Abby Martin is joined by Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestine, to discuss the mounting legal case against Israel, ICC issuing arrest warrants, and her UN report "The Anatomy of a Genocide" that compiled the evidence of Israeli crimes in Gaza.

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‘Suspended Between Hope & the Abyss’ - UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine

Putin met with Xi Jinping in Beijing, where China and Russia released a joint statement blasting Western "colonialism and hegemonism", supporting a multipolar world and more representation for the Global South, and calling for de-dollarization and expansion of BRICS. Ben Norton analyzes the historic document.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ufjxmDLQyBU

Full text of the joint statement with links here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/05/24/china-russia-joint-statement-new-era-75th-anniversary/

Topics
0:00 Intro
0:49 Putin's visit to China
1:42 Summary of the joint statement
4:58 Russia deepens economic integration with China
7:18 China expands trade with anti-hegemonic nations
8:50 Note on translation of joint statement
11:20 75th anniversary of China-Russia relations
13:46 Supporting Global South & multipolar world
17:58 Condemning Western neocolonialism & hegemony
20:49 Expanding cooperation
23:03 "True multilateralism"
25:14 Group of Friends in Defense of the UN Charter
27:35 Shanghai Cooperation Organization
28:33 Expanding BRICS
30:10 Nuclear weapons
30:33 Condemning US militarism
34:26 Climate change & pollution
36:01 Ukraine war
38:58 Non-interference
40:29 ASEAN
40:46 East Asia
41:33 North Korea
42:36 West Asia (Middle East) & Palestine
44:07 Afghanistan
45:18 Africa
46:25 Latin America
48:17 Outro

China & Russia strengthen friendship, blasting Western 'neocolonialism' & US militarism

In Mexico, a new independent left-wing movement has defeated the country's elites. Following current President AMLO, President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum and their Morena party won the 2024 election in a landslide. Ben Norton is joined by journalist José Luis Granados Ceja to discuss what their "Fourth Transformation" (4T) means for the US, China, Russia, Latin America, and the global economy.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=M0k0WU7JKgM

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Our related video "Mexico's AMLO has 80% approval, despite media lies & US meddling": https://youtube.com/watch?v=-2PQPJUn6KU

Topics
0:00 Claudia Sheinbaum wins election
1:36 Geopolitics: Mexico, US, China, Russia
3:19 AMLO boosts minimum wage, reduces poverty
3:45 Economy & natural resources
6:09 US corporations are angry
7:34 Introducing guest
8:18 Why Sheinbaum's victory is historic
13:01 AMLO & 4th Transformation
21:43 Morena & defeat of PRI-PAN-PRD establishment
32:38 Mexico's economy
44:24 Geopolitics: US new cold war on China & Russia
53:28 Latin American regional integration
1:01:02 Everyday life in Mexico
1:08:21 Outro

Mexico's political rebellion: Following AMLO, new President Claudia Sheinbaum paves multipolar path

Polling shows that the vast majority of people in the US and Western Europe want a negotiated settlement to end the war in Ukraine, but NATO opposes a peace proposal made by China and Brazil, while refusing to invite Russia to a so-called "peace conference" in Switzerland. Ben Norton explains.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=l5eQd1E_Huo

Topics
0:00 Intro
1:30 Biden authorizes attacks inside Russia
2:12 France plans to send military forces to Ukraine
3:52 US discusses increased nuclear weapon deployments
4:57 Poll: most people in US & W Europe want peace
7:04 China & Brazil propose peace plan
9:38 West's "peace conference" didn't invite Russia
11:26 China wants peace in Ukraine
15:45 Nicaragua backs China-Brazil peace plan
16:05 Outro

94% of Americans want to end Ukraine war, but US rejects China peace deal, opposes talks with Russia

Western governments invited billionaire BlackRock CEO Larry Fink to the G7 summit in Italy to speak about "public-private partnerships" and why oligarchs should buy up global infrastructure (to compete with China's state-led Belt and Road Initiative). Ben Norton discusses how capitalism is becoming so extremely monopolized and unequal that it is devolving into neo-feudalism.

(One correction: At 26:17, I meant to say "over 90%", well above 60%.)

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88VU1JjmEps

How Wall Street buys US elections: Blackstone funds Trump, BlackRock backs Biden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJaJ4BST6Nc

Topics
0:00 Global inequality
0:56 G7 summit in Italy
1:57 BlackRock CEO invited to G7 summit
2:32 What is BlackRock?
4:45 PGI: US' corporate alternative to China's Belt & Road
7:50 (Clip) BlackRock CEO Larry Fink speaks at G7 summit
8:44 Wall Street vulture funds
10:51 BlackRock buys up infrastructure
14:40 BlackRock buys Malaysia's airports
15:34 BlackRock veterans run Biden's Treasury
16:00 Blackstone CEO funds Trump campaign
17:53 Investment companies buy up houses
18:40 BlackRock runs world's largest Bitcoin fund
19:58 Privatization of infrastructure
23:34 WEF: "You'll own nothing. And you'll be happy"
25:56 Home ownership under socialism vs. capitalism
26:17 Correction: over 90%* (I misspoke)
26:21 Home ownership under socialism vs. capitalism
28:38 World Economic Forum
29:33 Return on capital exceeds economic growth
31:20 Outro

Neo-feudalism: G7 supports BlackRock buying up world's infrastructure, to make rich even richer

Economists Radhika Desai and Prabhat Patnaik analyze India's 2024 general election and why Prime Minister Narendra Modi's far-right Hindu-nationalist party BJP lost its majority. They discuss the state of the economy, rising unemployment and inequality, and Modi's neoliberal model.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4xfHMkIPJ4

Transcript here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/06/27/india-modi-2024-election-economy/

You can watch other episodes of their program Geopolitical Economy Hour here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP

Why so many Indians rejected PM Modi: 2024 election was a 'revolt of the farmers'

China describes its system as a "socialist market economy". How does that work? What is the role of its stock exchanges? Ben Norton explains Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4__IBd_sGE

Topics
0:00 Intro
1:11 Deng Xiaoping & China's "Reform & Opening Up"
4:06 Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
5:17 China's economic growth & poverty reduction
7:42 How state-owned enterprises (SOEs) run China's economy
10:09 Chen Yun & the "birdcage economy"
11:39 SOE share of China's GDP
13:37 China's largest companies are SOEs
14:53 Socialist market economy
16:02 "Grasp the large, let go of the small"
17:42 "Managed competition" in China
19:50 Billionaires in China
20:43 China's stock markets
27:17 (Clip) Western financial analyst says China rejected Washington Consensus
30:43 (Clip) Bloomberg complains "China doesn't care about the stock market"
32:10 Differences between US & Chinese economies
33:33 (Clip) Investor explains China's stock market is not priority for government
36:56 China's economic policy is made for workers, not investors
45:55 US financialized capitalism vs. Chinese socialism
46:33 US stock market is 60.5% of entire world
47:13 Richest 10% of Americans own 93% of stocks
47:52 Global oligarchs hold wealth in US stock market
48:31 China's pursuit of "common prosperity"
51:49 Outro

How can China be socialist if it has a stock market? Understanding the Chinese economy

In response to the NATO summit in Washington, political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss how Western governments are losing elections and ignoring their own people in order to expand the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and beyond, while seeking to impose control over the majority of humanity in the Global South.

Read the transcript here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/07/12/nato-west-war-democracy-global-south

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXIYInJUYp8

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NATO vs Western voters and the Global Majority

Abby and Robbie Martin talk about Joe Biden dropping out of the race, the disastrous presidential debate and ensuing political chaos, wrapping up with the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

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Democrat's Palace Coup, Trump Assassination Attempt

How does the structure of the international financial system cause a drain of wealth from the poor to the rich? Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss the politics of debt.

VIDEO (with the charts): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bu9dHGRpmE

Read the transcript (with the charts) here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/debt-politics-wealth-flow-poor-rich

This is part of the show Geopolitical Economy Hour. You can watch other episodes of the program here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP

Debt is political: Why wealth flows from poor to rich

US Big Tech corporations are like the feudal landlords of Medieval Europe. These Silicon Valley monopolies own the digital land that the global economy is built on, and are charging higher and higher rents to use their privatized infrastructure. Ben Norton explains.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf1wQ9QeaKM

Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/08/19/us-big-tech-monopolies-neo-feudalism/

Topics
0:00 Neo-feudalism
1:36 Amazon's monopoly
3:57 Google's monopoly
4:54 Amazon takes 50% of sellers' revenue
6:30 How Amazon sets prices: the Buy Box
9:01 Technofeudalism, by Yanis Varoufakis
9:42 Cloud infrastructure
10:44 New cold war on China
11:35 China: only alternative to US Big Tech monopolies
14:55 Chinese socialism
19:33 Monopoly capitalism & imperialism
21:51 Feudalism & capitalism
23:54 Utilities
26:37 Privatized digital infrastructure
29:29 Uber & Silicon Valley's monopolistic business model
34:28 Apple wages war on Chinese competitors
35:37 Apple's outrageous 30% Patreon fee
39:44 Outro

How US Big Tech monopolies colonized the world: Welcome to neo-feudalism

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