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Ben Norton throwing down a masterclass on US hegemony.

Genocide perpetrated by the british empire in India between 15-29 million Indians died of starvation in British induced famines. The most famous example was, of course, was the great Bengal (What now is Bangladesh) famine during the World War II when 4 million people died because Winston Churchill deliberately as a matter of written policy proceeded to divert essential supplies from civilians in Bengal to sturdy tummies and Europeans as reserve stockpiles. He said that the starvation of anyway underfed Bengalis mattered much less than that of sturdy Engels ' - Churchill's actual quote. And when conscious stricken British officials wrote to him pointing out that people were dying because of this decision, he peevishly wrote in the margins of file, “Why hasn’t Gandhi died yet?" So, all notions that the British were trying to do their colonial enterprise out of enlightened despotism to try and bring the benefits of colonialism and civilisation to the benighted. Even I am sorry - Churchill's conduct in 1943 is simply one example of many that gave light to this myth. As others have said on the proposition - violence and racism were the reality of the colonial experience. And no wonder that the sun never set on the British empire because even God couldn’t trust the English in the Dark.

This is one of the principal reasons why I don't watch mainstream media anymore; they are bald-faced LIARS. To Rania and Ben you two are doing a great job; keep up the good works.

Educational discussion program thanks a lot from Ethiopia 🇪🇹

Love Ben! So informative, Knowledgeable, precise and researched!

As Comrade Stalin said Stalin: I talked to Mr. Roosevelt about democracy and he explained to me what democracy is. As Roosevelt said, democracy is America's power over the world. Stalin: And I thought that democracy is the power of the people.

Let me take the World War I as a very concrete example since the first speaker Mr. Lee suggested these couldn't be quantified. Let me quantify World War I for you. Again I am sorry from an Indian perspective as others have spoken about the countries. One-sixth of all the British forces that fought in the war were Indian - 54 000 Indians Muslims actually lost their lives in that war, 65 000 were wounded and another 4000 remained missing or in prison. Indian taxpayers had to cough up a 100 million pounds in that time’s money. India supplied 17 million rounds of ammunition, 6,00,000 rifles and machine guns, 42 million garments were stitched and sent out of India and 1.3 million Indian personnel served in this war. I know all this because the commemoration of the centenary has just taken place. But not just that, India had to supply 173,000 animals 370 million tonnes of supplies and in the end the total value of everything that was taken out of Greater India (What now is Pakistan, Bangladesh, India) by the way was suffering from recession at that time and poverty and hunger, was in today's money 8 billion pounds. You want quantification, it’s available. World War II, it was was even worse - 2.5 million Indians in uniform. I won't believe it to the point but Britain's total war debt of 3 billion pounds in 1945 money, 1.25 billion was owed to Greater India (pakistan,Bangladesh,India) and never actually paid back.

It is very important to know how we ordinary people are swindled of our freedom

How can someone be so knowledgeable? I can listen to Ben Norton all day

I agree with Ben,you’re great interviewer,l like all the subjects you touch on,thanks to you Rania

“Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth” The "illusion of truth" effect

Excellent presentation 😊👍 Thank you ❤️☺️ Your Fan from Pakistan 🇵🇰🇵🇰

British Empire also commented genocide on the Irish Britten is no stranger to genocide

Top notch reporting !!! Opened my eyes big time.

It was at the start of the Russia invasion this year that I realised how heavily propagandised the Anglo Saxon west has been, to the extent that no one should really expect them to be capable of being right on anything. There are people who genuinely think Damascus and Baghdad were always a mess, and uncivlised - they were trying to make a distinction between why civilised Ukrainian refugees are more worthy than Iraqis and Syrians who didn’t come from civilisations. wtf. of all people, SYRIANS and IRAQIS ??? they were famed all the way down africa and all the way to the far east when the eastern old world had never even heard of europe, never mind Ukraine. i lost respect for the west immediately in that moment.

Tucker Carlson should be embarrassed by his comedy of poor historic knowledge, Ben totally dismantled Tucker.

People forgot that in 2014 it wasnt just Maidan it was called Euromaidan

Watching this was an excellent antidote to the last week of British tv.

I always enjoy your Discourse. A fan from Lagos Nigeria 🇳🇬

Great show Rania , your are a beautiful intelligent woman . Ben is a brilliant guest to have on , always presents facts , good health to you both . Godbless.

Ben Norton is BRILLIANT! Thank you on your critique of the fascist Tucker Carlson

In addition to the Nuland-Pyatt telephone conversation there were also actively involved organizations National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Human Rights Watch (HRW) and not forgotten Mr Soros, and the Open Foundation Society (0SF). There was also the Opium War against China.

Thanks both of you for your great work!

54:00 There was a massive Ukrainian military buildup on the border with Donetsk according to Russia. There was an imminent threat of attack against civilian populations which would have amounted to ethnic warfare and genocide against Russian Ukrainians. That was more than enough of a justification under international law for Russia to involve itself. Also, the Minsk Accord would have avoided conflict and was repeatedly pushed by Russians despite 13,000 ethnic Russian Ukrainians having been killed during the conflict since 2014. I think Russia would do a great job defending itself in international criminal court, much better than the United States and it's involvement during the Maidan coup.

there also two previous famines in bengal and neighbouring bihar. the worst in the 18th century when at least 12 million died out of a much smaller population. when the brits took over the mughal areas they found the nughals had a grain tax on farmers. the mughals saved that grain for years when the moonsoon failed and crops fails as a result. in the crop failure years they distributed grain back to the farmers. they were not making money on the tax, the mughals made most of their tax savings from trade taxes and taxes on middle class businesses not farmers. so the brits took over and took the garin and sold it and forget about help from the government during crop failures. that's british laissex faire capitalism. in fact the british used famine a a tool to destroy societies they wanted to crush all over the empire. they did it from ireland to inda, from kenya to south africa and een exacerbated fa,ihes in europe. duting the irish famine the backward despots of suatria and russia had no starvation because they fed their people. the british tried to rig the grain markets to profit from the russian and ausrtrian demand for grain and sold grain from ireland. that grain was enough to feed the irish two times over. that's laissez faire capitalism with a serious military .

Go Rania go. The world needs people like you two

Awesome discussion, 2 of my favorite journalists, keep up the great work comrades

I enjoyed this. I am from Southern Africa and the guest is very well informed

You guys are great!

We love Big Ben!

Great discussion Rania! Love Ben's insightful takes.

As a Lebanese i would love to date Rania Khalek ! beautiful smart, well informed, and I love how she's totally the opposite of Lebanese media ( which dominated by the US imperialist narrative ). The fact that she's a liberal Christian and yet defends the muslim part of Lebanon, shows her objectivity, she easily can defends pro US lebanese forces and get a lot of money, but no she chose to stand against US imperialism which makes her risk everything. We need more Lebanese like u

It has often been re-iterated that "history is the story told by the victor". That "history" is now being told in realtime, 24-7.

Ben is amazing.

Great conversation

"The nazis were inspired by the US colonists" its little known that the Bellamy salute was Americas national salute to the flag that the nazis replicated when hailing hitler, so since 1945 the US taught kids hand on heart instead of the hand outreached.

thanks rania and ben for this informative segment 👍👍👍👍❤

The Orwellian thing is also that people are not allowed to become angry about what is happenig. Anger is only allowed, when mainstream media is signaling outrage. Never when a dissident speaks, then he will be framed as being emotionally unstable, and his followers as well.

Ben's generally focused on his serious work in videos, so I always forget how much I appreciate his shtick!

Great to see Ben. Always full of True knowledge and willing to share.

Very interesting and informative discussion. Great guest and host.

I can just look at Ben and listen to him 7 days in a row. So cute.

R & B, Great work guys !!

This is a great show and this guy BEN is very intelligent and truthful 😁😁😁😁👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I explained to my friend once, to try understand that USA in reality is totaly oposite of what is portrayed in movies. He said im dumb kek.

excellent! thank you

Ben Norton, thank you for presenting accurate reality. Also you bring honest truth to all listening to Break Through News with you, Rania, Brian Becker, Scott Ritter, Abby Martin, Tings Chack, Clayton and Natali Morris, Eugene Puryear and many other ex journalists who are trying to bring truth to the public

This was very informative. I'd never heard of Ben Norton. I'll be following him from now on.

Thank you fo having Ben Norton on. I am glad he kept his principles and left gray zone to continue showing the crimes of the empire.

Wow! Thank you for this amazing interview!

More and more peoples will learn from your channel.. well done.

Congrats. Great podcast with also my favorite geopolitical researcher #BenNorton. Love from #Europe.

Love listening to Ben all the time continue the good honest reporting

Great convo and video! Thanks to you both!!

Many thanks and lots & lots of ❤ from E➕♓ℹ🅾️🅿️ℹ🅰️ 💚💛❤ 🇪🇹

I love this guy with gratitude

Highly appreciate you and Norton whom I fall like crazy! For bringing us alternative news & political history of what's going on!!💯👍💯💯💯👍👏👏💖

Wonderfull unalizing and view ,good job!👍

Great show, thank´s so much!

we have a saying in britain, "all our problems are the result of too much in-breeding in the upper class"

“In order to bring a nation to support the burdens and maintain great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to war psychology. There must be "the portrayal" of external menace. This involves the development, to a high degree, of the "hero nation" and the "villain nation" ideology and the arousing of the population to a sense of Sacrifice. Once these exist, we have gone a long way to the path of war.” John Foster Dulles

Thank you, Rania and Ben for a great informative debate.

Hey Ben, if such high media 'authorities' are after you that means you're doing something really well!!!! And awfully effective hahahahahaha keep up the good work!

Clicked Like again: Anything for you, Rania. And Ben Norton is brilliant, too.

The US stopped russian imports in 2013. Resumed in Oct 2020 - Nov 2021 then feb-mar 2022, just to say they stopped imports for political reasoning.

BreakThrough News needs more subscribers! It is such a great channel.

The Soviet union collapsed due to OPEC agreeing with USA to increase oil and gas output exponentially but now OPEC is with Russia and are refusing to increase oil and gas output, this is resulting in the collective west bankruptcy, collective west will loose this current 2.0 cold economic warfare..

In connexion with India and the 19th century. Karl Marx was engaged by the American publication the, New York Daily Tribune, who published his various articles between 1853 and 1858. F.Engels also weighed describing '' ''... there is there is no army in Europe or America with so much brutality as the British. Plundering, violence massacre - things that everywhere else are strictly and completely banished - time-honoured privilege, a vested right of the British soldier.'' The Sepoy Mutiny and its suppression by in which Engels described - ''The sack of Lucknow in 1858 will remain an everlasting disgrace to the British military service. ''

excellent conversation, thank you both!

Thanks Rania for having Ben on your program.

There’s no one comparison to the British colonialism cruelty. Maybe T. Carlson should go and interview what the Kenyan have suffered, South Africa India, Somalia, Ethiopia and Australian aboriginals god shame on him. It’s sad 😢 he thinks people don’t read or talk to their grandparents. He’ll soon say slavery in America never happened;(

Tucker Carlson was outrageous on the British Empire. Absolutely disgusting.

Рания большое удовольствие любоваться Вами как очень красивой женщиной... но Рания смелый и объективный журналист привлекает внимание ещё сильнее. Отличное видео с умным и интересным гостем, было очень интересно... самое главное честно👍👍👍

An intersting issues BT had bringing. Thanks you and the gust too.

Wealth of information. Thank you so soo much👍👍

good to see u two together .. 👏

Rania, I recently subscribed your channel. It's current, informative, & empowering messages. Thank you for your hard work & dedication.

Ok, I don't know about the US involvement in ousting Yanukovich in 2014. But I do know that the only reason Yanukovich turned down the EU deal was because Russia offered such an astronomically better one! Any serious politician would have been easily tempted by the better deal, just for their country's sake. This is from Wikpedia itself (hardly Russian propaganda): "Protests originally erupted in November 2013 after Yanukovych refused to sign the association agreement with the EU at a meeting of the Eastern Partnership in Vilnius, Lithuania, choosing closer ties with Russia instead. Prime Minister Mykola Azarov had asked for €20 billion (US$27 billion) in loans and aid. The EU was willing to offer €610 million ($838 million) in loans, but Russia was willing to offer $15 billion, as well as cheaper gas prices. In addition, the EU demanded major changes to Ukraine's regulations and laws, but Russia did not stipulate regulatory or legal adjustment of such nature or scale."

I'm shocked with what Tucker said. He obviously didn't do his homework or he's pro UK. 😲😱

There are so much misinformation out there, especially from the English author. I had read at least 10 books about Cambodia history and all of them listed the Mandarin this and that. But, none of the book listed how did the Mandarin become the controlling language of Cambodia officialdom. Note: the Mandarin did not become the official language of China until after the KMT took power in 1911. It was the Nguyen Dynasty that first made the Mandarin (Han Viet) as an administration language of Vietnam in the early 19th Century. This was the disinformation the English world's authors truncated to instigation hate against the local Chinese living within Cambodia. Most if not all English historian also truncated that 2/3 of Cambodia territory was a vessel of Vietnam and Mandarin was the administration language of Cambodia under the Nguyen Lord. Here is the truth. The Nguyen's Mandarin and their descendant controlled Cambodia since Nguyen Phuc Anh, the first Emporer of Nguyen Dynasty in 1802, until today. Like any colonial power, the Nguyen lord subverted Cambodia's people intellectually in the territory under there control. The Thiounn (the Thiounn brothers), Son Sann, Son Ngoc Thanh, Son Ngoc Minh, Lon Nol, Ieng Sary and Son Sen. They were most likely all descendant of the Mandarin because the Vietnamese intellectual subversion of Cambodian didn't effected their Mandarin home education system. Pol Pot wasn't a Mandarin descendant but his family was a Nguyen's Mandarin loyalist because they always alliance themselves with the Nguyen's Mandarin descendant including Pol Pot alliance with the Thiounn brothers and Ieng Sary (Kim Trang). Tha Pen, Pol Pot's grandfather was killed in a French ambushed in 1886. It was only 23 years after Cambodia exist the dual calamities with the help of French protectorate. Before the French Protectorate, Cambodia need to paid tributes to both Vietnamese and Thai, and the people had to dug canals and moving earth similar to the Khmer Rouge era. Tha Pen was killed for helping organized supplies for anti-French movement. Vietnamese intellectual subversion of Khmer is found in Ben Kiernan's book "How Pol Pot Come to Power" only one sentence on page XIV. Pol Pot's grandfather was killed by the French ambushed found in Philip Short's book "Pol Pot: The History of Nightmare" Chapter I.

Very scary what is happening in New Zealand. On this matter.

Thank you. Great discussion! I would say much necessary and important to understand. People are too lazy to think and prefer good old demonising Russia. Very wrong. Russia is an AMAZING country ❤

If you watch at 26:25, the clip of Tucker Carlson, how his white supremacy is really showing. He says when colonialist British left India, they left ‘the whole civilization heritage to India, as if India people should be so thankful of the British Colonial suppression, as if the India people never had their own cultures and civilizations. 🙄 People like Tucker Carlson, they may coincide or sideline certain issues with us from time to time, but they are mainly motivated on certain issues to oppose their opponent party, be it right or wrong, for better or worse, but the end of day, it’s hard to trust a white supremacist.

Wonderful pod cast with the brilliant and courageous Ben Norton ❤. Excelent work❤❤, Rania Khalek, extremely informative and instructive expose of the geopolitical facts. Real...

Ben is today not so resentful as in his own program.He is doing a good job, but people don’t change fast. To change is very difficult to anyone then we, you and me need patience. Colonial mentality has destroyed our self steam , we don’t know powerful we are because we don’t know WHO we are. Tania and Ben continue to do what you are doing, you educate and enlighten people and inform them at the same time. TAKE CARE 😢😢😢

Wow! Eye-opener 🧐

The subtitles actually mention "Taco Carlson". Sounds about right LOL

A Canadian official said on tv that Canada has been training Ukrainian forces since 2015

Exactly.

Not to forget Lord Mountbatten and his abuse of Indian little boys.

Question: In reference to the war on Ukraine, why is Europe ( France, Germany etc. etc.) seemingly willing to destroy their industrial industries for the US? Answer: Because they were super confident that the fuel needs neccessary for the maintence of their industries would be replaced by the extraction of oil and other resources from Africa. Hence the panic about what is happening in Niger and other African countries.

Informative information for knowledge seekers listening is the weapon.

It's criminal! ☠️⚖️💀

Great information n presentations. Pity about Google.

It most certainly did not start in 2016. It started way earlier.

Thanks. :)

Dear Rania, Lovely to see You again😍

Like l say, there are lots of people around the world happy to see the Queen gene, rs

The quality of these video segments by Raina khalek is outstanding. I somehow cannot believe the low viewer counts and KZfaq subscriptions