<description>The winner of Chile's presidential election, José Antonio Kast, is the son of a German Nazi official. He is a US-backed far-right extremist who loves Donald Trump, Israel, and fascist former dictator August Pinochet. He is also very anti-China, and will assist in Washington's attempt to impose its imperialist Monroe Doctrine. Ben Norton explains.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYtCi-Wh3FU

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Topics
0:00 US interventions in Latin America
2:18 Javier Milei's Argentina
2:51 Chile's President-elect José Antonio Kast
3:27 Map of political balance in Latin America
4:28 Marco Rubio
4:55 US war on Venezuela
5:27 Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet
6:53 Operation Condor (Plan Cóndor)
7:14 Cold War Two
7:44 CIA support for Nazis
8:23 Nazis who fled to South America
8:55 José Antonio Kast's Nazi father
10:36 Neoliberal Chicago Boys
12:14 Myth of Pinochet's "economic miracle"
15:18 Economic growth rates in Chile
16:20 Corrupt privatizations under Pinochet
17:50 Javier Milei deindustrializes Argentina
18:40 José Antonio Kast supports Pinochet
20:24 Kast loves Israel
20:42 Kast hates China
22:18 Brazil's far-right coup leader Bolsonaro
23:04 Kast loves Donald Trump
23:33 Kast wants mass privatizations
24:43 Chile: world's top copper producer
25:30 Lithium reserves in South America
27:42 Failure of President Gabriel Boric
28:35 Boric supports Ukraine
29:18 US corporate media praised Boric
30:58 Boric: pro-US, NGO-funded fake "left"
34:02 "Nothing will fundamentally change"
34:46 Political balance in Latin America
36:17 Trump meddles in Honduras
36:35 US empire targets Latin America
37:34 Outro</description>

The winner of Chile's presidential election, José…

The winner of Chile's presidential election, José Antonio Kast, is the son of a German Nazi official. He is a US-backed far-right extremist who loves Donald Trump, Israel, and fascist former dictator August Pinochet. He is also very anti-China, and will assist in Washington's attempt to impose its imperialist Monroe Doctrine. Ben Norton explains.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYtCi-Wh3FU

Related videos: 
Javier Milei is making Argentina a resource colony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3qgYZMYkj0
Why Trump is meddling in Honduras: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtKShReciYQ

Topics
0:00 US interventions in Latin America
2:18 Javier Milei's Argentina
2:51 Chile's President-elect José Antonio Kast
3:27 Map of political balance in Latin America
4:28 Marco Rubio
4:55 US war on Venezuela
5:27 Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet
6:53 Operation Condor (Plan Cóndor)
7:14 Cold War Two
7:44 CIA support for Nazis
8:23 Nazis who fled to South America
8:55 José Antonio Kast's Nazi father
10:36 Neoliberal Chicago Boys
12:14 Myth of Pinochet's "economic miracle"
15:18 Economic growth rates in Chile
16:20 Corrupt privatizations under Pinochet
17:50 Javier Milei deindustrializes Argentina
18:40 José Antonio Kast supports Pinochet
20:24 Kast loves Israel
20:42 Kast hates China
22:18 Brazil's far-right coup leader Bolsonaro
23:04 Kast loves Donald Trump
23:33 Kast wants mass privatizations
24:43 Chile: world's top copper producer
25:30 Lithium reserves in South America
27:42 Failure of President Gabriel Boric
28:35 Boric supports Ukraine
29:18 US corporate media praised Boric
30:58 Boric: pro-US, NGO-funded fake "left"
34:02 "Nothing will fundamentally change"
34:46 Political balance in Latin America
36:17 Trump meddles in Honduras
36:35 US empire targets Latin America
37:34 Outro

US influence in Latin America grows: Nazi-tied, pro-Israel, anti-China candidate wins Chile election

<description>How does China's economic model work? Political economist Ben Norton explains the ideas behind Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, discussing China's socialist market economy, historical development, reform process, poverty reduction, industrial policy, and more.

VIDEO with charts here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E89qUXTX-k

Topics
0:00 Introduction
1:07 China has world's largest economy 
3:01 China's economic development
3:54 Poverty reduction
6:56 Rising incomes
7:42 Life expectancy
8:57 Mortality rates
9:34 Reform and Opening Up
10:16 To get rich is glorious?
11:35 Deng Xiaoping's ideology
13:54 Primary stage of socialism
14:28 Chinese capitalists
15:54 Industrialization &amp; urbanization
16:55 Birdcage economy (Chen Yun)
18:17 State ownership
19:40 State-owned enterprises (SOEs)
20:49 Grasp the large, let go of the small
22:22 Public property
23:16 SOE assets
24:14 Provincial &amp; local governments
25:51 Golden shares in tech companies
26:54 Huawei, biggest worker-owned company
27:17 Rural cooperatives
29:09 Democracy in China?
31:40 Foreign investment in China
33:49 Global value chain
34:34 Foreign direct investment (FDI)
35:48 Industrial policy evolution
38:22 New quality productive forces
39:23 China's green energy revolution
40:24 World's manufacturing superpower
41:04 US deindustrialization &amp; financialization
43:22 US bubble economy
44:37 China popped real estate bubble
46:50 Inequality &amp; uneven development
48:31 Eras of the PRC
49:01 Common prosperity in New Era
49:34 Gini coefficient
50:26 Labor income vs capital income
51:48 Poverty alleviation
52:17 Wages of Chinese workers
52:44 Labor unions in China
55:19 USA funds anti-China labor groups
57:02 Marco Rubio takes over NED
57:32 Delivery workers
58:30 996 system is banned
59:23 Working hours in China
1:00:25 Imperialism &amp; division of labor
1:03:51 AI &amp; new cold war
1:04:45 Silicon Valley model: monopoly
1:05:43 Market competition in China
1:07:44 China opposes private monopolies
1:08:10 State planning
1:09:05 Cold War Two</description>

How does China's economic model work? Political e…

How does China's economic model work? Political economist Ben Norton explains the ideas behind Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, discussing China's socialist market economy, historical development, reform process, poverty reduction, industrial policy, and more.

VIDEO with charts here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E89qUXTX-k

Topics
0:00 Introduction
1:07 China has world's largest economy 
3:01 China's economic development
3:54 Poverty reduction
6:56 Rising incomes
7:42 Life expectancy
8:57 Mortality rates
9:34 Reform and Opening Up
10:16 To get rich is glorious?
11:35 Deng Xiaoping's ideology
13:54 Primary stage of socialism
14:28 Chinese capitalists
15:54 Industrialization & urbanization
16:55 Birdcage economy (Chen Yun)
18:17 State ownership
19:40 State-owned enterprises (SOEs)
20:49 Grasp the large, let go of the small
22:22 Public property
23:16 SOE assets
24:14 Provincial & local governments
25:51 Golden shares in tech companies
26:54 Huawei, biggest worker-owned company
27:17 Rural cooperatives
29:09 Democracy in China?
31:40 Foreign investment in China
33:49 Global value chain
34:34 Foreign direct investment (FDI)
35:48 Industrial policy evolution
38:22 New quality productive forces
39:23 China's green energy revolution
40:24 World's manufacturing superpower
41:04 US deindustrialization & financialization
43:22 US bubble economy
44:37 China popped real estate bubble
46:50 Inequality & uneven development
48:31 Eras of the PRC
49:01 Common prosperity in New Era
49:34 Gini coefficient
50:26 Labor income vs capital income
51:48 Poverty alleviation
52:17 Wages of Chinese workers
52:44 Labor unions in China
55:19 USA funds anti-China labor groups
57:02 Marco Rubio takes over NED
57:32 Delivery workers
58:30 996 system is banned
59:23 Working hours in China
1:00:25 Imperialism & division of labor
1:03:51 AI & new cold war
1:04:45 Silicon Valley model: monopoly
1:05:43 Market competition in China
1:07:44 China opposes private monopolies
1:08:10 State planning
1:09:05 Cold War Two

What is Socialism with Chinese Characteristics? This is how China's economic model works

<description>The Donald Trump administration revealed the US empire's new plan for global dominance in the 2025 National Security Strategy. The goal is to impose hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, reviving the colonial Monroe Doctrine, to move supply chains out of Asia and bring manufacturing into Latin America via "nearshoring", in order to economically decouple from China and prepare for conflict in Cold War Two. Ben Norton analyzes the important document.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idkurWogst8

Topics
0:00 Summary of US National Security Strategy
2:45 US economic dependency on China
5:25 USA loses China war games
6:45 Why Trump targets Latin America
7:41 Marco Rubio, war hawk
9:34 (CLIP) Marco Rubio on China "threat"
10:17 Main goals of Trump's foreign policy
10:35 Improve Russia relations
11:30 Brief summary of US strategy 
12:01 Western media misunderstands report
13:24 Whitewashing US imperialism
14:45 Obama's pivot to Asia
15:18 Asia is 1/2 of global economy
16:05 Hillary Clinton's "Russia reset"
16:34 Second Cold War aims at China
17:38 Main goals of US foreign policy
21:29 First target: Latin America
23:13 Second target: China
24:37 US dollar dominance
25:47 (CLIP) Trump threatens BRICS
26:16 Weaponizing technology
26:44 Natural resources in Americas
27:27 Hypocritical buzzwords
29:38 Culture war
32:00 Regions targeted by US empire
32:22 Colonial Monroe Doctrine
33:51 "Enlisting" US vassals
35:30 Nearshoring manufacturing
37:58 Militarizing Latin America
39:04 USA threatens countries
40:30 Natural resources
41:30 "US must be preeminent"
41:55 Cutting off Chinese technology
42:58 Goal: "an American-led world"
43:59 US government serves corporations
45:51 Strategy in "Indo-Pacific" region
46:21 Criticizing China's independence
47:17 Pacific: 21st century's "battleground"
47:52 Asia is half of world GDP (PPP)
49:08 Decline of Western hegemony
51:04 Supply chains
51:31 Economic war
52:21 India
55:12 Japan, South Korea, Australia
57:22 Dollar as global reserve currency
57:45 Taiwan
1:01:28 Europe
1:02:20 Russia
1:03:15 EU as captive US market
1:04:47 West Asia (Middle East)
1:05:18 Oil and natural gas
1:06:19 Israel
1:06:56 Africa
1:08:15 Conclusion
1:08:49 Outro</description>

The Donald Trump administration revealed the US e…

The Donald Trump administration revealed the US empire's new plan for global dominance in the 2025 National Security Strategy. The goal is to impose hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, reviving the colonial Monroe Doctrine, to move supply chains out of Asia and bring manufacturing into Latin America via "nearshoring", in order to economically decouple from China and prepare for conflict in Cold War Two. Ben Norton analyzes the important document.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idkurWogst8

Topics
0:00 Summary of US National Security Strategy
2:45 US economic dependency on China
5:25 USA loses China war games
6:45 Why Trump targets Latin America
7:41 Marco Rubio, war hawk
9:34 (CLIP) Marco Rubio on China "threat"
10:17 Main goals of Trump's foreign policy
10:35 Improve Russia relations
11:30 Brief summary of US strategy 
12:01 Western media misunderstands report
13:24 Whitewashing US imperialism
14:45 Obama's pivot to Asia
15:18 Asia is 1/2 of global economy
16:05 Hillary Clinton's "Russia reset"
16:34 Second Cold War aims at China
17:38 Main goals of US foreign policy
21:29 First target: Latin America
23:13 Second target: China
24:37 US dollar dominance
25:47 (CLIP) Trump threatens BRICS
26:16 Weaponizing technology
26:44 Natural resources in Americas
27:27 Hypocritical buzzwords
29:38 Culture war
32:00 Regions targeted by US empire
32:22 Colonial Monroe Doctrine
33:51 "Enlisting" US vassals
35:30 Nearshoring manufacturing
37:58 Militarizing Latin America
39:04 USA threatens countries
40:30 Natural resources
41:30 "US must be preeminent"
41:55 Cutting off Chinese technology
42:58 Goal: "an American-led world"
43:59 US government serves corporations
45:51 Strategy in "Indo-Pacific" region
46:21 Criticizing China's independence
47:17 Pacific: 21st century's "battleground"
47:52 Asia is half of world GDP (PPP)
49:08 Decline of Western hegemony
51:04 Supply chains
51:31 Economic war
52:21 India
55:12 Japan, South Korea, Australia
57:22 Dollar as global reserve currency
57:45 Taiwan
1:01:28 Europe
1:02:20 Russia
1:03:15 EU as captive US market
1:04:47 West Asia (Middle East)
1:05:18 Oil and natural gas
1:06:19 Israel
1:06:56 Africa
1:08:15 Conclusion
1:08:49 Outro

This is the US empire's new strategy for global dominance

<description>Donald Trump pardoned and freed from prison one of the world's worst drug dealers, the former dictator of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH), who was convicted of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine and machine guns into the US. Ben Norton explains how the United States has meddled in Honduran elections, backed fraud, and supported a military coup.

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

Topics
0:00 Trump pardons notorious drug trafficker
2:16 US support for Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH)
2:59 Trump threatens war on Venezuela 
5:45 Journalist addresses Trump's drug hypocrisy
7:04 (CLIP) Trump blames Biden for drug arrest
7:36 USA backed Honduran narco-regime
8:01 Coup in Honduras in 2009
9:04 Stolen elections of 2013 &amp; 2017
10:33 Trump meddles in Honduras' 2025 election
14:13 Libre Party alleges fraud
14:59 Result transmission system changes votes
15:26 President Xiomara Castro warned of coup plot
17:03 No official winner declared in election
19:16 Very suspicious results
21:15 US-backed coups and fraud
21:54 US coups in Latin America
22:30 Honduras resists US imperialism
24:54 Outro</description>

Donald Trump pardoned and freed from prison one o…

Donald Trump pardoned and freed from prison one of the world's worst drug dealers, the former dictator of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH), who was convicted of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine and machine guns into the US. Ben Norton explains how the United States has meddled in Honduran elections, backed fraud, and supported a military coup.

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

Topics
0:00 Trump pardons notorious drug trafficker
2:16 US support for Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH)
2:59 Trump threatens war on Venezuela 
5:45 Journalist addresses Trump's drug hypocrisy
7:04 (CLIP) Trump blames Biden for drug arrest
7:36 USA backed Honduran narco-regime
8:01 Coup in Honduras in 2009
9:04 Stolen elections of 2013 & 2017
10:33 Trump meddles in Honduras' 2025 election
14:13 Libre Party alleges fraud
14:59 Result transmission system changes votes
15:26 President Xiomara Castro warned of coup plot
17:03 No official winner declared in election
19:16 Very suspicious results
21:15 US-backed coups and fraud
21:54 US coups in Latin America
22:30 Honduras resists US imperialism
24:54 Outro

Trump frees one of world's worst drug traffickers - while meddling in foreign elections

<description>The most overvalued stock on Earth may be that of Palantir, the corporate Big Brother that is getting huge contracts from the Trump administration and helps the US government wage war and carry out mass surveillance. Executives have been selling billions of dollars worth of shares, yet CEO Alex Karp attacks short-sellers like "Big Short" investor Michael Burry, claiming they're "crazy" for thinking the company is in a bubble. Ben Norton explains.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_OuoAFp54Y

Topics
0:00 Financial bubbles
0:31 AI bubble
1:01 Palantir
1:35 Investors short Palantir stock
1:58 (CLIP) CEO Alex Karp attacks short sellers
2:10 Targeting retail investors
2:23 (CLIP) CEO Alex Karp is "triggered"
3:13 Palantir executives sell shares
4:58 Financialized US economy
5:27 Trump admin contracts with Palantir
5:57 Mass surveillance
6:28 Preparing for war on China, Russia, Iran
6:54 Most revenue is from governments
7:32 Palantir stock price
8:20 Insane price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio
10:28 Is the bubble popping?
10:45 Michael Burry: "Big Short" investor
11:14 US housing bubble &amp; financial crisis
12:11 Michael Burry shorts Palantir
12:31 (CLIP) Alex Karp: short sellers are "crazy"
12:40 CEO Alex Karp's emotional rant
13:01 (CLIP) Attacks "wokeness" &amp; Zohran Mamdani
13:27 "Anti-woke" CEO is "triggered"
13:45 (CLIP) Alex Karp: why do they pick on us?
14:12 Delusions of grandeur
14:26 (CLIP) "Most important software company"
15:03 War on the short sellers
15:22 (CLIP) Alex Karp: "make them poorer"
15:41 Palantir executives sell their shares
16:28 Alex Karp sold $96 million
16:40 Shyam Sankar sold $37 million
17:32 Stephen Cohen sold $66 million
17:59 David Glazer sold $4 million
18:18 Ryan Taylor sold $4 million 
18:33 Palantir execs keep selling shares
19:17 Alex Karp sold $1.9 billion in shares
20:04 Telling retail to invest in Palantir
20:49 (CLIP) "Experts vs retail"
21:27 Cynical exploitation 
22:28 Outro</description>

The most overvalued stock on Earth may be that of…

The most overvalued stock on Earth may be that of Palantir, the corporate Big Brother that is getting huge contracts from the Trump administration and helps the US government wage war and carry out mass surveillance. Executives have been selling billions of dollars worth of shares, yet CEO Alex Karp attacks short-sellers like "Big Short" investor Michael Burry, claiming they're "crazy" for thinking the company is in a bubble. Ben Norton explains.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_OuoAFp54Y

Topics
0:00 Financial bubbles
0:31 AI bubble
1:01 Palantir
1:35 Investors short Palantir stock
1:58 (CLIP) CEO Alex Karp attacks short sellers
2:10 Targeting retail investors
2:23 (CLIP) CEO Alex Karp is "triggered"
3:13 Palantir executives sell shares
4:58 Financialized US economy
5:27 Trump admin contracts with Palantir
5:57 Mass surveillance
6:28 Preparing for war on China, Russia, Iran
6:54 Most revenue is from governments
7:32 Palantir stock price
8:20 Insane price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio
10:28 Is the bubble popping?
10:45 Michael Burry: "Big Short" investor
11:14 US housing bubble & financial crisis
12:11 Michael Burry shorts Palantir
12:31 (CLIP) Alex Karp: short sellers are "crazy"
12:40 CEO Alex Karp's emotional rant
13:01 (CLIP) Attacks "wokeness" & Zohran Mamdani
13:27 "Anti-woke" CEO is "triggered"
13:45 (CLIP) Alex Karp: why do they pick on us?
14:12 Delusions of grandeur
14:26 (CLIP) "Most important software company"
15:03 War on the short sellers
15:22 (CLIP) Alex Karp: "make them poorer"
15:41 Palantir executives sell their shares
16:28 Alex Karp sold $96 million
16:40 Shyam Sankar sold $37 million
17:32 Stephen Cohen sold $66 million
17:59 David Glazer sold $4 million
18:18 Ryan Taylor sold $4 million 
18:33 Palantir execs keep selling shares
19:17 Alex Karp sold $1.9 billion in shares
20:04 Telling retail to invest in Palantir
20:49 (CLIP) "Experts vs retail"
21:27 Cynical exploitation 
22:28 Outro

Palantir executives sell their shares as the stock crashes - but they smear critics as 'crazy'

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