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[@BenjaminNorton](/creator/twitter/BenjaminNorton)
""As a result of China's massive supply the cost of generating electricity from solar has now fallen to a global average of around $XXXX per kilowatt hourmaking it the cheapest energy source in history". Meanwhile Western officials complain about China's so-called "overcapacity" which is precisely what is making a transition away from fossil fuels possible for the world. As this physicist writes: "one thing is clear: while China is making political decisions based on scientific evidence and while it is flooding the market with cheap solar energy the Western world is sinking in a quagmire of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1973717031880110265) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-02T11:49Z 324.2K followers, 122K engagements


"In addition to his key role as the US imperial regime's Treasury secretary Scott Bessent has a personal grudge against China because in 1997-98 when he worked for billionaire oligarch George Soros Bessent lost lots of money trying to short the Hong Kong dollar. Hong Kong successfully defeated the attacks by Wall Street speculators. 1997 was also symbolically the year that XXX years of British colonialism in Hong Kong finally ended and the region was formally reunified with China. The failed Soros-Bessent attack on the Hong Kong dollar demonstrated how the US empire used its tools of financial"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1978625456577638412) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-16T00:54Z 324.2K followers, 78K engagements


"Interesting dedollarization news: Russia has been selling oil at a discount to India's state-owned refiner and India is now paying with Chinese yuan. Russia had originally considered accepting Indian rupees but it can't buy very much with them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1976085723666317485) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-09T00:42Z 324.2K followers, 26K engagements


"The US military just killed another fisherman in its attacks in the Caribbean. This man was a Colombian citizen. The Trump admin also killed X fishermen from Trinidad and Tobago. The US rogue regime is committing acts of international terrorism in its imperial war on Venezuela"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1979705866061541658) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-19T00:27Z 324.2K followers, 140.6K engagements


"Nobel Peace Prize winner Mara Corina Machado a US-funded far-right coup leader vowed to privatize Venezuela's oil and give it to US corporations. "We are going to privatize all our industry" she told Donald Trump Jr. US companies "are going to make a lot of money" she said"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1978107961986703613) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-14T14:37Z 324.2K followers, 1.5M engagements


"The US economic model is based on massive corporations establishing monopolies through mergers and acquisitions and then charging monopoly rents to maximize profits benefiting shareholders at the expense of consumers. China's model forces companies to fiercely compete and the state strictly enforces antitrust regulations in order to prevent the formation of private monopolies (unlike the US government especially now under Trump who is gutting antitrust enforcement). This means corporate profit margins are razor thin in China but consumers benefit from a variety of cheap high-quality goods."  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1980925360759042382) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-22T09:13Z 324.2K followers, 129.2K engagements


"The Trump admin plans a SECOND $XX billion bailout for Argentina's failed libertarian President Milei a US puppet who plunged millions of people into poverty. The US is giving $40+ billion to save both Milei and Wall Street speculators who bought risky Argentine stocks & bonds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1978626954489422255) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-16T01:00Z 324.2K followers, 94K engagements


"What this disastrous meeting shows is that Europe is totally hopeless geopolitically. The Trump admin is blatantly attacking Europe politically and economically. This could be the perfect moment for the EU to pursue a new independent non-aligned foreign policy. But instead EU politicians are doubling down on Atlanticism only exacerbating their subordination to the US empire. Instead of improving relations with China which is the world's biggest economy and one of the EU's most important trading partners European politicians are attacking China. Lawmakers from the EU and China just held their"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1979176925970207026) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-17T13:25Z 324.2K followers, 48.8K engagements


"The US is waging a neocolonial war of aggression against Venezuela. In just one week the Trump admin: -threatened attacks in the country -confirmed lethal CIA operations -ordered B-52 bombers to fly in circles off its coast"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1979524910570737867) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-18T12:28Z 324.2K followers, 13.6K engagements


"Actually existing libertarianism: Argentina's economy is in free fall under libertarian leader Javier Milei. The currency is collapsing the bond market is in crisis the huge bubble he inflated in the stock market has popped and manufacturing output (ie the real economy) has crashed. Milei was already gifted a $XX billion lifeline from the US-controlled IMF and the World Bank (after Argentina already owed more debt to the IMF than any other country) but even that was not enough to stabilize Milei's crazy Austrian School experiment. So now the US government is pledging to bail out the proud"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1970283898870673474) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-09-23T00:27Z 324.2K followers, 1M engagements


"Tech stocks now represent XX% of the US stock market higher than the peak of the dot-com bubble in 2000. Billionaire OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted AI is in a bubble. It's not different this time. The bubble will pop. And given how huge it is it will cause an economic crisis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1974649516025655499) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-05T01:35Z 324.2K followers, 95.2K engagements


"The Nobel Peace Prize is a farce given to war criminals (like Obama and Kissinger) and coup-plotters. Mara Corina Machado is a far-right coup-plotter whose has been funded by the US gov't for years. She asked the US and Israel to INVADE Venezuela to overthrow President Maduro"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1976652345779093752) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-10T14:13Z 324.2K followers, 241.4K engagements


"Trump is escalating the neocolonial US war on Venezuela: Trump admitted he authorized the CIA to carry out covert attacks inside Venezuela. The US military has killed dozens of Venezuelans in boats in extrajudicial executions. Trump said he is now considering attacks on "land""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1978606675029602331) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-15T23:39Z 324.2K followers, 31.9K engagements


"Insane hypocrisy: The US is waging nonstop economic war with illegal sanctions on 1/3rd of all countries including XX% of poor nations. Trump is waging a trade war on everyone. But Wall Street's man in the US Treasury Bessent blames China. It is the US empire vs. the world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1978615854628794442) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-16T00:15Z 324.2K followers, 117.8K engagements


"This pro-Trump propagandist proudly boasts that Trump's imperial war on Venezuela is a proxy war against China. True she knows absolutely nothing about Venezuela Latin America and China and says some embarrassingly stupid things in this video but even a broken clock is right twice a day. This is Cold War Two. The US empire's neocolonial strategy is to try to overthrow all of China's strategic allies and to forcibly cut off Latin America's relations with China in order to impose US hegemony in the western hemisphere"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1979711317549416753) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-19T00:48Z 324.2K followers, 41.5K engagements


"Trump is a maniac. While waging war on Venezuela he now threatens to attack Colombia too (although he can't spell it correctly). Trump falsely claims Colombian President Petro is a "drug leader". This is a total lie. Now he's threatening sanctions and attacks. Imperial psycho"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1979917802325569880) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-19T14:29Z 324.2K followers, 684.8K engagements


"Argentina's right-wing libertarian government is run by Wall Street both indirectly and directly. President Javier Milei's minister & vice minister of the economy and the president & vice president of the central bank all previously worked for JPMorgan the largest US bank"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1980637411857326224) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-21T14:08Z 324.2K followers, 586.3K engagements


"The US military has already been outsourcing its wars for decades to mercenary companies. Now it's privatizing the land infrastructure & assets it owns selling them to private equity firms. The oligarchy is stripping the copper out of the proverbial wire of the US government"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1980867680518525171) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-22T05:23Z 324.2K followers, 33.8K engagements


"Every Silicon Valley libertarian billionaire is a sicko from blood-sucking fascist Peter Thiel to this vile mullet-wearing arms dealer Palmer Luckey who -- when he's not making new weapons for a US imperial war on China -- is telling 16-year-old girls they need to have kids 🤮"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1981153192168870239) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-23T00:18Z 324.2K followers, 81.1K 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1884485384622735562) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-01-29T06:15Z 324K followers, 89K engagements


"Economist Michael Hudson argues Donald Trump has no plans to deal with the problems of neoliberal financialization that caused US deindustrialization. Trump's tariffs are just a neoliberal scheme under another guise to benefit the rich donor class"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1912292560896422359) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-04-15T23:50Z 324.1K followers, 17.4K engagements


"Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mara Corina Machado is a far-right Venezuelan coup-plotter funded by the US government. She supports Israel as it commits genocide and is central in Trumps regime-change war against President Maduro. I collected the evidence:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1977734975160991916) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-13T13:55Z 324K followers, 28.2K engagements


"In short Trump is openly admitting that he is meddling in Argentina's election. If people vote for the party of right-wing US puppet Javier Milei (who wants to privatize everything and sell his country to US corporations) then Trump will bail out Argentina with US gov't money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1978287488322994378) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-15T02:31Z 323.7K followers, 60.6K engagements


"@RapidResponse47 @SecScottBessent Insane hypocrisy: The US wages nonstop economic war with illegal sanctions on 1/3rd of all countries including XX% of poor nations. Trump is waging a trade war on everyone. But Wall Street spox Bessent blames China. It is the US empire vs. the world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1978619976564236320) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-16T00:32Z 324K followers, 9338 engagements


"The NY Times admitted citing US officials that the goal of the Trump admin's war on Venezuela is regime change. "Drugs" are the new "WMDs". The US has 10000 troops X warships and a submarine in the Caribbean. Neoconservative hawk Marco Rubio is overseeing the war. Link:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1979527367048708258) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-18T12:37Z 324.1K followers, 7726 engagements


"The fact that Trumpist propagandists believe that China "controls" Gaza Iran and Venezuela shows how insanely stupid and out of touch with reality they are. But the basic idea that the US empire is waging a series of proxy wars against China is correct. This is Cold War Two"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1979712431992741947) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-19T00:53Z 324K followers, 6164 engagements


"The Trump admin has already pledged $XX billion to bail out Argentina's failed libertarian President Javier Milei. Now the Treasury is using US government money to buy Argentine pesos to prop up the currency in a desperate attempt to boost Milei mere weeks before a legislative election that his extremely unpopular right-wing party will almost certainly lose. The peso is already significantly overvalued. The Argentine central bank has been bleeding foreign currency to keep the peso high. After the election it is inevitable that there is going to be a big devaluation which means the Treasury is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1979750538221867121) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-19T03:24Z 324.1K followers, 46.1K engagements


"Donald Trump admitted in 2023 that in his first term as US president he tried to overthrow Venezuela's government and pillage its oil: "We would have taken Venezuela over. We would have gotten all that oil. It would have been right next door""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1977045511451689046) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-11T16:15Z 324.2K followers, 293.3K engagements


"This is a big deal: China is challenging Microsoft's global monopoly. The US government has been so arrogant in its trade war on China (under both Trump and Biden) that it didn't realize China has much more leverage. This is another example: China is now transitioning away from Microsoft Windows software which is still ubiquitous in China and is used on many government computers. Chinas Ministry of Commerce has stopped using Microsoft Word and is instead using WPS Office the Chinese alternative to Microsoft Office developed by Beijing-based company Kingsoft. More ministries are expected to do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1977924655148359800) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-14T02:29Z 324.2K followers, 339.8K engagements


"The AI bubble in the US stock market is driven by a speculative frenzy that is very dangerous. Margin debt money investors borrow from brokers often to buy stocks has spiked to new highs. This is extremely risky. When the bubble pops the deleverage will be very painful and could exacerbate a financial crisis. As stocks fall investors will sell off stocks to pay their creditors driving the market down even more. And the US real economy is so absurdly financialized that a crash in the stock market will undoubtedly cause a harsh recession. Source:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1978970782324957326) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-16T23:46Z 324.2K followers, 44.8K engagements


"Argentina's libertarian US puppet regime is imposing antiworker "reforms" that allow corporations to fire employees at any time without cause with no compensation. This was announced by Milei's millionaire Economy Minister Luis Caputo ex stock trader for Wall Street's JPMorgan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1978978642043822482) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-17T00:17Z 324.2K followers, 394.1K engagements


"This Nobel "Peace" Prize winner who is funded by the US government and is asking Trump to invade her country also loves the genocidal Israeli regime and supports its wars on Palestine Iran and Lebanon. The Nobel "Peace" Prize is a tool of US imperial war"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1979364935584092588) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-18T01:52Z 324.2K followers, 110.2K engagements


"The US economy is so insanely financialized that it has more private equity funds (19000) than McDonald's (14000). This is because the US economy is not based on innovation and certainly not manufacturing; it's based on parasitic financial rent-seeking"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1979380917601996824) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-18T02:56Z 324.2K followers, 359.4K engagements


"The US government is waging a war on Venezuela. Trump authorized the CIA to carry out "lethal operations" to try to overthrow President Maduro. The US military has killed dozens of people in boats in the Caribbean not only Venezuelans but also Colombians and Trinidadians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1979525983343706289) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-18T12:32Z 324.2K followers, 28.1K engagements


"Argentina's libertarian President Javier Milei is rapidly deindustrializing the economy destroying local manufacturing. The sectors that are growing in Argentina are finance mining and agriculture (for export) -- parasitic extractive industries dominated by foreign capital"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1979707862986391665) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-19T00:35Z 324.2K followers, 445.2K engagements


"The US military is killing Trinidadian fishermen in the Caribbean as part of Trump's terror war on Venezuela. Trinidad and Tobago's Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has done nothing to protect her people. Instead she is hosting US diplomats for dinner. Neocolonialism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1979813610793943319) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-19T07:35Z 324.2K followers, 85.6K engagements


"The US military killed a Colombian fisherman in Trumps terror war on Venezuela. Colombian President Petro condemned the US: "The US destroyed a family of fishers". "The US has invaded national territory. and it killed an honest Colombian worker. Raise Bolvar's sword""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1979814597902352636) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-19T07:39Z 324.2K followers, 22.3K engagements


"The US is waging war on Venezuela. Trump authorized CIA "lethal operations" to try to overthrow President Maduro. The US military is killing innocent fishermen not only from Venezuela but also Colombia and Trinidad. This is international terrorism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1980270917726220529) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-20T13:52Z 324.2K followers, 22.1K engagements


"Private equity firm Cerberus which attended a meeting to discuss Wall Street buying up US military assets was founded by Trumps deputy secretary of defence. No conflict of interest here How appropriate given the firm is named after the monster that guards the gates of Hell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1981018117469098356) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-22T15:21Z 324.2K followers, 5421 engagements


"You can't make this up: The Trump admin is waging a neocolonial war on Venezuela falsely claiming it is to stop "drug trafficking". Meanwhile top US officials openly support one of the worst drug lords in Latin America Colombia's right-wing oligarch & ex President lvaro Uribe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1981145632376287302) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-22T23:48Z 324.2K followers, 55.5K engagements


"The US has spent years trying to justify endless coup attempts in Venezuela by claiming Lebanese Hezbollah is active there. Now the Trump admin wants to destabilize Colombia's first ever left-wing President Gustavo Petro so US senators claim Hezbollah is there too. What a coincidence that Hezbollah is supposedly present in all the countries in Latin America with independent left-wing governments that resist US neocolonialism and oppose the genocide in Gaza"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1981159866715824619) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-23T00:44Z 324.2K followers, 69.6K engagements


"The median income in major Chinese cities is higher than in top cities in Latin America and even much of central & eastern Europe. But Chinese cities have some of the world's most affordable utilities -- because they are state-owned and provided as public goods not for profit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1981299842057195547) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-23T10:01Z 324.2K followers, 67.6K engagements


"Neocolonialism: The US empire intervened in Latin America and successfully overthrew XX governments from 1898 to 1994. The constant US-backed coup attempts and regime-change operations have continued since with dozens more in the past XX years. Source:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1981509817585061945) [@BenjaminNorton](/creator/x/BenjaminNorton) 2025-10-23T23:55Z 324.2K followers, 9343 engagements