Comments by "coreycox2345" (@coreycox2345) on "Geopolitical Economy Report" channel.

  1. Excellent segment. Facts are the thing we need here. Is it too apparent that the rest of the world will respond to reality? Not the reality spun by us. It's hard to admit, as I would never have behaved the way we have as a hegemon, regardless of my relative wealth and power. We have evidence of the debt trap diplomacy of the IMF.
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  2. @taiwanstillisntacountry And our arms industry profits. We spend and profit a lot on war. It is economic redistribution within.
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  3. This story stands out. I try to picture how this was in a CBS documentary when the MSM is such a monolith on hiding the truth. There must still be journalists among them.
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  4.  @heynowls3058  I hope you are wrong.
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  5. Canada arrested an Hauwei executive for something they claimed was implied in one of her work presentations. She hadn't committed a crime, but the US felt Hauwei would infringe on their market. She had not violated any law. A long-time official was fired for behaving as a reasonable person. Did the CIA threaten us or what? This does not represent me. What can I do about it? I hope my Hauwei phone is grandfathered in, as I want to keep using it in Canada. As a Canadian.
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  6. The bureaucratic reinforcement of academic mediocracy is nothing new. I always think of "Gulliver's Travels" on the topic.
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  7. Excellent segment, Ben Norton.
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  8.  @RyanHorn-fk1sg  I like it except for some of the people.
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  9. Excellent discussion. I am going to spend the afternoon watching Wag the Dog.
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  10. Goldman Sachs "popularly known as "the vampire squid." He has a way with words.
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  11. Nationalizing lithium may protect Mexico from having its lithium plundered I hope, juno kutz.
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  12. It seems like movies can get through censorship where other mediums can't. I thought "The Big Short" would change everything. But, at least it is something getting through on a mass scale.
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  13. Excellent point on leaders. It is virtually impossible to get great art by committee. The systematic development of informed consent is not a powerful weapon, but it is often better than nothing we would have otherwise.
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  14. Excellent and illuminating. Thank you.
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  15.  @Milzan30  There may be comorbidities.
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  16. @daveyjuice7710 How?
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  17. Noam Chomsky is in his nineties. It is difficult to know why he changed, but based on what I know about him, it was not for careerist reasons. Of course, we don't know what happened, and I no longer think of him as a pundit, but that doesn't negate his work. We stand on his shoulders in our work, regardless of things he may say in his nineties. I am not sure if you know many ninety-year-olds, but I have recently engaged with several of them I learned years ago, and they seem to have diminished mental capacity.
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  18. Increasingly. No country will continue to act against its interests without at least a commensurate payoff for long. Zeil Siez. They appear to have relied on historical agreements similar to those in the past?
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  19. I think the closing of the American frontier must refer to there no longer being a threat by Indians in land disputes. The Homestead Act provided a potential economic fresh start. This is excellent on how some of these systems were put in place.
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  20. I have the same reaction to people like that, Elisa.
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  21. My favourite style of journalism is this, Rogello Echeverri.
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  22. Something different between then and now is that 60 MInutes was one of the most watched shows on US television. That makes this crucial at this moment.
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  23. Excellent report. This does seem like a watershed moment.
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  24.  @Meme-lo7ru  It's Not the same, as people come from different circumstances and opportunities. I love most people just for their humanity. Everyone has something to teach us.
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  25. Mind blown. In a horrifying way. I did not know that NATO was planning on expanding further which seems insane. It sure doesn't represent me.
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  26.  @slimlucas888  Excellent idea, but then China will become the global hegemon sooner.
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  27. The comparison with the Venezuelan economy as "a thousand times less powerful" did not take into account that this country is first in its oil reserves. That's "of all countries in the world, if we had global free markets and journalists and governments telling the truth." In this world that's still the petrodollar?
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  28. Whoever dedcided on sanctions on our (USA) behalf will be slapping their foreheads saying "what have we done." As the global economy reels with what we have done as it did in 2008. Of course they are coming up with plans to avoid it. This is excellent.
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  29. If we look at the total debt of Sri Lanka concerning that owed to China, we don't look good. China has restructured some faltering debts to make them viable.
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  30. Parts of Ben's talk seem to have been scrambled. We can fill in some of the parts of what he is saying after watching and reading all these years? Or, unfortunate time to have audio troubles.
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  31. The Ukrainians don't have a government to stop the looting. So I can see why Russia would not want Ukraine to be owned by western neolib investors. They are so blatant.
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  32.  @spellman007  Of course.
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  33.  @walter1932  Such as?
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  34. That's not funny, as I picture him in poor health by now and hope he does not die soon, Matia Robles.
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  35. I wish my Prime Minister was anything like this, Aetius Flavius.
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  36. A "grab and go" debt peonage operation would not likely build schools. Just saying.
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  37. You write well, Ben Norton.
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  38.  @petermihacerar1137  Educate them?
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  39. Lindsey Graham is pure poison, @kiarashertebati58472.
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  40. Excellent reporting.
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  41.  @zhizhongxiao6487  How would we tell?
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  42. I wonder if anyone has done a documentary, "The history of IMF debt traps?"
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