Ben Norton
Journalist || Videos: https://t.co/nttyf01rBw || Editor of @GeopoliticaEcon || English/español
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It's outrageous that US universities are working with gambling companies. But it's the logical outcome as the economy was taken over by parasitic financial capital in the neolibera...
Amazing things are happening in Mexico: Left-wing President AMLO just held a historic rally and march featuring 1.2 MILLION supporters, celebrating 4 years in government. Basicall...
Naomi Klein is the kind of soft-imperialist fake "socialist" the capitalist ruling class loves. She opposes every existing socialist government (demonizing Venezuela condescending...
US-Russia proxy war risks nuclear apocalypse, 60 years after Cuban Missile Crisis @Aaron_Good_ and I discussed the history of US nuclear threats against the former Soviet Union, C...
The IMF said a “wave of debt crises” may be coming in the Global South, and “the global economy is headed for stormy waters.” It pointed to war, “geopolitical realignment,” rising...
Millions of people all across Nicaragua are voting in municipal elections today. Despite the constant propaganda in the Western corporate media and lies from the US government, Ni...
The world may be on the verge of another Global South debt crisis like in the 1980s Rapid depreciation of most currencies against the dollar and rising interest rates make it hard...
La BBC admite: "La economía colombiana estaba en crisis antes de que Petro llegara al poder" "el déficit de cuenta corriente es de 5% y la deuda externa representa un 60% del PIB"...
This is huge: Colombia's new President Gustavo Petro travelled to Caracas to meet with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro He's the first Colombian leader to visit since 2011 The...
Imperialists have long tried to sabotage the anti-war movement, falsely claiming leftists have a "red-brown alliance" with fascists I don't think it's a coincidence CIA applicant...
Absurd BS. The US deep state was created to destroy socialism. It has always supported right-wing capitalists. ("Populism" means nothing; it's marketing) Bolsonaro only came to po...
Brazil's left-wing former President Lula da Silva is coming back. He won today's election despite blatant voter suppression by far-right incumbent Bolsonaro This is huge news for...