Benjamin (Ben) Norton is a journalist, analyst, and political economist. Ben is founder and editor of Geopolitical Economy Report. After years in Latin America, he now lives in Beijing, China. (Publicaciones en español aquí.)
The far-right Mujahideen the US and Britain supported in Afghanistan were "stubborn reactionaries determined to maintain a system of feudal antiquity" against socialist reforms,...
Militarily occupying Iraq and Syria is a thoroughly bipartisan policy in the United States. And bombing West Asia has become a favorite pastime that...
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman boasted that "the real source of" US military power is diversity, and Washington's "ability to blend" different racial...
Economist Michael Hudson explains how American imperialism has created a global free lunch, where the US makes foreign countries pay for its wars, and...