Donald Trump admitted he wants to “take over” Venezuela and its oil. Marco Rubio is overseeing the war plans, aiming to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro and install US puppet María Corina Machado, who vowed to privatize Venezuela's natural resources and sell off $1.7 trillion of her country's assets to North American corporations. Ben Norton explains.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QukbgnkuPVY
Topics
0:00 US war on Venezuela
1:16 (CLIP) Trump wants to take Venezuela's oil
1:28 Venezuela has world's largest oil reserves
1:37 US coup attempt with Juan Guaidó
2:08 US support for dictatorships in Latin America
2:36 Venezuela has critical minerals, like rare earths
2:59 Colonialist Monroe Doctrine
3:31 Psychological war
3:58 (CLIP) Trump: Maduro's "days are numbered"
4:54 US war plans
6:15 "Cartel of the Sons" does NOT exist
7:44 Marco Rubio: war planner
8:20 US military buildup in Caribbean
9:26 CIA operations in Venezuela
10:18 Three options in US war plans
11:36 Chevron wants Venezuela's oil
12:26 Imperialist "Americas First" policy
14:11 War on Terror plus War on Drugs
14:44 Polls: North Americans oppose Trump's war
16:03 US government is an oligarchy
16:30 Coup leader: María Corina Machado
18:01 Nobel "Peace" Prize for US wars
19:17 Machado wants to privatize Venezuela's oil
19:44 (CLIP) Machado: US companies will profit
20:38 Machado speaks alongside Donald Trump
21:24 Miami Mayor Francis Suarez
22:01 (CLIP) Miami mayor praises María Corina Machado
22:13 US government supports Machado
22:49 (CLIP) Machado thanks US officials for support
23:41 Machado offers to sell $1.7 trillion in assets
24:22 (CLIP) Machado's "massive privatization program"
25:35 Machado's USA-first foreign policy
26:02 (CLIP) Machado attacks China, Russia, Iran
27:59 Next targets of US empire: Cuba & Nicaragua
28:40 (CLIP) Threatening regime change in Cuba & Nicaragua
29:18 Machado's Bloomberg interview
29:40 (CLIP) Machado vows to sell off natural resources
30:21 Privatizations create oligarchies
31:12 (CLIP) Machado: Make oligarchy great again
31:50 US-Venezuelan oligarch Vanessa Neumann
32:49 Obscene wealth of Venezuelan oligarchs
35:32 Thor Halvorssen: Venezuelan oligarch family
36:21 Leopoldo López: Venezuelan oligarch
37:04 Venezuelan oligarchs: corrupt tools of US empire
38:02 María Corina Machado conspires with USA
38:44 (CLIP) Machado admits US gov't support
39:53 Pro-war Nobel "Peace" Prize laureate
40:26 (CLIP) Machado supports Trump's war
40:56 Nobel "Peace" Prize: tool of US wars
41:25 (CLIP) Machado: Nobel Prize helps war
41:59 Summary
43:19 Outro
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China is winning AI race, Nvidia says, as OpenAI begs US gov't for bailout
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang fears China will win the AI race, as OpenAI asks the US government for "federal guarantees" and a "backstop". The unsustainability of the enormous AI bubble is becoming clear to everyone, and Silicon Valley Big Tech executives want to be guaranteed a bailout. Ben Norton explains.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4odSW2lSUyI
Check out our related video on the AI bubble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXCVrLPTUHQ
Topics
0:00 (CLIPS) OpenAI wants US gov't "backstop"
0:31 US-China AI race
1:13 Nvidia sells shovels in AI gold rush
3:05 China restricts Nvidia chips
3:47 Nvidia CEO: China is winning AI race
5:50 AI bubble
7:21 OpenAI CFO asks for federal "backstop"
8:11 (CLIP) OpenAI CFO on US gov't support
8:51 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
9:22 (CLIP) US gov't as "insurer of last resort"
9:49 Too Big to Fail 2.0
10:53 Sam Altman backtracks
11:58 OpenAI letter asks US gov't for support
14:32 Banning Chinese AI competitors
15:31 Trump supports OpenAI & Sam Altman
16:19 (CLIP) Sam Altman at White House
16:36 Sam Altman donates to Trump
17:03 Chinese open-source AI models
17:56 US corporations want monopolies
18:58 Peter Thiel & Sam Altman
19:34 (CLIP) "Competition is for losers"
20:10 OpenAI's circular financing scheme
22:32 OpenAI owes $1.4 trillion
23:24 OpenAI is losing money
24:42 Silicon Valley's business model: monopoly
26:15 China's AI advantage: electricity
27:08 The "electron gap"
28:24 Electricity generation: China vs USA
29:30 AI data centers drive up electricity bills
29:52 Electricity price in USA
30:36 Electricity prices: China vs USA
31:49 BlackRock buys up US power grid
33:02 Trump closes solar power projects
33:48 Trump cancels wind power projects
34:39 US fossil fuel corporations
35:12 Summary
36:34 Outro
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USA is isolated on world stage: Trump failed to pressure countries to support blockade of Cuba
The US government is politically isolated on the world stage. This can be seen in the UN General Assembly votes demanding an end to the USA's embargo of Cuba. Almost all of the world opposes the illegal economic blockade. Ben Norton explains how the CIA has waged a terrorist war on Cuba, Venezuela, and other parts of Latin America for decades.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKF-jrrv5yA
Sources and links here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/11/03/embargo-blockade-cuba-un-vote/
Check out our related video on Trump's neocolonial attacks on Latin America: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/10/27/donroe-doctrine-trump-neocolonial-plan-latin-america/
Topics
0:00 US government is very unpopular
1:21 World votes against USA at UN
2:06 USA has just 6 key allies
2:46 Viktor Orbán's Hungary
3:30 Javier Milei's Argentina
4:14 Trump's global pressure campaign
5:40 Past UNGA votes on Cuba embargo
6:45 Trump-Rubio campaign failed
8:27 Russia and Ukraine factor
9:54 Trump's international allies
11:16 Marco Rubio, coup-plotting war hawk
13:30 US economic war on Cuba
14:05 Stated goals of US blockade
16:30 Secondary sanctions
17:38 Trump & Rubio threaten Cuba
18:04 USA's fake "terror" list
20:41 Fidel Castro: 638 assassination attempts
21:27 Operation Northwoods: CIA terror war
23:04 US terror war on Venezuela
25:24 US military forced to sign NDAs
26:11 Donroe Doctrine: Trump's neocolonialism
26:48 Outro
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Trump is losing the trade war with China - which he started
Donald Trump is losing the trade war on China, which he started. The agreement he made at the meeting with President Xi Jinping shows how the US is much more dependent on the Chinese economy than vice versa. Political economist Ben Norton explains how Trump's tariffs have hurt American workers, especially farmers, while China advances as a new technological and manufacturing superpower.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWrdxBODSUE
Topics
0:00 Trump's meeting with Xi Jinping
1:07 China successfully defends itself
2:58 China is a new "economic superpower"
4:04 This is a one-year "tactical detente"
4:47 Details of Trump-Xi agreement
6:20 Trump undoes "self-inflicted" damage
7:02 Scott Bessent claimed China had "losing hand"
7:40 China is less dependent on US economy
8:24 Analyzing US-China trade
9:59 USA is dependent on Chinese tech
11:06 China is a manufacturing superpower
12:08 China's domestic revenue vs exports
13:43 Bipartisan US trade war
14:30 One-year trade truce
15:40 US midterm elections coming up in 2026
16:12 Poll: Republicans (and Dems) are unpopular
16:48 Trump's low approval rating of 39%
17:27 US consumers pay for Trump's tariffs
18:54 Inflation and US economic problems
20:58 US manufacturing jobs decline
22:32 Soybean war: Trump's tariffs hurt farmers
24:38 China buys soybeans from Latin America
25:25 Trump's bailout of farmers
27:24 China's rare earth dominance
28:58 US industry needs China's rare earths
30:40 Chip war: US semiconductor restrictions
31:54 China develops domestic chip industry
33:40 China's new 5-year plan pushes tech
34:31 Made in China 2025 industrial policy
35:45 China leads in critical technologies
37:22 China's "technological self-reliance"
38:25 USA is losing trade war
39:25 Outro
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Why Trump can't end the war in Ukraine
Donald Trump imposed sanctions on Russia's top oil companies, but the US still can't stop the war in Ukraine. NATO's goals cannot be met, as the world is increasingly multipolar and Western power is declining. Geopolitical economist Radhika Desai analyzes the conflict with journalist Anatol Lieven and China-based economic geographer Mick Dunford.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=359p5RC2JE8
This is part of the program Geopolitical Economy Hour. You can watch other episodes of the show here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP
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