How to Kill a Nation: Michael Parenti and the Imperial Instruction Manual — Humanitarian War, Economic Siege, and the Machinery of Regime Destruction

This review reads Michael Parenti’s To Kill a Nation as a field manual for modern empire, tracing how Yugoslavia was destroyed not by accident or ancient hatred but through a disciplined sequence of epistemological warfare, economic siege, political fragmentation, demonization, humanitarian pretext, and infrastructural annihilation, culminating in privatization, permanent dependency, and historical amnesia. By following... Continue Reading →

Fortress America and the Oil Ultimatum: Venezuela, Hyper-Imperialism, and the Open Consolidation of the American Pole

This essay argues that Trump 2.0 marks the open phase of U.S. hyper-imperialism, where coercion replaces consent and hemispheric dominance is enforced without disguise. Using Venezuela as the central case, it traces how leader abduction, naval encirclement, oil custodianship, and legal warfare form a consolidated strategy to subordinate sovereign states to the American Pole under... Continue Reading →

Who Owns Venezuela?

Trump’s claim that Venezuela “stole” U.S. oil is not a gaffe or exaggeration—it is an imperial verdict. This essay dismantles that claim by tracing the conflict over Venezuela’s resources through international law, the neoliberal wreckage of the pre-Chávez era, the Bolivarian rupture, Maduro’s Plan de la Patria, and María Corina Machado’s restoration blueprint. What emerges... Continue Reading →

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