Redlines – June 7, 2025 Daily Dispatches from the Frontlines of Empire: Exposing Capitalist Crisis, Imperialist Recalibration, and the Global Struggle for Liberation AFRICA Africa Launches Unified Space Agency—But Will It Break Orbit or Serve Empire? The African Space Agency has unveiled a continental vision for space exploration, research, and sovereignty. On the surface, it... Continue Reading →
Regenerating the Yellow Earth — The Loess Plateau and the Prospects for Rural Ecosocialism
I. Where the Soil Remembers RevolutionThere is a place in China where the land itself seems to testify to history. The Loess Plateau—broad, wind-carved, and deeply scarred—is both cradle and cautionary tale. It is here that Chinese civilization took root thousands of years ago, and it is here that erosion, overgrazing, and war once reduced... Continue Reading →
Can the Mekong Flow Red? China’s Lancang River Basin and the Struggle for Ecosocialism
I. Where the River Meets the SystemThe Mekong River is ancient. It has carved life into the land for thousands of years, flowing through China, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. But in the 21st century, its upper reaches—the Lancang, inside China’s Yunnan Province—have become more than a river. They’re a battleground. On one side: biodiversity, Indigenous... Continue Reading →
The Belt Rolls On: China-Laos Railway and the Strategic Displacement of Empire
How a high-speed rail line in the mountains of Laos became a decolonial artery in the heart of imperial logistics. By Weaponized Information The tourists in Luang Prabang probably didn’t think they were riding geopolitical shockwaves. But the trains running through the China-Laos Railway aren’t just ferrying passengers—they’re redrawing the maps of power in Southeast... Continue Reading →
Ho Was No Hoe: The Peasant Revolutionary Who Defeated Empire
The Man Who Beat the West “Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom.” — Ho Chi Minh The West has a habit of rewriting history to make itself feel better. So when a poor peasant revolutionary from Vietnam outsmarted, outlasted, and outfought not one, but two global empires—France and the United States—they had to... Continue Reading →
Mao Was No Monster: Revolution, Power, and the Peasant Road to Socialism
Why Mao Still Haunts the Empire “The Chinese people have stood up!” — Mao Zedong, 1949 To the ruling class, Mao Zedong is not just a villain—he is an existential threat. More than half a century after his death, his image still triggers fear, loathing, and slander across the capitalist world. From liberal think tanks... Continue Reading →