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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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2 days ago4 min read


Laundering Empire: How Mamdani and AOC’s Support for Hakeem Jeffries Exposes the Dead End of Social Democracy
For years, the radical and anti-imperialist left has been instructed by progressive strategists to play a game of deferred expectations. Activists were told that electing self-described "democratic socialists" to public office under the Democratic Party ballot line would establish a confrontational beachhead inside the halls of power. These elected officials, the argument went, would act as an uncompromising wedge—challenging corporate dominance, confronting the imperial stat

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4 days ago6 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


Cannon Fodder for Empire: The Real Meaning Behind Uganda’s Deployment to Gaza
When the Ugandan Parliament rubber-stamped a motion on August 6, 2026, to dispatch the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) to the Gaza Strip, bourgeois news outlets framed it as another routine exercise in global peacemaking. As reported by PBS NewsHour, the Ugandan legislature approved the deployment to join an International Stabilisation Force (ISF) proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s "Board of Peace"—a 20,000-strong multi-national security architecture commanded by

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Aug 196 min read


Anti-Zionism Without Anti-Imperialism: The Foreign Policy of Abdul El-Sayed and The Broader NATO-Left
In the contemporary political landscape, a distinct ideological current has gained significant traction among progressives, social democrats, and mainstream liberal-left figures in Western countries. This current expresses sharp, moralized criticism of Israeli state violence against Palestinians while simultaneously aligning with, supporting, or giving critical cover to the core geopolitical objectives of Western hegemony—primarily the U.S. national security state and its mul

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Aug 175 min read


Trapped on the Lincoln: Coercive Conscription, Executive Contempt, and the Human Cost of the War on Working-Class Sailors
As the United States escalates its unprovoked and devastating war against Iran, a parallel crisis is unfolding far from the halls of power in Washington—one contained within the steel hulls of the American naval fleet deployed across the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman. Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli, and sister warships, thousands of working-class sailors are enduring horrendous living conditions, severe psychological trauma, an

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Aug 176 min read


Millions for the Pentagon, Not a Drop for the Working Class: The Manufactured Water Crisis in Colonial Puerto Rico
Across the archipelago of Puerto Rico, more than half a million working-class people—spanning over 180,000 homes, schools, and small businesses—are currently subject to draconian water rationing, enduring 48-hour shutoffs that leave taps bone-dry for days at a time. Across seven major municipalities including San Juan, Carolina, and Loíza, working families queue in scorching summer heat with 55-gallon drums and plastic buckets, waiting for municipal water trucks that arrive h

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Aug 175 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


Rare Judicial Accountability: Death Sentences Issued for Six Officers in Sudan Custodial Death
In a country where state institutions have long operated as instruments of elite control and violence, a recent judicial decision in Northern Sudan stands out as an exceptional moment of accountability. On Sunday, August 2, 2026, the Dongola General Criminal Court sentenced six police officers to death by hanging after convicting them of torturing a detainee to death. The ruling, handed down by Judge Nizar Ahmed Abdullah, targets officers at multiple levels of command within

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Aug 134 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


Over 2,000 Dead: War, Mistrust, and the Daily Struggle Against Ebola in the DRC
More than 2,000 human beings are dead in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in recorded history. Official figures now count over 4,380 confirmed cases and 2,011 fatalities across five provinces, with at least 1,000 of those deaths occurring in a three-week surge. To call this a "natural disaster" or a simple health emergency is a convenient lie. This epidemic is a structural crisis. It is the direct byproduct of imperialist plun

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Aug 125 min read


Manufactured Starvation: How Imperialism, Capitalist Extraction, and War Are Strangling Sudan
Across the Horn of Africa, the catastrophic violence tearing through Sudan is routinely framed by Western corporate media through a deeply orientalist lens. It is described as an inevitable, tragic "tribal feud" or an unexplainable "civil war" between rival military generals. This narrative is a deliberate obfuscation. What is happening in Sudan today—manifested in skyrocketing food prices in Omdurman, engineered famine across Darfur, and the destruction of public health infr

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Aug 125 min read


Following in Nancy Pelosi’s Footsteps: AOC Throws Her Lefty Views Under the Bus for Presidential Aspirations and Political Careerism
When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez first stormed the national stage in 2018, her victory was hailed as a seismic rupture in the status quo of American politics. A working-class bartender from the Bronx defeating Joseph Crowley—a high-ranking pillar of the Democratic establishment—offered millions of socialists, anti-imperialists, and working-class organizers a rare flash of hope. Here was an unapologetic outsider who spoke the language of class struggle, pledged to challenge party

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Aug 126 min read


The Weirdest Man in Politics: Jon Stewart Makes John Fetterman look like an Empire Lapdog
For years, the North American left has been trapped in a toxic, recurring cycle of bait-and-switch electoral politics. Every election cycle, the Democratic machine manufactures or adopts a supposedly "unconventional" populist—a candidate who speaks with raw, anti-establishment cadence, wears blue-collar attire, and promises to confront corporate elites and beltway insularity. The left-wing electorate, desperate for systemic resistance and working-class representation, mobiliz

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Aug 104 min read


Progressives are a Net-Negative: How the Cult of Bernie Sanders and AOC Neuters the American Left
For over a decade, the American political landscape has been haunted by the ghost of "reform." From the 2016 "political revolution" to the rise of the "Squad," a narrative has been carefully constructed: that the Democratic Party—a primary instrument of global capital and imperialist plunder—can be captured and transformed from within. However, as we survey the wreckage of the current political moment, a more sober analytical truth emerges. Figures like Bernie Sanders and Ale

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Aug 107 min read
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