Ben Norton Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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I read through John Bolton's painfully bad book “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir” and analyzed its revelations about the US coup attempt in Venezuela. You can find it in this video and podcast: https://t.co/NUJRmtKHE0

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From @ClaraEMattei's excellent book "The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism" https://t.co/2nWMmYuqSw

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The propaganda over Sri Lanka is ridiculous. US state propaganda outlet VOA, British mouthpiece BBC, and Indian media are blaming China for a supposed "debt trap" But in reality Sri Lanka owes more external debt to the US-dominated Asian Development Bank, Japan, and World Bank https://t.co/mBn957UqfK

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US state propaganda outlet Voice of America (which was created by the CIA as a tool for information warfare) is continuing to pay Twitter to amplify its disinformation demonizing Nicaragua and other targets of the State Department. https://t.co/JzQVGgxN5Z

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In his 1997 book "The Grand Chessboard," US imperial strategist Zbigniew Brzezinski warned "the most dangerous scenario [for the US empire] would be a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran, an 'antihegemonic' coalition" That now exists today: https://t.co/MzXopEfBpW https://t.co/TcEXKuYqEi

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This neoconservative associate of US intelligence agencies and the Pentagon, Gordon Chang, wrote an absurd 2001 book called "The Coming Collapse of China," in which he predicted it would fall by 2011. When it didn't, he said 2012. He has basically repeated this every year since https://t.co/5EgAPdHBwx

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Peru's conservative millionaire ex President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard was a US citizen who spent half his life in the US (working at the World Bank, NYC banks, and mining corporations) Latin America's right-wing oligarchs are modern-day conquistadores https://t.co/NayI1IGlmp

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I discussed China's economic model with Beijing-based scholar Roland Boer, a professor at Renmin University and author of the book "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners". It was a fascinating chat. You can watch/listen here: https://t.co/HpFNLM4lN2

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Aimé Césaire (in Discourse on Colonialism): One day the Western "bourgeoisie is awakened by a terrific boomerang effect... it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices... because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples" https://t.co/5eOm3LP2yP

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Economist Ha-Joon Chang: "[Mainstream] economics has become like Catholic theology in medieval Europe. It has become the language of the rulers" "They are not going to let you 'speak' it... unless you belong to the priesthood... or are from an extremely privileged background" https://t.co/l3ft45B1Yw

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