I am joined by returning guest John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy in Focus and author, to discuss the dramatic shifts and fissures in the global "rules-based order."

Since our last interview in March 2020, successive crises have challenged the underlying basis of international law and the coherence of the global economic system. Taking our previous interview into account—an examination of the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic, situating it historically—I asked John to help us make sense of the first six months of the second Trump administration.

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The one-sided trade agreement that Donald Trump imposed on the EU illustrates how the US empire exploits its "allies" in Europe as vassals to benefit the American oil/gas industry, Big Tech corporations, and the military-industrial complex. This did not start with Trump, but he has accelerated the vassalization of the European Union. Political economist Ben Norton explains.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpf6ZeABP1I

Topics
0:00 Intro
1:04 US empire doesn't have allies, only vassals
2:14 US-EU trade deal & tariffs
5:19 China defended itself in trade war
6:19 Ursula von der Leyen on US energy
7:28 (CLIP) Trump on US-EU trade deal
7:54 USA benefits
8:15 (CLIP) Trump: "the biggest of all the deals"
8:28 Europe gets nothing
9:11 (CLIP) US makes no concessions to EU
9:57 (CLIP) Trump on US fossil fuel exports
10:20 US gets everything, EU gets nothing
11:02 Vassalization of Europe
12:27 BRICS expansion
13:22 NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte
14:03 (CLIP) NATO chief calls Trump "daddy"
14:17 Trump addresses "daddy" comment
14:42 (CLIP) Trump: I'm NATO's "daddy"
15:03 Trump leaks humiliating text messages
16:26 Failure of EU "strategic autonomy"
17:18 NATO demands military spending at 5% of GDP
18:42 US military-industrial complex benefits
20:14 Paying imperial tribute
20:48 Replacing welfare state with warfare state
21:44 EU spending on education
22:08 EU spending on healthcare
22:33 Trump & MAGA take off the mask
23:26 VP JD Vance attacks Europe
23:40 Kissinger: "to be America's friend is fatal"
24:20 Trump boasts of ending Nord Stream
25:39 (CLIP) Trump: "I ended Nord Stream 2"
25:59 US targets European infrastructure
26:26 (CLIP) Trump: US wants to sell oil/gas
26:53 US attacks European "allies"
27:27 Sabotage of Nord Stream pipelines
28:05 Who blew up Nord Stream?
29:20 West opposed UN investigation
30:06 Polish official said US blew up Nord Stream
30:47 Historical amnesia
31:17 Why Germany wanted Nord Stream
32:34 (CLIP) Trump: Europe must buy US oil/gas
32:48 Trump pressured Angela Merkel on Russia
33:15 (CLIP) Trump: Europe must cut Russia ties
34:12 Trump sanctioned Nord Stream
34:55 USA seeks to divide Europe & Russia
35:39 Biden threatened Nord Stream
36:02 (CLIP) Biden: We will end Nord Stream
36:36 Bipartisan vassalage
37:30 US energy exports to Europe
38:08 EU imports of oil
39:25 EU imports of natural gas
39:56 EU imports of LNG
40:45 Climate change catastrophe
41:20 Germany re-opens coal plants
42:00 Germany's pro-war "Greens"
43:19 US imperial strategy: divide Europe
44:56 Imperialist Mackinder's heartland theory
45:28 US fears of Europe-Russia alliance
46:23 NATO's goal: keep US on top
47:24 Deindustrialization of Europe
47:59 EU attacks top trading partner China
48:40 Why are EU leaders Atlanticists?
49:01 EU leaders are literally crying
49:26 EU elites invest in US financial assets
51:57 US Big Tech corporations
52:35 Comprador bourgeoisie
53:48 Western oligarchies
55:00 US empire fears Eurasian integration
56:15 Trump tries to divide Russia & China
56:33 Europe is at a geopolitical crossroads
58:36 Outro

How the USA exploits Europe, treating its 'allies' like vassals

A poetic and rhythmic denunciation of political fear as a deliberate tool of domination. Carlos Neher's Chocar e Apavorar unveils the "Shock and Awe" strategy with fierce lyrics and sharp delivery. Inspired by the psychological warfare tactics popularized during the Trump era, the song exposes how fear, division, and media manipulation are used to control perception.
This is not just protest music — it’s a wake-up call.

Uma denúncia poética embebida em ritmo e tensão. Nesta obra, Carlos Neher expõe, com precisão cirúrgica, a tática política do medo usada como ferramenta de dominação. Inspirado na estratégia de “Shock and Awe” (Choque e Pavor), frequentemente associada a guerras modernas e à manipulação midiática, a música faz um retrato crítico do impacto geopolítico da era Trump.
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Riot and reaction in California: a class war by any other name

The digital footprint left by DOGE in agency computer systems and IT networks would be thoroughly examined under legislation introduced Wednesday by a trio of Senate Democrats. The Pick Up After Your DOGE Act from Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Ron Wyden of Oregon and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts would require the administrator of the Elon Musk-created tech collective to provide a full accounting to the U.S. comptroller general of all the agencies and IT systems that DOGE accessed. Those systems would then be subject to comprehensive performance and security audits. “The DOGE-boys have weaseled their way into Americans’ most sensitive data systems, claiming to hunt ‘waste, fraud, and abuse,’ while actually creating waste, fraud, and abuse. They’re destroying Americans’ trust in once-reliable government systems and could be hawking your stolen data to their friends in Big Tech and AI,” Whitehouse said in a press release. He added that the Pick Up After Your DOGE Act protects seniors and all Americans by fixing any bugs or backdoors that DOGE may have purposefully or negligently created in Social Security, Medicare, and other highly sensitive government data systems. The audit would be conducted by the Government Accountability Office, which has been bombarded with congressional requests to probe DOGE’s agency IT dives since the beginning of the Trump administration.

The United States Military Academy abruptly ended the appointment of Jen Easterly to a high-profile academic position in West Point’s Department of Social Sciences, according to a memorandum issued Wednesday by the Secretary of the Army. On Tuesday, the academy announced that Easterly was named as the next Robert F. McDermott Distinguished Chair, a department position created in 1943 to bring a leading scholar, practitioner, or expert in the fields of social sciences — such as economics, political science, or international relations — to West Point.  In a since-deleted LinkedIn post, the academy welcomed the former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency director and academy alumnus after “an extraordinary career of service in the public and private sectors,” adding that her “unique perspective — combining military experience, advanced academic training, private sector innovation, and senior government service — makes her ideally suited to guide discussions on the critical issues facing our nation and the world.” After the announcement, far-right activist Laura Loomer suggested on X that Easterly should not be named to the position, due to her work under the Biden administration, allegedly with Nina Jankowicz, who served as the executive director of the Disinformation Governance Board of the United States. (Jankowicz later Wednesday posted on BlueSky that she had never worked with Easterly.) On Wednesday, Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll announced in a post on X that the position would be rescinded, and a full review of the academy’s hiring practices would be conducted. 

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