economics
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The Energy Wars and the Coming Crisis of Western Capitalism

How the struggle for control over global oil resources is driving imperial conflict and threatening systemic financial collapse Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The wars in the Middle East and Ukraine are not conflicts between nations over territory or ideology but battles in a broader struggle for control over the global energy system and the… Continue reading
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The Anxiety of a Hegemon – Why America Cannot Stop Saying It Is Still Ahead

The ritualistic declarations of continued primacy reveal a deeper structural crisis that no amount of reassurance can conceal Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The most revealing aspect of contemporary American discourse about China is not the substance of the claims but the frequency and ritualistic character of their repetition. For decades, the United States was… Continue reading
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The Real Global Conflict: Free Trade vs. National Development

Why the fight between finance capital and industrial capital matters more than the clash between democracy and authoritarianism Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The framework that locates contemporary geopolitical conflict within a struggle between two opposed systems of economic governance has considerable explanatory power that conventional left-right analysis lacks. The British system of free trade,… Continue reading
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AI Won’t Kill You. The People Selling It Might.

Why the warnings of existential risk from artificial intelligence serve the interests of the firms that issue them, and how the real harms of algorithmic governance are already being inflicted on populations that possess no means of resistance Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The claim that executives of leading artificial intelligence firms have experienced a… Continue reading
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The Energy Shock That Washington Pretended Wasn’t Happening

How the suppression of price signals turned a supply disruption into a systemic crisis, and why the costs are being borne by those who had no part in creating it Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The war that began on 28 February 2026 with joint United States and Israeli strikes on Tehran and several other… Continue reading
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The Boomerang of Impunity

Netanyahu’s Citizenship Threat, the Collapse of Cultural Silence and the Accelerating Shift Against Israeli Power General Article | September 2026 Benjamin Netanyahu stated in a video address that he would advance two bills aimed at those causing “immense damage” to the Israel Defense Forces. The first would enable revocation of citizenship for anyone who defames… Continue reading
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The Empire That Would Rather Burn Itself Than Share the World

An independent analysis of the 1992 Wolfowitz Doctrine, the RAND multi-domain strategy, and the structural reasons why a declining hegemon may attempt to topple the game board rather than accept a multipolar world Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The 1992 Defense Planning Guidance, drafted under the supervision of Paul Wolfowitz and leaked to the New… Continue reading
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Yemen Just Changed the Rules of the War

Yemen’s Defense Minister Just Put Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, and Manama on Notice Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The statement by Major General Mohammed Nasser al-Atifi that the next battle will not remain in Yemen but will penetrate deep into the territories of the aggressor coalition nations was not an isolated rhetorical flourish from a marginal… Continue reading
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America Pulled Out of Two Arms Treaties. It Backfired Spectacularly.

An independent analysis of how the United States dismantled the ABM and INF treaties, why the resulting weapons systems have failed to restore strategic advantage, and what the production disparities reveal about the class interests driving American militarism Editorial Analysis | September 2026 America Pulled Out of Two Arms Treaties. It Backfired Spectacularly. An independent… Continue reading
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Order Out of Chaos: The Architecture of Permanent Conflict

An independent analysis of the post-9/11 order, its institutional drivers, and the material consequences of hegemonic overreach Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The comment that Benjamin Netanyahu made on the evening of 11 September 2001, when asked by the New York Times what the attacks meant for relations between the United States and Israel, has… Continue reading
