Ben Norton
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Journalist, analyst, political economist || Videos: https://t.co/nttyf01rBw || Editor of @GeopoliticaEcon || Articles: https://t.co/BzH3YrvHni
Joined September 2012
The US regime imposed 50% tariffs on Brazil, sanctioned Brazilian officials, and blatantly meddles in its internal affairs to hurt President Lula. So Brazil is deepening its partnership with China. Brazil & other countries have options in a multipolar world. US hegemony is dying.
Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, had a phone call with Celso Amorim, special advisor to the president of Brazil. China and Brazil are working together to advance the building of a community with a shared future for a
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Beyond crazy. This is an editor at The Economist, neoliberal mouthpiece of Western billionaires, demonizing Iran for exporting food to neighbors, claiming the sale of vegetables is "corrupt" and an "invasion". The point of this absurd propaganda? To justify illegal US sanctions.
Iran is flooding the Gulf with foodstuffs. Nine out of ten aubergines, tomatoes and watermelons imported by the UAE are of Persian origin. Oman and Qatar are also being targeted. This is the most spectacular invasion you have never heard of
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I interviewed economist Michael Hudson about the history of US financial colonialism. He discussed ways in which the Global South, which represents the Global Majority, can develop alternatives:.
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Economist Michael Hudson describes how the Western powers designed the international system to benefit North American corporations at the expense of the Global South, and how they can resist US...
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RT @MexSolidarity: Shhh, don't tell the Americans but Mexico has not one, but two, public grocery chains: SuperISSSTE and the new Tiendas B….
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RT @kennardmatt: You were never meant to see this. The secret ‘D-Notice’ censorship order sent out to British media editors on 28 October 2….
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RT @NathanJRobinson: NEW: I asked every US senator's office whether they accept the international human rights community's assessment that….
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In the least surprising announcement yet, Netanyahu admitted that the Israeli colonial regime will occupy all of Gaza. The genocidal Israeli regime's plan was always to colonize Gaza. The hostages are just an excuse. He will colonize the West Bank next, with full US support.
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RT @BenjaminNorton: Why is the US, and the West overall, seeing this crisis? Well, what happened after 1990? The USSR was overthrown, the f….
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A former Indian diplomat explains how India prevented BRICS from creating a new currency. India does not want BRICS to be seen as "anti-US". It does not oppose dollar hegemony and the US-dominated financial system. India does want its currency to be used more, though. Link:
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RT @jasonhickel: Why is the West warmongering against China? Because China's development - and the rise in China's wages - is pinching Wes….
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China’s spectacular economic development has brought up the price of its labour and dwindled Western corporate profits.
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Why is the US, and the West overall, seeing this crisis? Well, what happened after 1990? The USSR was overthrown, the first cold war ended, and the capitalist class went on the offensive in the West, dismantling the welfare states that they had only allowed because they feared
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RT @70sBachchan: “US popularity collapses worldwide .-China now more popular worldwide than the US .-Israel emerged as the country with the….
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RT @DoggyDog1208: 2025 Nature Index… we are, in real time, witnessing China’s science/technology/innovation go parabolic. 13 of top 20 res….
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RT @AliAbunimah: “The 17-year-old is among at least seven Palestinians who have died of malnutrition in the past 24 hours across Gaza, the….
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You can't make this up. Donald Trump claimed he is the "most transparent president in history", but his FBI redacted his name from the Epstein files. This is especially ironic considering that Trump's Attorney General Pam Bondi correctly said that, “If people in that report are
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RT @adam_tooze: To a worrying extent, the US stock market is driven by a group of huge global tech players, whose revenues are 40 percent g….
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RT @_PeterRyan: We are beyond parody. Top 1% received 45.3% of capital gains and the top 10% got 75.7%. Meanwhile, tariffs are a regressi….
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RT @resisres: 🇲🇽📈 The poorest 10% in Mexico saw their income INCREASE the most, by 36.4% from 2016 to 2024. For the good of all, the poor….
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2/3rds (66.4%) of land in England and Wales is owned by the aristocracy and gentry (30%), corporations (18%), oligarchs and City of London bankers (17%), and the royal family (1.4%). Homeowners own just 5% of land.
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This is a great paper. This section explaining the limits of GDP as a metric is important:. "There are many instances whereby policies that make people’s lives better (not only from an environmental perspective but also from a social perspective) would directly reduce GDP, all.
Economic growth is useless unless it delivers social benefits. GDP does not distinguish between $1 million in weapons and $1 million in healthcare. Even Simon Kuznets — the inventor of GDP — said that we need to be explicit about the actual objectives of economic growth.
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