Samir Amin wrote in 2006: "I do want to see the construction of a multipolar world, and that obviously means the defeat of Washington’s hegemonist project for military control of the planet. In my eyes it is an overweening project, criminal by its very nature, which is drawing the world into wars without end and stifling all hope of social and democratic advance, not only in the countries of the South but also, to a seemingly lesser degree, in those of the North. In this connection, I wrote as long ago as 1991 of the emergence of an ‘empire of chaos’".

"... my idea of the multipolarity that is necessary today entails a radical revision of ‘North–South relations’, in all their dimensions. This revision must create a framework that makes it possible to reduce the power of forces within the system (the capitalist system, to call it by its name) that operate in such a way as to exacerbate the polarization of wealth and power. By calling into question the ‘imperialist’ tradition, or whatever one likes to call it, which governs core–periphery relations in the actually existing capitalist system (something quite different from the general market system dreamed up by mainstream economists), such a revision would automatically pose a challenge to the most fundamental aspects of capitalism".
Samir Amin: "The analyses in [my] work are ‘geopolitical’, but I should stress that they are in no way inspired by the methods of conventional geopolitics. That discipline, which originated in the nationalist ruling-class thought of the imperialist countries, treats nation-states as homogeneous invariables, with ‘interests’ dictated by their geographical location and economic ambitions usually identified with those of the dominant sections of capital".

As the US prepares to ban TikTok, many Americans are downloading RedNote / Xiaohongshu 小红书 and seeing the real China.

My experiences in China have been amazing. It's a beautiful country with very kind people. Everyone should try to visit

🧵 of videos/photos I took in China:


Chongqing 重庆

To understand the genocide in Gaza, it's important to recognize Zionism's roots in European colonialism.

Israel was not created due to the Nazi Holocaust. The British empire endorsed creating Israel in the Balfour Declaration of 1917, when Europe was colonizing the Middle East🧵 It's not a coincidence that the Balfour Declaration came immediately after the 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement, in which the British and French empires carved up the Ottoman empire's territory and established their own colonies in the Middle East (West Asia).

The neo-feudal corporate landlords at Apple are charging creators on Patreon a 30% fee for all new memberships registered using the iOS app.

It's the perfect symbol of the future of the economy -- neo-feudal rent extraction by corporate monopolies.

🧵This is how the scam works: It all started with Big Tech corporations first offering supposedly "free" services (which were paid for by selling users' information).

Those "free" platforms soon became monopolies, and were so deeply embedded into the economy that they are now (privatized) digital utilities.

🚨The US allows its athletes to cheat, including at the Olympics.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) says US agency USADA let athletes use steroids in exchange for spying on other violators.

This is the Rules-Based Order™ -- the US violates the rules whenever it's convenient.

https://twitter.com/wada_ama/status/1821272533653713164

Russia was banned from the Olympics in 2019 due to doping. Now we know that the US has allowed athletes to use steroids (ie cheat) since at least 2011, with no punishment

Also, Russia was banned this year due to the war in Ukraine, but the US invaded Iraq and faced no punishment

The US State Department supported Nazism in the 1930s, saying genocidal fascism "must succeed", or communism would win.

The US charge d'affaires in Germany praised the so-called "more moderate section of the [Nazi] party, headed by Hitler".

These are objective historical facts.

https://twitter.com/STHGibbs/status/1818379932420002198

Before WWII even ended, the US government recruited genocidal Nazi monsters to launch its cold war on the Soviet Union.

Later, the CIA recruited Nazi spies like infamous criminal Reinhard Gehlen, Third Reich's spy chief on the Eastern Front, to continue Hitler's war on the USSR.

Crucial point by prominent Palestinian scholar Joseph Massad:
"The claim that the Israel lobby controls US policy in the Middle East amounts to absolving the US of responsibility for its imperialist policies".

Israel is an extension of US imperialism.
middleeasteye.net/big-story/why-… The US empire has always violently opposed anti-colonial struggles.

The US gov't has been an "implacable enemy of all national liberation groups".

"Why the US would then support Palestinian national liberation absent the Israel lobby is something this argument fails to address"

Trump's VP pick JD Vance was created in a political petri dish by billionaire oligarch Peter Thiel.

"PayPal Mafia Don" Thiel founded CIA/Pentagon-backed mass surveillance corporation Palantir.

He was an FBI informant and got his start at CIA-linked law firm Sullivan & Cromwell.

https://twitter.com/BusinessInsider/status/1813206563558977855

Far-right billionaire oligarch Peter Thiel, a CIA-linked FBI informant who has funded Donald Trump and his "MAGA" allies, also funded a spy company that hacked WhatsApp.
forbes.com/sites/thomasbr…

US "democracy" is nothing but political violence!

All US presidents for decades (both Republicans & Democrats) have waged nonstop war, in Korea, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, etc.

The US has killed MILLIONS. But I guess foreign lives don't matter.

https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1812271849893442018

"There is absolutely no place for political violence in oUr deMoCrAcy"

In this important speech, the director of the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University notes:
-US-China "competition" is "ideological"
-The US wants to subordinate China
-"The socialist path led by the CPC is the unchangeable path for China"
eastisread.com/p/yao-yang-on-… This influential Chinese economist explains how the Reform and Opening Up started by Deng was pivotal to develop the productive forces, after a time of destructive ultra-leftism. But China went too far to the right by the 2000s, so it's shifting left again
eastisread.com/p/yao-yang-on-…

China's economy is bigger than official GDP statistics indicate, because it uses a measurement system based on manufacturing production, under-counting services.

US GDP data, meanwhile, is distorted by expensive "services" like imputed rent and legal fees
asiatimes.com/2024/06/whats-… "The affordability crisis in Western economies, the US in particular, is largely driven by inflation of necessary services – rent, healthcare, education, childcare – not by manufactured goods"

When those costs go up, US GDP goes up.

This is why "number go up" is not always good

This chart shows why it's nonsense to talk about "inter-imperialist rivalry" in the 21st century. Monopoly finance capital is concentrated to an unprecedented degree.

There is one imperialist system, centered in the USA. Its heart is Wall Street. Its blood is the US dollar. Capitalists from all over the world store their wealth largely in US dollar-dominated assets. The US hosts 60.5% of the total value of global stock markets. 40+% is owned by foreign investors.

The US government is dedicated to protecting the wealth of the global capitalist class

The US already is the authoritarian police state that they have told you for decades to be afraid of.

If you oppose the empire's genocidal crimes, police and state troopers will attack you and arrest you. "Free speech" only exists for rich oligarchs.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said anti-genocide protesters at the Uni. of Texas "belong in jail"

“Arrests being made right now & will continue until the crowd disperses. These protesters belong in jail”, he said

The real face of the US authoritarian regime
thehill.com/homenews/educa…

The economics of imperialism: A new study shows how "the US’ exorbitant privilege has become a rich world privilege".

The world system has persistent capital income transfers from the poorest to the richest, equal to 1% of GDP of top 20% countries, and 2% of GDP for the top 10%.

Source: wid.world/news-article/t…
The perpetual debt trap of imperialism: "Foreign capital income flows result in a net transfer from poor to rich countries of around 1.2% of the rich’s GDP. This big net transfer of resources allows the richest countries to incur in bigger trade deficits without the need to in-debt themselves to finance them.

"Moreover, it forces the bottom 80% of the world to record trade surpluses to be able to finance such a transfer. If they fail to do so, then they would need to compensate by acquiring more debt, which reinforces the dynamics".

Condemning the "economic imperialism" of the Western powers, Indonesia asserted national control over its strategic mineral reserves and developed local industries, with help from China.

It's a case study in Global South win-win cooperation & development
internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutl… Indonesia became dominant in the nickel market through a strategy that "has been carefully planned by Indonesia as it looks to boost its downstream industrial policy in critical minerals processing with the backing of Chinese investments" from state-owned Chinese banks and firms

🚨 The president of the UN's International Court of Justice (ICJ) has said there is sufficient evidence for the genocide case against Israel. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has said some allegations against Israel fall within the provisions of the Genocide Convention, and it applies to Palestinians.

Western economists love to selectively quote Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, but conveniently ignore the lengthy chapter he wrote on how colonialism was central in the creation of capitalism.

Smith discussed the "injustice" of the "plundering of the defenceless natives". 🧵 Adam Smith wrote how colonialism enriched Western colonial powers:

"To the natives however... all the commercial benefits which can have resulted from those events have been sunk and lost in the dreadful misfortunes"

Europeans "commit[ed] with impunity every sort of injustice"

It's important to understand that the US is using Guyana to try to destabilize Venezuela.

US oil mega-corporation ExxonMobil essentially controls Guyana's government.

They're using British colonial-era rulings to try to take Venezuelan oil-rich territory
theintercept.com/2023/06/18/guy…
"In Guyana, it’s become hard to distinguish where the oil company ends and the government begins. Exxon executives join the Guyanese president in his suite at cricket matches, and the vice president regularly hosts press conferences to defend the oil company".

Far-right extremist Javier Milei won Argentina's presidential election.

Milei wants to:
-legalize the sale of children and human organs
-abolish public healthcare, education, and transportation
-abandon monetary sovereignty and adopt the US dollar

He says his dead dog Conan speaks to him from the afterlife and advises him on economic policy.


Argentina was invited to join BRICS, but far-right president-elect Javier Milei has pledged to withdraw.

The extremist boasted: "Our geopolitical alignment is with the U.S. and Israel. We are not going to align with communists" perfil.com/noticias/polit…

A document proves the US State Department pressured Pakistan's government in March 2022 to overthrow PM Imran Khan, due to his neutrality over the proxy war in Ukraine

This is exactly what I reported a year ago, but it was smeared as a "conspiracy theory"
theintercept.com/2023/08/09/imr… Days before he was overthrown in April 2022, Pakistan’s PM Imran Khan said top US diplomat Donald Lu was organizing a “foreign conspiracy” to topple him.

Video of Lu testifying in the Senate confirmed the US was pressuring Khan to cut off ties with Russia
geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/04/04/pak…

I made a video explaining how the US and France are threatening intervention to re-install a pro-Western regime in Niger.

Niger produces uranium needed for EU nuclear energy and hosts strategic US military bases.

(Link to full video below)

Burkina Faso and Mali have warned… https://t.co/Ig5D41IyPFtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
US/France threaten intervention in resource-rich Niger - Fears of war in West Africa

Full video here: