FBI spied on and harassed Black revolutionary who was killed and set on fire
The FBI harassed Black revolutionary Darren Seals and compiled a 900-page report on his organizing against racism and police brutality in Ferguson, Missouri, birthplace of the Black Lives Matter movem...
20 Sep 202215min
US imperial theorist Fukuyama praises the deep state (with historian Aaron Good)
US imperial court philosopher Francis Fukuyama once declared liberal capitalist democracy was the "end of history." Now he is openly praising the deep state. Ben Norton is joined by political scienti...
17 Sep 20221h 1min
MAGA 'communism'? Ridiculous right-wing grifters cash in posing as 'patriotic socialists'
Ben Norton and Danny Haiphong discuss the absurd concepts of MAGA "communism" and "patriotic socialism" in the imperialist US. Pro-Trump opportunists are posing as leftists to recruit the right - and ...
16 Sep 20221h 25min
US launched 251 military interventions since 1991, and 469 since 1798
The US military launched at least 251 interventions between 1991 and 2022, according to the Congressional Research Service. Washington’s meddling abroad drastically increased after the end of the firs...
13 Sep 202216min
The USA is an oligarchy: This scholar explained how in 1956 (with historian Aaron Good)
In his 1956 book "The Power Elite," New Left sociologist C. Wright Mills detailed how decision-making in the United States is not democratic; it is determined by (1) Wall Street capitalists and large ...
12 Sep 202258min
Economist Michael Hudson on debt relief, inflation, Ukraine disaster capitalism, petrodollar crisis
Economist Michael Hudson joins Multipolarista host Ben Norton to discuss partial student debt relief in the US, inflation and the Fed, disaster capitalism in Ukraine, and China's challenge to the petr...
8 Sep 20221h 24min
Apartheid Israel requires Palestinians to report romantic relationships to regime
While Palestinians are forced off of buses for being Arab, apartheid Israel is now requiring foreigners to officially notify the regime if they fall in love with a Palestinian in the occupied West Ban...
7 Sep 202216min
The undemocratic structure of the US state (with historian Aaron Good)
An analysis of the deeply undemocratic structure of the US government, exploring the academic research on the concepts of the dual state and double government. This is PART 7 of the Empire and the De...
6 Sep 20221h 10min
