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 →
Axios at the Oil Chokepoint: How Imperial Aggression Gets Packaged as Maritime Order
This WPE dissects how Axios turns a threatened expansion of war into the language of shipping, order, and responsible management. It reconstructs the material terrain beneath that narrative: the Strait of Hormuz as a world energy artery and Kharg Island as a critical node in Iran’s oil system. It then reframes the crisis as a... Continue Reading →