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China's President Xi Jinping traveled to Russia to meet Vladimir Putin, where they pledged "changes the likes of which we haven’t seen for 100 years", agreeing to deepen economic integration and challenge the hegemony of the US dollar by promoting the use of the yuan and other currencies in international trade. BRICS challenges US ‘dollar dominance’, Saudi considers selling oil in other currencies: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/21/brics-us-dollar-saudi-oil-currency-multipolar/ Geopolitical game changer: China’s Iran-Saudi peace deal is big blow to petrodollar and US economic hegemony: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/03/17/china-iran-saudi-peace-petrodollar Ukraine’s Zelensky admits he sabotaged Minsk peace deal with Russia, West blocked negotiations: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/10/ukraine-zelensky-minsk-peace-russia || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://GeopoliticalEconomy.com/Support Patreon: https://Patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Podcast: https://Soundcloud.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Newsletter: https://GeopoliticalEconomy.Substack.com

Mexico’s leftist President AMLO condemned “hypocritical” Republicans who want the US military to invade, declaring “Mexico is an independent and free country, not a US colony or protectorate!” In a massive rally, López Obrador also celebrated the expropriation of oil and lithium, condemning exploitative foreign corporations. Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/03/21/mexico-us-colony-amlo-invasion-nationalization-oil-lithium/ How Mexico’s progressive gov’t nationalized its lithium, the ‘white gold’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xmfX3fb7SQ AMLO says Mexico is more democratic than oligarch-run USA, condemns State Dep’t ‘meddling’ against electoral reform: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/03/08/amlo-mexico-democratic-oligarch-us-meddling || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://GeopoliticalEconomy.com/Support Patreon: https://Patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Podcast: https://Soundcloud.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Newsletter: https://GeopoliticalEconomy.Substack.com

The US Federal Reserve printed $300 billion in one week to save collapsing banks and bail out wealthy Silicon Valley oligarchs. 93% of Silicon Valley Bank's deposits were uninsured, over the FDIC limit of $250,000, but the government still paid them. 56% of SVB's loans went to vulture capitalist and private equity firms. US Federal Reserve says its goal is ‘to get wages down’: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/05/24/us-federal-reserve-wages-inflation || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://GeopoliticalEconomy.com/Support Patreon: https://Patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Podcast: https://Soundcloud.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Newsletter: https://GeopoliticalEconomy.Substack.com

Honduras' leftist President Xiomara Castro announced her government will recognize China. Now only 12 UN member states have formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan separatists. They have a combined population of less than 39 million, or 0.49% of the planet. US military plans for war on China, backing Taiwan separatists: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ODbrpimBgKo US-backed coup regimes trapped Honduras in unpayable odious debt, warns new President Xiomara Castro: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/01/31/coup-honduras-unpayable-odious-debt || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://GeopoliticalEconomy.com/Support Patreon: https://Patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Podcast: https://Soundcloud.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Newsletter: https://GeopoliticalEconomy.Substack.com

Economist Michael Hudson analyzes the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate, and Signature Bank, explaining the similarities to the 2008 financial crash. He also addresses the US government bailout (which it isn't calling a bailout), the role of the Federal Reserve and Treasury, the factor of cryptocurrency, and the danger of derivatives. Check out the playlist for the show that Michael Hudson co-hosts here, Geopolitical Economy Hour: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP Michael's column "Why the US banking system is breaking up": https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/03/12/michael-hudson-why-the-us-banking-system-is-breaking-up Michael's other article "Why the US bank crisis is not over": https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/03/13/michael-hudson-us-bank-crisis || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://GeopoliticalEconomy.com/Support Patreon: https://Patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Podcast: https://Soundcloud.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Newsletter: https://GeopoliticalEconomy.Substack.com

China sponsored peace talks that led Saudi Arabia and Iran to normalize diplomatic relations, in a big blow to the petrodollar. Both countries are major oil producers that have applied to join BRICS and are discussing selling energy in other currencies. BRICS challenges US ‘dollar dominance’, Saudi considers selling oil in other currencies: New multipolar economic order: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/21/brics-us-dollar-saudi-oil-currency-multipolar || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://GeopoliticalEconomy.com/Support Patreon: https://Patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Podcast: https://Soundcloud.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Newsletter: https://GeopoliticalEconomy.Substack.com

Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss the evolution of the US dollar system after it was taken off the gold standard in 1971. Check out other episodes of their show Geopolitical Economy Hour here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://GeopoliticalEconomy.com/Support Patreon: https://Patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Podcast: https://Soundcloud.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Newsletter: https://GeopoliticalEconomy.Substack.com

Responding to State Department criticism of Mexico’s popular electoral reform, President AMLO denounced US “meddling”, support for coups, and the Monroe Doctrine. He said, “There is more democracy today in Mexico than in the United States… because here the people govern, and there the oligarchy govern”. Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/03/08/amlo-mexico-democratic-oligarch-us-meddling/ || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://GeopoliticalEconomy.com/Support Patreon: https://Patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Podcast: https://Soundcloud.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Newsletter: https://GeopoliticalEconomy.Substack.com

President Xi Jinping denounced the US-led Western attempt to "contain, encircle, and suppress China". Foreign Minister Qin Gang condemned Washington's "hysterical neo-McCarthyism" and "malicious confrontation", opposing the "cold war mentality". Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/03/07/xi-us-containment-encirclement-china US ambassador arrogantly lectures China ‘threat’: ‘We’re the leader in this region (Asia)’!: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/03/04/us-ambassador-china-leader-region US admits weather pushed Chinese balloon off course, US shot down hobbyists’ $12 balloon in $2M missile attack: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/18/us-weather-chinese-balloon-hobbyist || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://GeopoliticalEconomy.com/Support Patreon: https://Patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Podcast: https://Soundcloud.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Newsletter: https://GeopoliticalEconomy.Substack.com

Historian Aaron Good explains US President John F. Kennedy's policies on the wars on Vietnam and Laos, and JFK's conflict with the generals in the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff. This is from the Empire and the Deep State series that Geopolitical Economy Report editor Ben Norton is co-hosting with Aaron Good and Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast. This is part 2 of our historical analysis of the JFK administration. (This episode was recorded in November 2022.) PLAYLIST with past episodes in the series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL You can support American Exception at https://Patreon.com/AmericanException || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://GeopoliticalEconomy.com/Support Patreon: https://Patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Podcast: https://Soundcloud.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Newsletter: https://GeopoliticalEconomy.Substack.com

In an interview with the Chamber of Commerce, US Ambassador Nicholas Burns referred to China as a “threat”, “great challenge”, and “very difficult government”, stating arrogantly, “The United States is staying in this region. We’re the leader in this [Indo-Pacific] region”. Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/03/04/us-ambassador-china-leader-region US admits weather pushed Chinese balloon off course, US shot down hobbyists’ $12 balloon in $2M missile attack: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/18/us-weather-chinese-balloon-hobbyist China report excoriates ‘US hegemony’, war crimes, CIA coups, 400 foreign interventions: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/22/china-report-us-hegemony-wars-coups-intervention || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://GeopoliticalEconomy.com/Support Patreon: https://Patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Podcast: https://Soundcloud.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Newsletter: https://GeopoliticalEconomy.Substack.com

Historian Aaron Good explains the rise of US President John F. Kennedy, the First Cold War, his criticism of European colonialism, and how the CIA's Bay of Pigs attack would later reverberate in the 1963 JFK assassination. This is from the Empire and the Deep State series that Geopolitical Economy Report editor Ben Norton is co-hosting with Aaron Good and Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast. This is part 1 of our historical analysis of the JFK administration. (This episode was recorded in November 2022.) PLAYLIST with past episodes in the series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL You can support American Exception at https://Patreon.com/AmericanException || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://GeopoliticalEconomy.com/Support Patreon: https://Patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Podcast: https://Soundcloud.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Newsletter: https://GeopoliticalEconomy.Substack.com

A study by the elite EU-funded European Council on Foreign Relations found that the West is increasingly out of touch politically with the rest of the world. Most people in China, India, and Türkiye see Russia as an important ally, and they want multipolarity, not continued “American global supremacy”. Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/25/west-rest-world-eu-study || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://GeopoliticalEconomy.com/Support Patreon: https://Patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Podcast: https://Soundcloud.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Newsletter: https://GeopoliticalEconomy.Substack.com

Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson explain de-dollarization: why countries are dropping the US dollar and creating financial alternatives. Check out other episodes of their show Geopolitical Economy Hour here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://GeopoliticalEconomy.com/Support Patreon: https://Patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Podcast: https://Soundcloud.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Newsletter: https://GeopoliticalEconomy.Substack.com

German Member of Parliament Sevim Dağdelen, of the Left Party, Die Linke, condemns the NATO "proxy war" in Ukraine, saying EU members are acting as US "vassal states". In this interview with Ben Norton, she also denounces the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines as a "terrorist attack" that "should have resulted in a huge outcry". TRANSCRIPT here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/22/germany-ukraine-nord-stream-sevim-dagdelen || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://GeopoliticalEconomy.com/Support Patreon: https://Patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Podcast: https://Soundcloud.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Newsletter: https://GeopoliticalEconomy.Substack.com

The foreign ministers of the US, Germany, and Ukraine told the world at the Munich Security Conference, “Neutrality is not an option” in the West’s proxy war against Russia, implicitly criticizing the vast majority of Global South countries, which are independent. Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/20/west-global-south-neutral-ukraine German foreign minister: ‘We are fighting a war against Russia’: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/26/german-foreign-minister-baerbock-war-russia 87% of world doesn’t support West’s new cold war on Russia: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/09/21/global-south-west-cold-war-russia || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://GeopoliticalEconomy.com/Support Patreon: https://Patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Podcast: https://Soundcloud.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Newsletter: https://GeopoliticalEconomy.Substack.com

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced Mexico will lead an international movement to end the US government's "inhumane" blockade against Cuba. Praising Fidel Castro as a "visionary", AMLO denounced neoliberalism and pledged support for universal public healthcare and education. Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/13/mexico-amlo-blockade-cuba-neoliberalism Entire world votes 185 to 2 against blockade of Cuba – US and Israel are rogue states at UN: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/11/03/un-vote-blockade-cuba-us-israel Mexico’s President AMLO demands freedom for Julian Assange, ‘prisoner of conscience’ and ‘best journalist of our time’: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/06/21/mexico-amlo-julian-assange/ || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://GeopoliticalEconomy.com/Support Patreon: https://Patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Podcast: https://Soundcloud.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Newsletter: https://GeopoliticalEconomy.Substack.com

Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky admitted he refused to implement the 2015 Minsk II peace deal with Russia. Germany and France said Kiev used the agreement to “buy time” to prepare for war. Israel's ex Prime Minister Naftali Bennett revealed the West "blocked" attempt to hold negotiations. Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/10/ukraine-zelensky-minsk-peace-russia West killed peace proposal to end Ukraine war, Russia supported negotiated settlement: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/09/03/west-peace-proposal-ukraine-russia US, UK, France promised USSR not to expand NATO east of Germany, newly discovered document proves: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/02/20/us-uk-france-russia-expand-nato-east-germany US gov’t body plots to break up Russia in name of ‘decolonization’: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/06/23/us-government-decolonize-russia || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://GeopoliticalEconomy.com/Support Patreon: https://Patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Podcast: https://Soundcloud.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Newsletter: https://GeopoliticalEconomy.Substack.com

A decade of proxy war and illegal US and EU sanctions have devastated Syria, and blocked some humanitarian aid after a crushing earthquake killed thousands of people. To save face, Washington agreed to a temporary suspension, but UN experts have demanded a permanent end to the “suffocating” sanctions, saying they “may amount to crimes against humanity”. Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/09/us-sanctions-aid-syria-earthquake UN expert: ‘Outrageous’ Western sanctions are ‘suffocating’ Syria, may be crimes against humanity: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/11/12/un-expert-western-sanctions-syria || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://GeopoliticalEconomy.com/Support Patreon: https://Patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Podcast: https://Soundcloud.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Newsletter: https://GeopoliticalEconomy.Substack.com

Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson explain the relation between money and debt, the rise of US dollar dominance, and its role in the global imperialist system. Check out other episodes of their show Geopolitical Economy Hour here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://GeopoliticalEconomy.com/Support Patreon: https://Patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Podcast: https://Soundcloud.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Newsletter: https://GeopoliticalEconomy.Substack.com

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh reported the US government destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines that delivered Russian gas to Germany. The Biden administration approved the CIA operation, which used explosives and Navy divers, with help from NATO member Norway. Read Seymour Hersh's article: https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/08/us-nord-stream-pipelines-seymour-hersh Our report from back in October - "Who sabotaged Nord Stream pipelines? US boasts ‘tremendous opportunity’ to weaken Russia. CIA knew": https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/10/06/sabotage-nord-stream-pipelines-us-russia-cia US now world’s top LNG exporter, as Europe boycotts cheaper Russian gas: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/04/us-lng-exporter-europe-russia-gas || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://GeopoliticalEconomy.com/Support Patreon: https://Patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Podcast: https://Soundcloud.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Newsletter: https://GeopoliticalEconomy.Substack.com

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said sanctions on Venezuela “have exacerbated the economic crisis and hindered human rights”, calling for the unilateral coercive measures to be lifted. Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/02/un-human-rights-chief-sanctions-venezuela/ || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://GeopoliticalEconomy.com/Support Patreon: https://Patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Podcast: https://Soundcloud.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Newsletter: https://GeopoliticalEconomy.Substack.com

Historian Aaron Good explains the final years of the Dwight Eisenhower administration, including the start of the CIA's war on Cuba's revolutionary government and the coup against Congo's anti-colonialist leader Patrice Lumumba. This is PART 17 of the Empire and the Deep State series Geopolitical Economy Report editor Ben Norton is co-hosting with Aaron Good and Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast. (This episode was recorded in October 2022.) PLAYLIST with past episodes in the series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL You can support American Exception at https://patreon.com/americanexception Subscribe to the American Exception channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCOEHHwEXH8a86-CmcYbzkWQ || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://GeopoliticalEconomy.com/Support Patreon: https://Patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Podcast: https://Soundcloud.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Newsletter: https://GeopoliticalEconomy.Substack.com

Greece’s former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis explains the US system of “neo-imperialism” based on the dollar, an “IOU issued by the hegemon”, which finances a huge trade deficit by letting foreign capitalists “extract colossal surplus value from their workers and then stash it away in America’s rentier economy”. Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/03/us-imperialism-dollar-hegemony-yanis-varoufakis German lawmaker condemns ‘US-led proxy war against Russia’ and EU’s ‘servile vassals’: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/28/german-lawmaker-us-proxy-war-russia-ukraine-eu Varoufakis' full speech: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6MfuGSlDRsc || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://GeopoliticalEconomy.com/Support Patreon: https://Patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Podcast: https://Soundcloud.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Newsletter: https://GeopoliticalEconomy.Substack.com

Numerous mainstream media outlets have reported that the US military is preparing for war on China, as soon as 2025. Japan is re-militarizing and collaborating closely in these war plans. Sources and more information in Danny Haiphong's article here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/16/us-preparing-war-china German foreign minister: ‘We are fighting a war against Russia’: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/26/german-foreign-minister-baerbock-war-russia || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://GeopoliticalEconomy.com/Support Patreon: https://Patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Podcast: https://Soundcloud.com/GeopoliticalEconomy Newsletter: https://GeopoliticalEconomy.Substack.com