Geopolitical Economy Report

So-called "peace president" Donald Trump has bombed 10 countries, more than any other US leader. He attacked 7 countries in 2025 alone. Now he wants to raise the USA's military budget to $1.5 trillion. Ben Norton explains how the self-declared "peacemaker" is waging war around the world.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Div95RNXX0M

Topics
0:00 Donald Trump's promises
0:13 (CLIP) Trump: I'm a "peacemaker"
0:50 Trump promises no new wars
1:14 (CLIP) "I'm going to stop wars"
1:27 Trump bombed 7 countries in 2025
1:50 Map of 10 countries Trump bombed
2:49 US presidents are war criminals
4:06 Post-9/11 US wars: 4.5 million deaths
5:01 Trump the "peace president"
5:51 Joe Biden, war criminal
6:09 Trump, war criminal
6:50 Victims of US attack on Venezuela
8:26 US Department of War
9:06 Pete Hegseth threatens China, Russia
9:36 Trump's $1.5 trillion military budget
10:25 Military spending by top countries
11:09 Share of world defense spending
12:13 US national debt
14:26 Cut taxes on rich, raise on poor
15:41 Elon Musk's DOGE
16:28 Food stamp cuts
16:58 Class war
17:21 Money buys US elections
17:54 (CLIP) Trump praises Big Tech oligarchs
18:17 Imperialism
18:48 Outro

When Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado gave her Nobel "Peace" Prize to warmonger Donald Trump to thank him for bombing her country, it showed how the prize is a tool of war that serves Western foreign policy interests. The winner is very often a US-funded regime-change activist who tries to overthrow independent governments deemed "authoritarian" by NATO. Ben Norton reports.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ow1WRl0Axw

Topics
0:00 Trump gets prize from Venezuela's Machado
2:12 Trump has bombed 10 countries
3:01 Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite
3:52 Nobel Peace Prize serves US foreign policy
4:39 Henry Kissinger, war criminal
5:42 Barack Obama, war criminal & Nobel laureate
7:07 Nobel Peace Prize: regime-change tool
9:07 Prize money
9:46 National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
11:07 Philippines' pro-US "dissident"
12:54 Russian pro-US "dissident"
14:33 Ukraine & neocons
15:36 Anti-Russian groups
16:23 Anti-Soviet "dissident"
16:51 Belarusian pro-US "dissident"
18:09 Iranian pro-US "dissident"
19:26 Iranian pro-US, pro-war activist
22:07 War is peace: US empire über alles
22:54 Iranian Revolution & imperialism
23:19 USA supports protests in Iran
26:15 NED continues under Trump & Rubio
27:24 China targeted by USA
28:07 Chinese pro-US "dissident"
29:11 US gov't links to Human Rights Watch
30:02 "Color revolution" attempt
31:21 Pro-colonialist fanatic Liu Xiaobo
34:53 Far-right warmonger Solzhenitsyn
35:59 Jean-Paul Sartre rejected Nobel Prize
36:56 Dalai Lama & CIA support
38:22 Nobel "Peace" Prize for war
39:07 Outro

The US government is openly backing the violent protests in Iran. An Israeli media outlet admitted foreign powers are arming Iranian rioters with weapons to try to overthrow the government. Ben Norton explains the geopolitical context and why the USA has sought regime change ever since the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4_eu-TF68

Topics
0:00 (CLIP) Trump supports Iran protests
0:11 Riots in Iran
0:42 Israeli media on arming Iranian 'protesters'
1:49 US-backed regime change attempt
3:14 (CLIP) Trump pushes Iran regime change
3:41 Trump threatens to attack Iran (again)
5:15 CIA coup in Iran in 1953
5:56 Crimes of US-backed shah
6:50 Iranian Revolution
7:53 US imperialism: Wolfowitz Doctrine
8:43 Geopolitics of Middle East (West Asia)
10:12 Iran: BRICS, SCO, China, Russia
11:14 US plans to 'remake Middle East'
12:18 (CLIP) Wesley Clark: 7 countries in 5 years
12:56 Trump's threats against Iran
14:52 Trump spreads fake news
15:24 Trump threatens tariffs
16:21 Trump: "take over [Iranian] institutions"
17:23 US withdraws troops from Qatar
18:06 US plans to attack Iran
19:20 'Protesters' burn down buildings
21:22 Iran 'protesters' have weapons
22:58 Similarities to Syria & Libya
25:15 USA backs Iranian 'crown prince'
27:49 (CLIP) 'Crown prince': "This is a war"
29:31 Sacrifices to empire
30:24 Israel supports Iranian 'crown prince'
31:25 Mike Pompeo: Mossad supports protests
32:30 US boasts of 'maximum pressure'
33:06 US sanctions devastate Iranian economy
34:47 Outro

Donald Trump claims he will "run" Venezuela, after he bombed it and abducted President Nicolás Maduro. However, his plan makes no sense -- and will likely blow back on the USA. Acting President Delcy Rodríguez is still independent, and not cutting off China. US sanctions devastated Venezuela's oil infrastructure, and its heavy crude is expensive to produce -- and US companies do not see it as profitable enough, amid a global supply glut. Ben Norton explains.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbpdfPK8jVE

Topics
0:00 US attack on Venezuela
0:49 (CLIP) Trump: USA will "run the country"
1:31 Two main US demands for Venezuela
2:20 Chavista government is intact
3:21 Oil corporations are skeptical
4:57 Trump's oil deal with Venezuela
7:44 US oil industry benefits rich elites
8:27 China, Russia, Iran, Cuba ties
10:08 USA wants heavy crude
10:46 Economic war
11:53 Marco Rubio targets Cuba
12:24 China and Venezuelan oil
13:02 Pete Hegseth threatens China & Russia
13:44 US seizes Russian-flagged tanker
14:16 Trump wants $1.5 trillion military budget
14:58 Trump bombed 7 countries in 2025
15:20 China's oil imports by country
17:43 Imperialist Monroe/Donroe Doctrine
18:21 Desperation of declining US empire
19:12 International law & UN Charter
20:19 China: South America's top trading partner
21:17 Forcing Venezuela to buy US products
22:07 Latin America exports
23:56 US is trade competitor with Latin America
25:24 US National Security Strategy
26:03 Pressure to cut ties with China
27:30 Geopolitics vs trade
28:45 USA threatens Venezuelan officials
30:30 Opposition leader María Corina Machado
32:56 Acting President Delcy Rodríguez
35:03 Delcy Rodríguez reaffirms China support
36:02 Trump will not have a US colony
37:40 Chevron deal in Venezuela
40:38 Sanctions exemptions in oil sector
41:53 US sanctions devastated oil industry
44:02 US purchases of Venezuelan oil
45:14 US imports heavy crude
46:25 US oil refineries want heavy crude
47:50 Oil companies say it's "uninvestable"
48:37 Oil deal possible, but not colonialism
49:42 High cost of Venezuelan crude
52:34 Global oil supply glut
53:34 US oil companies want gov't benefits
54:13 Destructive US interventions
56:47 Outro

To justify bombing Venezuela and abducting President Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump falsely accused him of leading the so-called "Cartel de los Soles". But the US Department of Justice was forced to admit that this "Suns Cartel" doesn't exist. The USA lied -- while the CIA actually has trafficked drugs in Latin America. Ben Norton reports.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44c0jf5ygyE

Topics
0:00 US attacks Venezuela
0:21 (CLIP) Trump wants Venezuela's oil
1:12 Trump's colonial war on Venezuela
2:08 US DOJ admits it lied about Maduro
3:25 92-year-old judge oversees show trial
3:53 "Cartel de los Soles" doesn't exist
5:05 WMD lie
5:46 Venezuela does NOT produce fentanyl
6:28 Cocaine-producing countries
7:12 (CLIP) Biden official admits truth
8:21 CIA trafficked drugs in Venezuela
11:01 (CLIP) 60 Minutes on CIA drug trafficking
11:42 DEA agent accuses CIA of trafficking
12:58 CIA, cocaine, Nicaraguan Contras
14:47 Trump pardoned Hondura drug trafficker
16:13 (CLIP) Juan Orlando Hernández
16:39 Ecuador's drug-linked President Noboa
17:42 Colombia's drug lord Álvaro Uribe
18:50 USA armed Mexican cartels
19:34 US allies in Mexico are narcos
20:23 Drug links to Argentina's Javier Milei
20:43 Marco Rubio's links to cocaine trafficking
22:52 US Special Forces links to drugs
23:55 Trump attacks Colombia President Petro
24:37 Afghanistan opium production
25:59 Opioid epidemic in USA
26:34 Purdue Pharma and Sackler family
28:55 US imperialism based on lies
29:42 Outro