November 24, 2025
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Europe Wants Soldiers, Not Solutions: Germany’s Draft and the Return of the War Economy
CNN dresses Germany’s new conscription regime as common sense, but its language reveals an empire preparing its young for war. Beneath the talking points lies a material crisis: collapsing legitimacy, labor shortages, and NATO’s hunger for bodies. Germany’s rearmament only makes sense when placed within Europe’s deeper imperial recalibration toward austerity and militarized governance. The… Continue reading
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Lobito and the Long Arm of Empire: Europe’s Green Transition Runs on African Land, Labor, and Life
How the EU’s “model corridor” revives the colonial blueprint under the banner of sustainability— and how African workers, communities, and global movements are fighting back. Continue reading
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Fascism, Terror, War and Genocide: The Epochal Crisis of Global Capitalism
Sociologist William I. Robinson speaks at the CT Civil Liberties Defense Committee conference in Hartford, CT on Nov. 8, 2025. William I. Robinson is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Global and International Studies, Latin American and Iberian Studies, and Affiliated Faculty, Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is… Continue reading
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A Looming Mexican Coup?
On November 15th, incendiary protests engulfed over 50 cities across Mexico. The Western media has universally adopted the narrative disaffected local “Gen Z” sought to vent their righteous rage against the government, over corruption, and the administration’s purported ties to drug cartels. Footage of law enforcement clashing with demonstrators spread like wildfire, and many outlets… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 