"Truth Is On The Side Of the Oppressed." – Malcolm X
POLITICO hears power draining out of Trump’s White House, but the freedom of a banker to turn down a presidential favor tells us damn little about who can stop a war. From Nixon’s secret bombing of Cambodia through the post-9/11 grants of authority and the surveillance powers Democrats helped renew, Washington spent decades building the... Continue Reading →
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.
On the centenary of Fidel Castro's birth, his autobiography, My Life, acts as a provocative lens into the complexities of revolution. It dismantles the myth of the born revolutionary, showcasing instead how context, struggle, and learning forge warriors for change. Despite Cuba's successes, deep-rooted issues like racism and inequality persist, with Fidel warning that Cuba's most significant threat may not come from external forces but from within—its own inability to correct mistakes. As the Revolution ages, the pressing query remains: can it continually foster revolutionary consciousness amidst evolving contradictions or will it succumb to the complacency that often follows victory?
This essay shows how liberal media turns raw power into a moral drama and calls it analysis. It lays out the hard record beneath the story—colonial foundations, security buildup, and institutional force. It names Trump 2.0 for what it is: a technofascist turn driven by imperial decline and class retreat. It argues that when consent... Continue Reading →
