The US government supported protests that overthrew Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. New interim leader Muhammad Yunus has been cultivated by Washington for decades. Ben Norton discusses the geopolitical reasons for the regime change; the roles of India, China, and Russia; and the Pentagon’s desire to build a strategic military base on Saint Martin’s Island.

Topics

• 0:00 Interim leader Muhammad Yunus: Made in USA
• 5:09 Overthrow of Sheikh Hasina
• 7:44 US military base on St. Martin’s Island?
• 8:57 Myanmar
• 10:33 China’s reliance on Strait of Malacca for oil imports
• 13:34 Bangladesh-China relations
• 14:47 BRICS
• 15:36 US pressure to join Quad
• 17:47 Russia warned of color revolution in Bangladesh
• 19:06 Arab Spring
• 19:58 Was Hasina’s undelivered resignation speech fabricated?
• 22:26 Hasina: “White man” demanded military base in Bay of Bengal
• 23:58 Hasina: USA “can overthrow the government in any country”
• 25:36 US-backed 1975 coup against Sheikh Mujib
• 28:33 US-backed 2022 coup against Pakistan PM Imran Khan
• 31:00 US support for protests in Bangladesh
• 31:22 NED funding for Bangladeshi opposition
• 31:41 NED funding of opposition media outlet Netra News
• 34:13 Historical context: Partition, India, Pakistan, 1971 liberation war
• 38:40 Reasons for protests
• 41:13 US-backed color revolutions
• 46:21 US State Department pressure on Bangladesh
• 47:36 Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Jamaat-e-Islami, & extremism
• 54:12 Outro