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# ![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::852269288.png) @BenjaminNorton Ben Norton

Ben Norton posts on X about china, brazil, nicaragua, countries the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::852269288/interactions)
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### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::852269288/posts_active)
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### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::852269288/followers)
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### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::852269288/influencer_rank)
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### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::852269288/influence)
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**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  XXXXX% [finance](/list/finance)  XXXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks)  XXXX% [musicians](/list/musicians)  XXXX% [exchanges](/list/exchanges)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[china](/topic/china) #1911, [brazil](/topic/brazil) #811, [nicaragua](/topic/nicaragua) 8.89%, [countries](/topic/countries) 8.89%, [gaza](/topic/gaza) 6.67%, [empire](/topic/empire) 6.67%, [farright](/topic/farright) 6.67%, [donald trump](/topic/donald-trump) #4602, [honduras](/topic/honduras) 6.67%, [cuba](/topic/cuba) XXXX%

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**Top assets mentioned**
[Coinbase Global, Inc. (COIN)](/topic/coinbase) [Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT)](/topic/lockheed-martin) [Kroger Co (KR)](/topic/kroger) [Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)](/topic/microsoft)
### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::852269288/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"@SecRubio @POTUS The US regime is blatantly interfering in Brazil's internal affairs and violating its sovereignty in a desperate attempt to defend far-right leader Bolsonaro a loyal US puppet after his coup attempt failed. The US empire hates democracy in Latin America"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1946570363111891235) 2025-07-19 13:58:34 UTC 317.1K followers, 7501 engagements


"Close Trump allies like Steve Bannon say the US president is pissed every time he looks at the BRICS dedollarization effort. Trump is trying to punish Brazil with high tariffs because Lula promotes a multipolar world and a new global reserve currency"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1944872557834068203) 2025-07-14 21:32:06 UTC 317.1K followers, 8520 engagements


"The US-sponsored genocide in Gaza is so blatant that Israel's former prime minister now admits that the Israeli regime is ethnically cleansing Palestinians forcing them into concentration camps and killing anyone who refuses to be forced into the camps"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1944558634442391966) 2025-07-14 00:44:41 UTC 317.1K followers, 12.4K engagements


"UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is just the reincarnation of neoliberal Tony Blair -- except with even less charisma this time. History repeats itself the first time as tragedy the second time as farce"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1946340831746506895) 2025-07-18 22:46:30 UTC 317.1K followers, 7416 engagements


"Jair Bolsonaro's son Eduardo another far-right demagogue left Brazil voluntarily and has been living in the US -- the country (or rather empire) he and his father are actually loyal to. In fact Jair said Eduardo Bolsonaro plans to apply for US citizenship. They are US assets"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1946572820995023225) 2025-07-19 14:08:20 UTC 317.1K followers, 5617 engagements


"In Nicaragua in 1983 a captured US-backed Contra terrorist admitted that the CIA was trying to assassinate top government officials including Foreign Minister Miguel D'Escoto. US-backed terrorists also blew up Nicaragua's oil refineries and other civilian infrastructure. Link:"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1948076008776642704) 2025-07-23 17:41:28 UTC 317.1K followers, 3475 engagements


"@All4GlobalJust Here is the excerpt from the CIA murder manual instructing the Contras to murder Nicaraguan government officials including judges security officers and Sandinista chiefs"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1221265655443398656) 2020-01-26 02:56:36 UTC 317.1K followers, XXX engagements


"Trump originally threatened XXX% tariffs on BRICS countries. Now he says "any country aligning themselves with the Anti-American policies of BRICS" will face an additional XX% tariff. So is it XXX% or XX% Does Trump himself even know BRICS is now XX% of the world population"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1942072503435657397) 2025-07-07 04:05:41 UTC 317.1K followers, 65.2K engagements


"BRICS is really angering the US empire: Donald Trump "is pissed every time he looks at the BRICS de-dollarization effort" revealed his top ally Steve Bannon. Numerous Trump admin sources say the US regime is obsessed with maintaining dollar hegemony"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1943768683534279047) 2025-07-11 20:25:42 UTC 317.1K followers, 31.1K engagements


"In this article economist Michael Hudson describes how China created an alternative to the Western neoliberal order and how the Global South can challenge the parasitic rent extraction of US-centered financial colonialism"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1945890962045096084) 2025-07-17 16:58:52 UTC 317.1K followers, 27.6K engagements


"Proxy war: Trump told Ukraine's leader Zelensky (who overstayed his term and has no democratic mandate) to attack Moscow and St Petersburg. Trump said his strategy is to "make Russia feel the pain" to force it to meet US demands. The US is "bringing the war to Muscovites""  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1945270651175985320) 2025-07-15 23:53:59 UTC 317.1K followers, 5539 engagements


"Close Donald Trump allies like Steve Bannon say "the president is pissed every time he looks at the BRICS de-dollarization effort". The US government fears the Global South's challenge to the exorbitant privilege of the dollar. (Full video below)"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1944423343282938232) 2025-07-13 15:47:05 UTC 317.1K followers, 20.1K engagements


"Donald Trump's failed US military parade was funded by big corporations like Palantir Amazon Coinbase Oracle and Anheuser-Busch. It was organized by America250 with sponsors Walmart Coca-Cola & Lockheed Martin. The USA is just an imperial corporation posing as a country"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1934956830829969466) 2025-06-17 12:50:32 UTC 317.1K followers, 22.6K engagements


"The NY Times aggressively defended the genocidal Israeli colonial regime since October 2023 viciously smearing anyone who correctly said Israel was committing genocide. Now XX months later the NYT published an article by an Israeli scholar admitting it"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1945106622637813938) 2025-07-15 13:02:11 UTC 317.1K followers, 16.3K engagements


"Representatives from more than XX countries are meeting in Colombia as part of "the most ambitious multilateral effort yet to halt Israels US-sponsored genocide in Gaza". Those countries are Colombia (co-chair) South Africa (co-chair) Algeria Bolivia Botswana Brazil Chile China Cuba Djibouti Honduras Indonesia Iraq Ireland Lebanon Libya Malaysia Mexico Namibia Nicaragua Norway Oman Pakistan Palestine Portugal Qatar Slovenia Spain Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trkiye Uruguay and Venezuela. Link:"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1945114499901743230) 2025-07-15 13:33:29 UTC 317.1K followers, 9556 engagements


"Silicon Valley is run by venture capitalist oligarchs who are Western-supremacist fascists who believe the US empire is in an existential civilizational war against China and Islam. This is why they love Israel's genocidal colonialism. They want the West to recolonize the world"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1941576335853486334) 2025-07-05 19:14:05 UTC 317.1K followers, 18K engagements


"This is an extreme form of US meddling in Brazil's internal affairs. The Trump admin imposed sanctions on a Brazilian supreme court justice because he is overseeing prosecution of far-right US puppet Jair Bolsonaro who launched a failed coup attempt after he lost the 2022 election to Lula. This has nothing to do with "free speech". That's the cynical talking point that the US is using to justify its blatant violation of Brazil's sovereignty. What is actually happening is the Trump admin is trying to shield Brazil's far-right coup leader from legal consequences for his crimes because Bolsonaro"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1946569155974750345) 2025-07-19 13:53:46 UTC 317.1K followers, 41.6K engagements


"This July XX marked the 46th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua . A massivecelebration was held in the capital Managua. The main anti-imperialist themes that were discussed are listed below. The ceremony featured diplomatic representatives from China Russia Palestine Vietnam Venezuela Cuba Honduras Burkina Faso Algeria Trkiye DPRK Belarus Cte d'Ivoire and Myanmar. The main points of the speech delivered by Comandante Daniel Ortega this year were the following: - Nicaragua offers its full support for Palestine and unflinching opposition to the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza. -"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1946998365771726892) 2025-07-20 18:19:18 UTC 317.1K followers, 8336 engagements


"The USA is a capitalist dystopia. Grocery corporation Kroger is working with Big Tech monopoly Microsoft to install facial-recognition technology in stores which will charge people higher prices for food if they think they can get away with it. There is no oversight of this"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1884485384622735562) 2025-01-29 06:15:02 UTC 317.1K followers, 88.9K engagements


"Argentina's pro-Trump libertarian President Javier Milei is privatizing the public water and sanitation system. Right-wing US-backed leaders have done this many times in Latin America. The result is always the same: poor people lose access to clean water"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1948020168380305707) 2025-07-23 13:59:35 UTC 317.1K followers, 12.4K engagements


""Sanctions do kill" states important research published in the leading peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet. Economic sanctions imposed by the USA or EU were associated with 564258 deaths annually from 1971-2021 more than annual 106000 battle-related deaths. Western sanctions targeting low-income or middle-income countries in the Global South resulted in a XXX% increase in infant mortality and a XXX% increase in maternal mortality annually. The study notes that "sanctions inevitably or even intentionally undermine people's right to health" and "the adverse effects of sanctions on health"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1948166134504497200) 2025-07-23 23:39:36 UTC 317.1K followers, 12.5K engagements


"Neocolonialism: The new US ambassador boasts the Trump admin will blatantly meddle in Argentina's affairs support far-right leader Milei persecute left-wing leader Kirchner and cut out China. He's also an idiot. He said "turmurtuous" and "far lefter""  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1948023269233410419) 2025-07-23 14:11:54 UTC 317.1K followers, 17.6K engagements


"China funded a public housing community in solidarity with Nicaragua. It consists of XXX houses which were built over X years and just inaugurated this week on the anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution. In September they'll start building XXX more"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1945247099391475977) 2025-07-15 22:20:24 UTC 317.1K followers, 11.8K engagements


"The multipolar future the US empire fears: Marco Rubio lamented that Brazil "cut a trade deal with China. They're going to from now on do trade in their own currencies get right around the dollar". "They're creating a secondary economy in the world totally independent of the United States. "We won't have to talk about sanctions in five years because there will be so many countries transacting in currencies other than the dollar that we won't have the ability to sanction them""  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1944868559437647884) 2025-07-14 21:16:13 UTC 317.1K followers, 171.3K engagements


"More than XX countries are holding an "emergency summit" in Colombia to declare concrete measures against Israels violations of international law. "The Palestinian genocide threatens our entire multilateral system" warned the Colombian government. The participating countries are: Algeria Bangladesh Bolivia Brazil Chile China Cuba Djibouti Honduras Indonesia Ireland Lebanon Malaysia Namibia Nicaragua Oman Portugal Spain Qatar Turkey Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Uruguay and Palestine"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1944557160798605407) 2025-07-14 00:38:49 UTC 317.1K followers, 57.6K engagements


"Self-declared "peacemaker" Donald Trump who absurdly claimed dozens of times he would end the war in Ukraine on day X of his presidency is now telling Zelensky to attack Moscow with US long-range weapons. Anyone who believed Trump's ridiculous propaganda was very gullible"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1945269311603662869) 2025-07-15 23:48:39 UTC 317.1K followers, 13.5K engagements


"Irans foreign minister is in Beijing attending a session of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. He also met with Chinas President Xi Jinping. You can bet they discussed deepening Iranian-Chinese relations after the US-Israeli attacks"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1945560183234613636) 2025-07-16 19:04:29 UTC 317.1K followers, 9739 engagements


"Just X households own XX% of the wealth of US Big Tech hub Silicon Valley. A mere XXX% of residents hold XX% of Silicon Valley's wealth. At the same time 110000 households reported nearly none or no assets"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1947433521737548132) 2025-07-21 23:08:27 UTC 317.1K followers, 51K engagements


"The Western authoritarian oligarchies posing as fake "democracies" are making it a crime to oppose their genocidal imperialism"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1942081149125173402) 2025-07-07 04:40:02 UTC 317.1K followers, 8599 engagements


"This is genocide: 1/3rd of all Palestinians in Gaza have not eaten for several days in a row the UN World Food Program reports. 1/4th of Gazans are facing famine-like conditions. The US and Israel are using starvation as a genocidal colonial weapon"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1947794215229890759) 2025-07-22 23:01:43 UTC 317.1K followers, 10.2K engagements


""China will continue to support Iran in safeguarding its national sovereignty and dignity resisting power politics and bullying defending its legitimate rights" said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in a clear reference to the US-Israeli attacks"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1945560793698746374) 2025-07-16 19:06:54 UTC 317.1K followers, 5573 engagements


"You want to know a big reason why there's so much discontent and instability in the US Median nominal (non-inflation-adjusted) wages have only increased by X times since 1990 (median real wages were stagnant). Meanwhile corporate profits (after tax) increased by over XX times"  
![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::852269288.png) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) on [X](/post/tweet/1947781122542194793) 2025-07-22 22:09:42 UTC 317.1K followers, 13K engagements