imperialism
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American Theocracy Revisited: Oil, Empire, and the Gospel of Decline
A dissection of how energy dependence, apocalyptic politics, and debt-fueled capitalism fused into a governing logic of U.S. power—and why, nearly two decades later, the contradictions Phillips identified have not resolved but intensified under the pressures of imperial decline and global realignment. Continue reading
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Digital extraction and the new logic of underdevelopment
Africa’s incorporation into global capitalism has never been neutral. From the Atlantic slave trade through colonial rule and into the post-independence era, the continent has been structurally positioned as a source of value for others rather than a site of autonomous accumulation. What is often misunderstood is not whether this extractive logic has ended, but… Continue reading
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The United States of America, or the United Empire of Earth?
From settler conquest on the North American continent to a planetary lattice of bases, fleets, satellites, and command zones, the United States has constructed the most extensive military infrastructure in human history. Beneath the language of alliances, deterrence, and security lies a global machine designed to police the colonial world economy. But the very scale… Continue reading
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Geopolitical Economy Hour: War On Iran, World War III or Imperialism’s Last Stand? w Michael Hudson
The latest twist – out of many twists and turns – in the US-Israeli war on Iran is Trump’s announcement that the War in Iran will be ‘ending very soon’ and that it was ‘ “very complete, pretty much” and ahead of schedule. At the same time, he also claimed that ‘We’ve already won in… Continue reading
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US and Israel’s environmental warfare in Iran and West Asia
On Saturday 7th March, the United States and Israel launched one of the largest coordinated chemical attacks against a civilian population in history. A major refinery in Tehran was hit alongside other fuel depots in the city and in Karaj, west of the capital. Oil fires raged across the sky and leaks from the sites… Continue reading
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When Empire Calls Its Own Gamble a Miscalculation
There is a familiar ritual in the house organs of empire. First the bombs fall, then the panic sets in, and then some respectable publication arrives to tell us that the real problem was not the fire, but the poor planning of the men who brought the gasoline. That is the moral universe of the… Continue reading
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On The Dialectics Of Military Overreach and Financial Crisis
The contradictions of late stage imperialism have never been more starkly illuminated than in the current conjuncture. As the United States and its Zionist proxy wage their criminal war against the Iranian people, a secondary front has opened—one that threatens to inflict more lasting damage on American hegemony than any ballistic missile. Continue reading
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Israel’s Laboratory of Ecofascism and the Management of Survival
We are entering an era in which catastrophe is no longer a historical accident but the very pattern of history. Permanent war, environmental collapse, forced migration, genocide, ecocide, and the destruction of human and nonhuman life are no longer breaks from the norm. Continue reading
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Iran and the Psychopathology of White Supremacy
The sincere belief that the sadistic brutalization of the Palestinian people would sever their connection to their land; that a sixty-year siege on Cuba would compel its people to abandon their revolution; or that assassinating Iran’s revolutionary and spiritual leadership would force the country to surrender its sovereignty to its historic tormentors in the United… Continue reading
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“Volatility” Is a Euphemism for Imperialism: Reading the Asian Market Crash Through Lenin
Over the past 48 hours, South Korea’s KOSPI index collapsed 17%. Japan’s Nikkei shed 4.5%. Seven billion dollars in foreign capital fled Seoul as foreign investors acted like rats fleeing from a sinking ship. The proximate cause—a US-Israeli bombing campaign against Iran, now entering its fifth day, that has shuttered the Strait of Hormuz and… Continue reading
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White Guilt or White Pride? The False Choice That Preserves Empire
“White guilt” shrinks a global system of power into a private mood. Liberal confession mourns history while preserving the machinery of dominance. Reactionary pride weaponizes heritage to harden bloc discipline under multipolar pressure. Beyond shame and nostalgia lies defection from empire and alignment with global liberation. Continue reading
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Munich War Council and the escalation of imperialist rivalry
The 62nd Munich Security Conference was not a diplomatic gathering. It was a war council — a gathering of the general staff of world imperialism, assembled not to resolve conflicts but to coordinate the next phase of aggression on a global scale. Continue reading
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Trump is the symptom, U.S. imperialism is the disease
Popular resistance to the Trump administration’s erratic, anti-people, and dangerous domestic and foreign policies is growing every day as seen with the massive demonstrations held throughout the country on and after April 5. We welcome these protests and the popular demands raised by them, but we must criticize significant flaws that block the political changes… Continue reading
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The global communist resurgence, capital’s great crackdown, & the era of civil wars that we’ll need to navigate
We are in the transitional stage between when the USA started off its own demise, and when the global working class has won its final victory. Washington was the true loser of the Cold War; its self-destructive imperial schemes guaranteed that the U.S. would keep losing influence, and that communism would keep rising. Continue reading
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Trump vows to ‘expand’ US territory, invokes Manifest Destiny, hints at military force in Panama & Greenland
At his inauguration, US President Donald Trump promised to “expand our territory”, invoked the colonialist “Manifest Destiny”, and vowed to take over the Panama Canal (falsely claiming China runs it). Continue reading
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Hyperimperialism, the Fall of Syria & Capitalist Gangsters w/ Vijay Prashad
From California’s wildfires and the failures of capitalism to regime change in Syria, the weakening of Palestinian resistance, and rising U.S.-China tensions, this conversation unpacks the pressing global crises and their deeper implications. Continue reading
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Trump New Imperial Fury or the New U.S. Lebensraum?
Trump’s renewed fury to take possession of Canada, Greenland and the control of the Panama Canal is the utmost meaning of American imperialism. As before WWI and in the Nazi regime, the U.S. seems to have entered the late stage of its imperial hubris. Continue reading
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Anti-Imperialism and the Tricontinental Vocation
Tricontinentalism is the lens through which we should analyze the anti-imperialist movement, not only to understand the past but to build the movement against imperialist domination today. Continue reading
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The New Denial of Imperialism on the Left
It is a sign of the depth of the structural crisis of capital in our time that not since the onset of the First World War and the dissolution of the Second International—during which nearly all of the European social democratic parties joined the interimperialist war on the side of their respective nation-states—has the split… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 