"Truth Is On The Side Of the Oppressed." – Malcolm X
When Russia forced the terms of European security onto the table at Abu Dhabi, two Atlanticist columnists had a hell of an answer: put NATO’s commander in charge of the peace talks. Washington built that alliance’s power while capitalist restoration weakened Russia, and now it wants European treasuries to carry more of the cost while... Continue Reading →
Marco Rubio's celebration of Western civilization conceals a history written through African and Asian scientific achievement, colonial conquest, capitalist exploitation, and revolutionary resistance. From ancient Greece to modern NATO, his manufactured civilizational inheritance transforms imperial domination into historical destiny while erasing the peoples whose labor built the world. Drawing on anti-colonial and Marxist scholarship, this investigation exposes how the political West was constructed through imperial rivalry, socialist revolutions, and struggles for national liberation. Beneath Rubio's mythology lies an American-led imperial bloc seeking renewed command over technology, finance, resources, and military power—and a continuing struggle to reclaim humanity's future.
The Economist’s recent piece on Putin frames him as a cornered gangster, obscuring the complex geopolitical history that shapes the current conflict in Ukraine. It reduces a crisis rooted in thirty-five years of U.S.-led strategy, NATO expansion, and Russia's own capitalist evolution to Putin’s psychological profile. This overlooks how pre-existing economic and military pressures prepared the battlefield for escalation. By ignoring this context, the narrative becomes dangerously simplistic, presenting Russia's actions as mere reactions to outside threats, not as part of a larger historical clash of powers. The truth? This war is as much about systemic tensions as individual leaders.
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.
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.
