Redlines: May 28, 2025

Daily revolutionary dispatches from the frontlines of global class war, colonial contradiction, and technofascist stabilization.

Africa

Redrawing the World Map—Africa’s Artificial Scale Is Imperial Propaganda

They lied to us with a map. For centuries, the rulers of the West shrank Africa not just on paper, but in the imagination of the world. The Mercator projection didn’t just distort geography—it disfigured dignity. This was no innocent mistake of cartography. It was cognitive warfare: a colonial spell that made the richest continent look like an afterthought. But now, the truth refuses to stay buried. Correct the map, and you correct the story. Africa is vast. Africa is central. Africa holds the space to swallow the U.S., China, India, and most of Europe whole. And maybe that’s why empire needed the lie so badly—to hide the scale of what it was stealing, and to mask the might of the people it feared.

U.S. Rethinks AFRICOM—Because Africa’s Rethinking the U.S.

Now the Pentagon says it’s having second thoughts about AFRICOM. Don’t be fooled—this isn’t reflection. It’s retreat. The technofascist command posts of empire are being evicted, not reformed. From Niamey to Ouagadougou, the people have had enough of “counterterrorism” that only seems to guard gold mines and drone the poor. AFRICOM isn’t a security force—it’s a delivery system for neocolonial extraction, a muscle-bound middleman for mining giants and oil cartels. But imperialism has a problem: it still has guns, but it’s running out of consent. And when the people reclaim their sovereignty, even the biggest bases become sandcastles.

Joseph Kabila Returns to Congo—Oligarchic Ghosts Circle a Nation in Struggle

Joseph Kabila has returned—and with him, the ghost of a Congo plundered. His comeback isn’t about homecoming. It’s about restoring a system where foreign corporations get the minerals, and the Congolese people get the graves. This is counterinsurgency in a tailored suit: bring back the old comprador to smother the new demands for dignity. But the people of Congo are not waiting for permission to be free. They are organizing, resisting, building dual and contending power—independent structures of survival and struggle beyond the reach of elites. The real battle in Congo isn’t just about charges of treason. It’s about who controls the copper and the coltan, the future and the fight. And this time, it might not be the usual suspects who win.

Asia

Asia’s “Sell America” Moment—De-Dollarization Deepens as Faith in Empire Fades

What do you do when the world’s reserve currency becomes a weapon? You stop trusting it—and you stop holding it. Across Asia, central banks and sovereign funds are quietly dumping their U.S. dollars, not as a gamble, but as a strategy of survival. This isn’t just market volatility—it’s a mass exodus from hyper-imperialism. The dollar isn’t a currency anymore. It’s a leash. And when the empire pulls it, you either heel or hang. Now, from Tokyo to Jakarta, the Global South is untying that leash. Trade corridors, currency swaps, and BRICS+ financial architectures are replacing tribute with terms. What Bloomberg calls a “sell-off,” we call an escape.

India Loses Grip on South Asia—China Fills the Vacuum with Infrastructure and Influence

New Delhi used to play regional cop. Now, it’s just another has-been hegemon watching its neighborhood walk away. One by one, South Asian countries are turning to Beijing—not because they love China, but because they’re done being bullied. The era of Indian exceptionalism—backed by Washington and wrapped in soft-power slogans—is cracking. In its place: roads, rails, ports, and partnerships. What China brings to the table isn’t charity—it’s infrastructure, built without IMF chains. That’s anti-imperialist sovereignty by bulldozer. And for Delhi, still clinging to its junior seat at the empire’s table, the silence from Dhaka and Colombo is deafening.

U.S. Targets Chinese Solar Tech—South Korea Caught in the Crossfire

Another day, another Cold War tantrum. This time, Washington says Chinese-made solar inverters might be spying on us. The evidence? Undefined. The motive? Clear. The U.S. doesn’t care about clean energy. It cares about control. And South Korea, stuck in the middle of the technofascist empire’s energy war, is being told to choose: logic or loyalty. The truth is, the U.S. green transition is a mirage. What they really want is a monopoly on “renewable” tech—minus the renewables, minus the tech. Just sanctions, surveillance, and silicon supply chains strangled in the name of freedom. Welcome to the green arm of technofascist stabilization.

Middle East

Israel “May Allow” UN Aid to Continue—After Engineering Famine

First they bombed the bakeries. Now they say they’ll let the UN pass out soap. This isn’t relief—it’s a performance. Israel, with full U.S. backing, has strangled Gaza for months—blockading food, destroying infrastructure, and targeting hospitals. Now it offers “permission” for aid agencies to resume non-food operations, while handing food distribution to a ghost NGO with no real capacity on the ground. This isn’t humanitarianism. It’s settler-colonial pacification through selective suffering. Let a few people survive, just enough to film it. This is not mercy—it’s PR management. Gaza doesn’t need crumbs. It needs the siege lifted. And it needs the world to stop mistaking rationing for rescue.

Trump Warns Netanyahu “Don’t Bomb Yet”—Because Empire Prefers Siege First

Empire is patient when it needs to be. Trump tells Netanyahu: not yet. Let the negotiations drag. Let the sanctions tighten. Let the economic chokehold work. This is how hyper-imperialism operates—not through fireworks, but through calibrated suffocation. Both Trump and Netanyahu want the same thing: Iran disarmed, isolated, and subordinate. Whether it comes by warhead or wire transfer doesn’t matter. What matters is timing. The message is clear: “We’ll shoot later—just let us finish the paperwork first.” Empire prefers siege to spectacle when it’s cheaper. And when they call it diplomacy, remember—it’s still war, just dressed in a suit.

UN Security Council Meets Again—Yet the Siege Grinds On

Another meeting, another eulogy. The UN Security Council gathered once again to “discuss” Gaza—armed with sympathy and stripped of power. While bombs fall and children starve, diplomats deliver statements like eulogies in slow motion. The U.S. veto ensures that nothing changes, and settler-colonial pacification continues uninterrupted. The colonizer speaks. The colonized beg. And the theater rolls on. This isn’t a failure of process—it’s the process working exactly as designed. Until the UN reflects the dual and contending power of oppressed peoples—not the consensus of capital and colonizers—it will remain a soundstage for crimes disguised as concern.

Latin America & the Caribbean

U.S. Cries “Hostage” as Venezuela Defends Its Sovereignty

The empire has the nerve to cry foul. Venezuela, under siege from sanctions architecture and foreign subversion, detains several U.S. nationals—and Washington screams “hostage diplomacy.” But let’s be clear: these aren’t backpackers in the wrong place. These are agents of empire. The same empire that froze Venezuela’s reserves, backed coups, and funds lawfare operations through NGOs and shadow courts. Venezuela isn’t violating international norms—it’s defending its right to exist. What the U.S. calls a hostage, the colonized recognize as a countermeasure. And if anyone is being held hostage, it’s Venezuela—chained to the dollar, encircled by sanctions, and forced to justify its sovereignty to its stalker.

Milei’s Market Meltdown—The Free Market Comes Crawling Back to the State

Milei promised a libertarian utopia. What he delivered was disaster. After gutting Argentina’s public services and unleashing the peso to the mercy of speculators, the so-called “anarcho-capitalist” is now doing exactly what he swore he’d never do—intervening. The market’s invisible hand turned out to be a clenched fist, punching the working class into poverty. So now the state returns, not to protect the people, but to protect capital from collapse. This is the arc of technofascist labor recalibration: dismantle protections, crash the system, then militarize the response. Milei isn’t a reformer—he’s a foot soldier for finance capital. And when the experiment fails, it’s the poor who pay in blood.

Xiomara Castro Assumes Defense Ministry—Preempting Empire’s Military Card

Honduras remembers the coups. It remembers the generals trained in U.S. embassies and the paramilitary handshakes behind closed doors. So when President Xiomara Castro took direct control of the Defense Ministry, it wasn’t a power grab—it was preemptive decolonization. By placing civilian hands over the military command, Castro disrupts the usual choreography of imperial sabotage. Her government has already rejected IMF prescriptions and embraced anti-imperialist sovereignty through regional blocs like ALBA. Now, with the army under tighter control, she’s signaling: there will be no quiet coup this time. Empire sees it as defiance. The people see it as insurance.

Europe

Trump vs. Putin—or Just Another Performance in the Imperial Theater?

Trump calls Putin “crazy.” Medvedev responds with “World War III.” Western media frame it as a clash of strongmen—but this is not diplomacy. It’s spectacle. Behind the posturing lies the real story: backchannel deals, military forums, and negotiations on how to divide the spoils. While the press dramatizes Twitter beefs, U.S. and Russian envoys are meeting behind closed doors. This is imperialist recalibration in its rawest form—adjusting the tempo of conflict without ever questioning its purpose. Europe, caught between Trump’s circus and Putin’s chessboard, remains the battlefield—not the player. And as usual, the workers pay while elites play their game of brinkmanship in surround sound.

China-EU Chip Talks Challenge Washington’s Chokehold on Tech

While Washington wages a tariff war disguised as national security, European tech firms are quietly looking East. China offers stable supply chains, investment, and industrial collaboration—everything the U.S. once offered, before it weaponized trade into a tool of hyper-imperialism. The semiconductor sector is ground zero in this realignment. Brussels may chant NATO slogans, but European capital wants survival, not slogans. Behind the scenes, the Atlantic alliance is cracking—not because of ideology, but because of profit. And when the chips are down, capitalists don’t salute—they sell. Multipolarity is becoming less a political ideal and more an industrial necessity.

Europe’s War Economy Booms—Weapons Fill the Void Left by Welfare

Europe once claimed to be a peace project. Now it’s just a weapons depot with good branding. Defense contractors are hiring by the thousands, missiles are rolling off production lines, and public budgets are bleeding into bombs while schools and hospitals rot. This is not a temporary surge—it’s permanent war capitalism, baked into the very architecture of the EU. As NATO’s demands grow, Europe is converting its welfare states into war states. What they call “defense spending” is just austerity by other means: cut pensions, fund predator drones. In the heart of Western civilization, the future is not green. It’s camouflaged.

North America

Copper Crisis: Can the World Electrify Without Extracting the Global South?

A new study says the world needs over 3 billion metric tons of copper to electrify everything—from Teslas in Silicon Valley to data centers powering AI empires. The problem? That copper doesn’t exist in the Global North. It must be extracted—violently—from the South. This is the material face of digital colonialism: green on the surface, red underneath. Africa alone would need a billion metric tons just to build out basic infrastructure—healthcare, sanitation, schools. But instead, its copper is earmarked for imperial cloud servers and EV batteries. The so-called green transition isn’t a planetary project. It’s necro-extractivism in a new costume. And the people who pay with their land, water, and lungs aren’t invited to the climate summits.

Trump’s Golden Dome: Canada’s Sovereignty or Submission

Trump is offering Canada a deal it can’t accept: join the U.S. missile defense grid for free—if it agrees to become the 51st state. Otherwise? Pay $61 billion. This isn’t diplomacy. It’s a shakedown. The so-called “Golden Dome,” modeled after Israel’s Iron Dome, is a weaponized insurance racket: buy in, or risk being left defenseless under empire’s skies. Trump’s offer reveals the mechanics of logistical colonialism: forcing dependent nations to pay tribute in exchange for inclusion in militarized infrastructure they never asked for. Canada may affirm its sovereignty, but the pressure is mounting. In the end, this is not about defense—it’s about dominance.

Sheinbaum Strikes Back: Mexico Resists U.S. Interference

Claudia Sheinbaum isn’t mincing words. The new president of Mexico has vowed to defend her country’s sovereignty against Washington’s creeping claws. Foreign agents now require permission to operate—and must follow Mexican law. These aren’t just reforms. They’re reversals of decades of U.S. domination. Sheinbaum stands on the shoulders of AMLO and the legacy of national dignity that imperialism has tried to erase since the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In a region marked by coups, settler-colonial pacification, and economic sabotage, Mexico’s refusal to be treated like a backyard is an act of anti-imperialist sovereignty. As multipolarity expands and ALBA rises, Sheinbaum isn’t just resisting interference—she’s redrawing the borders of Latin American self-determination.

United States

Elon’s Doge Days Are Numbered

Elon Musk is mad at Trump—for spending too much money. Yes, the same Musk who gutted public agencies under his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), axed 275,000 jobs, and turned U.S. governance into a corporate test lab is now whining about deficits. This is the internal contradiction of technofascism laid bare: billionaire czars engineer austerity, then complain when their Frankenstein bites back. Musk’s complaints aren’t about economics—they’re about control. The empire he helped digitize is spiraling into chaos, and now even he can’t steer it. But rest assured: when cuts come, they won’t be to SpaceX subsidies. They’ll be to your local hospital, your kid’s school, your transit line. That’s not efficiency—it’s oligarchic state capture by algorithm.

Tariffs, Tech, and the Tectonics of Imperial Industry

Trump wants Apple to move iPhone production to U.S. soil—and he’s dangling a 25% tariff as the stick. It’s not about jobs. It’s not about sovereignty. It’s about power. This is imperialist recalibration in real time: coercing multinational tech firms to relocate not for the workers’ benefit, but to tighten control over strategic supply chains. Never mind that the U.S. labor force has been de-skilled by decades of outsourcing. This isn’t “bringing jobs back.” It’s a spectacle of technonationalism—shuffling factory shells around while keeping the actual profits offshored and the working class precarious. MAGA’s jobs plan? Robots, tariffs, and submission.

Robots Don’t Unionize: Amazon’s “Made in USA” Mirage

Amazon wants you to believe it’s “bringing manufacturing back.” What it’s really doing is building robots that replace workers faster than you can say “warehouse strike.” In Massachusetts, Amazon’s robotics factories crank out machines named Hercules and Proteus—not to uplift labor, but to eliminate it. This is technofascist labor recalibration: a two-tier society where a few workers build the bots, and the rest become surplus. CEO Tye Brady calls it innovation. We call it automation as class war. “Made in USA” means nothing if the only thing being made is a more obedient underclass. In Amazon’s America, your job is either to build the machine—or be replaced by it.