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How oil corporations influenced US President Eisenhower and CIA coup in Iran
Historian Aaron Good explains how the Western Big Oil corporations that dominated the global crude industry, known as the "Seven Sisters," had signif…
3 years, 7 months ago
Latin America's plan to challenge US dollar with new currency and 'regional financial architecture'
Advising Brazil’s President-elect Lula, Ecuadorian economist and leftist presidential candidate Andrés Arauz made a blueprint for a “new regional fin…
3 years, 7 months ago
Europe angry that US profits from Ukraine proxy war while destroying EU economy
EU leaders are furious that the US is making lots of money from the proxy war in Ukraine by selling weapons and exporting expensive natural gas. Mean…
3 years, 7 months ago
Bolivia resists new far-right coup attempt in US-backed separatist stronghold
The Nazi-saluting fascist gangs that carried out the US-backed coup against Bolivia's democratically elected socialist President Evo Morales in 2019 …
3 years, 7 months ago
German military preparing for potential war with Russia, leaked internal report reveals
A leaked confidential strategy paper shows Germany is preparing for a potential war with Russia, as it boosts its budget and plans to become the worl…
3 years, 7 months ago
Media regurgitates fake news from US spies, risking World War III with Russia
Top news outlet the Associated Press falsely claimed Russia fired a missile at NATO member Poland, risking World War III. This fake story came from a…
3 years, 7 months ago
French ambassador: US 'rules-based order' means Western domination, violating international law
France's ex US Ambassador Gérard Araud criticized Washington for frequently violating international law and said its so-called "rules-based order" is…
3 years, 7 months ago
How the US military-industrial complex was created (with historian Aaron Good)
A history of how the US military-industrial complex was created, with its deep links to Wall Street, following the National Security Council's top se…
3 years, 7 months ago
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 cr…
3 years, 7 months ago
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 o…
3 years, 7 months ago