Is Japan in crisis as yen crashes? Or is USA exporting its economic problems?
Japan's currency the yen has fallen significantly against the dollar. It its economy in crisis? What is the role of US interest rates, inflation, debt, and deficits? What about China? Ben Norton expla...
1 Mai 202435min
How the dollar's 'exorbitant privilege' enriches the USA (and global elites)
How much does the US benefit from printing the global reserve currency? An economist calculated that US average daily income would fall by 27-57% if the dollar lost its "exorbitant privilege". Ben Nor...
27 Apr 202438min
Biden signs law to ban TikTok: Latest attack in US economic war on China
US President Joe Biden signed a law that will force TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to sell the app, or it will be banned in the US. Ben Norton explains how this is part of Washington's economic war,...
25 Apr 202419min
If Ukraine loses war, it will be 'end of Western hegemony', warns UK's Boris Johnson
If Ukraine loses in the NATO proxy war with Russia, "it will be the end of Western hegemony", lamented former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Ben Norton explains the geopolitics of the conflict,...
23 Apr 202417min
Challenging the duopoly: Jill Stein on why she's running for US president as Green Party candidate
Jill Stein explains why she decided to run for US president on an anti-war, pro-worker platform, challenging the duopoly of the Democrats and Republicans as the candidate for the Green Party. She is i...
20 Apr 20241h 2min
US blocks UN from recognizing Palestine, while Israel attacks Iran
The US vetoed a resolution in the UN Security Council that called to recognize Palestine as a member state, while Israel launched attacks on Iran. Ben Norton shows how Washington is opposing peace. V...
19 Apr 202427min
Cold War 2: US officials call to overthrow China's gov't, expand military budget to $1.4 trillion
A major Congress member and top former Trump administration official published an article calling to overthrow China's government. They boasted that the US is waging a new cold war and must win it, wh...
18 Apr 202429min
Iran had legal right to counter-attack Israel in self-defense
Israel attacked Iran's embassy in Syria on April 1, in a blatant act of war. Iran had a legal right to respond in self-defense, according to article 51 of the UN Charter, which is exactly what it did ...
14 Apr 202412min
