Tag: imperialism

The Axis Washington Built: How the War Against Multipolarity Is Pushing the World Toward World War III

The rhetoric around a so-called "authoritarian axis" of Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea is dangerously misleading. This narrative stems from a long history of U.S. military expansion and interventionism that has fostered the very hostilities it claims to combat. Instead of viewing these nations as a monolithic threat, we must recognize that their alliances are responses to decades of American aggression and coercion. Bosco's portrayal of these entities as simple villains obscures the deeper dynamics at play, namely that U.S. actions have directly contributed to their convergence. To prevent a World War III scenario, we must dismantle the war machinery perpetuating this cycle of escalation and educate the public on these historical nuances.

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When the Shield Became the Target: The Iran War and the Mecca Pact Beyond Washington

The Times of India packages Saudi money, Turkish military power and Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal into the spectacle of an emerging “Islamic NATO,” while burying the war and contradictions that made the agreement intelligible. Beneath the headline lies an older architecture of military cooperation, energy dependence and regional hedging accelerated by a U.S.-Israeli war that devastated... Continue Reading →

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Tomorrow’s Russian Tank: How a Hypothetical War Rearms Europe Today

CNN warns that Russia could someday “test” NATO, but the military transformation supposedly justified by that future threat is already underway. Europe is being rearmed, civilian infrastructure reorganized for military mobility, and productive capacity redirected toward an expanding war economy as U.S. weapons stocks strain under commitments spanning Ukraine, Iran, Russia, and China. The deeper story is not a proven Russian timetable for invasion, but an American-centered imperial bloc confronting the rising cost of reproducing its military reach and hardening Europe as a Western Rear. What Russia could do tomorrow becomes the argument for what Europe must militarize today.

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The Crime of Making Too Much: China and the Empire’s Monopoly on Abundance

The Economist's recent critique of China's industrial prowess reveals a deeper hypocrisy within Western narratives. While it acknowledges China's efficiency, it vilifies state-driven competition when it disrupts Western hegemony. The real issue is not overproduction but an imbalance of purchasing power, presenting an ugly tableau of warehouses filled with goods while people lack access. As China strives for self-reliance, the West's response is to impose tariffs and sanctions, prioritizing monopoly over equitable distribution. This conflict isn’t a mere economic dispute; it’s a struggle for who controls productive capacity. The question is whether to align production with human need or maintain the status quo of inequality.

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The Divided Empire: Prashad, Buze and the Contradiction Between Hyper-Imperial Unity and Capitalist Rivalry

In a time when U.S.-led imperialism tightens its grip, nuanced debates emerge about the new American Pole—a daunting fusion of military, financial, and technological power that suppresses dissent while promising security. Vijay Prashad argues for a hyper-imperialism consolidating state control and aggressiveness against external defiance, while Özcan Buze highlights lingering national rivalries within the empire’s core. As cities devolve into ghost towns stripped of industry and sovereignty is commodified, the left is urged to unite struggles for worker power, national liberation, and social ownership. The empire’s contradictions must fuel a revolutionary response—a call to dismantle the machinery that perpetuates exploitation, rather than aspiring for a mere return to past privileges.

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The Revolution Will Not Be Managed: Glen Ford, the Black Agenda, and the Missing Vehicle

Glen Ford's incisive critique shatters the myth of American progress, revealing how conquest and exploitation are cloaked as success. He dissects the deceptive practices of the Black misleadership class and the Democratic Party, showing how they perpetuate capitalist interests while masquerading as champions of Black liberation. Ford demands a radical rethinking of power and accountability, advocating for community control and reparations, emphasizing that true self-determination lies in empowering marginalized voices. Amidst the pandemic and civil unrest, Ford’s legacy calls for a revolutionary movement capable of dismantling systemic oppression rather than settling for token representation. The fight is not just for visibility; it’s for genuine power.

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Democracy With a Gun to Your Head: George Jackson and the American Fascist Order

George Jackson wrote from inside the cage and exposed the system beyond it. In Blood in My Eye, prison, property, racial domination, monopoly capital, and imperial war appear not as separate problems but as parts of one American order. Jackson’s theory of secure fascism revealed how counterrevolution can rule through elections, reform, consumerism, surveillance, and controlled opposition as effectively as open terror. His strategic errors matter too: revolutionary potential is not consciousness, and militant initiative cannot substitute for organized mass power. This review recovers Jackson as a living weapon—one to be studied, sharpened, corrected, and returned to the struggle.

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Not Every Worker Is Proletarian: J. Sakai, White Labor, and the Settler Bargain

J. Sakai's Settlers shatters the sanctified image of the white proletariat by exposing them as products of a colonial system built on genocide, conquest, and exploitation. He argues that white labor, while subjected to capitalist oppression, has historically defended the very empire benefiting from their privilege. The text dismantles the myth that suffering automatically leads to class solidarity or consciousness, instead positing that loyalty to the colonial project is rooted in material circumstances. Sakai's revisionist approach insists that genuine liberation cannot emerge from complicity in settler structures, challenging the Euro-American left's complacency and demanding a conscious, organized revolutionary defection from oppressive systems.

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The World Got Richer, You Didn’t: Capitalism’s Quadrillion-Dollar Balance-Sheet Lie

Fortune says “global households” became $40 trillion richer in 2025. But when the richest 10 percent already own three-quarters of the world’s wealth, that headline is less a report than a magic trick. The new abundance came largely from rising equities, inflated asset values and expanding financial claims—not from productive investment or improved living standards. Behind the quadrillion-dollar balance sheet lies a system where private fortunes swell while public wealth stagnates, workers lose power, tenants lose security and the Global South services the debts of the imperial core. This is not shared prosperity. It is class power written in the language of accounting.

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The Thieves Opened the Vault: From Comprador Corruption to Imperial Receivership in Venezuela

The betrayal of Pedro Binaggia, a Venezuelan informant for U.S. authorities, is just a microcosm of a much larger imperial drama. While Binaggia recorded evidence of a $1.2 billion oil fraud, he found the American government he served turned its back on him after extracting what it needed. This tale is framed as his personal tragedy but obscures the broader context of imperial overreach. The U.S. not only investigates and prosecutes alleged crimes but assumes control over Venezuela’s oil revenue, reducing a sovereign state to a pawn in a power game. The theft of national wealth is cleaned up by a facade of legality, while corrupted officials and foreign interests conspire in the shadows. It's a grim reminder: in this twisted narrative, the real crime lies in the extraction, not just the theft.

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