I. Why Ecosocialism, Why China? The Earth is burning—and it didn’t set itself on fire. The floods, the heat, the poisoned rivers, the vanishing forests—these aren’t natural disasters. They’re symptoms of a system. A system built on stolen land, stolen labor, and stolen time. Capitalism. It doesn’t just exploit people. It plunders the Earth itself.... Continue Reading →
FBI Reassigns Agents—Because White Supremacy Was Never the Threat
The Bureau reorients toward protecting settler empire—not from extremism, but from resistance.Redline | April 8, 2025 | UNITED STATESWhen the U.S. state moves its chess pieces, it rarely says “checkmate.” It just shrugs and blames the board.This week, Senator Dick Durbin sent a concerned little letter to FBI Director Kash Patel, wondering aloud why roughly... Continue Reading →
Fortress North: Canada’s Counter-Tariffs and the Fight for Sovereignty in a Settler Empire’s Shadow
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 →
Mexico Isn’t a Warzone for Rent: Sheinbaum Tells Washington to Keep Its Drones to Itself
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 →
Energy Extortion: The U.S. Threatens Europe into Fuel Dependency
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 →
“We’ll Take It Back”: Trump’s Threat to Recolonize the Panama Canal Signals U.S. Imperial Panic
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 →
Trump’s 104% Tariff On China Is A Desperate Technofascist Chokehold
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 →
US Tariffs South African Citrus In Latest Act of Imperial Extortion
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 →
High Tide, Fractured Empire: Neoliberal Hegemony and Settler Crisis in the 1990s (Race/Class 101, Part 10)
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 →
There’s A New Sheriff in Town: The Gipper, Counterinsurgency, and the Reorganization of Empire, 1980-1992 (Race/Class 101, Part 9)
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 →