History of US empire: When JFK butted heads with Wall Street

Historian Aaron Good discusses US President John F. Kennedy's economic policies and his clashes with US Steel and Wall Street, as well as the deaths of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld and oligarch Michael Rockefeller.
This is the Empire and the Deep State series that Geopolitical Economy Report editor Ben Norton is co-hosting with Aaron Good and Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast.
This is part 4 of our historical analysis of the JFK administration.
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[@bonniepannell9722]

A senior citizen here who is super appreciative of you youngsters keeping the truth alive. When I was your age, I was close to clueless. The handful of great journalists active at the time you are addressing have systematically been silenced and replaced with corporate puppets. Thank you.

[@lgic1]

Same boat

[@thebostonbrawler1]

FYI-MOST OF THE KIDS THEIR AGE ARE CLUELESS TOO. (PS-IM A BOOMER LIKE YOU)

[@syourke3]

This series should have millions of likes. Not a thousand.

[@SarahBourne-w2b]

Censored

[@justmyopinion9883]

This is the kind of history that should be taught in our high schools.

[@johnblackman9720]

Imagine if high school seniors had this series in the form of a mandatory class. We'd no longer have to beg for a general strike.

[@bryanemmel6516]

Schools wouldn't allow it.

[@brandonsarasnick1602]

Maybe we'd have more retirement time than North Korea, then? Haha, what a concept. The "best country" in the world is glorified slaves to the elites, and we allow it. Because we're stupid group of people.

[@davidgamble955]

Yes

[@cheri238]

I must congratulate all of you for an accurate understanding of the American Empire. My family collected those magazines and many books of the diversity of American history and politics, and I still have them.

[@llee4225]

Just came across this great historical series! Happy to see younger generation keeping history from being buried!

[@justice.freedom.mankind]

Another excellent episode of this outstanding series about 'the Empire and the Deep State'! Congrats Aaron, Ben and Seamus!

[@LarryThacker-c9v]

Your Podcast should be required watching in all of the Universities.. eye opening even for me at 74.

[@kennedy6618]

What an eye opener history about the US underground regime change around the world.

[@johnlund2036]

And in the good old USA.

[@grandwonder5858]

Assassinations after assassinations, sabotages after sabotages, extortions after extortions, that’s how the US government operates. That’s why I always say the US empire is a mafia, but all the US social media sites always try to silence me for telling the truth by blocking my comments! Shame on the hypocrites in the USA!

[@cargotrailerkenny]

Great series guys. Thanks for your time dedication and good work

[@TexasRiverRat31254]

Thank you for bring this out so people can understand how the US really operates.

[@marycooper8385]

Thank you Ben for revealing the truth I am so glad to see a young journalist along with Aaron and the other young man doing this type of investigative journalism I wait for your videos. Again thanks

[@dannygonzales7923]

KEEP IT UP BROTHER BEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jM-bs3yc]

What an excellent history lesson and conversation. A very informed and honest framing of events. Especially liked Ben's correct analysis of Chomsky's past statements about JFK. Interestingly Michael Parenti came out with his book 'inventing reality' 2 years before 'manufacturing consent' yet Chomsky gets all the credit...

[@casteretpollux]

Chomsky is a shill.

[@treesa2732]

Awesome slides! I gotta start watching and not just listening. You three doing excellent work on this series👍🙏👏

[@inessaarmand7971]

Really accurate summation of JFK.

[@merfymac]

Make that “lead people to JFK” without reading list of movies, Seamus. It’s much needed.

[@platosbeard4449]

Geopolitical Economy Report has to be my favourite political and economic news channel on YT. This History of US Empire series is my favourite of my favourite channel. I always look forward to a new video release.

[@bryanemmel6516]

This series is especially fascinating for me because I lived through this time as a young man just graduating from high school in 1961 and going into the Air Force where I worked in missions for the NSA. All of this was going on around us and we knew nothing about it. I saw how the U.S. engineered the assassination of Diem in Vietnam although I had responsibility for Middle East and Soviet intelligence I was horrified at the time that my country would meddle in that way. I was really naive. I was on duty in the Mediterranean when JFK was assassinated and believed all the bull shit about how it happened but over the years much of this information comes out and I so much appreciate all the work these guys put into getting at the truth. Sometimes I feel like such a fool for being taken in but none of this stuff was available in 1961. Thank you Ben and Aaron and Seamus.

[@pausereflect5911]

Wow! How could you know when it's done behind closed doors. They murdered their way into power positions and faced no justice, so kill now with impunity. Justice must be served if the World is to have a chance of continuing with law, justice, fairness and respect for all people and property.

[@davidgamble955]

I’m a Canadian almost your age . We were all fooled up here. Still are. At we are still here to realign . Be glad

[@jeffery-r1l]

❤❤❤ Ben Norton

[@publicmoney3211]

Greatly appreciated

[@ealfaro2861]

These are awesome. Really enjoying this series.

[@kirklandday]

Lol, thank you for throwing out the diss at Chomsky at the end Ben. Glad you're doing this work.

[@theresabarzee1463]

Hot damn! Finally another astonishing in-real-life teaching from you three!

[@odiferousmusky1299]

Absolutely brilliant, thanks for this!

[@egay86292]

i caddied for JFK a couple of times and stuffed envelopes for him at his election headquarters in downtown Boston. he'd feed us, showing up at 9 PM with a bushel of subs, handing them out with a word or a joke for each of us, not once forgetting my favorite: tuna, no tomato, extra pickles. roomiest heart i ever met.

[@gregorygermann5975]

Tuna's your favorite?

[@samowen2286]

"Motorheads calling card" lmao😂

[@ansar714]

This is great research and journalism 👏

[@treesa2732]

Poetic justice i think they call that, the death of the Rockefeller 😊

[@Canyon2023]

Excellent report, thank you!!

[@soniyazas]

Another great episode. Thanks for the recommendation of Cold case Hammerskjold.. it was truly interesting.

[@1o1s1s1i1e]

I'm reading Quinn Slobodian's book "Globalists: The End Of Empire And The Birth Of Neoliberalism" and it is interesting! Great series and a great book by Aaron!

[@margaritadubrovina7063]

Thanks. ❤

[@ClaySanford-e8o]

Thanks for this fascinating, indepth JFK discussion. I didn't know about the US Steel standoff. Yes, I agree that JFK was probably more left of Bernie on economic substance issues and policies. Understanding how JFK was truely the Peoples President, with our interests first and foremost and above the corporate oligarchy state, is inspiring.

[@tenzinnordron9836]

i was quite a young kid, but I remember how shocking these events were at the time.

[@jblue705]

Another great show! 😊👍

[@openclassusa3534]

Excellent channel!

[@casteretpollux]

The amount of money the US Steel Corporation made out of the obliteration bombing campaign against North Korea must be unreal. Want to make an estimate?

[@MbisonBalrog]

More money than exists. They have to create money to pay them for it.

[@xueueux]

"People" outside Indonesia keep saying we, Indonesians are trying so hard to get Papua because of the gold. Truth like the panels said, we don't even know there is gold there. We, Indonesians are just trying to liberate Papua from the Dutch when they refuse to get out from our territory. Papuans are part of our independence youths who oath to be part of a country called Indonesia back in 1928.. That is why when Indonesia independence in 1945 happened and all lands under Indonesia were liberated except Papua. We tried to get Papua by using diplomacy, but it's not working, Imperialist refuse to do it by saying Papua is not part of Indonesia. And for Indonesia, liberating Papua is part of the ideology. We don't aware of the gold, we just walk the talk of 1928 oaths!! Hence, for us *PAPUA IS PART OF INDONESIA. PAPUANS ARE INDONESIANS* That is the oath for unity from Indonesians!!

[@casteretpollux]

Thanks.

[@larrycoldwater1964]

You can tell from this that the corporations didn’t want another FDR screwing up their nice little earners

[@almcl9391]

Great series (also great book)

[@kmakiable]

Great 👍🏻

[@kazab873]

Marvellous work you guys...God Bless

[@billmitchell2080]

I especially appreciate that you are aware of Motorhead!

[@michaelsim217]

JFK was a good man and he tried to to do the right thing but he paid for doing the honourable thing with his life. So sad!

[@PikachooUpYou]

Sometimes good but definitely not a saint…if only RFK hadn’t killed Marilyn after JFK threw her away we would know his truth.

[@sherryspectre217]

I just wanted to express how much I enjoy these educational looks into history. I wait patiently for each new episode, and commend the work that is put into these deep dive, deep state, videos. Again, thank you✌🏼❤️🌱🇵🇸

[@AIbot-r1k]

Great work, young guys!

[@kazab873]

OMG I'm 65 and I remember as a kid and my mum, when JFK was killed, talking about a UN chief, whom she believed was assassinated, as well as Patrice Lumumba's murder in Africa...she understood, despite poor upbringing in Dublin and working from 14

[@davidgamble955]

Bless the Irish. They have relevant stories to tell.

[@ashleymcintosh1604]

Talking about competition Aaron mentioned near the end competition. its the same old today.The US are trying to wipe out the Chinese competition, tik tok, Hauwei the chip saga.America cannot handle competition.these billionaires who got rich on government contracts in those days then moved on to financial capitalism, these huge companies who employed thousands moved their shows to cheap labour countries after being supported with huge contracts from the state in the US.great show guys.

[@felipemoya9992]

Great Ben!!

[@rodneycaupp5962]

I was only subscribed, and then you blew my mind, so I rang the Bell.... Bad to the bone video.... Ya'll. Old men like it straight and true.

[@NOC1TIME]

In 1935 General Smedley Butler described just such encounters. Both John Foster and Allen Dulles were global investment attorneys. In an international law firm. Sullivan and Cromwell. Still one of the world's largest.

[@giovannigentile7211]

Thank you for reissue the respect and appreciation that I always had for JFK ❤️‍🔥✌🏿✌🏿✌🏿

[@simonjlkoreshoff3426]

Echoes here of the Corbyn project.

[@anuradhakalhan7862]

Excellent!

[@nchristi26]

One of Keynes’ lesser-known colleagues, the Polish-born economist Michal Kalecki, also offered the same rebuttal as Aaron: “Even if it were possible as a matter of economics to harness a basically capitalist system to serve the broad mass of people, as a matter of politics the capitalist class would never let policymakers do it.”(time 1:03:03)

[@brandonsarasnick1602]

Damn Ben you a motor head guy? Haha, I never would have guessed

[@robdeskrd]

The beast behind Carnegie is the Chimera from Greek myth

[@jacquejones96793]

You tube won't let me like this video. 😮 but it's 👎🏽button working multiple times. I just tapped it to see what would happen. Since the👍🏼not working.

[@crhu319]

6:00 Truman's "they" is a good title for an investigative doc. Who did he mean?

[@jamesnadell1998]

"Gangster behavior." Well put. Parenti refers to the gangster state. That's not hyperbole.

[@MJ-zv2sd]

Truman had no sense & especially of fairness... This is his quote; "If we see that the Germans are winning, we should help Russia, if the Russians are winning, we must help the Germans. Let them kill each other, as many as possible" - Harry S Truman in 1941 And the US continues this doctrine, only now it has chosen Ukraine instead of Germany. Please remember that the same man decided to use nuclear weapons when Japan stood on the last leg! 🇸🇰 “Ak uvidíme, že víťazia Nemci, mali by sme pomôcť Rusku, ak budú vyhrávať Rusi musíme pomôcť Nemcom, nech sa navzájom čo najviac vykynožia” - Harry S Truman in 1941 A v tejto doktríne USA pokračujú naďalej, len teraz si vybrali miesto Nemecka Ukrajinu. Nezabudnime že americký prezident Truman použil jadrové zbrane v Japonsku.

[@casteretpollux]

Thanks for your comment. Very few people mention that the current war is an economic war against the Euro / Europe as well as war on Ukraine and Russia.

[@arysandrodossantos9300]

These kinds of people are not normal human beings. They are devil worshipers !

[@crhu319]

China happy to use this strategy today. Not like they have to do much. Truman was a Senator at this point & responsible for oversight of all R&D in the US military. I think his views on Russia softened a lot and he held Patton, Churchill, MacArthur in check and mentored JFK. Hes a mixed figure but we live in the world he let Marshall & Acheson & Stevenson build.

[@johnlund2036]

With all of the shenanigans that were going on during his presidency, he must have realized that he was putting himself in danger by opposing those who were in power and had other goals.

[@casteretpollux]

'Imperialism the Highest Form of Capitalism' V. I. Lenin is the best short read on this. Thanks to Aaron Good for this richly informative session. Seamus G. Please don't casually talk about 'the Natives'. Ben, thanks for hosting. The views are too small. I could get more views demonstrating how I can't do pottery. This should be heard in Indonesia and Africa and Latin America - well everywhere. Would use of some hashtags in the title help? Not suggesting you dilute your serious intent but there are always things that can be done to reach more people. Good luck ! Noting you're going to cover Indonesia please don't leave out the Obama connection - the role of his stepfather in the post coup military and then Standard Oil and his mother working for the State Department (?) gathering information on remaining rural community leaders in the mopping up stage of the CIA slaughter.

[@B_Estes_Undegöetz]

If you liked Lenin’s “Imperialism” I think you might love economist Michael Hudson’s “Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire”. Hudson’s work is very critical of capitalism, oligarchy, and the neoliberal economists whose theoretical assumptions now dominate all western economic discussion. Look him up. He is now in his 80s but is still very sharp, actively publishing his rhetorical but well argued economic books quite frequently still, and does plenty of video interviews and discussions here on KZbin, appearing several times per week on different channels. He’s terrific and his understanding of economics is unorthodox in today’s neoliberal dominated world, but we’ll argued and convincing (to me and plenty of people like me apparently!). Enjoy.

[@wsegen]

Yes. C. Wright Mills.💗

[@NinaCantHearU]

The Ace of Spades Lemmy Motorhead

[@robertjohannnewton7489]

Corporations rule the world. And greed rules the corporations.

[@PikachooUpYou]

RIP Bruce Haig saviour of the story of Biko.

[@Av8rdatasme]

Great work! Two other great books that cover similar ground are Tragedy and Hope by Quigley, and Foundations: Their Power and Influence by Wormser. IMO: Although Tragedy and Hope is better known, Foundations better captures the current power elite who have turned our republic into an oligarchy.

[@theokingshango]

All I know JFK is dead and Wall street still there...

[@dianelipartito6654]

JFK and many others.

[@rogerscottcathey]

Cold Case: Dag Hammerskjöld is only $2.99 to rent on yt. $3.99 for high definition

[@zainmudassir2964]

Rockefeller became Uber-eats

[@theamartinez7060]

Amen!

[@Mark-tb1zq]

RFK JR. coming to correct the matter.

[@nyax4361]

it turns out this is the best series of history lesson which I haven't seen for a long time. it's not only about JFK. it's actually about what the CIA did and why they did it

[@crhu319]

Mossad = CIA

[@cheri238]

❓️Very suspicious

[@patri153]

❤❤❤

[@JuanCarlosbarquero-f3e]

"Kennedy had won the battle but lost the war. The price increase was canceled but US Steel announced that its new plants would be built abroad" [thus began the deindustrialization of America?] - "JFK, the economy and taxes" at the John F Kennedy Library and Museum

[@rpm8865]

1:02:00 where can I find this quote?

[@willieduffie4967]

Interesting 🤔❓

[@sleethmitchell]

60s hippie, here. thanks for helping me understand the puppet show i was forced to watch. something hinkey was obviously in full swing. that it was horrible was clear. but the motivations of rich people were difficult to understand. so i didn't bother. when JFK was whacked, it was so sad and hopeless and incomprehensible to me, that i just shut down. thanks for throwing light.

[@rezakarampour6286]

There is nothing in American history to be proud of .

[@platosbeard4449]

I understand your anger. I’m not an American and I know where your coming from. But the fight back of some American people and their persistence in telling truth to power is laudable. Furthermore, there are some substantial contributions to science and culture that has come out of America; its bloody history notwithstanding. The time of the bloody regime has run out, and it will not missed. But the little good that it has contributed to human progress will live on beyond its miserable memory.

[@benombati6501]

@@platosbeard4449 you are naive. The bloody history continue to this very time and gonna continue.

[@platosbeard4449]

@@benombati6501 it’s black bloody history is coming to an end. If at all it is to continue, it will only be within its borders and even that will end after a well deserved dissolution of the hopeless nation. Just as Rome before it, all bloody brigandage must end.

[@junkycable3]

​@@platosbeard4449 it is escalating to bloody potential nuclear war...

[@niqwalshensemble9164]

The constitution?

[@mondosilo]

That's why they killed JFK

[@victoriajade521]

W😮W… KZbin has blocked this Channel making impossible to read comments and for new subscribers to subscribe. That means, these gentlemen are doing an awesome job to counteract the us warmongers narratives.

[@jamesnadell1998]

If you want to be depressed, read William Blum's Killing Hope and Heinrich Kruger's The Great Heroin Coup. Tupac didn't have this in mind when he coined the term Thug Life. But it fits here.

[@davidleonard1813]

A interesting side not on Iroan Jaya missed. The Dutch had an ally in keeping Indonesia out and keeping Irian Jaya Dutch. The Australian Prime Minister, Harold Holt. Holt approaches USA and the UK for the bomb. As the UK bomb program was tested at Maralinga Australia there was an expectation the UK would deliver. Further, Australia aided the English with rocket research. Holt wanted to use the bomb to cause Indonesia to leave Irian Jaya Dutch. As none was forthcoming, the foundations for a nuclear facility were prepared at Jervis bay NSW Australia on a navy base to make wrapons grade plutonium. Alas, sadly, Holt dissapeared swimming off a beach. Make of that what you will. The nuke program died with Holt

[@mihaliprefti2507]

And...? The result?

[@peterchu8701]

USA is on top now. It is time for USA to use positive re-enforcement when it comes to worldwide relations. Countries would continue to use the dollar worldwide. Negative re-enforcement is only good short term. People and countries would eventually revolt. If USA wants to continue to lead the world, USA (the deep-state) needs to change its tactics. Win countries over with love, not fear.

[@Anonymous------]

USA is a sinking ship, it's no longer the most powerful in the world, now China is replacing USA global economically and politically. More and more countries are abandoning US$ and joining China's BRICS+. The Deep State of USA doesn't care about USA's people, it only cares pushing its evil New World Order agenda, even if it means total destruction of the world in WW3.

[@scientifico]

The US people MIGHT be decent (somewhere) but the national character, the government and the actual owner class of Capitalist have NO knowledge of "good" or "positive". To them, those traits are for suckers... for ordinary fools like you and I. This is why the nation rots from within. Thousands of american towns falling in permanent disrepair, highest health costs and no national healthcare. Good doesn't live here.... and this is why America must lose.

[@michaelscott1060]

No can do, not in their genes

[@junkycable3]

man cannot be angels

[@crhu319]

Too late. USA is neither on top nor able to change. Its trajectory is to dissolution like USSR.

[@Jimi_Lee]

✌😊

[@GuyWhoLikesTheSnarkies1435]

1:54 I think it's fair to say he's on the periphery to become full-on ML communist himself considering his own version of socialist thought he espoused, called Marhaenism, was developed from Marxism-Leninism (he considered it as ML-ism adapted to the condition and material reality at the time in Indonesia i.e. a synthesis of ML-ism) and when he took direct reign throughout the Guided Democracy period, consolidated political alliance with the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI). A move which helped boosting the party's political legitimacy and reach unlike anything before.

[@multiplierfx6429]

Sadly, that is the furthest any Indonesian president can get without actually going full left. Very similar to how Jokowi practically: 1. enforces semi-nationalizing Freeport gold mines which now spreads to even more commodities, 2. set up a functioning nationwide health and education coverage which had never existed before, 3. building an ever closer relationship with China, etc which you'd expect any self-respecting socialist government would do... but stops short of proudly declaring himself as a socialist/man of the left and prefers that everyone is still hush-hush about 1965 🤣. I don't know man, probably has something to do without that Javanese trait of always keeping it moderate and not offend anybody. But the saddest thing of all, you and I belong to an extremely nanoscopic group of folks in Indonesia who actually give a sh*t about this ancient history. 🤣🤣🤣

[@crhu319]

8:55 smoking gun.

[@TlacaelelCox-jf4jm]

JFK was the ruler of a segregated state and he didn't want to change that, so to place him in a pedestal as this great man means that Americans, even if they consider themselves critics of American imperialism, can't scape that blackhole. How can you disregard that. JFK started the policy of using the militaries of the Spanish speaking -Latin Americans are just the same thing as Americans, non indigenous people- countries in this continent against the population, of course with all the support of their Latin counterparts. Chomsky is right on making clear that JFK wasn't different because he was killed for disputes with others on the ruling class on how to maintain hegemony. I found Chomsky cynical. He was presented as the greatest intellectual of our time, that's very American of him, Gaston Garcia Cantu in Las Invasiones Norteamericanas en Mexico, published in 1968, wrote many of the same things Chomsky talks about but he as an American was in the limelight. He exposes all this US crimes , but he was chocked when China led an ecology summit about four years ago and the US denied to participate, according to him denying they place as world leaders, what was he talking about, what credentials could the US have to lead the world about anything other than explotation . He has said that is understandable that Europeans invaded Palestine because of what they wrongly call anti-Semitism, that can only fit in a colonial mind and has been a constant argument to justify colonialism, in what way are the problems of Europeans the problems of other people. He's a harsh critic of the USSR but as much as he dislikes many things about the US he said he wouldn't leave because it was his home as an American, if I'm not wrong he's a first generation of Russian origin it seems that he really agrees that his family left Russia, if he never left the US was because he was an intellectual sconce in the ruling class. And he said that it was nothing wrong that the US was invading a part of Syria, and it still is, and that Assad was a horrible regime. Assad has opposed the Israel settler state, he denied to shake the hand of an ex Israel regime ruler, and stood up to US impositions, and the US has committed terrible crimes in Syria, they are not only stealing oil but also wheat seeds that are the result of the knowledge of immemorial generations of farmers, how many people have died because of this invasion. Of courser his work is important because of all the information he had accessed to and compiled.

[@platosbeard4449]

💯 I agree

[@ruialmeida-iq7hr]

a MULTIPOLAR WORLD IS ABOUT TO BE BORN WHILE THE OLD REFUSES TO DIE

[@mihaliprefti2507]

Why wasn't Kennedy able to implement his plan? He didn't have time.

[@walter1932]

Will we ever get an answer from the good Dr. Good as to why JFK twisted Martin Luther King’s arm to oust Jack O’Dell from the SCLC? Could it be that JFK was unable to resist the pressure from J. Edgar Hoover , regarding O’Dell ?

[@juliettedemaso7588]

Hearing you impersonate Kennedy makes me nostalgic for Kennedy. I was born in 1975 🤔 I don’t think we’ve ever recovered from events like John’s assassination, in a long echoing bunker tunnel kind of way; stupid spook stink wafting through it like a sulphuric fart.

[@tomkarnes69]

All these planes crashes in Africa, flight 3804 ring any bells

[@michaelsamuel7365]

A monthly, entitlement Basic Inclme payment to the unemployed will stablize salaries, ni payments, prices, production costs, salary increases, etc. One (1) of my seven (7) recommendations to eradicate poverty worldwide.

[@robertsvorinich7959]

Dag H. was not the good guy that Aaron says he was. Dag undermined Patrice Lumumba . Dag was in the Imperialist camp.

[@chriskeene241]

Will Americans vote for RFK jnr? Do you think anyone else has spent as much time thinking about how to bring down the deep state? We need to all pray he’s alive for the primary.

[@niqwalshensemble9164]

Vivek will bring down the deep state. RFK will over-regulate the energy industry.

[@MbisonBalrog]

Is that why he assassinated? Some people try pin it on revenge for failed Cuba invasion

[@indonesiamenggugat8795]

✍✍🌹🌹

[@alvaroLguevara]

Damm.... deep dive into US evil. Thanks u 3.