Former Economic Hitman John Perkins on the rise of the new oligarchy:

‘There’s a huge rise of a new class of oligarchs. I don’t like to see it, and I don’t think it is a part of capitalism. It’s part of what I call predatory capitalism. But true capitalism encourages competition, not monopolies.’

‘Wealth in the United States and globally is concentrated in a very few hands and who knows what those few hands are going to do with it. We’re at this period of time where AI, Bitcoin, and all of these other things come together, they’re tools, they can be used for good or they can be used for bad. But it’s a danger when they’re concentrated in a few hands.’

‘We’re seeing the high tech industry is concentrated in a few hands and the Trump administration seems to be supporting that movement.’

-John Perkins, Author of ‘Confessions of an Economic Hitman’ on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v6tjdkj-economic-hitman-john-perkins-on-the-death-economy-decline-of-the-us-empire-.html

How the USA🇺🇸 uses corporations, the World Bank, and blunt imperial military force to rob poor countries of their resources, turn sovereign states into vassal states, and maintain the hegemony of the US empire

'The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.'

On this day in 1890, communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh was born. During his lifetime, he led a revolutionary movement that defeated French imperialism and ended French domination of Vietnam.

His movement would later go on to defeat US imperialism, which launched a war of annihilation against the country that is estimated to have killed more than 3 million people, with half of the deaths being Vietnamese civilians.

Former Economic Hitman John Perkins: Latin America, most of Africa has ‘COMPLETELY’ gone to China🇨🇳

‘China is the number one trading partner I believe of all the Latin American countries. Colombia🇨🇴 was the holdout until very recently, but now Colombia signed a deal to be a part of the New Silk Road. But every other country in Latin America has gone to China as has most of Africa, and so much of the world.’

‘I think China may actually offer some of the solution to some of the problems because it does offer an alternative. So if countries are upset with the way the United States🇺🇸 is treating them, as countries in Latin America are upset with the way the US has dealt with them, they can turn to China.’

-John Perkins, Author of ‘Confessions of an Economic Hitman’ on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v6tjdkj-economic-hitman-john-perkins-on-the-death-economy-decline-of-the-us-empire-.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp

US-backed regime change in Latin America:

🇲🇽: 1914
🇬🇹: 1954
🇨🇺: 1961
🇧🇷: 1964
🇩🇴: 1965
🇦🇷: 1970s
🇨🇱: 1970s
🇳🇮: 1980s
🇬🇩: 1983
🇵🇦: 1989
🇭🇹: 1994
🇻🇪: 2002
🇭🇳: 2009
🇧🇷: 2016
🇳🇮: 2018
🇻🇪: 2019
🇧🇴: 2019
🇵🇪: 2022

Any wonder why China has become the largest trading partner for most of Latin America?

'The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.'

On this day in 1890, communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh was born. During his lifetime, he led a revolutionary movement that defeated French imperialism and ended French domination of Vietnam.

His movement would later go on to defeat US imperialism, which launched a war of annihilation against the country that is estimated to have killed more than 3 million people, with half of the deaths being Vietnamese civilians.

Former economic hitman John Perkins: The American🇺🇸 worker is SUFFERING

‘Trump coming to power is ultimately going to hurt the American worker. I don’t believe the sanctions/tariffs are going to put us in a stronger position. They’ll make things cheaper in this country, we’ll produce more in this country, but in the rest of the world, Chinese goods will become cheaper.’

‘There’s a lot going on here that is really devastating for the American worker, the attempt to get rid of Medicaid and these food subsistence programs. I think this country can do better than that.’

-John Perkins, Author of ‘Confessions of an Economic Hitman’ on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v6tjdkj-economic-hitman-john-perkins-on-the-death-economy-decline-of-the-us-empire-.html

Why is the American🇺🇸 worker suffering while China’s🇨🇳 population attains new levels of prosperity?

Why has the American middle class been destroyed while China’s working and middle class gets richer by every metric?

A young Chinese influencer explains

🚨Former economic hitman John Perkins: End the wars, end the pollution, and end the DEGENERATIVE DEATH ECONOMY

‘Let’s stop the wars and let’s stop polluting the planet…this is an incredible time in human history. It’s perhaps the most severe challenges that we’ve ever faced because we’re facing these challenges on a global level.’

‘We have incredible opportunities to redefine what it means to be human beings on this incredible planet. We have got to get out of this warlike mentality that seems to be part of our DNA. We must respect that we live as part of nature, not apart from nature. We’re not superior to nature.’

‘We can’t just constantly use all of these resources and pollute the planet regardless of the consequences. We’ve got to think of those consequences in the long term…and that involves ending the wars and ending the incredible pollution that we’re causing, and ending the degenerative death economy that focuses on tearing up resources and short-term profits regardless of the environmental and social consequences.’

-John Perkins, Author of ‘Confessions of an Economic Hitman’ on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v6tjdkj-economic-hitman-john-perkins-on-the-death-economy-decline-of-the-us-empire-.html

The change in this map of nations’ largest trading partner shifting from the US🇺🇸 to China🇨🇳 is not remotely surprising

While the US’ destructive and chaotic foreign policy enraged the global south, which was ignored by the US, China wooed the global south with win-win cooperation. Major infrastructure deals, boosted trade in commercial goods etc.

While the US hypocritically lectured the entire world about human rights and democracy, while simultaneously bombing human rights into dust, and destroying democracies for decades…China focused simply on trade, business, and once again, win-win cooperation.

The US only has itself to blame for the loss of its power and economic influence. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the US found itself as the sole superpower in a unipolar world. It took every opportunity to use and abuse its power, despite repeated warnings that the world would turn against them and seek alternatives.

That alternative now is China.

On this day in 1925, African American revolutionary Malcolm X was born. Here he is on Palestine:

‘The Palestinian struggle is not just a cry for justice. It’s a blistering battle for the most fundamental human rights that every living soul on this planet should inherit.’

MALCOLM X DAY: In 1960, Malcolm X met with Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro in Harlem New York.

During their conversation, Malcolm X told Fidel 'as long as Uncle Sam is against you, you know you’re a good man.'

MALCOLM X DAY: Here’s Malcolm on whether he fears being assassinated

‘No I don’t. I’m a man who believes that I died 20 years ago. I live like a man who is dead already. I have no fear whatsoever of anybody, or anything.’

Compare this to the arguably useless ‘left’ in the US today.

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

-Today we celebrate 100 years since the birth of Malcolm X

In the US, 6 companies control 70-80% of traditional media in 2025. They tell you which people to hate, which countries to hate, and continuously beat the drums of war leading to more imperial violence and oppression.

Malcolm X visited Gaza in 1964, as a true revolutionary like Che Guevara had done:

-He toured the Khan Younis refugee camp and witnessed the horrific living conditions for Palestinian refugees displaced by Israel

-He visited a local hospital and saw the dire lack of healthcare for Palestinians

-He met Palestinian resistance leaders from the PLO, and met the poet Harun Hashim Rashid, who shared his survival story from the 1956 Khan Younis massacre, where Israeli forces killed 275 Palestinians during the Suez Crisis.

-He prayed at a local mosque and held a press conference at Gaza’s parliamentary building

His visit inspired him to write the essay ‘Zionist logic’, which was printed in the Egyptian Gazette, in which he wrote that Zionism was a form of colonial oppression.

MALCOLM X DAY: After visiting Gaza, Malcolm X wrote the essay ‘Zionist Logic’

"In short the Zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab
Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history...not even in their own religion."

This was his conclusion. Here are important excerpts from the rest of the essay:

"The Israeli Zionists are convinced they have successfully camouflaged their new kind of colonialism. Their colonialism appears to be more benevolent, more philanthropic, a system with which they rule simply by getting their potential victims to accept their friendly offers of economic aid, and other tempting gifts, that they dangle in front of the newly-independent African nations, whose economies are experiencing great difficulties."

"Did the Zionists have the legal or moral right to invade Arab Palestine, uproot its Arab citizens from their homes and seize all Arab property for themselves just based on the 'religious' claim that their forefathers lived there thousands of years ago? Only a thousand years ago the Moors lived in Spain. Would this give the Moors of today the legal and moral right to invade the Iberian Peninsula, drive out its Spanish citizens, and then set up a new Moroccan nation...as the European Zionists have done to our Arab brothers and sisters in Palestine?"

"The modern 20th century weapon of neo-imperialism is 'dollarism.’ The Zionists have mastered the science of dollarism: the ability to come posing as a friend and benefactor, bearing gifts and all other forms of economic aid and offers of technical assistance. Thus, the power and influence of Zionist Israel in many of the newly 'independent' African nations has fast-become even more unshakeable than that of the 18th century European colonialists...and this new kind of Zionist colonialism differs only in form and method, but never in motive or objective."

Following his phone call with US🇺🇸 President Trump, Russian🇷🇺 President Vladimir Putin says he is ready to work with Ukraine on a memorandum on a future peace treaty

DONALD TRUMP POSTS ON TRUTH SOCIAL FOLLOWING PHONE CALL WITH PUTIN:

“Just completed my two hour call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. I believe it went very well. Russia and Ukraine will immediately start negotiations toward a Ceasefire and, more importantly, an END to the War.

The conditions for that will be negotiated between the two parties, as it can only be, because they know details of a negotiation that nobody else would be aware of. The tone and spirit of the conversation were excellent. If it wasn’t, I would say so now, rather than later. Russia wants to do largescale TRADE with the United States when this catastrophic “bloodbath” is over, and I agree.

There is a tremendous opportunity for Russia to create massive amounts of jobs and wealth. Its potential is UNLIMITED.

Likewise, Ukraine can be a great beneficiary on Trade, in the process of rebuilding its Country. Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine will begin immediately. I have so informed President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, of Ukraine, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, President Emmanuel Macron, of France, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, of Italy, Chancellor Friedrich Merz, of Germany, and President Alexander Stubb, of Finland, during a call with me, immediately after the call with President Putin.

The Vatican, as represented by the Pope, has stated that it would be very interested in hosting the negotiations. Let the process begin!”

Zelensky shuts down the idea of Ukrainian neutrality for peace, referencing the 2019 addition to Ukraine’s constitution of aspiration for NATO membership.

Despite the Trump Administration’s declarations that Ukraine joining NATO can’t happen, Zelensky’s delusions continue.

🚨TRUMP🇺🇸-PUTIN🇷🇺 PHONE CALL: IS THE END OF THE UKRAINE🇺🇦 PROXY WAR IN SIGHT?

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin both say their phone call to pursue an end to the Ukraine proxy war went well. Russia has agreed to work with Ukraine to reach a memorandum for a future peace deal.

But thorns remain; mainly from the UK and Europe. Seemingly stuck in the days of the Biden Administration, the multipolar world’s Island of Irrelevancy continues to push for increased hostility with Russia, and a continuation of the proxy war to the last Ukrainian, regardless of their hollow ‘peace’ rhetoric, despite the fact that it’s Europe’s economies and their people that are paying the heaviest price.

The Coalition of the Useless rally around Zelensky, egging him on as his negotiating position gets weaker and weaker, as Russia gains more and more territory. Every day that passes without a deal will result in a deal more painful for Kiev.

While Zelensky seems somewhat serious about direct face-to-face negotiations with Putin, perhaps with Trump present, his continued childish remarks while negotiating with Russia risk crashing diplomatic efforts completely.

There doesn’t seem to be a discernible diplomatic reason for this other than to please Starmer, Macron, Merz and the rest of the Coalition of the Useless, patting themselves on the back for continued bellicose rhetoric against Russia that no one cares for, and endless sanctions packages that do next to nothing. Their performance of pretending to be relevant continues.

The Ukraine proxy war was always going to end in a negotiation between Moscow and Washington, since it is ultimately a war between them. Europe, and the rest of NATO are completely irrelevant and will have to bow to Washington’s orders.

The danger for Zelensky? A Trump administration tired of a failed endless war that has resulted in the humiliation of the so-called ‘Western alliance’. Trump has other urgent priorities, both at home and abroad, and is simply bored of a never-ending war on Russia’s border that at any moment could spiral into a nuclear escalation.

If vassal leader Zelensky doesn’t agree to a peace deal rapidly, and the US walks away from efforts to negotiate with Russia, a complete and convincing Russian victory will be imminent. No matter how much the Coalition of the Useless claims it will do whatever it takes to support Ukraine, they have emptied out their arsenals to support Ukraine, and have nothing left to give. Europe’s military-industrial complex could not hope to replace all of the aid given by the US. Zelensky faces a situation similar to what South Vietnam’s regime faced in its dying days; the US is once again bored of a failed proxy war. Zelensky could find out soon just how brutally the US can discard a proxy once its usefulness runs out.

As for Russia, the only threat remains another trick of deceit pulled by one member, or multiple members of NATO to upend negotiations. The memories of humiliation and failure of Minsk 1 and Minsk 2 remain in the Kremlin’s thinking. Unless there is a concrete guarantee that Ukraine will never join NATO, a declaration of neutrality, and Ukraine cedes territory, the war will not end.

As for any ‘leverage’ the US may use on Russia if it walks away, the sanctions and pressure will be pointless, Russia has turned itself into an economic fortress through years of planning. You can’t isolate the world’s largest country, and any attempt to do so will only deepen the Russia-China alliance.

The clock ticks for Zelensky, time is running out. It’s time for him to take a realist perspective, though the Coalition of the Useless may still succeed in selling him delusions such as European troops in Ukraine, future NATO membership, and other nonsense which Russia would never accept.

One reason to remain skeptical about the report that Trump is threatening to abandon Israel if the Gaza war continues is that one angry phone call could end the Gaza genocide completely.

Every US President knows this, since Israel survives on US aid. When Ronald Reagan wanted Israel to stop its killing spree in Lebanon, he simply phoned Menachem Begin and ordered him to stop.

If Donald Trump really wanted the horrors in Gaza to stop, one phone call is all it would take, and Netanyahu would have no choice but to obey the orders of the country that ensures Israel’s existence.