Redlines Report – April 28, 2025

Africa

Yemen’s Houthi TV says 30 bodies were recovered after U.S. strike in Saada

Another U.S. massacre hidden under the fog of “counterterrorism.” Thirty Yemenis killed by imperialist airpower in occupied Saada — a critical chokepoint in the empire’s struggle to control Red Sea trade routes. Western media buries the crime in passive headlines, as if bodies simply “appeared.” This isn’t an accident. It’s the colonial logic of empire: kill the oppressed, erase the evidence, seize the chokepoints. But every grave dug by Washington deepens its global isolation and fuels the fire of anti-imperialist resistance from Yemen to the Congo.

Winds of Change: New Book Explores Intertwined Histories of Slavery, Climate, and Capitalism

This book traces the hidden but inseparable link between the Atlantic slave trade, capitalist primitive accumulation, and today’s climate catastrophe — the foundational crimes of the settler-colonial world order. Colonial extraction, mass enslavement, and ecological destruction were not “unintended consequences” — they were the engines of imperialist expansion. Climate collapse today is not a “global challenge” — it is the planetary death spiral of a world system built on racialized exploitation.

Africa Pushes Back as U.S. Weighs Tariffs on Its Minerals

The empire wants Africa’s minerals but not Africa’s sovereignty. Now, Washington floats new tariffs — part of a desperate imperialist recalibration — to discipline African nations daring to assert control over their own strategic resources. Minerals like cobalt and lithium are no longer simply commodities — they are chokepoints in the empire’s war to preserve technological and military supremacy. But Africa is pushing back, aligning more with BRICS+ and multipolar sovereignty. The era of free extraction under colonial terms is collapsing — and the empire’s panic is showing.

Asia

China accelerates shift to Brazilian soybeans, as U.S. agricultural exports plunge amid tariffs

As Washington escalates its economic war against China, Beijing is striking back where it hurts: in the heartland of U.S. agriculture. China’s shift toward Brazilian soybeans and pork isn’t just a market adjustment — it’s a material counteroffensive in the war for global supply chain chokepoints. Farmers in the U.S. Midwest, long subsidized by settler imperialism, are now the collateral damage of their own state’s protectionist collapse. This is imperialist recalibration through self-sabotage — accelerating multipolar realignment and exposing the fragility of U.S. economic hegemony.

Chinese Firms Turn to Indian Exporters to Help Fill U.S. Orders

As the U.S. intensifies its blockade tactics, Chinese companies are adapting — using India as a secondary channel to reroute goods. Decoupling is collapsing into multipolar rerouting, strengthening South-South trade corridors. The old imperial supply chain chokepoints are fragmenting. No tariff wall can reverse the centrifugal forces pulling the Global South into independent economic orbit beyond Washington’s reach.

Japanese Expert Lauds Vietnam’s Art of ‘Bamboo Diplomacy’

Vietnam’s so-called “bamboo diplomacy” — flexible but firmly rooted — embodies strategic sovereignty under imperialist siege. As Washington tries to use Vietnam as a lever against China, Hanoi refuses to be reduced to a pawn. This is survivalist diplomacy in an era of imperial recalibration — a careful dance that preserves autonomy while exploiting the contradictions within the decaying Western alliance system. Vietnam is choosing multipolar engagement over colonial servitude, and history is on their side.

Middle East

Iran tight-lipped after port explosion

CNN paints Iran’s silence over the Bandar Abbas port explosion as “suspicious,” but the real story is imperial hybrid warfare targeting strategic chokepoints. Bandar Abbas, a gateway to the Strait of Hormuz, is vital not just to Iran — but to global energy flows. Tehran’s disciplined silence isn’t weakness; it’s strategic maneuvering in an environment where narratives are weapons and imperial powers are desperate to destabilize emerging multipolar pillars of resistance.

Military Spending Soars in the Middle East: SIPRI Report

Western media portrays rising military budgets as local pathology, but the true pathology is imperialist militarization itself. The Middle East has been forcibly turned into a permanent arms market — a hyper-imperialist model where endless weapons sales lock local regimes into U.S. orbit. Washington isn’t just selling missiles — it’s engineering dependency. Militarization is a chokepoint strategy: economic extraction through perpetual conflict and colonial fragmentation.

Navigating Geopolitical Complexity: A New ‘Compliance-First’ Era in Energy Trading

The so-called “compliance-first” energy trading model is imperial recalibration through financial warfare. Sanctions are no longer temporary punishments — they are embedded chokepoints, designed to exclude sovereign nations like Iran, Venezuela, and Russia from the imperial market architecture. But the cracks are widening. Every bypass, every barter deal, every alternative corridor accelerates the erosion of the hyper-imperialist financial order.

Central/South America and the Caribbean

IMF Wages Economic War Against Venezuela: VP Rodríguez

As VP Delcy Rodríguez makes clear, the IMF is not a neutral lender — it’s a weapon of imperialist recalibration. When coups fail, financial siege becomes the next assault. The economic “sanctions” imposed through IMF structural adjustment aren’t collateral damage — they are designed chokepoints to starve revolutionary sovereignty into submission. Venezuela’s defiance under siege exposes not just imperial cruelty, but imperial fragility in a world shifting toward multipolar power.

Mexico Refuses to Subordinate to U.S. Cattle Import Threat

Mexico’s refusal to bow to Washington’s agricultural blackmail highlights a deeper historical rupture. Agricultural chokepoints — who controls food, livestock, and land — have always been fundamental instruments of settler-colonial domination. But today, Latin America is recalibrating its trade orientation, asserting food sovereignty, and moving toward multipolar alliances. The old plantation order is cracking — and Washington can no longer enforce hunger as policy without global resistance.

Chairman Smith Leads Delegation to Reinforce U.S.-Latin America “Strategic Partnerships”

Behind the polished rhetoric of “partnerships” lies the crude desperation of imperialist recalibration. Washington knows BRICS+ and South-South integration threaten to break its hemispheric stranglehold. These delegations are imperial triage operations — frantic attempts to rebuild colonial chokepoints across trade, finance, and energy before Latin America slips beyond reach. But the tide is turning. Latin America’s long struggle for sovereignty is converging with the collapse of U.S. unipolar dominance.

Europe

Spain and Portugal Hit by Widespread Power Outages

Western media blames “technical issues” for massive blackouts sweeping Spain and Portugal, but the deeper reality is systemic settler-colonial decay. Decades of neoliberal privatization gutted critical infrastructure across Europe, turning once-centralized public goods into fragile chokepoints vulnerable to collapse. The empire spends trillions on NATO war machines while domestic infrastructure withers. Welcome to hyper-imperialism’s twilight: soldiers guarding crumbling, powerless cities as the rot spreads from colony to core.

Ukraine, Western Countries Meet to Discuss Russia War, Breakthrough Unlikely

The endless conferences over Ukraine reveal the truth imperialists refuse to say: the war is unwinnable. NATO’s project to seize Eurasian chokepoints and encircle Russia has stalled — draining European economies, militarizing social life, and accelerating settler-capitalist crisis at home. Behind every summit is the stench of imperial recalibration: not how to win, but how to manage defeat without losing control of the vassal states crumbling under them.

Germany Overtakes Britain as Europe’s Largest Defence Spender

Germany’s military expansion isn’t about European “defense” — it’s about imperialist recalibration through continental militarization. As the U.S. empire hemorrhages global power, Berlin is being rearmed to serve as the continental enforcer of NATO’s hyper-imperialist architecture. History doesn’t just repeat — it intensifies. Once again, Germany is being positioned at the center of a catastrophic imperial war strategy that could engulf the continent in flames.

North America

Trump Suggests Canadians Elect to Make Country 51st State

When Trump jokes about annexing Canada, it isn’t harmless bluster — it’s settler-colonial expansionism 2.0. As internal decay accelerates, the empire dreams of swallowing new territories to stave off collapse. Canada is a vital chokepoint for future energy, trade, and military corridors in a coming world war with China. Trump’s vision isn’t nostalgia — it’s technofascist recalibration, preparing settler empire for a last-ditch expansionist drive before multipolarity closes the frontier forever.

Mexico: From Democracy to Tyranny?

Western pundits portraying Mexico as “sliding into tyranny” reveal the naked colonial reflex still at the heart of imperialism. When Mexico asserts sovereignty, resists U.S. agricultural blackmail, or realigns toward BRICS+, it is declared a threat to “democracy.” What Washington fears is not authoritarianism — it’s the collapse of its regional chokepoints. The Monroe Doctrine is dying, and no amount of slander can save it.

Trump’s Border Policies Advance: New Wall Construction and Citizenship Overhaul

Trump’s border policies are technofascism in action: hardening settler-colonial borders into militarized chokepoints. Every wall built and every citizenship restriction enforced is a desperate attempt to freeze a racialized colonial order that is crumbling under demographic and economic collapse. The U.S.-Mexico border is no longer just a line — it is the empire’s bleeding edge, where technofascist domestic policy meets imperial death agony.

United States

Trump’s China Tariffs Set to Unleash Supply Shock on U.S. Economy

The new wave of Trump tariffs isn’t economic strategy — it’s economic self-strangulation. In a desperate bid to wage chokepoint warfare against China, the empire is gutting its own supply chains, driving up costs, and deepening internal collapse. This is technofascist recalibration: manufacturing domestic economic crises to justify authoritarian consolidation while falsely blaming external enemies. The real supply shock is settler-capitalist implosion.

U.S. Army Wants More Troops Like the Ones in Alaska

The Pentagon isn’t preparing for hypothetical future wars — it’s fortifying for civil conflict and settler collapse. Arctic troops are prototype counterinsurgency units for the coming era of domestic chokepoints: climate refugees, resource scarcity, infrastructure collapse, and internal rebellion. Technofascism demands not only surveillance, but militarized suppression of its own decomposing heartland. Fort Wainwright is not the frontier — it’s the empire’s fallback bunker.

China Trade War Threatens U.S. Retail With Supply Shortages

Retail shortages are not a side effect of empire’s war against China — they are a feature of chokepoint warfare designed to discipline the domestic population. The U.S. economy, addicted to hyper-extraction and cheap globalized supply lines, cannot survive its own imperial tantrums. As technofascism deepens, scarcity will be weaponized against the working class while the ruling class blames external enemies. Empire is collapsing from the inside out — and the store shelves are just the beginning.