XOutlier
Download .zipAdd to Chrome

Ben Norton

@BenjaminNorton347k followers

Journalist, political economist, editor of Geopolitical Economy Report || Videos: || Articles:

Open on X
Top outlier
64.1×
Best organic post
Peak views
4.8M
Single post
Bookmarks
64k
Across 87 organic posts
Last scan
Oct 16
Community cache
Posts 87 posts
#DatePost↓ OutlierViewsLikesRepostsBookmarks
1Mar 20, '25Mexico's left-wing President Claudia Sheinbaum (who has 80% approval) has officially recognized Palestine as a state and welcomed the Palestinian ambassador. This is very symbolic,64.1×4.8M172k27k5.9k
2Jan 24, '24South Korea changed labor law so companies can make employees work 21.5 hours per day. That's not a typo: 21.5 hours. It's not a coincidence that this South Korean administration i50.4×3.7M17k3.5k1.2k
3Oct 17, '23The Western powers killed a UN Security Council resolution that proposed a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza The resolution was proposed by Russia 5 countries voted for the ceasefire:47.3×3.5M14k7k1.1k
4Mar 3, '25Jaw-dropping corruption in the US: Trump's billionaire crypto czar is heavily invested in a fund whose top 5 holdings are the 5 in the US government Crypto Strategic Reserve. Mere 44.6×3.3M34k8.9k4.2k
5Oct 29, '23No, actually it's simple: - Israel is a Western settler-colonialist project founded on the mass ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinians. - US imperialism uses Israel as a milit35.7×2.7M28k11k3.1k
6Nov 7, '24Kamala Harris ran a right-wing, pro-war, pro-Israel campaign alongside neoconservatives like Liz Cheney, and lost by a huge margin, including in Michigan. Palestinian-American Rash35.2×2.6M80k12k3.1k
7Nov 20, '23Far-right extremist Javier Milei won Argentina's presidential election. Milei wants to: -legalize the sale of children and human organs -abolish public healthcare, education, and t28×2.1M8.1k2.7k1.3k
8Oct 14, '25Nobel Peace Prize winner María 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 21.2×1.6M14k6.1k2.7k
9Nov 8, '25The US economy is not real; it's just a big billionaire Ponzi scheme. 75% of Tesla shareholders approved a $1 TRILLION pay package for Elon Musk. $1,000,000,000,000. Tesla only mad21.1×1.6M31k7.1k2.5k
10Dec 30, '22Zimbabwe has banned all lithium exports. The government said it was losing $1.7 billion from exporting it as a raw mineral and not processing it into batteries in-country. Instead 20.7×1.5M24k4.2k632
11Jun 18, '23As Hitler was consolidating power, in February 1933, he invited Germany's leading capitalists to a meeting. Hitler told them clearly that he planned to end democracy and create a d18×1.3M10k4k2.3k
12Jan 5, '25Argentina's far-right libertarian President Javier Milei is trying to push through anti-worker labor reform that will increase the work day to 12 hours, with no overtime. It will a16.8×1.3M13k5.1k1.8k
13Nov 13, '24Billionaire oligarchs are dumping stocks. Jeff Bezos has sold $12.5 billion of Amazon shares. Warren Buffett has dumped Apple stock and is sitting on $325 billion in cash. We're li16.3×1.2M8.9k3.3k2.1k
14Sep 30, '23The US government is rewriting the history of the Holocaust, portraying the Soviet Union - which DEFEATED Nazism - as the villain. More than 80% of Nazi casualties were on the East14.2×1.1M11k3.1k561
15Sep 23, '25Actually 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 bubb14×1M10k3.6k1.5k
16May 16, '23A group of anti-war US veterans - including a dozen former military officers ranked as high as general - published an ad in the NY Times calling to halt arms shipments to Ukraine a13.5×1M8.7k3.3k400
17Oct 22, '23This is crazy: Twitter / X is preventing people from following the account @Pal_ActionUS, which advocates for Palestinian human rights and opposes Israeli apartheid and colonialism13.4×997k7.4k3.9k444
18Jan 27, '25Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum condemns Donald Trump's attacks on immigrants and stresses: "The Mexicans there sustain the economy of the United States -- in the countryside,13×963k12k2.2k504
19Mar 31, '23As president, Trump was a loyal ally of the US deep state. He: -killed Iran's General Soleimani -launched coup & failed invasion of Venezuela -oversaw Bolivia coup -backed Nica12.4×922k6.5k1.8k535
20Jun 5, '23Taiwan is recognized in international law (including technically by the US itself) as a province of China, and is located right off the coast of the mainland. Why are US warships c12.2×904k7.2k2.1k173
21Mar 19, '23Mexico's leftist President AMLO held a MASSIVE rally in the heart of Mexico City honoring the 85th anniversary of the state's expropriation of the oil reserves. He also condemned U12.2×904k12k2.7k276
22Mar 31, '23Western hypocrisy knows no bounds. The British foreign secretary is lobbying for the release of a US journalist accused of spying in Russia. Meanwhile, the UK holds the world's mos11.9×883k12k4.7k159
23Aug 9, '23A document proves the US State Department pressured Pakistan's government in March 2022 to overthrow PM Imran Khan, due to his neutrality over the proxy war in Ukraine This is exac11.8×876k17k7.1k389
24Oct 16, '23Wow! 🔥 Colombia's first ever left-wing president, Gustavo Petro, shared this powerful statement warning that capitalism is bringing back fascism, and rich Western neocolonial elit11×821k8.4k2.2k694
25Jan 20, '25Donald Trump's inauguration is full of billionaire oligarchs, just like his cabinet -- including the richest plutocrats on Earth: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg. Seeing10.6×785k6.9k2k491
26Jan 4, '23Economist Ha-Joon Chang: "[Mainstream] economics has become like Catholic theology in medieval Europe. It has become the language of the rulers" "They are not going to let you 'spe10.4×771k6.4k2k1k
27Feb 9, '23Pakistan's powerful army chief Bajwa (who has stolen billions of dollars through corruption) publicly admitted that he conspired against elected Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was 10.3×766k14k6.4k233
28May 28, '23Leaked documents show the US government is angry that Mexico's left-wing President AMLO is prioritizing social spending to help poor and working people - building infrastructure, r10.2×758k12k3.9k467
29Oct 19, '25Trump 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 9.0×671k15k4.7k457
30Aug 16, '23Jaw-dropping hypocrisy: The US backed a political coup to overthrow Pakistan's elected PM Imran Khan (the most popular politician in the country), who was imprisoned on bogus charg8.6×636k9.8k4.3k232
31Oct 21, '25Argentina'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 pre8.5×631k9.3k4k1.2k
32Jan 13, '23Western imperial elites are so delusional it's jaw dropping The leader of the European Union claimed, without irony, "We do not wage war, we do not impose our model"... Europe colo7.9×588k6.6k1.9k215
33Jul 31, '24The US State Department supported Nazism in the 1930s, saying genocidal fascism "must succeed", or communism would win. The US charge d'affaires in Germany praised the so-called "m7.8×578k9.6k3.4k2.4k
34Sep 28, '24Many foreign leaders like Venezuelan President Maduro are denied their legal right to speak at the UN, because the US rogue regime would arrest them. But genocidal fascist Netanyah7.7×576k19k6.9k620
35Oct 16, '23Remember when ISIS and Israel were on the same side of the war against the Syrian government, and ISIS accidentally attacked Israeli occupation forces one time in the Israel-occupi7.7×575k6.2k2.2k732
36Jan 22, '23It's happening: Brazil and Argentina are making plans for a Latin American currency, to “boost regional trade and reduce reliance on the US dollar”, the Financial Times reported Lu7.6×563k6.5k1.4k229
37Apr 17, '23A man imprisoned in Atlanta, Georgia was eaten alive by insects and bed bugs I never want to hear the US talk about Soviet "gulags" again The US is a dystopian authoritarian capita7.1×527k6.1k1.8k372
38Jan 27, '23The Bank of England stole nearly $2 billion of gold from Venezuela's central bank, using UK recognition of US coup puppet Juan Guaidó as an excuse But Guaidó was ousted by his own 6.8×508k7.4k2.7k333
39Dec 24, '23Argentina's new far-right President Javier Milei, who is privatizing everything and selling his country to the US at breakneck speed, admitted live on TV that the US government, US6.5×482k6.4k2.3k508
40May 19, '23Wars the US waged in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan following September 11, 2001 caused at least 4.5 million deaths and displaced 38 to 60 million people, with 7.6 m6.3×470k7.6k4.3k589
41Sep 29, '24Christian leaders in Lebanon are honoring Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, after the Israeli regime killed him. Hezbollah saved Christians from ISIS and al-Qaeda during the Syria6.1×456k11k4k1.3k
42Mar 13, '25Argentina's libertarian US-backed President Milei shows how authoritarian he is by closing Congress. He didn't have enough votes to push through his IMF loan and harsh austerity, s5.8×429k7.5k2.2k595
43Dec 27, '24It's hilarious that this stupid post sparked a civil war among US conservatives, but I want to point out how funny it is that he talks about engineers and science, but Vivek is a W5.5×409k8k1.4k781
44Jan 13, '25Mexico's new left-wing President Claudia Sheinbaum is one of the most popular leaders on Earth: She has 80% approval with just 16% disapproval, after 100 days in office. Only 6% di5.5×408k14k2.9k712
45Jun 8, '23There's a shortage of cancer treatment medicines in the US because pharmaceutical corporations can't profit much from selling low-cost generic drugs This is the great "efficiency" 5.5×406k6.2k2.5k190
46Oct 11, '24Mexico's new President Claudia Sheinbaum won the election in a landslide, with 60% of the vote, winning almost every part of the country. But US media propaganda absurdly claims sh5.4×405k11k2.6k537
47Oct 8, '23I made a video showing how Palestinians have a right under international law to armed struggle against Israeli colonialism, just as South Africans did against apartheid. Gaza suffe5.4×404k6.6k2.9k566
48Aug 9, '23The same day a document was leaked proving the US was behind the coup in Pakistan, the coup regime has dissolved parliament to hold "elections", while the country's most popular po5.3×394k7.6k3.6k155
49Jun 1, '24Imagine you wake up and a fascist maniac is destroying your house - but you can't do anything, because Israeli occupation troops would kill you for defending yourself. This has bee5.3×391k13k5.9k615
50Oct 17, '25Argentina'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 announ5.2×386k8.2k1.8k439
51Aug 5, '23Pakistan's US-backed coup regime has destroyed any tiny shred of "democracy" left in the country. After overthrowing elected PM Imran Khan, the regime has imprisoned him on bogus c5.1×381k7.3k3.8k84
52Oct 22, '24The billionaire CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest investment company (with $11.5 TRILLION in assets), said the quiet part loud: It doesn't matter if Kamala or Trump wins, becau4.9×363k9.1k3.4k947
53Oct 18, '25The US economy is so insanely financialized that it has more private equity funds (19,000) than McDonald's (14,000). This is because the US economy is not based on innovation, and 4.8×356k6.8k1.9k1.2k
54Jun 24, '25We now have evidence that Israeli spies threaten to kill the wives and children of Iranian officials to blackmail them. This is called terrorism. But warmongers in the US love it. 4.4×331k12k5.2k1.2k
55Oct 10, '25The Nobel Peace Prize is a farce, given to war criminals (like Obama and Kissinger) and coup-plotters. María Corina Machado is a far-right coup-plotter whose has been funded by the3.2×236k6.9k2.6k416
56Feb 2, '25The last 2 US presidents (Trump & Biden) are unpopular, corrupt, war criminals & tools of billionaires. The last 2 Mexican presidents (Sheinbaum & AMLO) are very popula3.1×233k9.9k2.7k364
57Jun 4, '16Muhammad Ali has passed away. This is his legendary quote on why he refused to serve in the murderous Vietnam War.3.0×011k11k7
58Mar 22, '20This is wild: China sent Italy a huge shipment of 680,000 masks and thousands of respirators to help it contain coronavirus, but while it was traveling the Czech Republic seized it2.9×010k8.2k376
60Oct 25, '25This is proof that when US politicians say "dictator", they really just mean an independent leader who refuses to follow the orders of the US empire. Gustavo Petro is Colombia's de2.9×212k8.3k2k320
61Apr 10, '22The US-backed soft coup against Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has succeeded Washington helped organize a campaign pressuring opposition lawmakers to oust Khan with a no-conf2.8×014k7.4k286
62Sep 29, '24Capitalism is in the cannibalism stage. Private equity funds are buying up retirement homes, daycares, doctors' offices, veterinarian clinics, etc. To maximize profits for their we2.8×208k6.6k2.3k544
64Sep 28, '24Only the US and its proxies claim Hezbollah is a "terrorist" org. Most countries don't. Hezbollah was formed in the 1980s to defend Lebanese sovereignty after Israel's illegal inva2.7×199k6.8k3k515
65Dec 21, '19There are absolutely massive protests going on in India against the far-right Modi government and its new fascistic laws that strip Muslims of citizenship But the Western corporate2.2×09.8k5.7k80
66Jun 20, '19Let's be clear: The Trump admin sent a drone into what Iran says was its sovereign airspace. The US knew Iran would shoot it down in self-defense—but the US gov also knew the corpo2.1×013k4.7k91
67Nov 28, '22Amazing things are happening in Mexico: Left-wing President AMLO just held a historic rally and march featuring 1.2 MILLION supporters, celebrating 4 years in government. Basically2.0×013k3.7k377
68Oct 12, '19If Ecuador weren't a right-wing US client state, this video of Ecuadorian army trucks driving through crowds of protesters would go viral and go down in history like the Tiananmen 1.9×07.9k5.8k164
69Dec 26, '19Terrifying video of India's fascist Hindutva paramilitary group the RSS holding a massive march in the southern state of Telangana. The world's largest fascist movement is in India1.8×07.8k4.6k297
70Jan 4, '20There's a pretty big anti-war protest going on right now in Times Square in New York City, against US war on Iran (and Iraq again)1.6×09.7k3.5k54
71Jun 4, '20Cops in California just shot and killed a kneeling, unarmed 22-year-old Latino man, named Sean Monterrosa. He was on the ground, kneeling. He did not have a gun (although the polic1.6×07k4.8k164
72Aug 22, '22When Pakistan's PM Imran Khan was overthrown he said it was a US-backed coup over his foreign policy (close China alliance, growing Russia ties, support for Palestine & Iran) N1.5×08.4k4.1k73
73Mar 20, '20Pakistan, under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan — the first independent leader in decades, and a voice for peace — has called on the US to lift its "unjust" sanctions o1.5×09.6k3.4k32
74Sep 8, '22In nearly 200 years of genocidal colonialism, the British empire stole $45 trillion in wealth from India (17 times more than UK GDP), killing millions The UK monarchy, Queen Elizab1.5×08.7k3.2k430
75Oct 20, '19This is video from Chile today, where the right-wing regime imposed a state of emergency and deployed huge armored vehicles and soldiers to repress anti-austerity protesters This i1.4×07.1k3.9k92
76Apr 11, '19Julian Assange's lawyer: "This precedent means that any journalist can be extradited for prosecution in the United States for having published truthful information about the United1.4×06.7k4.1k25
77May 1, '21This massive protest is part of an ongoing uprising in Colombia against the far-right government's neoliberal austerity reforms to increase taxes on poor and working-class people. 1.4×07.5k3.5k52
78Dec 15, '22An academic study by @JasonHickel estimates British colonialism caused 165 million deaths in India from 1880-1920, while stealing trillions of dollars of wealth The global capitali1.4×06.9k2.9k872
79Sep 4, '22Today Chileans are voting on a new constitution to replace the ultra-right-wing one created by the US-backed fascist Pinochet dictatorship. The 200-billionaire Jeff Bezos-owned Was1.3×08.3k2.5k304
80Nov 28, '18Amazing news: The Senate just voted 63-37 in support of a bill to end the US-Saudi war on Yemen. This Sanders/Murphy/Lee resolution would force a withdrawal of US support for this 1.3×07.5k2.7k34
82May 3, '19A hero in California spray-painted “Yemen” in blood red on the main sign for the office of death profiteer Lockheed Martin. He added “8-9-18,” the date when Saudi dropped a Lockhee1.2×06.5k3.2k55
84Aug 17, '17ACLU will no longer spend its finite resources defending racist hate groups protesting with firearms1.2×07k2.5k0
85Oct 26, '20Another historic victory for the people of Latin America: Chile just voted in a landslide in favor of a referendum to rewrite the current, radically right-wing constitution, which 1.2×07.2k2.1k110
87Jun 13, '19Two oil tankers were supposedly attacked in the G̶u̶l̶f̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶T̶o̶n̶k̶i̶n̶, sorry I mean Gulf of Oman, and the Trump administration *immediately* blamed Iran, without presenting 1.1×05.8k2.7k23
88Feb 26, '20Bernie Sanders in the #DemDebate: "Occasionally it might be a good idea to be honest about American foreign policy, and that includes the fact that America has overthrown governmen1.1×07.3k2k86
89Feb 4, '20I never want to hear an American ever again talk about "irregularities" in the elections in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, etc. The US is exponentially most corrupt and less democr1.0×06.2k2.4k106
91May 12, '21Israeli soldier turned Hollywood's Wonder Woman multimillionaire Gal Gadot sends meaningless thoughts and prayers as the Israeli apartheid regime she supports ethnically cleanses P1.0×06.6k2k96
92Oct 19, '20Bolivia's leftist presidential candidate Luis Arce, from the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party, won in a landslide with 65.3% in the capital La Paz and 63.1% in the major city 0.9×06.4k1.5k76
95Aug 20, '22There is a faction of people who claim to be on the "left" but adopted such a reactionary position against "wokeness" that they've basically become conservatives. The problem is no0.9×06.5k1.1k256

Scan another creator

@
@karpathy@levelsio@paulg@naval@marclou@illyism

Run this on any account.

XOutlier builds this table for every public profile you open on x.com, with live data and every post, not just the top 50.

Add to Chrome Download .zip