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Episode 272 - BRICS House: Part 1 (w/ Ben Norton) (Patreon)

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Journalist Ben Norton, editor of the Geopolitical Economy Report, joins to talk de-dollarization, whether Tucker's departure from Fox News is a loss for the left's ability to have left issues platformed to a mainstream audience, war with China, and more. This was such an epic convo that we're making it a two-parter. Check out the second half next Monday on Patreon.

Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod).

Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

Comments

Anonymous

Ben is really on the top of his game. Excellent, cohesive and extensive geopolitical/economic analysis and commentary. And BRICS HOUSE pun was made brilliant at the end.

Anonymous

I loved this interview! So refreshing!

Anonymous

Great interview! People should also listen to Richard Medhurst, he was making EVERY single one of these points over a year ago when the West first found out about the war between Russia and Ukraine. Also, that outro song had me rollin’ 😂 we all gotta get used to the idea of our future BRICS house

Anonymous

Excellent episode!

Michelle B

Oh I'm so excited you have Ben Norton on!!! In terms of journalists who actually cover the bigger picture of the American imperial project and how it functions, Ben is phenomenal

Anonymous

This episode fucking rocks. Thank you Bri! Really love hearing about Latin America - highly recommend having some of the folks from Kawsachun on sometime as well 👀

Jon

It's conversations like this that make you realize just how truly inept and/or willfully ignorant most US media is. Great ep.

Anonymous

Two things can be true at the same time, the Americans can grossly over exaggerate the human rights abuses of China and China still engages in extremely abusive human rights violations. So maybe it's not a million Muslims in re-education camps. Let's say it's only 100,000, That's hardly small enough number to justify glossing over the complications from their system of government. That isn't to say we can't learn things from them or that they're any more evil or less evil than America. But it is important and consideration of what has to be given up in order to make those sort of achievements. Both countries engage in gross violation of their citizens human Rights, ignoring either doesn't help anyone. As fascist as America is, at least they are trying to pretend they believe in freedom. China explicitly says that citizens need to give up all rights in perpetuity to the state, I find that problematic to say the least.

Thomas Kates

I think it’s ironic how he says that “you’re not allowed to say anything good about china” when he literally only says good things about China and refuses to levy even a mild criticism towards her.

surrander 2000

So, Mr. Kates, you are on your way with friends to your old high school's Friday night football game. One of your companions up and says, "If we lose this game, we're goin' straight to their dress-out area an' kill their quarterback." Instead of responding on principle to this monstrous declaration, you engage in a long rhapsody on the comparative merits of the two communities and their schools, how there are good people in both, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Pardon me: The United States of America is STANDING ON CHINA'S BIG TOE on Taiwan while PISSIN ' IN HER SWIMMING POOL in the South China Sea, and you want CHINA to explain her sins ?!!!!! This is a portrait of the parochialism that makes folks in other countries laugh (and weep) over our ignorance. Not stupidity - willful ignorance. China's culture is not Dodge City or Tombstone, Arizona. It is not a Cowboy's Paradise. It is an ancient and highly successful culture which has seen horrific violence many times and prizes consensus support for a tranquil way of life. After expelling the Japanese, China had to expel the West's darling Kuomintang, which, irony of ironies, is now the party on Taiwan supporting ever-closer ties to the Mainland. Columbine? Sandy Hook? No thanks, American, you keep your guns. We love our children. Americans just L O V E the Calvinist pursuit of perfection - especially in others. No need to look at my faults as long as the topic is YOU. One last little comparison: The PRC and the Apartheid Zionist State are for all practical purposes the same age. Consensus, anyone? aw

Anonymous

Idk it seems like at the end of all of these debates with people who all can agree that the Democratic Party is corrupt and unfair is that we should do nothing. I know that’s not what they say but it is what the eventual outcome will be. “Stay out of primaries because we don’t have a chance” “organize unions even though the democrats will just pass laws to stop them” “we need a third party, but don’t go green or any other cause they don’t work.” It all just seems like a self fulfilling prophecy.