"Truth Is On The Side Of the Oppressed." – Malcolm X
Tariffs, annexation, and the Arctic chokepoint—welcome to the empire’s northern frontier. Redline | April 8, 2025 | NORTH AMERICA When Donald Trump said he might annex Canada, liberal pundits chuckled. But empires don’t joke. They predict. This week, the Canadian government announced that its retaliatory tariffs—25% duties on a range of U.S.-made automobiles—will go into... Continue Reading →
From counterinsurgency to border sovereignty: Latin America redraws the imperial line.Redline | April 8, 2025 | NORTH AMERICAThe United States has a simple formula for foreign policy: create the problem, ignore the cause, and offer war as the cure. This week, Washington tried the old script again—floating the idea of launching drone strikes against drug... Continue Reading →
The empire doesn't ask Europe to obey—it engineers the conditions that make disobedience impossible.Redline | April 8, 2025 | EUROPEIt wasn’t a policy shift—it was a declaration of war by other means.This week, Trump made clear what many already knew: Europe is no longer an “ally.” It is an imperial outpost. “They will buy our... Continue Reading →
Imperial ambitions resurface as Washington eyes strategic control over global trade routes. Redline | April 8, 2025 | LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN It was always borrowed time. The notion that the United States had relinquished control of the Panama Canal was a convenient narrative for domestic audiences. In reality, imperial interests merely shifted tactics. Now,... Continue Reading →
Economic strangulation dressed as trade protection, targeting not Beijing—but the global future.The U.S. empire has entered its siege stage. No longer capable of seducing the world with the glitz of consumer culture or the promise of prosperity, it now defaults to punishment. The latest: a 104% cumulative tariff on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), solar panels,... Continue Reading →
35,000 Black agricultural jobs are under threat—Washington calls it "trade leverage."It’s always dressed up in the same words: “trade enforcement,” “national interest,” “economic reciprocity.” But peel back the language of the U.S. State Department and what you’ll find—rotting just beneath the surface—is a weapon aimed directly at the Global South’s agricultural proletariat.This week, Washington fired... Continue Reading →
I. The Empire Triumphant—Or So It Thought The 1990s opened with the swagger of a global victor. The Soviet Union had collapsed. China was being groomed into the global market. The Berlin Wall was rubble. And in Washington, neoliberals—both red-tied and blue-tied—declared the “end of history.” Capitalism had won. The U.S. stood unchallenged. But that... Continue Reading →
I. The Ruling Class Strikes Back By the 1980s, the white ruling class had lost its patience. After a generation of upheaval—urban rebellions, anti-war uprisings, Black liberation movements, Indigenous resurgence, Third World revolutions—U.S. imperialism launched a strategic counteroffensive. Reagan was not just a new president. He was a new regime. His administration reorganized the U.S.... Continue Reading →
I. From Black Revolution to Black Representation By the dawn of the 1970s, the U.S. settler state had waged a brutal counterinsurgency campaign against the revolutionary Black freedom struggle. The Black Panther Party was splintered, surveilled, and assaulted. The Black Liberation Army was underground. Fred Hampton was assassinated. Assata was in exile. George Jackson was... Continue Reading →
The Class Rebellion of the Colonized in the Heart of Empire I. From the Shop Floor to the Street: A Colonial Proletariat Emerges By the 1950s, a seismic shift had taken place within the U.S. working class. The descendants of enslaved Africans, once confined to the plantation and the sharecropper’s plot, had become the backbone... Continue Reading →
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