"Truth Is On The Side Of the Oppressed." – Malcolm X
The New York Times calls it “handling” when Venezuela has to ask Washington to release its own oil money. After U.S. forces kidnapped Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores, Washington used the threat of another attack to dictate payment terms and open Venezuela’s oilfields to favored firms. The money can come back while the power to... Continue Reading →
The imperialist façade is cracking as formerly colonized nations wield newfound agency, emboldened by China's socialist rise and BRICS collaboration. However, the narrative masks a grim reality: national sovereignty does not guarantee liberation from domestic exploiters. The struggle continues within, where local elites may replace imperial masters but retain the chains of economic subordination. This interplay reveals that power dynamics hinge on who decisively controls production and profits. As multipolarity expands possibilities, the essential question looms—will the working class finally seize genuine control over the fruits of their labor, or remain spectators in their own liberation? The era demands they reclaim agency—no more invitations.
The War Built the Border: Sudan’s Partition Before the Ceasefire This essay argues that Sudan’s threatened partition didn’t begin with Washington’s latest ceasefire proposal. It traces the crisis through British colonial extraction, unequal development, Western creditor power, military accumulation, and the unfinished struggle opened by the December Revolution. As SAF and RSF turned on each other, war hardened front lines into rival economies, institutions, and systems of rule. The ceasefire therefore confronts a division already being built rather than creating it from nothing. Beneath the armies and foreign diplomacy, Sudanese civilian networks continue defending another basis for sovereignty rooted in the people who keep the country alive.
UNGA 81 looked like a week of separate crises: Palestine, Iran, Venezuela, artificial intelligence and China. Beneath the speeches, however, each exposed the same unfinished contradiction between formal sovereignty and the unequal material power needed to make sovereignty real. Gaza’s reconstruction, Venezuela’s oil revenues, Iran’s negotiations under coercion, and the Global South’s struggle for technological capacity all reveal how finance, property, military force and infrastructure shape what legal equality can actually deliver. The summit’s real story wasn’t only what leaders said from the podium, but who still controls the machinery that gives those words weight.
Trump's United Nations address declares America’s resurgence, yet it reveals an empire grappling with an escalating need for military force and economic coercion to maintain supremacy. His speech elevates military spending, sanctions, and immigration enforcement as signs of strength while ignoring the underlying contradictions—an empire that once commanded effortlessly now relies heavily on intimidation. The reality is that the U.S. must work harder to enforce its will both abroad and domestically as competition grows and global power dynamics shift. Instead of showcasing dominance, Trump's rhetoric underscores a declining ability to produce consent, exposing the fragility of American imperialism. The mask of effortless domination is slipping.
Robin Wright's "The Last Great Revolution" illustrates the paradox of the Iranian Revolution—a genuine transformation that sought to establish a sovereign state but left popular sovereignty incomplete. Wright captures Iran's tumultuous journey, showcasing revolutionary shifts in women’s rights, education, and national identity, yet she falls into the trap of imposing a Western liberal trajectory. The revolution is portrayed as a struggle—between religious and revolutionary authority—that still battles for legitimacy. Ultimately, rather than documenting a forgotten pathway to liberalism, Wright unveils a resilient revolutionary spirit combating imperial influences. This is not the story of a revolution retreating into the shadows, but one that persistently asserts its existence against predetermined narratives.
BBC framed Niger’s August 29 Base 101 uprising as a story about mutinous soldiers and a frightening weapons cache. The deeper record reveals something far more consequential: a fractured special-operations apparatus, credible evidence of Bazoum-linked and foreign contacts, an inherited Western security system, and a state still fighting to reclaim control over its military, uranium, and foreign relations. As France and the United States adapt to lost bases through smaller footprints, partner forces, and strategic networks, Niger is building alternative relationships through the AES, Russia, and Algeria. The coup didn’t come from nowhere—and neither did the empire trying to survive its retreat.
Delcy Rodríguez's shocking pivot from anti-imperialist rhetoric to endorsing U.S. oil agreements is less a political betrayal and more an unveiling of Venezuela's fractured sovereignty. The narrative is explosive: as Washington tightens its grip, national ownership of oil assets becomes a hollow claim, with real power shifting to private capital and American influence. The illusion of control is shattered—Venezuelans are left to wrestle with a new reality where contracts dictate who profits from their resources. The stakes are high, as demands for transparency and public scrutiny grow louder; will the oil wealth truly benefit the people, or simply reinforce the power structures in play?
Indonesia is ensnared in a web of foreign capital and corporate power, straddling the interests of Beijing and Washington while striving for autonomy. Its dependency on Chinese investment for industrial growth is creating complex struggles over resource control and worker rights. While the state seeks to regulate foreign involvement in its burgeoning industries, genuine sovereignty hinges on who truly reaps the benefits. Rhetoric about maintaining balance belies a troubling reality: as the nation builds industrial capacity, the power dynamics increasingly favor foreign interests, leaving local workers and communities grappling for their rightful share in this economic transformation.
Canada’s century-old continental bargain with the United States built factories, pipelines, profits, and military integration into the same structure that Washington can now turn into leverage. Yet Canada was never merely an American dependency: its banks, mining firms, pension funds, and corporations grew into a secondary imperial power capable of exercising domination abroad even while... Continue Reading →
