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The Axis of Resistance Shattered the American Security Umbrella
The Yemeni Armed Forces and the IRGC have weaponised geography and asymmetric warfare to dismantle Western hegemony, forcing a strategic US retreat and exposing the terminal contradictions of the petrodollar system Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The comprehensive American security umbrella has definitively collapsed across the entire Middle East region, exposing the Gulf petro-monarchies to… Continue reading
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Yemen’s Counter-Blockade Brought the House of Saud to the Brink
The Yemeni Armed Forces have struck the heart of Saudi Arabia’s energy infrastructure, paralysed its airports, and seized the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait, exposing the terminal vulnerability of a petro-state that can no longer export its oil or defend its skies. General Article | October 2026 The strategic equation in West Asia has undergone a… Continue reading
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The Economic D-Day That Never Came
Washington promised to drive Iranian oil exports to zero and ground Iran’s airlines by late September. Nearly fifty days later, the oil is still moving, the planes are still landing, and the political and monetary costs are landing squarely on the United States. Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The “Economic D-Day” was presented as the… Continue reading
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Iran’s Engine-Room Strategy Is Testing the Limits of American Power
The Islamic Republic has shifted from warning shots to the systematic disabling of commercial vessels, driving tanker rates to $80 million per voyage, draining diesel inventories to critical lows, and exposing the material foundations upon which the petrodollar system ultimately rests Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The Strait of Hormuz has been transformed from a… Continue reading
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American Elections Cannot End the Wars That Corporate Power Requires
The United States has not suspended intelligence sharing with Ukraine, the war in Ukraine is a proxy war against Russia that began in 2014 and continues to escalate, and the midterm elections are scripted performances designed to prevent the public from recognising the corporate interests that actually determine policy Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The… Continue reading
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How the United States Is Using Proxies to Destroy the AI Infrastructure of Its Rivals
The strikes on Yandex facilities in Russia reveal a strategic campaign to degrade the technological foundations of multipolar competitors while the Atlantic alliance fractures and the diesel deal buys time for further aggression Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The United States is directing Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian data centres as part of a systematic… Continue reading
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Is the US Insurgency Strategy Against Iran Now in Play?
How Brookings’ Which Path to Persia? envisaged support for armed opposition and what the escalating insurgency in Sistan and Baluchestan reveals about the wider campaign against Tehran. Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The escalation of armed violence in Sistan and Baluchestan during 2026 corresponds precisely to a strategic option formally examined in the Brookings Institution’s… Continue reading
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The Generals in Kiev: Die for the Alliance, But Don’t Ask to Join
NATO alliance’s top military body visited Ukraine to show solidarity while the US says membership that would require them to defend Ukraine is “not on the table” Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The NATO Military Committee’s visit to Kiev on 7 October 2026, the first such visit in eight years, constitutes a strategic communication exercise… Continue reading
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Why You Are Getting Poorer While the Economy Grows
The Case Against Central Banks Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The banking system that governs the global economy is not a neutral mechanism for intermediating between savers and investors but a class weapon wielded by a transnational financial oligarchy to control credit allocation, determine which sectors expand and which contract, and discipline labour by creating… Continue reading
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The Cannibal Economy
How the US is converting civilian industry to arms production and draining its clients to sustain primacy Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The United States has entered a phase of imperial decline in which the strategies employed to sustain global primacy are themselves accelerating the erosion of the material foundations upon which that primacy rests.… Continue reading
