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  • Construction workers in Houston, Texas in 2021

    U.S. Federal Reserve says its goal is ‘to get wages down’

    Originally published: Multipolarista on May 24, 2022 (more by Multipolarista)

    U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said his goal is “to get wages down,” complaining workers have too much power in the labor market. Economist Michael Hudson says this is “junk economics,” and corporate monopolies are driving inflation, not wages.

  • Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton, economist Michael Hudson

    Economist Michael Hudson on decline of dollar, sanctions war, imperialism, financial parasitism

    Originally published: Multipolarista on May 11, 2022 (more by Multipolarista)

    Economist Michael Hudson discusses the decline of the U.S. dollar, the sanctions war on Russia, his concept of “free-trade imperialism,” and financial parasitism.

  • Nina Jankowicza

    U.S. gov’t creates ‘Ministry of Truth’ run by cold warrior who smears independent media as ‘Russian disinformation’

    Originally published: Multipolarista on April 29, 2022 (more by Multipolarista)

    The authoritarian Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that oversaw the War on Terror created a “Disinformation Governance Board,” led by anti-Russia information warrior Nina Jankowicz, who ran regime-change ops at a CIA front, smears independent anti-war U.S. media outlets as “Russian disinfo,” and called WikiLeaks “scum.”

  • New York Times

    New York Times’ ridiculous attack on me exposes its deceitful propaganda tactics

    Originally published: Multipolarista on April 14, 2022 (more by Multipolarista)

    The New York Times printed absurd claims about Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton in a smear piece, using an image of his face crossed out by a red line, without giving him an opportunity to comment. This hatchet job reflects the newspaper’s long history of spreading false war propaganda for the U.S. government.

  • The Washington Post

    Washington Post calls for censoring Chinese media, praises purge of Russian outlets

    Originally published: Multipolarista on April 13, 2022 (more by Multipolarista)

    The Washington Post–owned by billionaire oligarch Jeff Bezos, who has CIA and Pentagon contracts–has called for censoring Chinese news outlets on social media, while praising Silicon Valley for purging Russian publications.

  • The US-led NATO military alliance

    NATO admits it wants ‘Ukrainians to keep dying’ to bleed Russia, not peace

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on April 8, 2022 (more by Al Mayadeen)  |

    NATO sees Ukrainians as mere cannon fodder in its imperial proxy war on Russia.

  • A protest against US sanctions in Caracas, Venezuela in August 2019 (Photo credit: Benjamin Norton)

    Venezuela’s economy will grow 20% in 2022, despite illegal U.S. sanctions, predicts Western bank

    Originally published: Multipolarista on April 6, 2022 (more by Multipolarista)

    Major Switzerland-based bank Credit Suisse forecasts Venezuela’s real GDP growth to be 20% in 2022 and 8% in 2023. This is despite an illegal U.S. blockade, which starved the government of 99% of its revenue, according to the top UN expert on sanctions.

  • Far-right extremist members of Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov regiment of the National Guard

    Ukraine is brutally repressing the left, criminalizing socialist parties, imprisoning activists

    Originally published: Multipolarista on March 21, 2022 (more by Multipolarista)

    Ukraine’s Western-backed government has criminalized socialist political parties, while its Nazi-infiltrated intelligence agencies are hunting down leftists, accusing them of being too soft on Russia. This comes after Kiev gave state honors to WWII-era Ukrainian fascists who collaborated with Hitler.

  • Uyghur diaspora

    USA CIA veteran hosting anti-China ‘Uyghur diaspora’ podcast funded by U.S. government

    Originally published: Multipolarista on February 8, 2022 (more by Multipolarista)

    The “WEghur Stories” podcast claims to speak on behalf of “the Uyghur diaspora,” and uses intersectional feminist rhetoric to demonize China. But it’s co-created and hosted by an ex CIA agent, with funding from the U.S. embassy in France.

  • China Launches Global South Economic Alliance to Challenge US ‘Unilateralism’ and ‘Cold-War Mentality’

    China launches Global South Economic Alliance to challenge U.S. ‘unilateralism’ and ‘Cold-War mentality’

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on January 21, 2022 (more by Internationalist 360°)

    China is leading an international effort to develop alliances to counter U.S. hegemony.

  • Nicaraguan voters in Chinandega on November 7, 2021

    Debunking myths about Nicaragua’s 2021 elections, under attack by USA/EU/OAS

    Originally published: The Grayzone on November 11, 2021 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    The U.S., EU, and OAS are launching a new coup attempt against Nicaragua’s Sandinista government, refusing to recognize its 2021 elections. The Grayzone observed the vote on the ground, and dispels myths aimed at discrediting the process.

  • Super Imperialism: The economic strategy of American empire

    Super Imperialism: The economic strategy of American empire with economist Michael Hudson

    Originally published: The Grayzone on October 19, 2021 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Economist Michael Hudson discusses the update of his book Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire and the financial motivations behind the U.S. new cold war on China and Russia.

  • Behind NATO’s ‘cognitive warfare’: ‘Battle for your brain’ waged by Western militaries

    Behind NATO’s ‘cognitive warfare’: ‘Battle for your brain’ waged by Western militaries

    Originally published: The Grayzone on October 8, 2021 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Western governments in the NATO military alliance are developing tactics of “cognitive warfare,” using the supposed threats of China and Russia to justify waging a “battle for your brain” in the “human domain,” to “make everyone a weapon.”

  • Far-right Florida Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar holding up photos of US-funded coup leaders Felix Maradiaga and Arturo Cruz at a hearing on Nicaragua

    U.S. Congress outlines new phase of economic attacks and hybrid war on Nicaragua’s Sandinista government

    Originally published: The Grayzone on September 24, 2021 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    A House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on September 21 set out plans for the next phase of the United States’ hybrid warfare on Nicaragua, which aims to destabilize and ultimately overthrow the Central American nation’s leftist Sandinista government.

  • Man holding flag

    Nicaragua’s Sandinistas battle ‘diabolical’ U.S. empire and poverty on 42nd anniversary of revolution

    Originally published: The Grayzone on July 24, 2021 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    The Grayzone reports from Nicaragua on the 42nd anniversary of the Sandinista revolution. Nicaraguans discuss their improved quality of life, President Ortega condemns the dictatorial U.S. “empire that wants to dominate all countries,” and Vice President Murillo declares poverty an imperialist “crime against humanity.”

  • Jabhat al-Nusra founder Mohammad al-Jolani before and after his image makeover

    How Washington is positioning Syrian Al-Qaeda’s founder as its ‘asset’

    Originally published: The Grayzone on June 9, 2021 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    A PBS Frontline special is the latest vehicle in a PR campaign to legitimize rebranded Syrian al-Qaeda, HTS, and market its leader Mohammad Jolani as a competent American “asset.”

  • US-funded Belarusian regime-change activist arrested on plane joined neo-Nazis in Ukraine

    U.S.-funded Belarusian regime-change activist arrested on plane joined neo-Nazis in Ukraine

    Originally published: The Grayzone on May 26, 2021 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Belarusian regime-change activist Roman Protasevich, whose arrest on a grounded plane caused a global scandal, joined Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and was cultivated by the U.S. government’s media apparatus.

  • Economics of the new cold war and US ‘super imperialism’ with economist Michael Hudson

    Economics of the new cold war and U.S. ‘super imperialism’ with economist Michael Hudson

    Originally published: The Grayzone on May 12, 2021 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton interview world-renowned economist Michael Hudson on his concept of American “super imperialism” and the economics of the new cold war on China and Russia.

  • The Grayzone's Ben Norton interviewed Salvador Allende's grandson Pablo Sepúlveda Allende in Caracas, Venezuela in 2019

    Grandson of overthrown Chilean President Salvador Allende defends Venezuela against U.S. coup attempt

    Originally published: The Grayzone on September 12, 2020 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    The grandson of Chile’s former elected socialist President Salvador Allende, who was toppled in a 1973 CIA-orchestrated military coup, has lived in Venezuela for 10 years. The Grayzone’s Ben Norton interviewed Pablo Sepúlveda Allende in Caracas.

  • U.S. govt-linked PR firm ran fake news networks for right-wing Latin American regimes

    U.S. govt-linked PR firm ran fake news networks for right-wing Latin American regimes

    Originally published: The Grayzone on September 6, 2020 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    A major U.S. PR firm located just a few blocks from the White House has been caught running an industrial grade propaganda operation on social media.

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