Oil war: How US and Saudi crashed crude prices to hurt Russia, Iran, Venezuela in 2014
Multipolarista host Ben Norton discusses an important yet little known US-Saudi "oil war" in 2014, when Washington pressured Riyadh to overproduce crude and make prices plummet on the global market in...
19 Nov 202238min
Oil as a geopolitical weapon: US hegemony, OPEC, Saudi Arabia, and the petrodollar
Multipolarista host Ben Norton is joined by historian Aaron Good joins to discuss how oil is used as a geopolitical weapon, analyzing the 1973 OPEC oil embargo, Saudi-US alliance, petrodollar, Nixon s...
16 Nov 202258min
US-Russia proxy war risks nuclear apocalypse, 60 years after Cuban Missile Crisis
On the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world is closer than ever to nuclear apocalypse, with the NATO-Russia proxy war in Ukraine. Historian and political scientist Aaron Good discus...
16 Nov 202251min
Corruption exposed: US meddled in Ecuador's election, using Julian Assange as bargaining chip
A former minister of Ecuador testified that the US government conspired with a right-wing political party to run a disinformation campaign against the leftist Correísta movement, backing a millionaire...
11 Nov 202256min
Europe and US meet with Venezuela's real President Maduro, desperate for lower oil prices
After years backing a failed coup attempt, France's Emmanuel Macron and US climate envoy John Kerry met with Venezuela's constitutionally elected President Nicolás Maduro at the UN's COP27 conference ...
10 Nov 202222min
Is debt crisis coming in Global South, with war, interest rate hikes, overvalued dollar?
The US-dominated IMF has said a "wave of debt crises" may be coming in the Global South, warning "the worst is yet to come," as the depreciation of most currencies against the dollar and rising intere...
8 Nov 20221h 41min
How Wall Street gave birth to the CIA and US national security state (with historian Aaron Good)
The history of how Wall Street capitalists helped to create the US national security state under the Harry S. Truman administration, as Washington built its post-World War II empire. VIDEO: https://y...
5 Nov 20221h 1min
Entire world votes 185 to 2 against blockade of Cuba - US and Israel are rogue states at UN
For the 30th year in a row, almost every country on Earth voted at the United Nations General Assembly to oppose the illegal six-decade US blockade of Cuba. 185 nations voted against just two: the Uni...
4 Nov 202232min
