Redlines: May 22, 2025

Daily revolutionary dispatches from the frontlines of global class war, settler empire, and technofascist recalibration.

Africa

Premier state Senegal to boot all foreign troops

Senegal’s Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko announced the full expulsion of foreign military forces—namely the French—by July, closing the curtain on a 2012 defense agreement that symbolized the dying embers of neocolonial “security cooperation.” The French military is retreating, base by base, like a defeated landlord getting evicted by tenants who finally read the fine print of the lease. This is not just nationalist rhetoric—it’s the continuation of a West African pivot away from the neocolonial architecture of French Africa, spearheaded by Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger. It is also a rejection of U.S.-backed AFRICOM proxy rule. The Atlanticist bloc is losing its grip as multipolar alliances emerge, and imperialist counterinsurgency is giving way to sovereign recalibration. The Sonko-Faye administration signals a bold attempt to rebalance power, not just within Senegal, but across the Sahel, in defiance of Western hyper-imperialism.

Trump ambushes South African President with ‘genocide’ conspiracy

In one of the most humiliating spectacles in modern diplomacy, Trump tried to trap South Africa’s President Ramaphosa in the Oval Office with a half-baked conspiracy theory about “white genocide.” Armed with printouts, tabloid garbage, and Elon Musk lurking in the shadows, Trump performed an unhinged propaganda ambush that fused settler psychosis with tech-bro paranoia. This was no diplomatic blunder—it was calculated ideological warfare: a fascist media stunt masquerading as foreign policy. Ramaphosa’s calm rebuttal didn’t just defuse the moment; it exposed how deep the rot runs in the Yankee settler psyche. In the technofascist mind, facts are irrelevant. What matters is manufacturing consent among white reactionaries who feel their global supremacy slipping. South Africa—symbol of anti-apartheid struggle—is now the projection screen for a dying empire’s hallucinations. The contradiction is clear: the colonizer now sees himself as the oppressed. And the U.S. ruling class is mainstreaming that madness.

The EU’s Rwanda raw materials deal — profits before Congolese lives

The European Union’s critical minerals agreement with Rwanda is nothing short of colonial extraction with a greenwashed paint job. In public, EU diplomats denounce Rwanda’s support for the brutal M23 militia terrorizing eastern Congo. In private, they ink deals for coltan smuggled out of war zones. This is the colonial contradiction at its rawest: human rights rhetoric paired with logistical complicity. What we are witnessing is Europe’s technofascist recalibration—where “sustainable value chains” mean warlord supply lines, and “ethical sourcing” means mass rape, torture, and plunder. It’s not just hypocrisy—it’s hyper-imperialism, cloaked in the language of climate transition. The EU’s silence on atrocities betrays the fact that minerals matter more than lives. And as Washington and Qatar position themselves as peace brokers, the EU proves itself once again a cowardly comprador of capital, willing to trade African blood for European batteries. This is not “sustainability”—this is empire by other means.

Asia

Vietnam’s Economy Is Booming—But Its New Leader Is Worried

Vietnam’s economic surge—fueled by export-led manufacturing and tech sector integration—has become a case study in the contradictions of capitalist globalization. With U.S.-China tensions accelerating, and tariffs tightening across global choke points, Hanoi’s trade-dependent model now faces serious headwinds. The new leadership’s concerns reflect the broader crisis of imperialism: when the collapsing unipolar order begins devouring its own peripheries to delay decay. What’s unfolding isn’t just economic anxiety—it’s an inflection point where countries like Vietnam must choose between continued integration into imperialist circuits or asserting anti-imperialist sovereignty through South-South solidarity, resource nationalization, and disengagement from neocolonial value chains. The Global South’s rise cannot be secured within an empire’s rules.

Asian Markets Shudder on US National Debt Fears

As Washington prepares to roll out a $3.8 trillion tax-and-raid package for its billionaire class, markets across Asia are feeling the tremors. From Tokyo to Jakarta, stock exchanges are bleeding confidence as the U.S. debt spiral tightens. This is no ordinary downturn—it’s the financialized fallout of imperialist decay. The empire’s economic base is crumbling, and Wall Street’s lifeboats are being inflated with inflation, deregulation, and fiscal fantasy. Yet the Global South remains tethered to this sinking ship via dollar-denominated dependencies and neoliberal institutions. What we’re witnessing isn’t a “market correction”—it’s the global reverberation of dying unipolar power, with Asia absorbing the shockwaves of U.S. decline.

Macron Pitches France as ‘Reliable Alternative’ in Asia Tour Amid US-China Rivalry

Emmanuel Macron’s Southeast Asia charm offensive isn’t just a soft-power photo-op—it’s France’s attempt to re-enter the imperial playground through the backdoor of diplomacy. Masked as “neutrality,” Paris is positioning itself as a third pole amid intensifying U.S.-China rivalry, peddling infrastructure deals and energy talks as if Europe never bled the continent dry. This is the liberal wing of imperialist recalibration: the old colonial powers remaking themselves as “reliable partners” while eyeing lithium, logistics, and leverage. The real battle here is over the narrative of multipolarity—and whether it will mean renewed sovereignty for Asia, or just a changing of guards in the imperial court. The question is: will ASEAN states buy another imperialist lie with a French accent?

Middle East

Iran Warns It Will See US as Participant if Israel Attacks Nuclear Sites

As Israeli officials escalate threats to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, Tehran has drawn a red line of its own: any Israeli attack will implicate Washington directly. This isn’t mere posturing—it’s a clear acknowledgment of the military-intelligence symbiosis underpinning the Zionist settler regime and U.S. hyper-imperialism. Washington’s patronage of Tel Aviv is more than financial or diplomatic—it’s operational, strategic, and ideological. In the era of militarized imperialism, Israel acts as the U.S. empire’s forward base in West Asia, a laboratory for settler-colonial pacification and missile diplomacy. What Iran is warning against is not war—it’s already here. The only unknown is whether the next phase will finally rupture the regional stalemate or unleash a regional firestorm under the logic of imperialist escalation.

UK to Begin Talks on Recognizing Palestinian State

The UK government has announced preliminary talks on recognizing Palestine—a move that sounds bold but smells of British imperial cynicism. Let’s not forget: it was Britain that midwifed the Zionist settler-colonial project with the Balfour Declaration. Now, after decades of enabling occupation, apartheid, and mass murder, Whitehall wants credit for “recognizing” the people it helped dispossess? This isn’t justice—it’s brand management. As British power declines, symbolic gestures replace structural reparations. This performative diplomacy serves the ideological function of imperialist recalibration: appear balanced while continuing arms sales and support for Israeli crimes. True recognition of Palestine begins with dismantling the architecture of settler-colonialism—not symbolic statehood within a cage.

Netanyahu Declares Gaza Will Be Under Total Israeli Control as Starvation Crisis Deepens

Benjamin Netanyahu has officially announced what was already being enacted on the ground: permanent Israeli control over Gaza. This is not a military operation. It is the full expression of settler-colonial pacification—where the goal is not coexistence, but conquest and containment. Over 80 Palestinians were killed in one night of bombing. Babies died in overwhelmed hospitals. Food aid sat undelivered as Israeli authorities rerouted trucks, delayed permits, and turned humanitarian corridors into killing fields. While Western outlets debate “logistics,” Israel has created a famine infrastructure—one designed to produce hunger faster than it can be relieved. The U.S.-backed “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,” guarded by armed contractors, signals a new phase in technofascist stabilization: outsourced apartheid under NGO camouflage. This is what empire looks like in decline—doubling down on death to delay defeat. Gaza is not just under siege—it is being made into a laboratory for imperial crisis management.

Latin America & the Caribbean

Guyana Warns of Arrests as Venezuela Moves to Annex Essequibo

With elections looming in Venezuela over the disputed Essequibo region, Guyana’s top military commander has threatened Venezuelans residing in Guyana with treason charges if they participate. Behind this “territorial integrity” rhetoric lies a deeper geopolitical fracture. Essequibo is rich in oil and minerals—resources already being divvied up by ExxonMobil and Chevron under U.S. military watch. This is not just a border dispute—it is the latest front in the hyper-imperialist scramble to dominate South America’s extractive zones. The U.S., through SouthCom and diplomatic proxies, is arming Guyana’s nationalist posture as part of a wider strategy of imperialist recalibration to encircle Venezuela and fracture regional multipolarity. The contradiction is stark: resource sovereignty for Caracas means regime change for Washington.

Colombia Grants Legal Power to Indigenous Councils in Landmark Shift

In a rare moment of historical reversal, Colombia has granted full legal and financial authority to Indigenous councils, allowing them to control public services and land governance—marking a decisive step toward dual and contending power. This is more than a decolonial gesture; it is the slow erosion of the neoliberal state’s monopoly over governance. Indigenous communities now have official status to defend territory, preserve biodiversity, and manage resources free from state bureaucracy or foreign NGOs. In parallel, the government has also protected the rights of isolated peoples to remain untouched by capitalist penetration. These victories for anti-imperialist sovereignty prove that the frontline of climate and cultural survival runs through Indigenous resistance—not elite summits. But the real test will be enforcement, not symbolism.

Venezuela Accuses SouthCom and CIA of Orchestrating Border Provocations

Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López has accused U.S. Southern Command and the CIA of manufacturing “false flag” provocations to paint Venezuela as an aggressor. As tensions rise around the Essequibo region, this isn’t just rhetoric—it’s classic counterinsurgency dressed up as “border security.” The U.S. playbook here is familiar: provoke a response, flood the media with distortions, then escalate militarily or economically under the banner of “democracy.” Padrino’s warning makes clear that lawfare, psychological ops, and military intimidation remain the primary tools of the U.S. empire in Latin America. What’s at stake isn’t just territory—it’s the future of Venezuela’s Bolivarian project and its refusal to submit to the architecture of technofascist stabilization being imposed across the hemisphere.

Europe

Greenland Grants Rare Earth Mining Permit to EU Consortium, Undercutting Trump’s Arctic Grab

Greenland just granted a 30-year permit to a Danish-French consortium to mine anorthosite—a rare earth-rich rock—delivering a strategic slap to Trump’s dreams of Arctic domination. While U.S. rhetoric about “wanting Greenland badly” continues, the island has pivoted toward the EU and away from American technofascist stabilization models of territorial acquisition and extractivism. This is a direct rebuke of logistical colonialism, where Arctic land is seen as a frozen asset waiting for empire to defrost it. By refusing to capitulate to Trump’s vision of deregulated, privatized land seizures, Greenland exposes the fantasy of hyper-imperialist expansion in a multipolar world. The Arctic may be melting, but so is U.S. authority over its frontiers.

The EU’s Defense Splurge Opens Doors for Arms Lobbyists Amid Accountability Vacuum

The EU’s “ready by 2030” defense surge has sparked a lobbying bonanza among Europe’s weapons manufacturers—turning Brussels into a gold rush zone for war profiteers. As military budgets explode, transparency evaporates. What we’re witnessing is the corporate capture of EU defense policy under the guise of “strategic autonomy.” This is the liberal technocratic form of militarized imperialism: less tanks on the streets, more procurement contracts funneled through WhatsApp. It is not just about rearmament—it’s about embedding the war economy into every institution. Without structural regulation, the EU is reproducing its pandemic-era scandals—only this time, it’s missiles and AI-kill systems instead of overpriced masks. This is imperialist recalibration by lobbyist directive.

Germany Arrests Neo-Nazi Teen Cell Plotting Ethnic Terror as Far-Right Surge Continues

Five teenagers in Germany have been arrested for forming a neo-Nazi terror cell bent on collapsing the democratic system and launching violent attacks on migrants. Don’t mistake them for an anomaly—they are the children of Europe’s deepening technofascist stabilization, bred on digital hate algorithms and state-sanctioned xenophobia. As Germany’s far-right AfD gains ground electorally, the line between ideological rhetoric and operational violence is thinning fast. This is the frontline of cognitive warfare in the imperial core: where colonial nostalgia fuses with algorithmic radicalization. The EU cultivates nationalist paranoia abroad to justify militarism, then reaps fascist blowback at home. This isn’t a bug—it’s the system functioning as designed.

North America

Canada in Talks to Join Trump’s $500 Billion “Golden Dome” Missile Shield

Canada is negotiating entry into Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense system—a $500 billion space-based fortress designed to militarize the skies under the banner of “homeland security.” But this is no multilateral partnership. It’s an imperial order of operations, where Ottawa is folded deeper into the U.S. war machine as junior settler partner. This dome is not about defense—it’s about hemispheric control through militarized imperialism and predictive kill-networks. The Golden Dome is settler-colonial NATO logic made orbital: protect capital corridors from “incoming threats” while tightening the surveillance grid on all sides. Canada’s role is clear—pay tribute, lease sovereignty, and applaud as technofascist stabilization gets a satellite upgrade.

Sheinbaum Celebrates Tariff Cuts as USMCA Deepens Integration—and Its Contradictions

President Claudia Sheinbaum hailed the 40% reduction in tariffs on Mexican auto exports as a diplomatic win under USMCA—and on its face, it is: thousands of jobs preserved, industrial confidence secured, and another blow to Trump’s protectionist theatrics. But beneath the surface, the contradictions deepen. The USMCA was built to secure U.S. control over regional supply chains, wage discipline, and regulatory harmonization. By leaning into this framework, even for strategic reasons, Mexico risks reinforcing its role in a system designed to contain its autonomy. Sheinbaum, a committed defender of anti-imperialist sovereignty, faces a structural dilemma: how to extract material gains from a treaty architected to preserve technofascist labor recalibration. This is not betrayal—it’s contradiction under conditions of asymmetrical power.

Canada’s Energy Schism Widens as Alberta Threatens Break with Ottawa

Canada is fracturing along its energy seams. Alberta, furious over federal green mandates and zero-pipeline pledges, is inching closer to separatism. This is not just resource nationalism—it’s the crisis of a settler federation facing imperialist decay. The energy split reveals the material contradictions of a capitalist state caught between fossil fuel profits and climate transition optics. Eastern provinces demand Net Zero; the West demands pipelines and royalties. The “equalization payments” system funnels Alberta’s wealth to Quebec while blocking its oil routes, fanning resentment. In a country founded on Indigenous land theft and extractive unity, the empire is now cannibalizing itself. When even settler provinces talk exit, the illusion of stability is done.

United States

Judge Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Dismantle Department of Education

Trump’s campaign to shutter the U.S. Department of Education just hit a legal wall. A federal judge issued an injunction, ordering the reinstatement of over 1,300 laid-off staff and condemning the administration’s attempt to hollow out the agency. This is not about “efficiency.” It’s technofascist stabilization: the intentional sabotage of public institutions, the outsourcing of knowledge to private contractors, and the prelude to a school system run by data brokers and Christian nationalists. Trump’s regime doesn’t just want to privatize education—it wants to reprogram it. The goal isn’t schooling. It’s social control.

House Passes Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’—$3.8 Trillion for the Rich, Cuts for the Poor

In the dead of night, the House passed Trump’s sweeping “One Big Beautiful Bill,” a $3.8 trillion tax bonanza for corporations and the ultra-rich—funded by slashing Medicaid, SNAP, and clean energy programs. Trump calls it historic. We call it financial piracy. Tucked inside are kickbacks for “Trump accounts,” tax exemptions for tips and loans, and funding for mass deportation camps and a new border wall. This is hyper-imperialism turned inward: loot the domestic colony, discipline the working class, and reward the oligarchs who bankroll the regime. The bill isn’t just an economic shift—it’s a blueprint for settler dictatorship by spreadsheet.

Wells Fargo: Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Bring Back Factory Jobs

Wells Fargo’s latest report confirms what every working-class community outside MAGA mythmaking already knows: Trump’s tariffs won’t bring back U.S. manufacturing jobs. Reindustrialization requires planning, not slogans. Trump’s trade war is classic imperialist recalibration: create friction with China, funnel subsidies to domestic monopolies, and sell nationalist illusions to a dispossessed working class. The jobs aren’t coming back because the system wasn’t built to create them—it was built to extract, automate, and offshore. Tariffs without transformation are just smoke grenades in a collapsing labor market. MAGA sells factories; capital sells layoffs.