From Mao’s seizure of sovereignty to Xi’s effort to discipline capital, China’s modern history is neither a fall from revolutionary purity nor a smooth ascent into capitalism, but a protracted socialist struggle through contradiction. Each phase of development generated new class forces, new dangers, and new strategic adjustments, as the Party-state sought to preserve political... Continue Reading →
You Can’t Bomb Your Way Out of Empire: The Colonial Contradiction, White Radicalism, and the Failure of the Weather Underground
A liberal memoir transforms a history of anti-imperialist rebellion into a story of family inheritance, masking the structural realities of empire and repression. Beneath that narrative lies a system defined by imperial war abroad and counterinsurgency at home, where dissent is managed, surveilled, and neutralized. The Weather Underground emerged from this contradiction, but its turn... Continue Reading →
The Eradication of a “Whole Civilization”: Empire’s War on Iran and the Logic of Genocide
The ongoing crisis is no mere conflict but a hyper-imperialist war where the U.S. threatens annihilation to maintain control over global energy chokepoints. Beneath the surface of chaos, the narrative of mutual escalation obscures grim realities: state violence, war crimes, and an empire's desperate bid to stave off a multipolar future, demanding urgent resistance.
The Colonial Architecture of Class: How Race Was Engineered to Divide Labor and Stabilize Empire
What masquerades as a race-class conflict in America is merely the internal workings of empire. By tracing the evolution of labor relations, it becomes clear that racial divisions are structural, not superficial nuisances. This overlapping oppression demands a unified, revolutionary response, dispelling false dichotomies to reveal a singular system demanding collective action.
Guns Over Bread: How NPR Helps Normalize Technofascism in the Age of Trump
As military spending skyrockets, social programs are slashed under the guise of “budget priorities.” This isn’t just fiscal prudence; it’s a calculated betrayal. The old social contract is dead, replaced by a system where austerity and militarization reign, revealing an empire fraying at the edges, clinging to power through coercion.
They Killed the State, Then Sold Us “Democracy”: Burkina Faso and the Empire’s Favorite Lie
The BBC frames Burkina Faso as a story of a rogue soldier rejecting democracy, but its narrative quietly assumes the innocence of the very system now being challenged. Beneath the surface lies a region shaped by war, extraction, and foreign control, where democracy functioned less as popular rule than as managed dependency. What appears as... Continue Reading →
Killing the Lion to Slay the Dragon: Iran, China, and the Architecture of U.S. Power
The bombs falling on Iran did not begin this war—they reveal it. For decades, U.S. strategy has worked to break states, choke economies, and fracture regions in order to control the flow of energy and discipline any path of independent development. What looks like a regional conflict is the tightening of a global vise, aimed... Continue Reading →
Venezuela in the Imperial Vise: The Intercept, Trump’s “Perfect Scenario,” and the Forced Reconstruction of the Bolivarian State
The Intercept’s account of Trump’s Venezuela “success” exposes colonial features of the new order, but still stops short of naming the imperial body on the table. Beneath the language of reform and normalization lies a forced recalibration: oil, minerals, law, diplomacy, and public finance are being reorganized under duress while the Bolivarian state struggles to... Continue Reading →
Borrowed Flags, Built-In Crisis: South Korea’s Anti-Communist State Cracks Under Its Own Weight
POLITICO turns a deep political rupture into spectacle, masking a crisis rooted in repression, dependency, and anti-communist rule. Beneath that spectacle lies a system shaped by coup attempts, militarized governance, U.S. command integration, and a society strained by inequality and dislocation. What appears as imported MAGA politics is in reality an old state logic speaking... Continue Reading →
The Gazafication of Cuba: Economic War and the Genocidal Siege on Sovereignty
This review of The Economic War Against Cuba by Salim Lamrani excavates the historical architecture of the U.S. blockade and reinterprets it through the present conjuncture, revealing it not as a failed Cold War relic but as an evolving system of imperial economic warfare. Moving from trade embargo to extraterritorial coercion to full-spectrum energy siege,... Continue Reading →