Join us for the January 13, 2025 edition of the Geopolitical Report Daily Podcast. We mapped 61 events on Sunday, including protests in Romania and Serbia, along with more ISIS attacks.Di Geopolitical Report

What will Donald Trump's second term as US president mean for the NATO-Russia proxy war in Ukraine and Israel's war on Gaza? How will his tariffs affect the economy? To discuss, political economist Radhika Desai is joined by Anatol Lieven, director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.VIDEO: https://www.youtube.…

Join us for the January 12, 2025 edition of the Geopolitical Report Daily Podcast. We mapped 52 events on Saturday, including a Maoist IED attack and Sudanese forces retaking Wad Madani.Di Geopolitical Report

Join us for the January 11, 2025 edition of the Geopolitical Report Daily. We mapped 73 events on Friday, including a deadly attack in Benin and more US sanctions on Russia.Di Geopolitical Report

Join us for the January 10, 2025 edition of the Geopolitical Report Daily. We mapped 72 events on Tuesday, including a deadly airstrike in Myanmar that killed dozens of civilians.Di Geopolitical Report

Join us for the January 9, 2025 edition of the Geopolitical Report Daily. We mapped 54 events on Tuesday, including Turkish threats to launch an operation against Kurdish forces in Syria.Di Geopolitical Report

Join us for the January 8, 2025 edition of the Geopolitical Report Daily. We mapped 62 events on Tuesday, including US sanctions on the RSF in Sudan over genocide allegations.Di Geopolitical Report

Join us for the January 7, 2025 edition of the Geopolitical Report Daily. We mapped 51 events on Monday, including an important resignation in Canada.Di Geopolitical Report

BRICS keeps expanding. As a new full member, it added Indonesia, the 4th most populous country with the 7th largest economy on Earth. BRICS now has 10 members and 8 partners. Together they make up 41.4% of global GDP (PPP) and roughly half the world population. Ben Norton explains.VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIDWOWHW-cUSources and links …

Join us for the January 6, 2025 edition of the Geopolitical Report Daily. We mapped 51 events on Sunday, including a cable being cut off Taiwan, and the killing of an Islamic State-linked leader in Mali.Di Geopolitical Report

Join us for the January 5, 2025 edition of the Geopolitical Report Daily. We mapped 68 events on Saturday, including friction between China and India in Ladakh.Di Geopolitical Report

Join us for the January 4, 2025 edition of the Geopolitical Report Daily. We mapped 50 events on Friday, including protests in Warsaw and the discovery of an undersea drone off the Philippines.Di Geopolitical Report

The US stock market is in "the mother of all bubbles", with the market capitalization of publicly traded companies at 206% of GDP. This is higher than the dot-com bubble of 2000, and even the peak of the crash of 1929. Meanwhile, just 25 companies make up over half of the weight of the S&P 500, and the Magnificent 7 Big Tech monopolies are 35% of t…

Join us for the January 3, 2025 edition of the Geopolitical Report Daily. We mapped 50 events on Thursday, including the monster Chinese ship spotted around Scarborough Shoal, and the alleged poisoning of Assad in Russia.Di Geopolitical Report

Join us for the January 2, 2025 edition of the Geopolitical Report Daily. We mapped 57 events on Wednesday, including the terror attack in New Orleans, and the French leaving Cote d'Ivoire.Di Geopolitical Report

Join us for the January 1, 2025 edition of the Geopolitical Report Daily. We mapped 65 events on Monday, including fresh sanctions against Russia and Iran and more political drama in South Korea.Di Geopolitical Report

Join us for the December 31, 2024 edition of the Geopolitical Report Daily. We mapped 51 events on Monday, including protests in Kenya and more anti-women policies in Afghanistan.Di Geopolitical Report

Join us for the December 30, 2024 edition of the Geopolitical Report Daily. We mapped 49 events on Sunday, including more protests in Georgia and a brewing conflict with Gazprom in Moldova.Di Geopolitical Report

The United States spent decades trying to overthrow the Syrian government, before succeeding in 2024. A declassified CIA document from 1986 outlined US plans for regime change. The blueprint was almost exactly what happened in the proxy war that started in 2011. Ben Norton explains.VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKXxKCm1psUHow the US milita…

Join us for the December 29, 2024 edition of the Geopolitical Report Daily. We mapped 52 events on Saturday, including more operations in Gaza and a car bomb in Gaza.Di Geopolitical Report

Join us for the December 28, 2024 edition of the Geopolitical Report Daily. We mapped 52 events on Thursday, including another South Korean impeachment, and protests continuing in Serbia.Di Geopolitical Report

Join us for the December 27, 2024 edition of the Geopolitical Report Daily. We mapped 41 events on Thursday, including Israeli attacks on Houthi targets in Yemen and more Chinese purges.Di Geopolitical Report

While Donald Trump's supporters falsely claim he is an "isolationist", he is threatening to colonize the Panama Canal, annex Canada, and seize Greenland (and its rare earth elements). The Trump team also plans to invade Mexico, bomb Iran, and wage proxy war on China. Ben Norton explains.VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG_UzMTh82wTopics0:00 T…

Join us for the December 26, 2024 edition of the Geopolitical Report Daily. We have 63 geopolitical events to cover from Wednesday, including a massive Russian attack on Ukraine.Di Geopolitical Report

Join us for the December 25, 2024 Christmas Day edition of the Geopolitical Report Daily. We have 50 geopolitical events to cover from Tuesday, including Xi making another high profile change in the military and rebel groups consolidating in Syria.Di Geopolitical Report

Join us for the December 24, 2024 Christmas Eve edition of the Geopolitical Report Daily. We have 49 geopolitical events to cover from Monday.Di Geopolitical Report

The Global South-led organization BRICS continues to expand, adding 9 partner countries in January 2025, after admitting 4 new members in 2024. The group now makes up roughly half of the global population and more than 41% of world GDP (PPP). It's an economic powerhouse, with top producers of key commodities like oil, gas, grains, meat, minerals, a…

Join us for the December 23, 2024 edition of the Geopolitical Report Daily. We have 46 geopolitical events to cover from Sunday.Di Geopolitical Report

Join us for the December 22, 2024 edition of the Geopolitical Report Daily. Saturday was a busy day and we have 50 geopolitical events to cover.Di Geopolitical Report

Syrian rebel commanders have admitted that the US military helped them overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad. NATO member Turkey and Israel played a key role as well. Ben Norton reviews the evidence.VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qicLi6kqt7MTopics0:00 Intro0:41 US troops occupy Syria's oil & wheat fields2:56 US military oversaw Syrian…

Did Israel and the United States win the Syria war? What about NATO member Turkey? Were Iran and the Axis of Resistance defeated? Political economist Radhika Desai discusses with Mohammad Marandi, a professor at the University of Tehran.VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za2HfCFbHt8This is part of the show Geopolitical Economy Hour. You can wat…

After helping to overthrow leader Bashar al-Assad, Israel destroyed Syria's military capabilities and is seizing territory, annexing the Golan Heights and occupying more land. The Al-Qaeda-linked Salafi-jihadist rebels who now rule Syria, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), have allowed Israel to do this. HTS leader (and former Al-Qaeda chief) Abu M…

South Korea's US-backed President Yoon Suk Yeol launched a coup attempt, but failed. He tried to provoke war with North Korea by attacking with drones, hoping to justify imposing martial law, but the DPRK showed restraint. Ben Norton analyzes the geopolitics of the crisis, addressing NATO, China, Japan, and more.VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch…

The Syrian government was overthrown, and Salafi-jihadist rebels led by a rebranded version of Al-Qaeda called Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) took power in Damascus. US President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu boasted of helping topple Bashar al-Assad. NATO member Turkey played a key role as well. Ben Norton explains how the West dealt a m…

While the United States provokes conflicts across the world, China has promoted economic development, lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, building infrastructure, and encouraging win-win cooperation. Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are joined by Beijing-based scholar Mick Dunford to discuss the significance …

The United States spent billions over years arming and training militants in Syria, many linked to Al-Qaeda and ISIS. The extremist "rebels" who took over Aleppo (and rule Idlib) said they "love Israel". Ben Norton documents the Western dirty war on Syria, and how Washington is trying to divide and conquer the anti-colonial Axis of Resistance in We…

As the NATO-Russia proxy war in Ukraine escalates, the US Army is funding research on "the impacts of nuclear weapons on farm systems" in Eastern Europe. Numerous scientific studies warn that this would cause a nuclear winter that would starve billions and kill off the majority of the human population. Ben Norton discusses the extreme dangers.VIDEO…

To defend their colonialism in Gaza, the United States and Israel have attacked every single legal institution upholding international law, including the UN, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the International Criminal Court (ICC), and more. Ben Norton explains how the imperial war on Palestine is a neocolonial assault on multilateralism an…

The Western alliance is divided over Israel, after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, charging him with crimes against humanity in Gaza. The United States is threatening sanctions. Ben Norton discusses the severe political crisis in the "rules-based order".VIDEO: https://www.youtub…

US politicians and media outlets complain about China's growing global influence, but offer no alternatives to help countries develop. China has the world's largest economy, produces inexpensive manufactured goods everyone wants, invests trillions in infrastructure, and doesn't interfere in internal affairs of foreign nations. Ben Norton compares w…

To run the US military in his second term, Donald Trump has nominated as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a neoconservative self-declared "crusader" who is eager for a Western civilizational war on China and Iran. Ben Norton reviews the extremely hawkish history of the Fox News host turned likely Pentagon chief.VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

Donald Trump has appointed neoconservative Marco Rubio to oversee US foreign policy as secretary of state. Ben Norton reviews his extremely hawkish record pushing for war on China, Iran, and beyond, as well as the Florida senator's shady support for his drug lord brother-in-law, Orlando Cicilia, who was imprisoned for trafficking $15 million in coc…

Donald Trump has nominated warmongering neoconservatives to run his foreign policy, including Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, Mike Waltz as National Security Advisor, Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary, John Ratcliffe as CIA Director, and Elise Stefanik as UN Ambassador. Ben Norton reports on their extremely hawkish views.VIDEO: https://www.youtu…

How will the return of Donald Trump as US president affect the world? What will his foreign policy and economic strategy be? Ben Norton explains.VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJQKIwe2BYoTopics0:00 Intro0:33 Summary of Trump's foreign policy10:44 Neocons in Trump's cabinet14:41 China18:48 Tariffs & trade with China24:47 US dollar & re-indus…

Donald Trump won the 2024 US presidential election in a landslide. Why did Kamala Harris lose so badly? Ben Norton explains the failure of the billionaire-funded Democratic Party to provide an economic alternative to the billionaire-funded Republicans' pseudo "populism", as working-class people suffer.VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSBi0m5x…

Billionaire BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said it “really doesn’t matter” who wins the US presidential election, because both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will be good for Wall Street. Ben Norton shows how the United States is not a democracy but rather an oligarchy, in which big corporations buy politicians and lobbyists create policies.VIDEO: https:…

For the 32nd year, the entire world voted at the UN General Assembly to demand an end to the illegal US embargo against Cuba. The USA and Israel opposed the international community in a vote of 187 to 2. Ben Norton explains why the US empire has waged such a vicious economic war on Cuba for six decades.VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTX4zSf…

BRICS plans to transform the international monetary and financial system, and discussed policies at the 2024 summit in Kazan, Russia. Can it successfully challenge the dominance of the US dollar? Political economist Radhika Desai is joined by Ben Norton and former central banker Kathleen Tyson, author of the book "Multicurrency Mercantilism".VIDEO:…

BRICS held a summit in Kazan, Russia in October 2024, where 13 new "partner nations" were accepted. This followed the 2023 meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, where several members were invited to join. Ben Norton analyzes the historic events, and shows how the Global South is building a more multipolar world.BRICS MEMBERSHIP (9 members + 13 par…

The US dollar is gradually losing its dominance, and foreign central banks are buying fewer Treasury securities, instead holding more gold in their reserves, warns Mohamed El-Erian, a mainstream American economist. Ben Norton discusses how countries are seeking financial alternatives, especially Global South nations around BRICS.VIDEO: https://www.…