Geopolitics
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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 Forgotten Book That Warned the World of What Was to Come
Almost a century ago, in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, former Russian general Arthur Cherep-Spiridovich published “The Secret World Government, or The Hidden Hand.” Writing in 1926, he argued that the great political upheavals of his era were not isolated or spontaneous events. He believed that behind revolutions, wars, financial systems and political movements… 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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The Kingdom That Cannot Sell Its Oil: How Yemen and Iran Have Trapped Saudi Arabia
Riyadh’s export lifelines are severed, its allies are wavering, and its American patron has no spare capacity to save it Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The suspension of all crude oil loadings from the Red Sea port of Yanbu represents the most severe disruption to Saudi Arabia’s oil export capacity since the kingdom began exporting… 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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Ghalibaf for Dummies: Understanding His Latest X Post
Ghalibaf’s “Schrödinger’s Empire”: Why Iran May Hold the Strategic Lever in the Strait of Hormuz General Article | September 2026 In his latest post, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf uses the idea of Schrödinger’s cat to describe the current situation between the United States and Iran. Schrödinger’s famous thought experiment describes a cat inside a sealed box.… Continue reading
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The Lemon on a Stick: Saudi Arabia’s Structural Weakness and the Case for a Saudi-First Strategy
Why a kingdom that spends $83 billion on its military cannot defend its own oil infrastructure, and why the only rational course is to put its own house in order before it is too late Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The assessment that Saudi Arabia appears as weak and confused as any country in the… 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
