US Eyes Resources In Latin America, Escalates Against China, w/ Ben Norton
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.พ. 2023
- With the United States hyper focused on Russia and China, it’s easy to forget that the empire is still up to its old tricks in the rest of the Global South. What does the insatiable U.S. imperialist appetite mean for the resource-rich countries of Latin America? After all, that copper, gold, zinc, silver, lead, iron, and natural gas in Peru, the lithium in Bolivia, Chile and Argentina, and the oil in Venezuela isn’t gonna steal itself. How is the Cold War with Russia and China playing out throughout the region as the United States dusts off the so-called Monroe Doctrine? And how can this new multipolar era benefit the forces of independence and sovereignty?
To discuss this and more, Rania Khalek was joined by Ben Norton, a Latin America-based journalist and founder of Geopolitical Economy Report.
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This is yet another lesson for future leaders in South America or Africa that the first thing they should do when they come into power is kick the US and any other embassies belonging to US Allies out of their country.
US isn't the problem. US has plenty of resources on its own. NATO is what makes US evil for resources rich countries.
They all benefit from the alliance, but the sponsor is US
@@guiller2371 NATO is the Euro based imperial arm of the US, all of its directives come from Washington.
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Europe's elite is in Washington and it has been like that for quite a while. This is an immigrant country. Only recently some immigrants are not welcome. It's the Western civilization what they support, including Washington. Many of Congress members are first generation naturalized Americans. And it has been like this for a long time.
However; some other groups are only actively participating recently and with some gaps in time.
The Computer age is what has changed this because some not exactly Europeans are actually better in math and in computer science. Today, all brains are needed.
@@guiller2371 US absolutely is the problem. It took over the imperial ambitions of Europe and did it twice as good, learning from the British and the Nazis and the French to create a worldwide hegemony. Luckily the American empire is slowly dying.
@@guiller2371 the United States government of corporations and the central banker's cartel of crooks conmen and theives are the ones who created nato.
They also are the central of nato .
And are the sole driver of nato policy .
Remove the United States from nato and nato would collapse which would be a good thing!
The people should be in control of their resources.
That's why Europeans wiped out most of the native Americans over the last 509 years.
cute statement. Wake up! the masters of looting are the "socialist"
Yes, we should all take a lesson from the Chinese, especially in places like Guyana.
@@rbrookebtell us about Guyana and China???
The Europeans have destroyed the natives of the Americas.
Or did history disappeared?
And China destroyed the natives Americans fom their homes?
Why exactly 509 years?@@cpc9563
Evil never takes a day off, always looking for a weaker country with natural resources.
Lol yeah
This show should be called, "The U.S. is a P.O.S. and always has been". Six years serving this country, and I regret every moment, now that I know what it is.
They lie to send our working men and women to their deaths for the benefit only of the mega rich
Ya, nothing is worse than being lied to...
They want to keep you as a mushroom, totally in the dark, plus it's getting worse.👎😠
What's a P.O.S.???
some people are waking up, its a good thing.
In my view, imperialism is about lack of respect for other human beings.
how did the snake give Syrians human right（to get bombs？）
just lie，cheat and stole（pompeo）
Lack of respect for everything really.
Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. In capitalism nothing matters but capital, not humanity nor the planet.
Couldn’t agree more
Spot on! Historically, imperialism led to feudalism and in modern times it’s renamed Capitalism. Different name same outcome: the majority poor became minions for the minority elites, milked to the core to feed their insatiable need for money and power
Thank you for inviting Ben to talk. Ben Norton, information Colossus!!!
B. norton is a f. liar
As an American I have to go with Russia and China they are on the right side of history.
love it.
They havent colonizeenslaved Puero Rico as USA has.
It must be TH-cam because I'm very careful about my spelling.They want to dictate what I write - a la amerikkkhan fascist capitalism.
@@josephcrespo8193 my brother 🇵🇷♥️ one day we will control our own destiny
@@bohemianharvest ive lived in China. Its a fabulous country
Both russia and china have drastically improved conditions for their people over the last 20 uears. The west has done c9mpletely the opppsite.
The west keeps countries poor while they rape their resources and then look down on the south for being poor
What will you do in the future as yoir living standards continue to decline
The resources are not going to steal itself： another superb opening monologue Rania! Love BT News and Ben!
The difference here is that China trades with other countries for the natural resources that it needs, which means it buys them. The US simply overthrows governments around the world to install its puppets into these governments in order to steal their natural resources since once its puppets have been installed the US would be able to steal these countries’ natural resources since these US’s puppets would do anything that the US tells them to do! Is it a wonder why whenever a country is able to kick a US’s puppet out of its government and able to gain some measure of independence from the US, it chooses to do business with China rather than the US?
United States' ability to influence its supposed regional subordinates in LatAm are waning thanks to China's resilient diplomatic soft-power strategy of non-interference foreign policy and win-win cooperation. Bolivia securing recent deal with China's CATL over Tesla for Lithium exploration, extraction and downstreaming is simply and undeniably a major blow to US' national interest.
Putin's said he's been surprised at how well the Russian economy is performing. Even the IMF predicts growth for 2023. On the diplomatic front major new alliances are being formed fast. The rest of the world is looking on & sees the chance of freedom. Decisive Russian win in 2023.
Another coup d'état in Bolivia on the horizon.
@@strongchallenger2269 Probably not so soon, the MAS government have made huge come back in 2020 and rn seems to only get stronger and stronger despite attempt made by the reactionaries in Santa Cruz earlier on. Beside, the 2019 coup happening does make some sense when you consider that Evo had been in power for almost 14 years already, there must be oversights and unintended blunder made by his admin that made the coup possible. Luis was doing the right thing to take care of the reactionaries, as soon as he assumed leadership.
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@@strongchallenger2269 Just wanna give my two cents, no offense🥰
Two of the best journalists on this platform...excellent reporting as always, Rania & Ben!
I remember when the threat of an invasion of Venezuela was happening. I was gathering signitures for a petition. Wild that we were that close.
It would have been a disaster. The Americans would never leave Venezuela and they would make Venezuela into a big brothel.
@@danwelterweight4137 Maduro already destroyed Venezuela. Nothing is there except a black market, the army, and starvation. But china, and russia , have been there for years . They loaned Maduro money to keep paying the army and retain power, of course he couldnt pay it back, so china, Russia and turkey got oil and gold.
Major General Smedley Butler "I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism"
Ben's on fire. Truth's out.
Thank you Rania that you have Ben in your podcast because he is so details and understanding especially the government in South America.
The US hegemony continued in Latin America since Monroe doctrine 1823.
Since trump's presidency it's faded, during his term Iran sent tankers to Venezuela humiliated US regime,Argentina with Russia, Chile Brazil with China have similar ties .
Now China sends ballon to US soil Iran bring navy to Panama that's funeral of monro doctrine.
The Latin American countries need to work together to put an end to the exploitations of their countries by the USA. That is the only way their countries can develope and move forward in peace and harmony. So long as they allow the USA to manipulate their internal politics, they will continue to face an uphill battle to better the lives of their countries and people.
@@stephenlock7236 The more non-Western countries that band together against the US, the better for all of them. Hell, even non-US Western countries would be wise to jump ship, but their ruling classes are firmly in the hands of the American hegemony.
Ben is a hero. You are too, Rania.
Two of my look up to journaists ，thank you lady and gentle man
Rania and Ben have wonderful on-screen chemistry. Please do more of these interviews!
They should be married 😅
That chemistry is compassionate intelligence.
Zelenskyy knows that war is very profitable.
He is flogging a dead horse.
Zelenskyy and his U$ led nazi puppet masters alone are responsible for the huge number of Ukraine deaths.
Putin's reaction was slow measured and appropriate. His constituency hugely favours his military response to Ukraines nazi based coup and murder spree.
The Russian constituency favours communism. Putin, though not representing communism is not radically distant from it and is the best choice from any political philosophy to be Russia's leader.
Guys let’s not forget to talking about Haiti’s natural resources. 🔥🔥🔥
Could you please talking about Haiti s natural ressources and the others Caribianes countries.
Thank you BT News and Ben Norton for your invaluable work, keep spreading the truth!
And it always makes me livid when the repugs say we have to cut food assistance, ss, medicare and education but never cut military spending. Even if we cut it by 1/2 we would still have a huger military.
Two of the most informative youtubers. Great work.
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Americans have higher living standard because they toke it from others..
Not anymore. Poverty is rising in America.
@@plfong22he/she mean the0.5 or1%
Agree bro
@@randalldrn The rest of the world would be grateful if the US would stop killing innocent and cause suffering.
Which is also a myth in itself as average Americans have to bear with increasingly high expenses, simply just to meet some of their essential needs such as healthcare among the other things.
On top of that, they're lacking the financial security necessary to sustain high living standard, having to compromise some luxuries and even some basic needs in order to save up for the essential, despite what others would boast about the country's average quality of life.
Even worse when you also put into perspective the amounts of wealth they have to reap off of the Global South in order to sustain their own people (in the minimum sense), having to keep most of the Global South underdeveloped and/or stagnant a.k.a unable to ascend into the next stage of their capitalist development phase (in a sense of moving toward a potential socialist transition).
Well done Rania & Ben ❤️. Very insightful information 👍
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Free haiti 🇭🇹 from the shackles of imperialism !
Great work Ben and Rania, thank you!
OMG such a young age with vast, wide knowledge of geo politics, minerals, foreign policy, economy, international relations and with different subjects etc etc etc etc. Very very very huge salute to you young brother and Rania have such a beautiful legitimate questions. Please keep doing this and feed us your wildest knowledge of information. Honestly you two will bring positive differences among our youngsters. God blessing you both. Thank you very very very much.
Thank u guys for being objective, and China actually dwarves the US economy, but I know the Western controlled statistics keeps saying that US is the largest, but think about it,the US economy is mostly based on printing of paper 💰
59:38 Pentagon fails its budget audits. Reminds me of the time, Donald Rumsfeld said on camera, that the Pentagon couldn't account for $2 trillion of missing funds.
Money has no legs... so naturally these are inside jobs, right ???!!!
Since then the Pentagon couldnt account for $13 Trillion which was as much as the total amount of the world market and property. I guess the US gust printed up some more monopoly money but now the US dollar is not trusted in competition with the growing BRICS system that requires the backing of precious minerals like silver copper and gold.
Thank you and Ben for very good content. Time to unite and demand.
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Thanks RANIA KHALEK N BEN NORTON. GREAT JOURNALISM N COVERAGE!
I hope PERUVIAN people ultimately gets justice n ends up with a good government of the people.
Truly incredible and eye opening discussion.
Thank you very much both of you.
I can listen to the two of you all day, every day! 👏✊👏✊
"Why this region matters? " Because of it's resources? Big stake!
My Lord! She is advocating for a new Africa! Alejala, San Alejo!
"The truth is that neither British nor American Imperialism was or is idealistic. Its always driven by economic and strategic interests."-
Charley Reese
So in other words, among the idea of Monroe Doctrine is related to United States "geo-political economic hegemonic agendas,🤑🇺🇸💰💵😡🗡️🚀" or interests!
Opening was amazing. Not only did I fall in love but I got smarter was that really a human
Two of my favorite people!
the SOCOM commander using "we have" when describing the commodities SA is sickening. Pirates or insane. My bet is both. As for the manipulation talk, the first thing these countries do is take out education...and you don't need me to explain why this is done, the examples shown were enough.
Amazing journalism! Thank you both so much!!
BT News you are absolutely invaluable!! You are definitely the real deal and always go out of your way to provide factual information to raise the level of awareness about what is really going on in the world. Keep up the great work.
Ben, I am flabbergasted by your knowledge. We need your expertise. Thanks, Rania!
The reason the US wants SA countries to send weapons to Ukraine is to sell them the weapons.
The only way the US will allow a cease fire in Ukraine is if Ukraine joins NATO. Russia will never allow that, and the the US would rather nuclear war than accept the loss of its hegemony.
Great program. You do amazing work
This is great and should happen more often... they have great chemistry
I wish more people realized how important Prof michael hudson is. He is on another level. We need a Debt Jubilee to wipe out the savings of the 1%. Its the only way out.
Visited an art museum in Portland decades ago. A display on Pacific Coast Northwest Indians showed objects from an annual ceremony called a Potlatch where the wealthy redistributed wealth to the poorer members of the society. This action stablized their society. Progressive taxes were supposed to accomplish this in USA but Republicans didn't want to pay starting in the 80s especially. So how are we going to get this Debt Jubilee? It would really save their lives, too...
Never heard of him. I must check him out. Thanks.
Throw in REPEALING the federal income tax AMENDMENT and the federal reserve act along with a jubilee
What a nice show you put on. What a nice guy this Ben Norton is. You guys touch the heart.
Yes! Excellent collab! Listening to that first clip was bone-chilling. My god.
🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍 Benjamin Norton 💚💚💚💚💚
Very informative, thank you.
1:10:19 Ben explains in plain English how "Finance Capitalism is Parasitic" - why it takes away without giving anything back.
Awesome work.
Rania you do an excellent job and host the best guest speakers . Very informative program.
My two favourite TH-camrs 😍✌️
We need to follow the federal constitution and print money from the treasury backed by gold and silver. The federal reserve needs to be closed and the members put in prison where they belong.
Please bring more Ben Norton, As'ad Abukhalil & Prof Mohamad Marandi. Pepe Escobar would make a good guest too
New Australian mining company in Mozambique that extracts raw materials from Africa for Telsa. Although Elon Musk is a South African by birth and has never contributed to Africa, he wants to continue exploiting African resources, primarily raw materials. Let us know what Tesla's involvement with Australian Mining and the government of Mozambique is by using your platform
Thanks for laying out these facts
Thanks for sharing
The front yard of US, Canada, has given $70 billions to NORAD in 2022 to upgrade existing defence against northern attack. The free balloon advertisement is asking, US backyard, countries in South, Central Americas and the Caribbean to fund trillions in order to install defence system in US backyard countries because hypersonic missiles can come in all directions.
Great analysis.
The per-capita spending numbers literally had me exclaim "what the f*ck???"
The Monroe doctrine, cold war, new cold war and imperialism seem to be well established...
Does anyone feel that we need to transition to the dire straights that Wall Street is in and why they *NEED* to dominate new markets to keep asset values high and for their very existence? Professors Desai and Hudson are discussing this issue in Ben Nortan's *Geopolitical Economy Report* youtube channel.
41:21 "... someone as anti-China as Bolsonaro...on the books, the relationship between Brazil and China were great..."
This is why Scott Morrison in Australia was so baffling. Of all countries in the world, Australia benefited the most from trade with China. And Morrison wrecked it!
Their Morrison took care of his own pockets instead of the population's welfare,lives n livelihoods. The Aussies is investigating him ???!!!
@@gohsiewhau4819 Are they really investigating him? They should, but I haven't heard anything about that.
True
Thank you, this was another great episode! The points made in the last 10 minutes are important for socialists to know. Looking forward to learning more. I wonder what book(s) by Michael Hudson would be good to read and study collectively to build that understanding.
One thought I had; If anyone has had the misfortune to work for a privatised energy company, or a telco, you will be aware at just how long everything takes, just how badly managed they are, just how much waste is just normal. Through in half a dozen difference consultancy companies battling out and you have the money furnace from hell. I imagine that the US military is several times worse. Which means $1Trillion doesn't go as far as you think it should.
Depressing as it is to have one's lifetime worst case scenario intuitions confirmed (i partly grew up as a white kid in colonial Nigeria in the 1950s) - we owe it to our souls to hear it all set out in such a clearly articulated and comprehensive format. Thank you both, and all those responsible for producing BT & MP content.
Nigerian kid grew up in the 50s. The US and the new Kennedy administration were looked on as heroes. Im now living in the United States which has become an absolute monster.
@4:49 "...but the PRC in a lot of our countries in the region..." Um, when did they become "our" countries?
Notes for myself
7:00 1.Chile and 2.perú have most copper. Copper has been described as the new gold. Chile, Bolivia, Argentina most lithium
11:00 on the Doctrine
13:30 more on the doctrine
17:00 exact same context of Doctrine invocation today with LATAM, as was in 1820s
31:50 Tucker Carlson on Monroe doctrine
34:00 Ben goes into Doctrine and JQA
49:00 Ben using the word imperialism to describe British style imperialism
50:50 Brazil used to export planes. Mexico, Brazil used to have heavy industries
1:05:00ish to 1:12:00 using the words capitalism and socialism to define and explain what's happening in the world currently. Perfect :)
thank-you Rania and Ben for this amazing and informative conversation!
If the USA does not change it's ways, like all bullies it is long overdue for a damn good kicking. Can't the powers that be see this?
No they can't, they are flogging a dead horse.
Got to love this, "running dog" term used for the uk.
Definitivamente este é um dos melhores canais do TH-cam que abordam esse assunto. Ganharam mais um seguidor.
Bloodclot🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙏🏽! Jah Jah love you…..Give Ankhs! I really dig the reference to DR.Michael Hudson and all the devoted work he has done to further our understanding of these economic Shitstyms that shape our daily lives…🙏🏽🙌🏽 Jah love to Rania keeping the torch alive n blessing us with some the best handoffs allowing the topics to be discussed at length….Big Ups to Eugene as well🙏🏽🙌🏽
Full episode‼️
Yay‼️
US and Europe have deindustrialized LATAM and Africa....except in the case of Africa, it just kept Africa underdeveloped
The empire whose homeland is the US is composed of RENTIER economies, not service economies, where wealth is extracted rather than manufactured. Monopolies and the banks (FIRE, finance, insurance, and real estate) extract economic rent (unearned income), and the rentier oligarchy at the top of wall street dominates politics and the security apparatus.
Classical economists like Adam Smith explained that a free market is free FROM economic rent (collected by feudal land lords), not free FOR economic rent (collected by monopolies and the banks) as in neoliberal (Libertarian/Austrian/Chicago School) ideology. The American Empire is a neo feudal empire.
Debt grows exponentially (compound interest), while economies can not. Only since Rome have debts not been cancelled. This is because the debt is the wealth of the rentier oligarchy, as with Rome.
The southern border is full of refugees from rule by the rentier, or feudal, oligarchy, who are also in the process of cannibalizing the homeland.
Imagine if the interest you pay for your mortgage was being used for hospitals, schools, roads, public internet provision, etc., instead of going to the bankers.
I'm still not over how hilarious that graph is. 😂😂
Excellent analysis but for the military spending of China, India, Russia and so on. If you calculate the military expenditures on the basis of purchasing power parity, the combined military budgets of China, India and Russia is more than that of USA. US military expenditure, 85 per cent of it , goes towards salaries, administration, research and other intangible services.
breaks my heart what the US is doing in Peru... not to mention so many other places around the world. I have written senators about this sort of thing before, but the reality is we are mostly powerless without each other
Need new senators. Need to vote out all these career politicians
I agree with your narrative! All is very true. Congrats
Contenu toujours exceptionnel.
SUPERB WORK BOTH OF U. Hats 🎩 off. Now, my whole perception changed about US/NATO neo con imperialism force soulless parasite.
BT News I love your channel. Please keep it up.
Rio Tinto was trying to send away the local farmers in Serbia from thier fertile land n order to start exploring and excavating lithium. It's not over yet they will try anything they could to overthrow the rights and will of local population to live there.
South American governments need to go BRICS with millions of Latin people in America we got your back they would have to fight 2 fronts and plenty of latins in the military too
On the question of indian alliance with US, modi in his G20 speech says that indian relations with russia are stronger than ever. 😅
Ben needs to have graphs, etc to display so, it's not all - quick talk which makes It's hard, to follow. Ben is very knowledgeable.
Thanks Rania and Ben
Outstanding show wow thanks for the analysis
Very very smart yang men and onest BRAVO
Well definitely yes to Ben Norton... but frankly I've not seen a guest that Rania has not wrung the last bit of intellect juice out of. Vijay, Mikaela, and many more come to mind.
Thank you Rania and BreakThrough.
On hind sight Russian intervention to assist Venezuela could be another reason for USA retaliation to use Ukraine as proxy to break Russia.
And that's backfiring
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Bravo !
Outstanding. Ben, brilliant, as ever 👏
On the Monroe Doctrine…..why didn’t Reagan invoke the MD….. when England invaded the Faulkland Islands?
Uk did not invade, it's was already part of the UK.
Informative discussion! Pays to have knowledge which should lead to wisdom. Thanks
Years ago I always write off military coups in other countries as incompetents and dysfunctions of given countries' people s, now I'm highly suspicious of US involvement in those of events! And realize our involvements have nothing to do with concerns for given country's wellbeing ( freedom, democracy etc. ) but our own in the form of cooperations involvement in extraction of resource! I fully recognize as an US citizen, we benefits form these endeavors in the form of abundant and cheap goods for ourselves! Of course through these cooperations born the rich and powerful of our nations! It's not a new phenomenon, tactics may be different through our history, end goals are the same! That's why our foreign policies are alway consistent regardless of who's our leader Democrats or Republican it's our rich and powerful guide our leaders to our policies for so call national interests! I think it's time to shares our prosperity with rest of the world just as the riches share more of the wealth with ordinary people in our country!
"Abundant and cheap"? Only for some. There are over 40 million poor people living in the US. And with these illegal immigration we might ended up with 100 million easily by end of this decade!! Is a disgrace!!! So stop your propaganda!!
Rania Khalek. What a cool name!
Lol USA say stay of my back yard, HELLO, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Come on maaan
I myself was brain washed am getting back with my roots my soul lol💚