# USA voted against the ENTIRE WORLD, opposing equal representation of Africa

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Podcast: [Geopolitical Economy Report](https://stenobird.com/podcast/geopolitical-economy-report-5434689)
Published: 2026-09-08T13:36:54+00:00
Episode link: https://soundcloud.com/geopoliticaleconomy/us-vote-un-world-map-africa-colonialism
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The United States votes against the entire world in a United Nations General Assembly resolution that called for the UN to adopt a more accurate Equal Earth world map, replacing the colonial-era Mercator projection (of year 1569), which distorts the size of the West, making it look much larger, while Africa appears small. Ben Norton explains how the US empire opposes decolonization and is trying to revive colonialism. VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJBb87BUP4M Topics 0:00 US is a rogue state 0:43 UN vote: 164 to 1 (USA) 1:15 More accurate world map 1:39 Mercator projection 2:34 True size of Africa 3:26 African proposal 3:48 How countries voted at UN 4:21 Ukraine opposes Global South 4:59 US calls it "radical ideology" 5:53 USA is NOT center of universe 6:55 US rewrites history 7:51 Imperialist McKinley 8:55 Trump vows to expand US empire 9:04 (CLIP) Trump: 'enlarge' US territory 9:55 Trump threatens to annex neighbors 11:17 US empire revives colonialism 11:57 Donroe Doctrine 13:56 USA wants to reverse decolonization 14:54 (CLIP) Marco Rubio colonialist speech 16:19 It's not just about a world map 17:34 Outro

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