251 Interventions in 30 Years: A System Addicted to War w/ Ben Norton
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2022
- 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: multipolarista.com/2022/09/13....
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For humanity to survive the US must be stopped, with extreme prejudice!
The only way to stop her is to have a huge terrible natural disaster at her doorstep as noone is willing to have blood on their hands
Only American citizens can do that. No other people can make demands on Washington and if they persist get positive results. Thus, it's so important we organize
@@barquerojuancarlos7253 Lol. You cannot reform a wolf to not eat sheep.
With a multitude of wretched brain dead democrats, good luck getting the people to rise. When you do, democrats will believe it is them that you are after because a rat is far more intelligent and logical than every one of them.
Is not the USA, China, etc. Is the international wealthy class and corporations ruling the world market.
Trotsky warned of this reality, the Marxists with sight saw it and explained it. Destroy to rebuild is the present stage of the world economy under the capital.
Just as Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson said, ' When we want to go to war, we just invent reasons"
I think this channel is doing amazing work in educating and informing it's audience on the evils of US empire.
Yeah, this will be an eye opener to people below age 12.
How exactly? With a 132k subscribers?
Dear Ben Norton,
You are an amazing person. Digging out so many unrevealed most important secrets. Thank you very much
Excellent presentation ☺️👍
Thank you.
Fan from Pakistan 🇵🇰
Inquilab Zindabad! ✊
Thanks for having me Brian, it was a great discussion! BreakThrough is the best!
I wish way more people listened to this talk. It gives such a thorough overview of our warfare state and its motivations, and the tremendous damage it does.
I can sum up the time I spent in the military with a quote from a video game.
“I swore to uphold the tenants of the creed; to stay my blade from the flesh of the innocent; to never compromise the brotherhood. I was a damned fool.”
Thank you for history lessons on US colonialism & imperialism!
It's difficult to comprehend how the USA can move forward competively without creating wars.
This collaboration is great!
Exploitation USA imposes on countries after military interventions are demonic.
Brian American loves you，you speak up for many Americans and people who love peace
Sorry..but american people do not love peace. Look at hate crimes, gun violence, police brutality etc. It is truth. I repeat, it is the only truth.
@@ysw8291 *cannot usually speak up
Where are the majority peace loving Americans??
@@zuzemoyo7696 Almost literally everywhere...
@diey0utube You're as brainwashed as they are. Stop it. Nihilism won't solve this shiy.
Glad that many realities are being repeated.....weapons depot, wall street wars. Americans have lost control of both parties politics and inflicting casualties on others.
Both parties are part of the corrupt, imperialist war machine & always were..
Evil US politicians
They have fooled all of you, how could you ever believe that you waste your vote if you don't vote on a party who stand for politics that you don't like? That's exactly how you waste your vote. When you are doing your voting you have no knowledge about what everyone else votes and it should not concern you. Two party's are far worse than one. But actually you do have more than two, but you have all been fooled into not voting on them.
In Denmark we have many party's and it works a little better but not much, because too many vote on same party no matter what, and then complain that they do not do the right politics, people are too stupid to use democracy.
@@kentauree well, it's all rigged... That's why we only have a 2 party system in the US...
It's a sham..
Save us from US
Great to see Ben on Breakthrough News!
He who has not seen his mother, wife or children killed in war does not know the horror of war and therefore will not stop waging war
This is the best episode I've seen and heard from #TheSocialistProgram and also the most accesible based on how transparent the American system of war intervention has been. Great job, Brian & Ben.
When Tyranny becomes a Law
Rebellion becomes a Duty
Ben Norton, an incredible mind with historical understanding, and Brian Becker matching him in commitment to educating us about American imperialism
Very important point you both make; the connection between the internal and the external empire. In order to understand the contradictions of an unsustainable predatory capitalist system that plagues our nation internally, one must understand its role in the world.
Foucault's boomerang: the tactics and institutions used to expand, enforce, and consolidate control over colonial empires will inevitably be brought back to the imperial metropole and implemented domestically in order to address its internal contradictions and advance ruling class interests. The fascist police state in the colonies becomes the model for the fascist police state at home whenever capitalism inevitably enters into a status of crisis and decay.
@@DissidentB The Empire Strikes back
Ben Norton, Brian Becker-- both motivate me to education others.
I joined the US Army prior to 9/11 as a infantrymen and jumped on the "let's go get them" bandwagon after 9/11 and now that im 50 and out of the military with much more knowledge about how things Really work im not very proud that i (literally) "served the country of the United States"
Capitalism is the main cause of human suffering on earth
It has it's usefullness, even nowadays. But it needs a lot of oversight.
@@neilbohrs5990it has mathematical limitations as well. From some moment it's either u keep the old rules, but burn ur home down, or pick up from where u left to develop furtherway, but change the basic rules. If change - that's capitalism no more.
Besides it's very hard to oversee someone in a system where every step costs money, so everyone needs money. And so relatively not rich people kinda oversee extremely rich people on behalf of the poor majority... I can't imagine that being calm and stable. It's more like sitting on the back of a tiger. That's why I'm also afraid for China. I think local capitalists already took over the state.
Wonderful! Thanks for this truthful discussion.
Excellent conversation and insightful analysis 👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏
Great work gentlemen, love from Africa.
Excellent show! So informative!
Public opinion has the capacity to impact. It certainly didn't with the war on Iraq. We saw the largest demonstrations across cities in the world. It made no difference. Perhaps its not public opinion, perhaps its large scale public uprising that needs to be economically and socially disruptive to have impact.
you are right demonstrations and petitions have little to no impact. Maybe we need some kind of civil disobedience, refusal to pay taxes for example. That would really hit the state hard.
That’s a really good point he makes about how nobody would be willing to go to war if they were told the truth of the matter. That the war is really ALWAYS about economic exploitation of another country and never about saving us from terrorism, as we are always told. 🎯
Yes. That's why Russia invading Ukraine is also bad.
@@fun_ghoul Russia was responding to NATO's ongoing support of one side in Ukraine's civil war, which was started by NATO's coup in Kiev in 2014.
Russia tried for 8 years to get NATO to enforce the Minsk accords.
If you do not like the invasion, them blame those that left Russia no other option.
@@johnkayoss5422 Yeah...I used to believe that too until pretty recently. In fact, there was no material need to invade whatsoever, except for the Russian capitalists who ran Ukraine before the Amerikkkans took it over.
I do not like the invasion. I blame Russian capitalists for invading, just as I blame Amerikkkan capitalists for the 2014 coup d'état. It's like walking and chewing gum.
@@johnkayoss5422 Maybe instead of spewing that nonsense at me as if I was somehow oblivious to your perspective, you can shut your yap for long enough to consider a different one...a MARXIST one. Go watch Prolekult's video "For Peace".
@@fun_ghoul I'm not a cultist of a dead European aristocrat. I fail to understand how his cultists fail to see that even a bum like Bakunin could predictively point out the fatal flaw in that Aristocratic plan of their cult leader. That they hold on to this failed hypothesis shows these cultists are nothing like the Scientific Socialists they claim to be, but a cult.
Received opinions are for those incapable of formulating their own.
It's more the US Bully Mafia State and doesn't like a fair fight. Couldn't even keep its hands of little Granada in the Carribean!
Brian and Ben are great teachers..!! Aren't they..?
Thanks for shining a Light on this Empire proplem again.
US is the truly super villian of the world just like in all those hollywood movies, oh the irony
It's not irony at all. It's "Der Grosse Lüge."
Amazing work BEN👍👍👍
Two brave men intellegent and with integrity telling the truth about Capitalism and Socialism the whole world must hear there voice of reason truth Matters to the Whole World God bless and stay safe
Thanks for the great insight
The US realises that it is about to face the greatest and most embarrassing fall of an empire in human history. And that it's fall will be studied in perpetuity, like all previous empires!
Great job gentlemen.
In fact, Bush Junior explained to Nestor kirchner: "‘ Kirchner: I said that a solution to the problems right now, I told Bush, is a Marshall Plan. And he grew angry. He said the Marshall Plan is a crazy idea of the Democrats. He said the best way to revitalize the economy is war. And that the United States has grown stronger with war.
Stone: War, he said that?
Kirchner: He said that. Those were his exact words.
Stone: Is he suggesting that South America go to war?
Kirchner: Well, he was talking about the United States: ‘The Democrats had been wrong. All of the economic growth of the United States has been encouraged by wars.’ He said it very clearly. ‘
The Argentinian president recounts that episode in O.Stone's, "South of the Border"
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Wow!!! You have the courage to say the truth and this courage makes a big impression to me. Many people know what your are sayng but nearly nobody has the courage to say it so clearly you do. My respect to both of you!
Thank You! Fairness is great!
Thank you for your reporting.
Who are the shareholders of weapon manufacturers? Who are the board of directors of weapon manufacturing companies?
Anti-imperialist work is very important and needs more public awareness! Great job 👏!
Great program. Very historical Educational
Thanks all
First time watching, will have to again.
My two favorite comrades on at the same time!!
Ben is an amazing journalist. Subscribed to his TH-cam channel,and don't miss a podcast. Extremely cleaver guy.
We won’t get anywhere, not even close to confronting imperialism and Wall St. if we don’t spend much more effort kicking down.
The masses just keep choosing sadistic catharsis- football wins or Ukraine winning a war. We need to be asking the “WHAT DOES THAT DO FOR YOU?”
I feel we can put a little hold on our usual- geopolitics & economics JUST to confront the irrationality, catharsis seeking, and contentness of the non-rich classes!
We have to leave them but NO CHOICE to confront the source of their misery- capitalism. That means confronting their drinking and sports fanaticism, their escapism and opium.
Thank you ! Ben Norton, an investigative journalist based in Latin America, and editor of the independent news website Multipolarista,
The truth is out by needs to be spread wide!
How many countries, how many people, used to"Market" a notion, as baseless as Catholicism ! Capitalism
Well Done!
So defined by war is the US that our political studies class had a huge pot of money up for grabs about who would the US go to war with next.
Wasn't a "Peace Dividend" suppose to happen after the end of the cold war. I believe the idea was that the money we were spending to counter the threat would go to social spending, infrastructure, etc...yeah that thing
Arw you interested in buying a small bridee in NYC?
The American Military Industrial Complex is the problem.
Spot on as always! Thank you for your work.
Excellent Gentleman 👍
BreakThrough News introduced me to GeoPolitical Economy Report & now i'm binge-watching both 😊 I'm learning so much from both channels; i can't Thank You enough 💐🦋🍃 I'm Grateful for All the Amazing Work You Both Do ♥
so true
This to me sounds like the definition of pure Evil... 👹👺
American Holocaust! What a great book 👏👏
Perhaps if Taiwan is informed that the USA plans to use it as a massive weapons depot that would be obliterated if a war between the USA and China was started, then they might reconsider their position.
Trust me, the Taiwan leadership is well aware of that but they have their own political games to play and they are more than ready to sacrifice the lives of the ordinary citizens or even burn the island flat.
Taiwanese are less oblivious than Ukrainians.
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You are brave to continue this I’m going critique of the systems
Very enlightening contents.
Very Informative.
This is the first time I can see Ben smiling.
I have that book too and it is ful of information
The Castro Assasination industry!
It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to go to heaven. I read that somewhere a long time ago.
Evil empire
Very Interesting!
Could this be the amnesia of the US?
Military spending should account for purchasing power.
For example Russia is 70 billion annually.
But parity is 4x, so a 280 billion a year
China is about 2x
Some of us born in colonies know that 1492 imperialist and Colonies view the adventures as a great success lots of free land resources etc
So they have rebranded everything and proceed by colonisation by proxy installing and maintaining proxies to carry out the economic social and political rules made up in the Imperial capital
Proxy colonialism and the rules based order
This centralise system can only be maintained by force of arms there is no other way?
Because it violates sovereignty of nation states
There were US military spotted in Haiti today...
Cool thumbnail graphics lately
Because of the way people are wired, it can be hard for some to criticize the country they are from. It's sometimes hard for me to criticize Russia, but there is a lot of warranted criticism and I do my best to be honest with myself about that and recognize the problems and the crimes of the leadership. It is very refreshing and inspiring to see Americans willing to criticize their country, not from hate, but from a desire to improve their country and improve people's lives!
You just have to look at US colonial and imperialist history to know what it has become.
I facilitate a world events club for Black youth in my city and we use a lot of BT news. Its so informative and easy for our pupils to understand. Our learning community loves it! Ya'll should do one for kids...just saying
Nations have money for war,
but they can't feed the poor.
Tupac Amaru Shakur
Stopped all Americans threat!!! ...
BT thanks for exposing the dirty side of the US foreign policy. 😭😭😭
US 👿
Us economy cannot grow without wars
This!
Money for killing, oh so christian.
"Weapons Depot" the disregard to whole nation and regarding them nothing more than a pawn is sickening in multiple levels the world would be way better if they left and met god
The economy of US is based on a very tough military forces and equipments. So, to sell their weapons they do need to create enemies and supply their weaponry to their "allies"
We are not doing anything
Awesome discussion, thanks. Check out that book by Aaron good.. it's fantastic (listened to audiobook)
😅you guys are awsome
Read The Devils Chessboard by Dave Talbot you'll be amazed at how many times you'll see "high power walll street lawyer" referring to CIA personal.
Money is power.
That's why there is no democracy as long as money is not under Democratic control. (Controlled by the people)
Money...lol. No.
_"Political power flows from the barrel of a gun."_ -Mao Zedong
Eisenhower had warned us
Eisenhower was a POS, too.
America is falling apart!
'funneling' was good - you can't beat a superpower through a funnel, fact.
AMMOrica
31:02 Taiwan "A ilha Formosa" first was colonized by the Portuguese in 1500 hundreds but we only made a comercial Emporium. Not nothing abnormal like the Americans!( and Macau) the English( Americans 0.1) took Hong-Kong ask the chinese who treat them better?
35:03 Hawaii? Also the Portuguese!!! ask them the same... as all american possessions! Ask the people if they prefer the actual leadership from the USA or the Medieval colonial leadership from the Europeans! Certainly they will not mention the actual "owner"! Just pick one like the Marshal Islands( if there's someone from out there please give us your opinion/comment/stance thank you! Obrigado!
"- Holmes, what do you think - who is to blame for the blowing up of pipelines?
- This is Putin, without a doubt.
- Why do you think so?
- Elementary, Watson - if not for him, would we blow them up?" 😂😂😂
Man, in Anglo-Saxon countries they do not understand jokes about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. It's only in post soviet countries
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