Geopolitical Economy Report

The historic re-election of President Lula da Silva in Brazil is a victory for BRICS, Palestine, Latin America, and the Global South, and a significant blow to the United States, Israel, and dollar hegemony. Ben Norton explains the major geopolitical and economic implications of Brazil's 2026 presidential election.

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

Topics
0:00 Brazil's presidential election
0:30 Importance of Brazil
0:55 Lula vs Bolsonaro
2:01 Global South cooperation
3:13 Jair Bolsonaro coup attempt
4:52 Bolsonaros flee to USA
6:25 Brazil's state-owned oil industry
7:25 Rare earths & critical minerals
9:03 Summary
9:32 Lula's background
10:29 Rich landlords fund Bolsonaros
11:52 BRICS
13:03 US dollar dominance
13:59 Lula proposed BRICS currency
15:37 Latin American currency idea
16:42 US imperialism in Latin America
17:15 Trump's tariffs
18:28 US Big Tech meddling in Brazil
19:29 AI propaganda
20:19 Lula supports Palestine
20:54 Bolsonaros love Israel
22:30 Victory for Global South
23:22 Rare earth minerals in Brazil
24:56 USA makes new supply chain
27:06 Donroe Doctrine
28:58 Conclusion

US Big Tech corporations based in Silicon Valley are manipulating politics across the world. Meta and TikTok are censoring critics of Donald Trump and Elon Musk in the United States, while repressing protesters in Albania and blatantly meddling in Brazil's elections.

Ben Norton explains how Meta censored Brazil's left-wing President Lula da Silva, while promoting far-right, US-backed candidate Flávio Bolsonaro.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk3bc6ms_B4

Topics
0:00 US oligarchy
0:41 Big Tech meddles in Brazil election
1:22 Big Tech meddles in Albania
2:08 TikTok censors Elon Musk documentary
2:58 Elon Musk tries to buy US elections
3:28 Musk documentary
3:54 Billionaire Larry Ellison takes over TikTok
4:52 Skydance: Paramount buys Warner Bros
5:31 Meta censors No Kings on Instagram
6:15 USA is an oligarchy
6:55 Albanian protesters censored by Meta
8:44 Trump family backs Albanian criminals
9:44 Trump frees Honduran narco-dictator
10:25 USA meddles in Brazil's election
10:49 Meta censored Lula's accounts
12:12 Why the US opposes Lula
12:43 Lula & BRICS challenge US dollar
13:46 Trump hits Brazil with tariffs
14:18 Jair Bolsonaro coup attempt
16:19 Flavio & Eduardo Bolsonaro
17:49 Bolsonaristas ask Trump to bomb Brazil
18:35 US-backed coups in Latin America
19:22 Elon Musk: "We will coup whoever"
20:13 Flavio Bolsonaro's promises to Trump
20:40 Brazil's Pix payment system
21:55 Silicon Valley fears regulation
22:46 Meta censors pro-Lula accounts
23:14 Bolsonaro hires US AI company
24:33 AI fake social media accounts
27:51 US imperialism in Latin America
28:55 Donroe Doctrine
30:05 New era of AI coups

Global public opinion has rapidly shifted and polls show Israel is now the most unpopular country on Earth. So Israeli regime officials are becoming even more desperate and extreme. A top Israeli official who led the IDF's military intelligence directorate published a white paper outlining plans for never-ending war, in a "permanent Israeli-Arab conflict". The report explicitly opposes peace, calling it "weakness". It says a "peace agreement is unattainable" and insists "no solution is possible", only endless conflict and colonization. Ben Norton reports.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z5--p8bhp4

Topics
0:00 Israel is most disliked country on Earth
1:06 Most Americans disapprove of Israel
2:10 International recognition of Palestine
2:29 Israel rejects a Palestinian state
3:11 Israel is an apartheid regime
3:38 Israeli colonialism
4:21 Israel lays out its plan
5:51 Israel calls for permanent war
6:47 Israel opposes peace
8:15 Israel seeks to destabilize Arab neighbors
9:52 Hypocrisy of settler-colonialism
10:58 Plan: "permanent Israeli-Arab conflict"
12:23 Official: "no solution is possible"
13:09 Israel wants to take more territory
14:45 Nuclear weapons threat
15:25 Israel openly opposes democracy
17:15 Neo-fascism
18:37 Declining US support
19:54 Israel can't fight without US weapons
21:56 Fall of apartheid South Africa
23:12 Poll: most Americans oppose Israel
24:29 Young Americans dislike Israel
25:22 Desperation of Israeli regime

The US government has called to revive Western domination of the planet. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a speech in Greece that openly praised colonialism and erased history. He claimed the West is "the greatest civilization in the world" and insisted it must "maintain its place at the head of the world".

Ben Norton explains how the idea of a unified "Western civilization" is a political myth used to justify imperialism. He fact-checks Rubio's remarks and provides important historical context that the Donald Trump administration refuses to acknowledge.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iPKlFKY_F8

Topics
0:00 (CLIP) Marco Rubio on Western civilization
0:33 USA wants West to dominate world
1:47 Marco Rubio speech in Athens
2:57 (CLIP) Rubio: West must dominate world
3:56 The "Clash of Civilizations" narrative
7:06 Trump admin erases history
7:51 Colonization of the Americas
9:05 (CLIP) Rubio praises colonialism
10:00 Native Americans erased by US govt
10:33 Double standards on imperialism
12:33 Rubio demonizes Iran
13:04 Greece is not "Western"
14:02 Christianity and East-West Schism
15:09 Russia, the West, and NATO
16:01 Western civilization is a political myth
17:42 Rearmament of Europe
18:17 (CLIP) Rubio on militarization of EU
18:44 Christian nationalism
19:55 Using Christianity to support imperialism
21:33 Religion in Ancient Greece
22:15 Church persecution of scientists
23:29 Christian attack on Ancient Greece/Rome
24:18 Islamic Golden Age
24:41 European book-burning
25:22 Western chauvinism is ridiculous
26:43 Rubio identifies with Spain, not Cuba
30:26 (CLIP) Rubio's pro-colonialist speech
32:06 Latin America's right-wing elites
33:33 What is the "West"? A political construct
35:09 Trump admin's extreme imperialism
35:52 (CLIP) Rubio condemns anti-colonialists
37:06 USA wants to reverse decolonization
38:32 Real goal of US foreign policy

The US war against Iran is expanding into a regional conflict. Saudi Arabia restarted its war in Yemen against the Houthis (officially known as Ansarallah), the political movement that governs 80% of the Yemeni population. Pakistan and Turkey (Türkiye) have joined the war. Syria supports it. Ben Norton explains how this crisis is growing, why the Donald Trump administration is fueling it, and how it is further destabilizing the oil market and global economy.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK9KxLbKuYk

Topics
0:00 War on Yemen starts again
0:22 Pakistan joins Saudi war
1:11 Turkey joins war
1:57 Syria backs war on Yemen
2:23 USA helps Saudi bomb Yemen
3:14 What is happening in Yemen?
3:37 Who are the Houthis (Ansarallah)?
5:05 Revolution on 21 September 2014
5:30 Map of Yemen war territory
6:04 Saudi Arabia controls south Yemen
6:55 Yemen's Saudi puppet "presidents"
9:06 UAE loses proxy war with Saudi
10:53 War crimes
12:15 Goals of US-Saudi war on Yemen
12:49 Bab al-Mandab Strait
14:43 Strait of Hormuz
15:15 Largest oil crisis in history
16:21 Why Ansarallah blockaded Saudi
17:54 EU supports Saudi monarchy
19:36 Attack on Saudi oil pipeline
21:05 Oil prices skyrocket
22:09 Shipping costs break records
23:27 Heating oil price up 80%
25:02 US attacks on Yemen in 2025
26:59 USA could not defeat Ansarallah
28:48 US-Saudi war on Yemen (2015)
31:21 New war could help Ansarallah
32:49 This war affects entire world