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Workers of the New World: BRICS+, Platform Capital, and the Class Struggle Inside Multipolarity

The Atlantic neoliberal order is disintegrating, revealing the ravages inflicted on workers and the environment by a relentless pursuit of profit. As BRICS+ nations seek to reclaim industrial sovereignty and labor rights, they face a chaotic multipolar reality where exploitation continues under different guises. Amid profound instability, the laboring class must transition from mere instruments of production to conscious political actors capable of reshaping development. This moment offers a critical opportunity: to reclaim the narrative and construct a world centered on human dignity and ecological balance. The question now is whether history will be rewritten by workers or remain dominated by elites.

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Empire on Extension Cord: Big Tech, Cold War 2.0, and the AI Grid Crisis of American Capitalism

The Harvard policy brief on AI and the electric grid inadvertently exposes the contradictions of a decaying American empire desperate to maintain technological supremacy through monopolistic control. Beneath the façade of innovation lies a stark energy crisis, with the rising demand from AI data centers straining an already fragile grid. As the U.S. grapples with fragmented privatization while competing against China’s centralized planning, the notion of the “clean cloud” is shattered by its heavy reliance on fossil fuels and depleted resources. This crisis symbolizes an empire’s struggle, revealing a society entangled in a web of profiteering that prioritizes corporate gain over public need, leaving ordinary citizens to pay the price for elite ambition.

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Françafrique Forward: Macron, Ruto, and the Nairobi Trap of Imperial Recalibration

The Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi is nothing more than a polished façade for France's enduring imperial ambitions in Africa, cleverly cloaked in the language of innovation and partnership. While hailed as a diplomatic reset as it moves outside Francophone Africa for the first time, the summit simply signals France’s desperation to regain footholds after being ousted from the Sahel. As Kenya grapples with its own debt crisis, the summit reflects a deeper reality: a struggle for sovereignty masked by corporate rhetoric. Opposing forces are mobilizing against this repackaging of imperialism, unearthing the true narrative of resistance against old empires in new guises.

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The Corridors of Defiance: How the War on Iran Accelerated the Multipolar Reorganization of Western Asia

The 2026 U.S.-Israeli assault on Iran was a strategic miscalculation, intended to reassert imperial dominance in Western Asia but instead revealing the fragility of Atlantic hegemony. As the old security architecture eroded, alternative infrastructures and regional alliances emerged, facilitating trade and cooperation beyond Western control. The ongoing crises connected Gaza, Yemen, and the vital sea lanes, illustrating that military aggression has backfired, prompting regional states to recalibrate and seek resilience against imperialism. This war exposed a transformative geopolitical landscape, where logistics and diplomatic maneuvers are increasingly driven by necessity, carving out a multipolar future and undermining the sheer authority once held by the empire.

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Empire’s Digital Panic: China, Xinjiang, and the War Over Who Controls the Future

The Associated Press investigation reveals a shocking truth: Silicon Valley's complicity in building the surveillance apparatus that the West now demonizes in China. While framing China as a "digital police state," the report subtly shields the very imperial system enabling such technologies. It highlights a deeper confrontation—one where the U.S. grapples with losing its monopoly on development and technology. As the New Cold War intensifies, the true danger emerges: not the surveillance itself, but the realization that a socialist-oriented state can achieve modernization and stability without Western control. The empire's fear lies in losing its grip over a future it desperately seeks to define and dominate.

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Failure According to Whom?: Rewriting the Metrics of Socialism

The pervasive claim that socialism has "failed" is an ideological construct rather than a factual statement. A closer analysis reveals that socialist systems, from the Soviet Union to China, achieved measurable gains in education, health, and economic development under dire conditions. This narrative of failure is not supported by historical evidence but rather is a product of a century-long ideological war against socialism. Capitalism, meanwhile, perpetuates crises, inequality, and social fragmentation, failing to meet human needs. The real question is not why socialism fails, but how it has transformed societies when confronted with immense challenges, challenging the ruling narrative that defines success so narrowly.

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Missing Scientists or Manufactured Fog: Empire’s Security State, Media Spectacle, and the Weaponization of Uncertainty

The media's sensational framing of missing scientists morphs unrelated tragedies into a national mystery, leveraging public fear to create an illusion of coordinated malevolence. An investigation reveals these cases are disparate incidents, manipulated through narrative distortions, state secrecy, and congressional theatrics. The real enemy isn't a hidden conspiracy but a militarized system that prioritizes power over human lives. This complex interplay fuels confusion, enabling a dangerous fog where accountability and transparency are sacrificed for profit and control. Rather than succumb to fear, the public must demand clarity and challenge the oppressive structures that breed distrust and silence dissent.

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Gold, Lithium, and the Chains of Empire: Zimbabwe, China, and the Battle to Break the Colonial Economy

The imperial press calls Zimbabwe’s recovery “bizarre,” revealing more about empire’s ideology than Africa’s reality. Beneath the headlines lies a material transformation driven by gold, lithium, labor, and survival within a system built to constrain it. As Zimbabwe pushes toward beneficiation and partners with China, it enters a global struggle over who controls resources, industry,... Continue Reading →

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Settlers in the Wreckage: J. Sakai, Technofascism, and the War for the Future

J. Sakai’s interviews force the U.S. left to confront the settler-colonial foundations it has spent generations avoiding. His analysis exposes the myth of the revolutionary white proletariat, the collapse of liberal illusions, and the expansion of war into every domain of life. But Weaponized Information pushes further, grounding his insights in monopoly finance capital, technofascism,... Continue Reading →

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Fault Lines of Empire: U.S. Strategy, Pakistani Class Power, and the Crisis of Sovereignty

Asia Times frames Pakistan’s instability as a strategic obstacle, obscuring the material and political forces shaping the terrain. The crisis emerges from IMF austerity, elite domination, climate catastrophe, and a deepening political rupture following the coup against Imran Khan. Imperialist recalibration collides with multipolar transition, exposing the struggle between sovereignty and neocolonial extraction. Workers, peasants,... Continue Reading →

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