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The Narratives about Ilhan Omar's DC Home Raid: Working People should Stand in Solidarity with Ilhan Omar but Do not Turn her into a Martyr
On October 12, 2026, armed federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)—the criminal investigative branch of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—raided the Washington, D.C. home of Representative Ilhan Omar. Coming just three weeks before a national midterm election, federal prosecutors seized Omar’s cellphone, personal computers, notebooks, and passport, while issuing over a dozen grand jury subpoenas to her family members and associates. The raid represe

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2 days ago5 min read


The AI Bubble and The $2 Trillion Illusion: Why Tech Oligarchs Are Rushing IPOs Ahead of Impending Collapse
In the terminal phase of global capitalism, financial markets do not survive on productive output, human utility, or tangible goods. Instead, they subsist on an escalating succession of speculative manias designed to inflate fictitious capital and forestall systemic collapse. Today, this parasitic mechanism has found its ultimate expression in the artificial intelligence gold rush—a $2 trillion illusion engineered by Wall Street investment banks, venture capital funds, and Si

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3 days ago4 min read


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


Progressives Normalize Being a Sellout: The Epidemic of DSA-aligned Progressives Capitulating to the Imperialist Zionist State
For decades, working-class people, anti-imperialists, and socialists have been told a comforting lie by the architects of the American electoral machine: that if we just elect "progressives," "democratic socialists," or "fighters for the working class" into the belly of the beast, they will change the system from within. We are told that figures backed by groups like the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) or branded as progressive champions will stand as an unbreakable wa

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3 days ago7 min read


America's Appetite for Watching People Die: How Livestreaming a Firing Squad is The Perfect Illustration of Late-Stage Capitalism
In the terminal phase of imperial decline, a society’s cultural superstructure undergoes a distinct shift toward ghastly, commodified violence. As the contradictions of late-stage capitalism intensify—characterized by widening class polarization, imperialist aggression abroad, and eroding democratic legitimacy at home—the ruling class increasingly resorts to spectacle to maintain control. Nothing illustrates this grotesque evolution more clearly than the Pentagon’s proposal u

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4 days ago4 min read


Comedian Jerry Seinfeld Mocks Genocide: The Rise of Celebrity Zionism and The Unapologetic Defense of Settler Colonialism
In the decaying spectacle of late-stage capitalism, the distinction between elite culture, corporate hegemony, and imperial violence has dissolved entirely. Nowhere was this dynamic more glaringly exposed than on a Chicago stage, where veteran comedian Jerry Seinfeld chose to meet public outrage over the ongoing mass slaughter in Gaza not with reflection or even professional composure, but with explicit, sarcastic alignment with state-sanctioned violence. When confronted by a

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4 days ago4 min read


The Anti-Colonial Struggle to Contain Ebola: Why the DRC's Ebola Outbreak Exposes the Rotten Core of the Global Health System
The catastrophic Ebola outbreak currently sweeping through the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is not merely a natural disaster or a unfortunate biological anomaly. It is a profound political crisis—a stark indictment of a global health system rooted in imperialist exploitation, capitalist neglect, and colonial hegemony. While Western media outlets regularly frame health crises in the Global South as spontaneous tragedies occurring in “unfortunate” regions, the

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6 days ago4 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


The Imperialist World Order on Trial: How Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize Ignited Global Fury from the Old Rules-Based Order
For decades, the so-called "rules-based international order"—a euphemism for the global hegemony enforced by Western imperial powers, NATO, and Washington—has maintained a dual standard of justice. Crimes committed by anti-colonial movements or enemies of the West were subjected to swift moral outrage and punitive enforcement, while the genocides, illegal occupations, and resource plundering executed by Western powers and their client states were insulated under the cloak of

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7 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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ICE Gestapo Terrorizes From the Bronx to California: Why Immigration Enforcement Treat Immigrants The Same Way Slave Patrols Treated Slaves
The escalation of state terror across the United States under the current mass deportation regime has exposed the brutal, unyielding reality of capitalist state power. From the streets of the Bronx and the neighborhoods of Southern California to highway checkpoints in Texas and for-profit concentration camps in Georgia, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operates with absolute impunity. Far from being an administrative agency designed simply to enforce border laws, ICE

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7 days ago5 min read


The Empire’s Graveyard in the Horn of Africa: Sudan’s Working Class Pay the Ultimate Price in an Imperialist Proxy War
Across the Horn of Africa, a devastating human catastrophe is unfolding, stripped of its true political and economic context by mainstream Western media. The ongoing war in Sudan is frequently mischaracterized in boardrooms and cable news outlets as a simple, localized power struggle or an accidental clash between rival generals. But for socialists, anti-imperialists, anti-capitalists, anti-colonialists, and anti-Zionists, the reality is starkly different. What is happening i

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Oct 104 min read


Bill Maher Hates The Left: Why do so Many Long-time Democrats Spend so Much Time and Energy Attacking Progressive Democrats
The evolution of Bill Maher from a self-proclaimed liberal standard-bearer to a fixture of anti-progressive grievance is a case study in ideological decay. Once perceived as a countercultural voice willing to challenge convention, Maher has settled comfortably into the role of a legacy media gatekeeper whose primary objective is protecting his class status. The phenomenon is hardly isolated; an entire cohort of media pundits, establishment figures, and centrist Democrats devo

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Oct 104 min read


The Aftermath of Christa Pike’s Botched Execution: A "Medically Unprecedented" Recovery and Ongoing Cruelty
The capital punishment apparatus of the capitalist state has long prided itself on projecting an aura of cold, bureaucratic efficiency—a sanitized, clinical slaughter designed to mask the barbarism inherent in state-sanctioned murder. But every so often, the gruesome reality of this institutionalized violence breaks through the veneer. The recent catastrophic, botched execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee has laid bare the visceral cruelty, systemic incompetence, and unyield

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Oct 94 min read


Zionism is Definitely Racism: The Historic Anti-Zionist Vote That's Challenging Settler-Colonialism
In a political landscape where major establishment parties across the West have long enforced a suffocating, bipartisan consensus of unconditional support for the Israeli state, a massive tremor has shaken British politics. At its annual autumn conference in Brighton, the rank-and-file membership of the Green Party of England and Wales did what no other major UK political party has dared to do: they passed a binding policy motion explicitly defining Zionism as a form of racis

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Oct 94 min read


When "Traitor" and "Sellout" are Very Fitting Labels: Mayor Zohran Mamdani Gets Booed and Heckled for his Latest Contribution to a String of Betrayals
The political trajectory of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has long faced profound skepticism from anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and socialist organizers who warned that entering the machinery of bourgeois electoral politics inevitably demands compromise with empire. Those warnings materialized in the starkest possible terms at a Union Square commemoration, where Mayor Mamdani was met with furious jeers, boos, and direct accusations of betrayal. To a crowd steeped in

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Oct 85 min read


Campaigning with Imperialist Royalty: Dr El-Sayed Turns his back on Palestinians by Teaming up with the Drone King and a Genocide-enabler
The political trajectory of modern social democracy and progressive politics in the United States continues to demonstrate its absolute capitulation to the machinery of the capitalist state and American imperialism. Nowhere is this tragic betrayal more starkly illustrated than in the recent political maneuverings and public alliances of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in his Michigan Senate campaign. By rolling out the red carpet for the principal architects, defenders, and administrators

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Oct 66 min read


The Vicious Loop of Economic Collapse: The Deepening Crisis of Global Capitalism and The Historic Looting of Society
The global capitalist system stands at a profound historical crossroads. Across the industrialized world, the facade of stable bourgeois democracy and continuous economic progress is shattering under the weight of its own internal contradictions. As modern civilization confronts compounding crises—marked by skyrocketing wealth concentration, stagnating labor markets, the ruthless deployment of artificial intelligence to decimate jobs, and an escalating sovereign debt meltdown

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Oct 55 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


The Ultimate Weapon of Class Rule: The Botched Execution of Christa Gail Pike and the Barbarism of Capital Punishment
There are events in contemporary American society so barbaric, so fundamentally lacking in human decency, that they rip away the polite democratic pretenses of the ruling class and expose the raw, unadulterated violence of the state. The Tennessee Department of Correction’s horrific, botched attempt to execute 50-year-old Christa Gail Pike is precisely such an event. Left unconscious, intubated, and on a ventilator in critical condition at a Nashville hospital after surviving

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Oct 54 min read
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