Argentina is suffering from high rates of inflation, largely due toĀ odious debt owed in US dollarsĀ to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and…
Transcript (What follows is a lightly edited transcript.) BEN NORTON: Hi, everyone. Iām Ben Norton, and this is Geopolitical Economy Report. Today,…
Brazilās left-wing President Luiz InĆ”cio Lula da Silva, known popularly as Lula, took a historic trip to China this April. There, the…
Mexicoās leftist President AndrĆ©s Manuel LĆ³pez Obrador used the US governmentās āSummit for Democracyā to indirectly call out Washingtonās hypocrisy: āThe oligarchy…
Chinaās President Xi Jinping traveled to Russia to meet Vladimir Putin on March 20. While in Moscow, Xi said, āRight now there…
Economist Michael Hudson analyzes the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate, and Signature Bank, explaining the similarities to the 2008 financial crash…
A study by an elite European government-funded think tank found that, while the United States and Europe are growing closer together, the…
Mexicoās progressive President AndrĆ©s Manuel LĆ³pez Obrador announced that his country will lead an international movement to end the US governmentās illegal…
Ukraineās leader Volodymyr Zelensky admitted to a major German newspaper that he refused to implement the Minsk peace deal with Russia. The…
Brazil and Argentina announced that they are making plans for creating a new currency for trade in Latin America. The currency, called…
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