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 →
Redlines: April 8, 2025
Redline: The People’s Intelligence Feed Daily dispatches from the global class war frontline. April 8, 2025. Every headline is a weapon—and every word they write serves power. Redline is our counterstrike: a rapid-fire intelligence feed for the global working class and peasantry. We report the news as it is—through the lens of colonial contradiction, class... Continue Reading →
“Chinese Peasants” and Other Imperial Fantasies: JD Vance and the Delusions of a Dying Empire
There he was—Vice President JD Vance—fresh from the think tank plantation and suited up for Fox News, doing his best impression of a 21st-century plantation overseer with a Yale law degree. And what brilliant imperial wisdom did he bless us with this time? In discussing U.S. debt and tariffs, he muttered with full settler confidence:... Continue Reading →
Decolonized Coding: Hundreds of North Korean Guerillas Infiltrate Fortune 500 Companies
The empire got hacked—again. And not by some teenage troll in a basement. No, this time it was the digital guerrillas of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, quietly cashing in their checks from Fortune 500 companies while the West was too busy high-fiving itself over AI layoffs and ESG PowerPoints.According to the folks at... Continue Reading →
Zones Of Destruction, Part 2: Waste As Strategy: Case Studies in Accumulation Through Destruction
1. Kadri’s Lens, Our TerrainAli Kadri doesn’t mince words, and neither should we. In a world where entire countries are razed, populations made into refugees, and social life rendered unlivable, the polite explanations of economists and diplomats begin to sound obscene. This isn’t a system in need of repair. It’s a system functioning exactly as... Continue Reading →
Kim Il Sung Was No Peon: The Guerilla Who Defied Empire And Built Juche Socialism
The Guerrilla Who Refused to Kneel Before the Western world reduced his image to a cartoonish dictator, before his name became synonymous with a caricature crafted by capitalist propaganda, Kim Il Sung was something else entirely: a guerrilla fighter, a student of Marxism, a revolutionary forged in the anti-colonial war against Japanese imperialism. He was... Continue Reading →
Zones of Systemic Destruction, Part 1: Waste, War, and the Political Economy of Imperial Recalibration
Waste Is Not an Accident—It’s the PlanAli Kadri doesn’t beat around the bush. In The Accumulation of Waste, he tells us plainly: we live in a system where war, death, and devastation are not unfortunate byproducts of capitalism’s success. They are the success. Waste is no longer what capitalism throws away. Waste is the product.... Continue Reading →
Neofascism or Technofascism?: Monopoly Capital, Counterinsurgency, and Trump 2.0
Let’s not mistake the silence of an algorithm for peace. What John Bellamy Foster calls “neofascism” is indeed the shedding of liberal illusion by the U.S. ruling class. But what we face is not just the reappearance of fascism—it is its reprogramming. Technofascism is the name for this update: a new operating system for the... Continue Reading →