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Hollywood’s Selective Anti-Imperialism: Defending Mark Ruffalo from Zionist Smears Without Excusing His NATO-Left Imperialism
The corporate media ecosystem has found itself in another public collision between celebrity activism and the financial oligarchy. Paramount Skydance—fresh off its monstrous $111 billion bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery—launched a coordinated campaign accusing actor Mark Ruffalo of peddling "antisemitic tropes." His crime? Pointing out that Oracle, the tech giant founded by Zionist billionaire Larry Ellison, supplies military surveillance and cloud infrastructure to the

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5 days ago3 min read


The Antisemitism Sham: Whistleblower Reveals Federal Probes Into Campus Anti-Genocide Protests Were Built on Lies
For nearly three years, as the U.S.-backed Israeli military laid waste to Gaza, a secondary front was opened inside the borders of the U.S. empire. Across university campuses, students and faculty organized encampments, walkouts, and teach-ins to demand an immediate end to the slaughter and full divestment from the military-industrial complex and the Israeli apartheid state. In response, the ruling class launched a coordinated campaign of state repression, media slanders, and

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5 days ago4 min read


Two Sides of the Same Imperialist Coin: Hakeem Jeffries Meets Jared Kushner as Capitalist Parties Prepare for Post-Election Coalition
Behind the carefully stage-managed political theater of Washington’s two-party system lies an uncomfortable truth that working-class and anti-imperialist activists know all too well: when it comes to defending capital, enforcing state violence, and maintaining global hegemony, the Democratic and Republican leadership are ultimately cut from the exact same cloth. A striking reminder of this reality came to light through recent press reports. According to coverage by CNN, House

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7 days ago5 min read


From Slave Patrols to Senatobia: The Murder of One-Year-Old Kohen Wiley and The Unchecked Terror of American Policing
On June 14, 2026, the white-supremacist state apparatus in Mississippi claimed yet another Black life in its ongoing, relentless war against poor and working-class Black people. One-year-old Kohen Kartier Wiley was sitting in a car in the parking lot of a Senatobia, Mississippi Walmart, held in the arms of his mother—who watched him take his first breath when he was born and his last breath as his life was extinguished by state-sanctioned violence. The immediate catalyst for

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Aug 245 min read


Colombia’s 7.4 Earthquake, $9.6 Billion in Ruins: Capitalist Neglect and Structural Decay Turn Natural Disaster into Social Mass Murder
Nearly two weeks after a devastating 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia, the catastrophic loss of life and infrastructure stands as an indictment of global capitalism and the local ruling class. As emergency teams transition from search-and-rescue operations to body recovery and demolition, official government reports now count at least 329 dead, over 4,600 injured, and thousands displaced or missing. While bourgeois media outlets frame the event as an unpredict

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Aug 244 min read


The $40 Trillion Scam: How Imperialism, Debt, and the Capitalist Class Are Bleeding Working People
The U.S. national debt has officially breached a historic and staggering milestone: $40 trillion. Mainstream media networks like CBS News and bourgeois politicians frame this crisis as a tragic failure of "bipartisan fiscal discipline," an accounting mistake, or an existential threat of immediate "government bankruptcy." But for Marxists, anti-imperialists, and anti-capitalists, the reality is far clearer. The U.S. state—issuing sovereign debt in its own fiat currency—is not

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Aug 206 min read


Complete Collapse: The Atrocious Polling of President Trump and Administration Cabinet Members
In bourgeois democracy, polling serves a dual role: it acts as a corporate barometer measuring consumer satisfaction with ruling-class administrators, and as a theatrical apparatus designed to maintain the illusion of popular consent. When public approval for elite managers craters, it exposes the structural illegitimacy at the core of the capitalist state apparatus. Recent survey data reveals an undeniable downward trajectory in the public standing of Donald Trump and key me

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Aug 193 min read


Protecting Big Oil and Enriching the Bench: How Justice Alito’s $2.9 Million Oil Empire is Shielding Fossil Fuels
To understand why the global climate emergency remains unabated despite decades of international summits and scientific warnings, one must look beyond the rhetoric of liberal institutions. One must examine the structural machinery of capitalist state power. Nowhere is this machinery more visible than in the high halls of the United States Supreme Court, where legal formalism is routinely deployed to shield oligarchic wealth and fossil fuel cartels from public accountability.

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Aug 175 min read


Instruments of Torture: ICE’s $20M Electroshock Gloves Exposes the Reality of U.S. Imperialism
The machinery of state violence rarely reveals its true face through subtle policy tweaks. More often, it exposes itself in raw, unmistakable hardware. Under a newly revealed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) procurement notice, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to spend between $10 million and $20 million to purchase thousands of electroshock gloves for its agents. Manufactured by Kentucky-based Compliant Technologies LLC, the device—euphemistically na

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Aug 133 min read


A Feature Not a Bug: Todd Blanche and the Really Long List of Awful Attorney Generals
When the U.S. Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as permanent Attorney General—by a pre-dawn 50–49 vote under cover of darkness—the corporate media immediately broke out into its standard, well-rehearsed theater of outrage. Editorial boards and liberal commentators lined up to decry Blanche as a unique degradation of the office. They pointed frantically to his history as Donald Trump’s personal criminal defense attorney, his eager defense of the "unitary executive" theory (reducin

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Aug 135 min read


Subsidizing Our Own Oppression: Big Tech, Dark Money, and the AI Surveillance State
Across the suburban expanses of central Ohio, massive, windowless concrete monoliths are consuming farmland, draining local water tables, and overloading power grids. These data centers are the physical engines driving artificial intelligence and high-tech capitalism. While presented to the public through the antiseptic language of "innovation," "regional development," and "job creation," these facilities represent a stark reality: a corporate enclosure of municipal governanc

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Aug 105 min read


Do it For Lindsey Graham: Senate Democrats Push Trump to be a More Aggressive Imperialist against Russia and Iran
On Friday, August 7, 2026, the United States Senate delivered a stark reminder of the true nature of capitalist politics in Washington. In an overwhelming 86–11 vote, the upper chamber passed the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, a sweeping piece of economic warfare designed to punish nations trading with Moscow, penalize Iran’s energy sector, and hand the executive branch sweeping new trade weapons. While corporate media outlets across the West frame

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Aug 105 min read


Political Cry-Babies: Bill Maher, Donny Deutsch, and James Carville throw Tantrums Over DSA Wins, Hasan Piker, and Socialism
For decades, the standard-bearers of the corporate Democratic establishment have lectured the working class on the virtue of "party unity." Whenever rank-and-file voters demanded basic human rights—a living wage, universal healthcare, or an end to endless imperial wars—the party’s media priesthood insisted that progressives fall in line, swallow bitter centrist compromises, and vote for whatever Wall Street-backed candidate the establishment put forward. Now, the script has f

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Aug 105 min read


The Battle for the Soul of the DNC and The Buried Autopsy: How the DNC Redacted Its Own Demise
Following a devastating defeat, any political party faces a choice: undergo a radical, honest accounting of its failures, or double down on the system that caused them. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has chosen the latter—and new revelations reveal just how far the party leadership went to sanitize its own political failure. In the wake of the 2024 election loss, internal fallout within the Democratic Party erupted into public view. Recent media appearances—specifica

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Aug 84 min read


Imperialist Servant Constructs a Monument to an Empire: How Uganda Built a Statue to Its Own Invader
On July 4, 1976, an elite unit of Israeli commandos touched down at Entebbe Airport in Uganda. Operatives executed Operation Thunderbolt—a aggressive raid inside a sovereign African nation that left scores of Ugandan soldiers dead, destroyed a third of the Ugandan Air Force’s fighter fleet on the tarmac, and dealt a humiliating blow to the post-colonial state. Among the Israeli casualties was the raid’s commander, Lieutenant Colonel Yonatan “Yoni” Netanyahu, older brother of

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Aug 85 min read


Siphoning the Ruins: How U.S. Interests Claimed 96% of Venezuela’s Oil Revenue Mid-Crisis
When catastrophic double earthquakes struck northern Venezuela on June 24, 2026, the global corporate press immediately reached for its standard script: a tragic natural disaster, an impoverished Latin American nation in agony, and a benevolent Washington offering a helping hand. Underneath the photo-ops of U.S. Marines handing out cardboard boxes of aid lies one of the most blatant, predatory campaigns of imperialist plunder in modern history. While more than 5,500 dead have

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Aug 55 min read


Medicaid Cutoffs Begin: The American Oligarchy Continues its Class Warfare to Pay for Imperialist Wars
On Friday, July 31, the machinery for the most sweeping destruction of public healthcare in modern American history locked into place. With the official implementation of federal rules imposing draconian work requirements on Medicaid recipients, the ruling class has initiated the systematic liquidation of the primary social safety net protecting tens of millions of poor, disabled, and working-class people. The legal mechanism for this assault is the misnamed "One Big Beautifu

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Aug 34 min read


Inside Trump’s Truth Social strategy: Moving markets and capitalizing on the fallout
If you’ve been scrolling through social media or checking stock tickers over the last year, you might have noticed a recurring pattern. A sudden post pops up on Truth Social from President Donald Trump—maybe praising an iconic American retailer, talking up a major defense contractor, or teasing a massive artificial intelligence deal. Within minutes, market feeds light up, day traders scramble, and stock prices react. To the casual observer, it looks like a president using his

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Jul 274 min read


Profits Over Public Health: How Taylor Farms and Capitalism Contaminated Our Food Supply
The iceberg lettuce you bought at Walmart or ate in a wrapped meal at Jack in the Box wasn’t supposed to make you sick. But over the last few weeks, a massive outbreak of Cyclospora—a microscopic parasite transmitted when human feces contaminates food or water—has infected thousands of people across 41 states. In Michigan alone, the epicenter of the crisis, more than 8,100 people have fallen ill, with over 160 hospitalized. When news of the outbreak first broke, mainstream m

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Jul 275 min read


The Empire's Court Jester: Van Jones Never Misses an Opportunity to Play His Role as Empire Tool
In the grand, theatrical architecture of American imperialism and corporate capitalism, maintenance of the ruling-class consensus requires more than just overt reactionary propagandists. It demands a carefully curated ecosystem of controlled opposition. While right-wing demagogues are tasked with whipping up reactionary fervor among the populace, the establishment relies just as heavily on approved figures on the "Left" whose structural function is to police the boundaries of

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Jul 226 min read
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