to the Royal Albert Hall and Glastonbury. His latest album, Soundtrack To The Struggle 2, featured Noam Chomsky and Frankie Boyle and has been streamed millions of times.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/MintPressNews)

The war in Ukraine has led to a closing of the ranks in the West, with media and politicians in lockstep united against Russia, and some self-described leftists have joined in. As with many recent conflicts the left has been riven by divisions over what is the correct position to take, with “Putinism” replacing “Assadism” as the new term used to excommunicate opponents of NATO and American intervention. To understand the history of the Western left and how wars over the last century have caused divisions, Rania Khalek was joined by Ben Norton, an investigative journalist based in Latin America, and editor of the independent news website Multipolarista. Follow Multipolarista here: https://multipolarista.com/

Understanding how the spectrum of left-wing governments in Latin America are responding to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the impact of US/NATO sanctions on socialist movements in the global South & China's emerging role in the region. With Ben Norton of Multipolarista. https://multipolarista.com/support Get EXCLUSIVE Empire Files content, and keep us independent and ad-free, at www.patreon.com/empirefiles FOLLOW // twitter.com/EmpireFiles // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/BenjaminNorton LIKE // www.facebook.com/TheEmpireFiles MERCH // www.empirefiles.store

Things get loose and levity reigns (mostly) while discussing things that don't cast a shadow. Standard Stateside corruption. Jason tests Josh's miserable understanding of the FBI's Guide to Internet Slang. World War III still can't be ignored no matter how much we may like to (sudden remembrance /slash/ recommendation: "Human Moments in World War III" a short story by Don DeLillo). Mike Tyson sells ear-shaped THC candies now. The Earth's burning at both poles. A man in Japan is making a living by actively doing nothing. Plentiful tangents abound.  Support: patreon.com/heatdeathpodGeneral RecommendationsJD's Recommendation: 1) The Righteous Gemstones & 2) running & 3) What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami JNM's Recommendation: TrueAnon episodes 212: NATO (Part 1), 213: NATO (Part 2), and 214: NATO (Part 3) + 210: War In UkraineFurther Reading, Viewing, ListeningWhy Is Joe Biden Defending Betsy DeVos's For-Profit College Giveaway?FBI Guide to Internet SlangWATCH: How the US and NATO started the war in Ukraine (Highly recommended, extended interview with Ben Norton, formally of The Gray Zone and now of Multipolarista.)WATCH: The battle for Ukraine, with ex-UN weapons inspector Scott RitterWhy did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia' parties?Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky Combines All National TV ChannelsTYSON 2.0 MIKE BITES EAR-SHAPED CANNABIS GUMMIESHeatwaves at both of Earth's poles alarm climate scientistsRent-a-stranger: This Japanese man makes a living showing up and doing nothingLocationless Locationsheatdeathpod.comEvery show-related link is corralled and available here.Twitter: @heatdeathpodPlease send all Letters of Derision, Indifference, Inquiry, Mild Elation, et cetera to: heatdeathoftheuniversepodcast@gmail.comAlso, check out our newly updated YouTube channel for the hell of it

Twitter has also altered its rules against incitement and death threats in the case of Russian leaders and military personnel, as Ben Norton explains here for Multipolarista. Last month we also learned that Facebook is now allowing users to praise the Ukrainian neo-Nazi Azov Battalion because of the war, a move that is arguably the most liberal thing that has ever happened. Western institutions everywhere are rejecting all things Russia with such a savage degree of xenophobia it really ought to shock anyone who was born after the 1800s. Everything from Russian athletes to Russian musicians to Russian-made films to Russian composers to Russian Netflix shows to lectures about Russian authors to Russian restaurants to Russian vodka to Russian-bred cats to Russian trees to dishes that sound a little too much like "Putin" have been cancelled to varying degrees around the western world. Normally when the US and its allies are involved in a war they'll at least pay lip service to the notion that they have nothing but good will for the people of the enemy nation, claiming they only oppose their oppressive rulers. With Russia it's just a complete rejection of the entire culture, the entire ethnicity. It's a widespread promotion of hatred for the actual people because of who they are. Reading by Tim Foley.

As the world enters a new phase of major power conflict, it is crucial to understand the character of the Russian government and the role it plays on the world stage. Is Russia an imperialist power, equivalent to countries like the United States, France or the UK? How has the imperialist world system been set up – and is Russia in the club, or out? Brian is joined by Ben Norton. He is a journalist and editor of Multipolarista. You can find his work at BenNorton.com. Please make an urgently-needed contribution to The Socialist Program by joining our Patreon community at patreon.com/thesocialistprogram. We rely on the generous support of our listeners to keep bringing you consistent, high-quality shows. All Patreon donors of $5 a month or more are invited to join the monthly Q&A seminar with Brian.

The US economy is struggling and everyone seems to have a different understanding of why. Lee Camp looks into the causes of the current labor struggles, some of the wackier symptoms of an economy in collapse, and a potential policy-based solution. Then Ben Norton from Multipolarista joins Lee to discuss and break down the crisis in Ukraine. 

The US economy is struggling and everyone seems to have a different understanding of why. Lee Camp looks into the causes of the current labor struggles, some of the wackier symptoms of an economy in collapse, and a potential policy-based solution. Then Ben Norton from Multipolarista joins Lee to discuss and break down the crisis in Ukraine. 

Lee Camp is joined by journalist and host of Multipolarista, Ben Norton, to break down what is going on between Ukraine and Russia. They look to the real causes of Russia's actions in Ukraine beyond the Western war propaganda. The story goes back to the '90s and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, when the NATO powers guaranteed Moscow that they wouldn't expand toward Russian borders. They broke that promise. Then the story moves to a US-backed coup in Ukraine in 2014 and the fallout after separatist movements tried to secede. Norton outlines the history and most important context for this moment of insecurity. Naomi Karavani reports on a story about the US' failing medical system. A Wisconsin hospital sued to stop some of their nurses from leaving for better-paying jobs. The decision to stop them from switching jobs only held for a short time until another judge overturned the decision. The story highlights the farce of income disparities between healthcare workers and executives. Finally, Anders Lee goes back into the history of the board game Monopoly. It was invented under the name The Landlord's Game to explain the brutal reality of capitalism. Then, in true capitalist fashion, the idea was commodified by big business and turned into a celebration of our exploitative system.

This week, the Project Censored Show's new co-host Eleanor Goldfield speaks first with Benjamin Norton to learn how President Biden is "out-Trumping Trump" on immigration. Norton also offers an update on political conditions in Latin America. In the second half of the show, Eleanor talks with Eugene Puryear who explains racism's deep roots in US history, and how it cannot be defeated by superficial actions. He also looks at the significance of Black History Month, which is this month. Benjamin Norton is an independent journalist who focuses on Latin America; he's also the founder of Multipolarista. Eugene Puryear has been a peace-and-justice organizer since his high-school days; he's the author of "Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America," and he writes at Breakthrough News.

On this week's "Unauthorized Disclosure," we have one of our favorite guests, Ben Norton, who is the editor of Multipolarista and the host of "Propaganda Today." Ben describes how the so-called "trucker" protests (largely by non-truckers), which paralyzed the capitals of Brazil and Canada in the past six months, were backed by wealthy right-wing elites. Rania and Ben discuss fascism and the many forms it can take in a country. White working class people aren't the only group likely to engage in reactionary politics. Later, Kevin, Rania, and Ben go through examples of people at US think tanks and media outlets, who helped NATO and the military-industrial complex keep the temperature hot, even as Russia repeatedly stated it has no plans to invade Ukraine. On February 20, Russia is expected to conclude military exercises, including nuclear missile drill. Explosions were reported throughout February 18. Still, nothing points to an invasion of Ukraine yet. This weekend will be remarkable, as the laundering of disinformation around Russia and Ukraine enters its next phase. But one thing is certain: US journalists will continue to willingly publish the "intelligence" they receive, no matter how false or junky it may be.

Update on Steven Donziger's incarceration. A rightwing ideologue who helped prosecute Donziger on behalf of Chevron is now being appointed by Biden to be a judge on a federal circuit court. A simple country billionaire doesn't know what all the fuss is about with wealth and resources being concentrated in the hands of a few people. The Grayzone has lost an amazing reporter in Benjamin Norton (who is carrying on with a new project called Multipolarista), likely due to disagreements about the pandemic. Coronavirus doesn't exist yet more people have it than ever (call it "Fauci's Paradox"). The Great Barrington Declaration was funded by hard right think tanks, notably ones backed by the Koch brother (now singular). An "ex" CIA operative, now State Department spokesperson, was made to squirm under simple, basic journalistic questions and it was glorious. Anti-Russian propaganda accidentally celebrates Ukrainian Nazism. Then we talk about TV for a bit.Support: patreon.com/heatdeathpodGeneral RecommendationsJD's Recommendation: 1) All of Us Are Dead & 2) Yellowjackets & 3) Raised By WolvesJNM's Recommendation: 1) Multipolarista (website) / Multipolarista (youtube) & 2) MurdervilleFurther Reading, Viewing, ListeningHuman Rights Lawyer LOCKED UP AGAIN With Alli McCracken Jarrar & Paul Paz y Miño [VIDEO]Biden nominates corrupt Trump-backed Republican judge [VIDEO]The moral calculations of a billionaireHow The Koch Network Hijacked The War On COVIDA Right-Wing Think Tank Is Behind the Controversial Great Barrington Declaration Calling for COVID-19 Herd ImmunityReporter challenges US gov't 'Russian false flag' conspiracy, compares it to Alex Jones [VIDEO]Locationless Locationsheatdeathpod.comEvery show-related link is corralled and available here.Twitter: @heatdeathpodPlease send all Letters of Derision, Indifference, Inquiry, Mild Elation, et cetera to: heatdeathoftheuniversepodcast@gmail.comAlso, check out our newly updated YouTube channel for the hell of itSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/heatdeathpod)

With a diplomatic boycott by Western governments, corporate media propaganda has demonized China over the 2022 Winter Olympics. Britain's Financial Times openly declared, "Beijing Winter Olympics: the new front line in the US-China cold war." Actual China expert Carl Zha joins Multipolarista to pick apart the propaganda and explain what's really happening. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tysrspp7KOU Follow Carl on Twitter at https://twitter.com/CarlZha You can support Carl's Silk and Steel Podcast on Patreon at https://patreon.com/silknsteel

With a diplomatic boycott by Western governments, corporate media propaganda has demonized China over the 2022 Winter Olympics. Britain's Financial Times openly declared, "Beijing Winter Olympics: the new front line in the US-China cold war." Actual China expert Carl Zha joins Multipolarista to pick apart the propaganda and explain what's really happening. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tysrspp7KOU Follow Carl on Twitter at https://twitter.com/CarlZha You can support Carl's Silk and Steel Podcast on Patreon at https://patreon.com/silknsteel

Moderate Rebels has ended as of January 2022, but this show will be continuing under the new name Multipolarista, hosted by Benjamin Norton. The show will report once or twice a week on the end of US unipolar hegemony and the transition to a multipolar world. Follow Multipolarista's website: https://multipolarista.com

Moderate Rebels has ended as of January 2022, but this show will be continuing under the new name Multipolarista, hosted by Benjamin Norton. The show will report once or twice a week on the end of US unipolar hegemony and the transition to a multipolar world. Follow Multipolarista's website: multipolarista.com

Episode 40 of Stark Reality with Host James Dier aka $mall ¢hange features the exclusive STARK REALITY PLAYLIST from musician, journalist, filmmaker BEN NORTON, founder/editor of the independent news site MULTIPOLARISTA where he does original reporting in both english and spanish, His work has been published in dozens of media outlets, and he has done interviews on Sky News, Al Jazeera, Democracy Now, El Financiero Bloomberg, Al Mayadeen, teleSUR, RT, TRT World, CGTN, Press TV, HispanTV, Sin Censura, and various TV channels in Mexico, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia. An 80 minute mind-blowing mix of jazz, punk, hardcore, metal, avant-jazz and classical, Ben's mix features tracks from Peculate (Ben's own project), Meshuggah, Car Bomb, Tigran, Ben Wendel, Shostakovich and Schoenberg, and much more. link to the new album from Ben's PECULATE project:www.peculate.bandcamp.com/album/your-own-personal-abyss For more information about BEN NORTON, check out:www.bennorton.com www.multipolarista.comwww.thegrayzone.com/author/ben-nortonwww.rokfin.com/benjaminnorton@BenjaminNorton on twitter To hear Ben Norton's exclusive in-depth Stark Reality interview, go to Episode 39 of STARK REALITY on jasoncharles.net Podcast Network or wherever you get your podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.