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Warmongering at Our Expense: Why Electoral Politics Cannot Stop the Skyrocketing Inflation Caused by Our Imperialist Wars
Working-class households across the country are facing a relentless economic squeeze. Every trip to the grocery store, every monthly rent payment, and every visit to the gas station feels like a quiet theft. According to official data reported by CNN, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) climbed to an annual rate of 3.7% in September 2026, accelerating from 3.4% in August with a sharp 0.6% single-month jump. Media outlets routinely frame these price increases as mysterious market f

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3 days ago5 min read


The Gendered Cost of Empire: How Gaza’s Women Bear the Brunt of Colonial Erasure
To understand modern imperialism, one must understand how state violence systematically dismantled the social, economic, and physical fabric of colonized societies. Settler-colonial machinery relies on more than territorial occupation and military encirclement; it operates by targeting the reproductive core of indigenous communities—the caregivers, mothers, organizers, and breadwinners who sustain collective survival across generations. A stark assessment presented by UN Wome

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4 days ago3 min read


The Deepening Vulnerability of the Saudi Economy: How Ansarallah’s Retaliatory Strikes Are Shaking the Foundations of Saudi-Imperialist Power
For decades, the Saudi monarchy operated under a implicit imperialist pact: serve as the undisputed anchor of Western oil hegemony, finance global financial institutions, sponsor anti-communist and anti-sovereign counter-revolutions across the Global South, and in return, rest safely beneath the military umbrella of the United States and its Western allies. Today, that illusion of invulnerability is shattering. The dramatic expansion of retaliatory operations by Yemen’s Ansar

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6 days ago5 min read


Sacrificing Zelensky and The Geopolitics of Diesel: How Iran and the Houthis Forced Trump to Betray NATO and Buy Diesel from Putin
The structural contradictions of global capitalism are rarely laid bare with such blunt cynicism as they have been in the wake of the White House’s sudden energy bargain with Moscow. For years, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)—functioning as the armed wing of Western finance capital and imperial hegemony—has demanded endless working-class sacrifices to sustain a proxy war against Russia. Yet, when the reckless adventurism of U.S. imperialism in the Middle East tr

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7 days ago4 min read


Inter-Imperialist Rivalries and Capitalist Agendas: The Threat of War Between Ethiopia and Eritrea
As the Horn of Africa once again stands on the precipice of catastrophic military conflagration, the mainstream media inundates the global public with superficial narratives. Bourgeois outlets like the BBC and The Jerusalem Post routinely characterize ongoing hostilities in northern Ethiopia and heightened tensions between Addis Ababa and Asmara as isolated border disputes, inevitable ethnic bloodletting, or purely humanitarian crises. However, a rigorous anti-imperialist and

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Oct 54 min read


Overextended and Desperate: The Bipartisan Drive to Escalate the War on Iran and the Deepening Crisis of US Hegemony
As the fallout from ten months of unmitigated imperialist aggression unfolds across West Asia, the architecture of Washington’s global dominance is showing profound structural fractures. The United States and its Zionist proxy in Tel Aviv launched their criminal war against Iran on February 28, plunging the region into a devastating humanitarian and economic catastrophe. Yet, the war has not unfolded according to the script of quick subjugation imagined by the Pentagon. Inste

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Oct 54 min read


Pleading Guilty to Journalism: The Return of Julian Assange
The return of Julian Assange to public life marks a watershed moment in the global struggle against imperialist aggression, militarism, and the systematic erosion of democratic rights. After more than a decade of arbitrary confinement, psychological torture, and a relentless legal vendetta waged by the United States empire and its British vassals, the WikiLeaks founder stepped back into the public sphere with a simple, resonant declaration on social media: “I'm back.” As repo

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Sep 284 min read


Whitewashing Fascism and Funding Empire: Washington Pours $400 Million into Ukraine as Imperialist Tensions Mount
As global capitalism stumbles deeper into crisis, the machinery of war continues to grind forward at the expense of working people everywhere. Recent developments in Washington and Ottawa have laid bare the true nature of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine: it is not a defense of democracy, but an imperialist proxy war aimed at redividing Eurasia, securing resources, and bolstering military-industrial profits. Recent reporting from outlets like DefenseNews.com and Yahoo News und

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Sep 284 min read


The Vulnerability of Western Hegemony: Yemen’s Anti-Imperialist Resistance Secures Control of the Red Sea as Saudi Oil Exports Grind to a Halt
The unfolding conflict in Yemen has entered a dramatic new phase, laying bare the profound fragility of imperialist supply chains and the collapsing architecture of US-Saudi regional domination. With Ansarallah forces and the broader Yemeni military apparatus launching a sweeping offensive, the geopolitical map of the Red Sea has been radically redrawn. By seizing control of Yemen’s entire western coastline, key ports like Mocha and Dhubab, strategic islands including Perim,

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Sep 164 min read


When Supporting Genocidal Israel Backfires: How Ed Sheeran’s Tour Imploded Under the Weight of Gaza Censorship
The cultural apparatus of modern capitalism operates on a strict boundary: art is permitted to reflect sanitized human emotion, commercial romance, or even select, state-approved geopolitical causes, but it must never threaten the material interests of the ruling class. When rapper Macklemore took the stage at MetLife Stadium during Ed Sheeran’s North American tour and declared "Free Palestine"—introducing his protest song "Hind's Hall" dedicated to a six-year-old Palestinian

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Sep 164 min read


The Automation of Slaughter: How the film NAZA Unmasks the Psychopathy and Technology Behind the Mass Murder in Gaza
The release and subsequent critical acclaim of the documentary NAZA at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival has ripped the lid off the digital architecture governing the Gaza genocide. Directed by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor—alongside production backing from The Guardian, executive producer Jonathan Glazer, and James Wilson—the 80-minute film draws on unprecedented interviews with 24 anonymous Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers. Filmed in s

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Sep 154 min read


The Houthis Target Capitalism: Chokepoints and Ansarallah's Vanguard Role in the Fight Against US-Zionist Hegemony
In the unfolding crucible of the twenty-first century, the global capitalist order is facing a structural crisis of its own making. For decades, Western imperialism—anchored by the Pentagon, enforced by Wall Street, and defended on the ground by the settler-colonial Zionist regime in occupied Palestine—has operated under the assumption that the global South could be indefinitely subjugated, blockaded, and exploited with impunity. Today, that illusion is shattering along the r

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Sep 115 min read


Capitalism's Final Frontier: Settler-Colonial Projects, Class Warfare, and The Political Economy of Modern Empire
The global capitalist apparatus is facing an unprecedented crisis of legitimacy and structural overextension. From the devastated urban landscapes of Gaza to the austerity-wracked cities of the Western core, the interconnected machinery of imperialism, military-industrial extraction, and settler-colonial violence is operating at full capacity to preserve a rapidly decaying unipolar order. To understand the current historical juncture, socialists, anti-Zionists, and anti-imper

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Sep 105 min read


Academic Imperialism: How House Democrats Voted to Hold Higher Education Hostage for Israel
In a striking demonstration of how Washington’s political establishment unites to preserve imperial interests, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act in a 237–169 vote. Introduced by Republican Representative Virginia Foxx of North Carolina and co-sponsored by right-wing Democrat Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, the legislation conditions federal student aid, foreign language, and study abroad funding on universities certifying th

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Sep 64 min read


The Wall Street to AIPAC Pipeline: How Capitalists Buy Electoral Silence on Israel’s Genocide
There is no boundary where financial speculation ends and imperial plunder begins. For the transnational capitalist class, foreign policy is not a matter of diplomacy or human rights; it is an exercise in asset management, resource extraction, and risk mitigation. Nowhere is this dynamic clearer than in the dual actions of Marc Rowan, the billionaire CEO of Apollo Global Management. Armed with a net worth exceeding $8 billion, Rowan sits on Donald Trump’s UN-approved “Board o

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Sep 64 min read


The Kuhestak Wedding Strike: Why U.S. Imperialism Keeps Slaughtering Innocent People at Weddings
On September 1, 2026, an American precision-guided missile slammed directly into a residential home in the small Iranian fishing town of Kuhestak, located in Sirik County along the strategic Strait of Hormuz. Inside, dozens of working-class families had gathered to celebrate the wedding of a local fisherman’s daughter. In a fraction of a second, an occasion of community joy was transformed into a horrific scene of devastation. Concrete walls collapsed, roofs caved in, and blo

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Sep 65 min read


Palestine Action and Capitalism’s Terror Label: The Imperialist Response to the Movement Against Genocide
The Western imperialist state has dropped its liberal mask. Faced with a relentless mass movement against the genocide in Palestine, the ruling classes in Washington and London are executing a coordinated, transatlantic campaign of political repression. By deploying post-9/11 "anti-terror" mechanisms, the US and UK states are seeking to criminalize direct action, muzzle political dissent, and insulate the military-industrial complex from popular disruption. At the center of t

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Sep 24 min read


Plunder at Gunpoint and The Mirage of 'Mutual Benefit': The Re-Colonization of Venezuela’s Oil Reserves
The history of modern imperialism is a history of resource extraction, enforced at the barrel of a gun and legitimized by the legalistic architecture of foreign capital. What is currently unfolding between Washington and Caracas is not a standard diplomatic negotiation or a routine commercial transaction—it is a textbook exercise in neo-colonial plunder. Following months of escalating U.S. aggression—culminating in the direct military abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás

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Sep 24 min read


Airstrikes on the Border: State Terror and the Targeting of Sudan’s Civilian Lifelines
The brutal war consuming Sudan cannot be understood simply as an isolated dynamic between competing military elites. It is an acute crisis of militarized state power, capital accumulation, and peripheral economic collapse. As the armed apparatuses of the Sudanese state and paramilitary capital tear the country apart, the working class and rural poor bear the brunt of systematic terror. Nowhere is this clearer than in the deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure, food n

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Aug 314 min read


Managing the Crises of Empire: How CIA Director Ratcliffe’s Secret Moscow Trip Exposes the Fragility of Empire
The imperial architecture of global hegemony relies on two fundamental pillars: the illusion of omnipotence and the uninterrupted flow of exploited capital. When either is threatened, the administrative apparatus of empire is forced to drop its democratic window-dressing and resort to the brute force of backroom coercion. This dynamic was laid bare when a U.S. Air Force C-17A Globemaster III touched down at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport. Aboard was CIA Director John Ratcliffe, dis

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Aug 294 min read
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