Redlines: May 29, 2025

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

Africa

The Economist Cries “Suicide Drones”—Because Africans Are Breaking NATO’s Narrative

Africans are building drones in Russia—and the imperialist media apparatus is losing its mind. The Economist calls it a “suicide mission,” as if Africans are lemmings, not laborers with politics and perspective. But the panic isn’t about drones. It’s about disobedience. From Mali to Niger, the colonial house of cards is collapsing. U.S. bases are getting booted. France is persona non grata. And in the vacuum, new alignments are forming—not out of loyalty to Moscow, but out of rejection of empire. This isn’t about Putin. It’s about power. African workers, engineers, and leaders are stepping outside the coordinates of unipolarity. And the imperial press calls it suicide because they can’t admit what it really is: anti-imperialist sovereignty—armed, assertive, and unbought.

Gold Returns to Burkina Faso—This Time, It Belongs to the People

Under President Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso isn’t just restarting its gold mines—it’s reclaiming them from neocolonial extraction. After ejecting French troops, defying Western dictates, and standing firm against IMF blackmail, the revolutionary government is showing what it means to build anti-imperialist sovereignty in practice. The West sees gold as a commodity. Traoré sees it as a weapon for liberation—funding education, infrastructure, and national dignity. Of course, Bloomberg doesn’t mention that. They’d rather fixate on output figures than on the fact that Burkina Faso is one of the few states on Earth daring to put the wealth of the land in the hands of its people. The stakes are high. Sabotage is inevitable. But if successful, this will mark a revolutionary rupture: an economy built not on dependency, but on self-determination.

Sudan’s Infrastructure Is Shattered—Because Empire Designed It That Way

Reuters cries crocodile tears over Sudan’s shattered infrastructure—but forgets to mention who shattered it. Civil war didn’t erupt from nowhere. It was fertilized by decades of IMF-imposed austerity, CIA meddling, and colonial borders drawn in ink and blood. Now that the country lies in ruin, the same forces that bled it dry show up with loans, contracts, and “reconstruction plans.” This isn’t humanitarianism. It’s disaster capitalism: break the country, then auction off the rubble. What we are witnessing is hyper-imperialism in action—where every crisis is an opportunity for the Global North to impose dependency. What Sudan needs isn’t a Marshall Plan from its murderers. It needs reparations, land justice, and control over its own destiny. Until then, every bridge rebuilt will be another chain reforged.

Asia

Asia Arms Up—Because the Empire Left a Trail of Fire

Reuters calls it an “arms race,” but fails to name the arsonist. Asia is spending more on weapons, building up research labs, and preparing for war—not because it wants to, but because empire demands it. After two decades of U.S. drone wars, military bases, proxy conflicts, and color revolutions, it’s not paranoia—it’s preparation. The region is caught between a declining hyperpower and a rising order of multipolarity. This isn’t a new Cold War. It’s a warm one. And as Japan doubles its military budget and the Philippines hosts more U.S. troops, the Global South is once again forced to fight for peace in a world where peace is no longer profitable. The West lit the fuse. Now the region is bracing for the blast.

U.S. Revokes Chinese Student Visas—Because Empire Can’t Handle a Smart Global South

They say it’s about national security. But it’s not. It’s about monopoly—on knowledge, on power, on the right to shape the future. When the U.S. bans Chinese students from its universities, it’s not defending against spies—it’s defending the mythology of unipolarity: that science, innovation, and progress flow only from the West. A Chinese student mastering AI or engineering isn’t a threat because of what they’ll steal—it’s because of what they’ll build. This is technonationalist gatekeeping wrapped in patriotism, but its real purpose is cognitive warfare—to protect empire’s narrative monopoly. The classroom, like the factory and the battlefield, is now a front in the war to keep the Global South in its place.

Vietnam Bans Telegram—Caught Between Sovereignty and Surveillance

Vietnam is banning Telegram—and the West is clutching its pearls. But the real story isn’t censorship. It’s sovereignty. Telegram has become a digital Trojan horse: a space where empire’s NGOs, dissidents-for-hire, and regime-change fronts gather behind the shield of “free speech.” Vietnam, like many Global South states, faces a double-bind: allow unfettered platforms and open the door to destabilization—or assert control and get labeled “authoritarian.” But the real censorship comes from Silicon Valley, where anti-imperialists are shadowbanned, revolutionaries are deplatformed, and propaganda flows free. In the age of algorithmic governance, banning a platform isn’t tyranny. Sometimes, it’s just closing the backdoor to a coup.

Middle East

Gulf Royals Oppose Iran Strike—To Protect the Empire’s Investments, Not the People

Saudi, Qatar, and the UAE aren’t pushing back against war with Iran out of principle. They’re protecting the pipelines. Trump wants fireworks. Netanyahu wants blood. But the Gulf monarchs want stability—for markets, for megaprojects, for the soft dictatorship of oil and finance. These aren’t peace brokers. They’re petty imperial landlords asking their tenant not to trash the property. This is technofascist stabilization with an OPEC face. And if a nuclear deal means smoother trade, they’re in. Until it doesn’t. Their problem with war is logistical, not moral.

Saudi Arabia Wants Chips, Not Chains—But Still Can’t Build Freedom

MBS wants to turn Saudi Arabia into a tech hub—robotics, AI, advanced manufacturing. But no amount of circuits can reprogram a feudal monarchy. Beneath the glass towers and glowing press releases is a kingdom still built on repression, migrant labor exploitation, and U.S. weapons. This isn’t development—it’s technofascist stabilization for petro-capitalism. The empire loves it. Because high-tech tyranny sells just fine, especially when it’s funded by oil and enforced with American guns.

Israel Expands Settlements—With Bulldozers and Blessings

While the world wrings its hands, Israel grabs more land. The latest announcement: thousands of new settlement units deep inside the West Bank. Illegal under international law, approved under U.S. silence, enforced by military occupation. This isn’t a glitch—it’s the program. Settler-colonial pacification isn’t a tragic side effect of Zionism—it is its core strategy. The so-called peace process is a demolition contract in slow motion. Every new road and red-roofed outpost is a nail in the coffin of Palestinian sovereignty.

Latin America & the Caribbean

China Offers Colombia Loans—Washington Sees a Threat. The People See an Option.

The U.S. calls it “strategic encroachment.” Colombians call it breathing room. As Washington threatens to block loans, China steps in with infrastructure funding—no IMF strings, no coup-backed austerity, no USAID regime-change clause buried in the fine print. This isn’t just a financial shift—it’s an act of anti-imperialist sovereignty. And that’s what terrifies the empire. The fear isn’t about debt. It’s about the US Empire losing its grip. Because if the Global South gets choices, it might stop choosing its colonizer.

Trump Loves Bukele—Because He Sees a Reflection

El Salvador’s strongman got the Trump stamp of approval—because he’s running the technofascist playbook by the book. Mass incarceration, surveillance, militarized streets, and social media fanfare: it’s repression with a retweet. But behind the spectacle is a deeper alignment—open class warfare as governance. Trump doesn’t just admire Bukele. He sees him as a franchise model for technofascism exported abroad. This is colonial governance 2.0—digitized, securitized, and brand-approved.

China and CELAC Deepen Ties—Multipolarity Grows in the U.S.’s Backyard

While Washington clings to Monroe Doctrine fantasies, Latin America is moving on. China and CELAC are deepening cooperation—on trade, tech, development, and sovereignty. This isn’t charity. It’s multipolarity in motion. The era of the Washington Consensus is cracking. And in its place: a rising bloc of sovereign states choosing strategic alternatives not dictated by Wall Street or the State Department. The backyard is becoming a battlefield—and empire is losing home field advantage.

Europe

British Army Chief Warns of War—Because NATO Needs a Reason to Exist

General Roly Walker says “the threat is real.” Translation: the arms dealers are getting nervous. With Ukraine burning out and budgets tightening, NATO’s relevance depends on manufacturing a new apocalypse. The target? Russia—again. This isn’t defense. It’s militarized imperialism dressed up in patriotism, fueled by procurement quotas and enforced through perpetual escalation. Empire doesn’t fear war—it fears peace without profit.

Klaus Schwab Cracks—The Technocrats Are Turning on Their Own

The godfather of Davos just filed criminal charges against anonymous whistleblowers—for defamation. Schwab, long the symbol of elite technocratic rule, is feeling the cracks in his own cathedral. The World Economic Forum promised “stakeholder capitalism.” What it delivered was technofascism in a sustainable disguise—a neoliberal cult dressed in climate slogans and equity buzzwords. Now the mask is slipping, and the priesthood is imploding. When the high priests start suing the choir, the whole church is coming down.

Trump’s MAGA Roadshow Rolls Through Europe—Bringing Tariffs, Theocrats, and Threats

From Warsaw to Budapest, MAGA has gone global. Trump’s allies are pushing coups with ballots, tariffs with bluster, and a theocratic playbook of “civilizational war” wrapped in red, white, and blue. But this isn’t American conservatism—it’s transatlantic technofascism. CPAC is building a coalition of strongmen who hate unions, migrants, queers, and climate science—but love Goldman Sachs. And if Europe hesitates to kneel, Trump’s got a 50% tariff waiting in July. This is the next phase of imperialist recalibration: economic coercion backed by ideology, with Brussels as the new bargaining chip.

North America

Canada’s Military Makeover—Marching to Trump’s NATO Drum

Don’t be fooled by the polite packaging—Canada’s government is gearing up for war, not peace. Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne talks of sovereignty, but what he’s really doing is tethering Canada deeper into the circuitry of hyper-imperialism. The plan? Channel public funds into tanks, drones, and nuclear exports, all while calling it “smart investment.” This isn’t about protecting Canada—it’s about appeasing Trump, hitting NATO spending quotas, and feeding the defense-industrial complex. Champagne says he’s rebuilding the country. But he’s rebuilding it to serve empire.

Avocados, Tariffs, and Wildfires—The Colonial Supply Chain Is Ripe

The AP serves up a feel-good farm story with guacamole on top. But behind California’s booming avocado industry is the logic of neocolonial extraction. U.S. demand depends on Mexican land, labor, and water—imported under the banner of free trade, exported under the shadow of tariff threats. California growers, reeling from climate-fueled wildfires, are replanting not because the system works—but because there’s still profit in the wreckage. Lemon trees are out, avocados are in, and behind the green fruit is a burning contradiction: monoculture expansion on scorched earth. This isn’t a success story. It’s a fruit-flavored feedback loop of imperial dependency and ecological collapse.

Mexico Votes—And Indigenous Power Rises from Below

Mexico’s judiciary elections this Sunday are being cast as a crisis by the ruling elite—but for millions, especially Indigenous communities, it feels like a long-overdue reckoning. With President Claudia Sheinbaum backing judicial reform and grassroots forces mobilizing in blocs, the country is testing whether power can shift from the top down to the base. But what’s historic is the rise of an organized, credible Indigenous political movement—not just protesting from the margins, but building dual and contending power within the state. Led by Hugo Aguilar Ortiz, this movement isn’t symbolic. It’s strategic. And if he wins, Aguilar would become the first Indigenous president of Mexico’s Supreme Court since Benito Juárez—a moment that could split the old colonial consensus in two. While Washington watches nervously, the people are rewriting the rules.

United States

Elon Musk “Quits”—But the Technofascist Project Rolls On

Don’t believe the headlines. Elon Musk isn’t leaving power—he’s just changing desks. Reuters claims he’s stepping back from his formal role in the Trump administration, but this is smoke, not fire. Musk already helped lay the infrastructure for technofascism: surveillance tech, censorship algorithms, AI militarization, and privatized space warfare. Now, with the groundwork set, he can retreat into “private life” while continuing to steer empire from above. This is oligarchic state capture in action—exit the room, keep your hand on the switch. His companies still build the tools of repression. His ideology still shapes the regime. This isn’t an exit—it’s a stage cue in the theater of soft fascism.

Trump’s Tariffs Reinstated—Because the Courts Serve Capital, Not the People

Less than 24 hours after a federal trade court ruled Trump’s tariffs illegal, a higher court stepped in to protect them. The ruling? Temporarily reversed. The empire’s emergency powers are back on the table. These tariffs were never about drugs, jobs, or “liberation”—they were a tool of imperialist recalibration: a blunt-force instrument to discipline allies, punish rivals, and prop up a collapsing economy. Now the courts are playing ping-pong with legality while working-class people pay in higher prices, job precarity, and inflation. Don’t be fooled by the robes and gavels. This is lawfare in service of capital—a judicial mask for economic coercion.

U.S. Economy Contracts—Because Capitalism Can’t Fix What It Breaks

The U.S. economy shrank 0.2% this quarter, and Bloomberg blames weak spending and trade—but the rot goes deeper. This isn’t a blip. It’s the deepening crisis of imperialist decay. Consumer demand is falling because real wages are flatlined. Trade is tightening because hyper-imperialism has made enemies out of trading partners. And the state responds not with care—but with cuts, war budgets, and economic strong-arming. This is the collapse of an empire that can no longer grow, only loot—and when looting fails, blame the poor.