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August 29, 2026

Trump Declares Victory in Hormuz, Claiming Iran’s Grip Broken as U.S. Prepares Extended Channel

Trump has declared victory in the Strait of Hormuz during a phone call with Axios U.S. President Donald Trump has declared victory in the Strait of Hormuz during a phone call with Axios, asserting that the strategic maritime chokepoint is open and describing Iran’s response as “very mild.” Trump claimed that Iranian forces “don’t want… Continue reading

America, China, economics, Energy, EUROPE, Financial markets, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, imperialism, iran, israel, middle east, Mineral Resources, NATO, neocolonialism, politics, Russia, war

Axios, donald trump, energy markets, Geopolitics, Iran-US crisis, media warfare, Middle East conflict, military logistics, oil tankers, secondary sanctions, Strait of Hormuz, US Navy
August 25, 2026

Britain Transfers Storm Shadow Technology as Moscow Withdraws Its Ambassador

Technology transfer, an empty Russian embassy in London and explicit threats of strikes on production sites mark a decisive hardening of the European-Russian confrontation over Ukraine British Prime Minister Andy Burnham arrived in Kyiv on 24 August 2026 for his first overseas engagement since taking office, coinciding with the thirty-fifth anniversary of Ukrainian independence. During… Continue reading

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ambassador withdrawal, Andrey Kelin, Andy Burnham, Coalition of the Willing, Dmitry Peskov, long-range missiles, NATO, Russia, SCALP, Storm Shadow, technology transfer, ukraine, United Kingdom
August 24, 2026

The Price of a Closed Strait

Material interests, naval power and the political economy of energy transit through the Strait of Hormuz under conditions of prolonged disruption Editorial Analysis | August 2026 Geographic concentration of exportable hydrocarbons in the Persian Gulf has repeatedly drawn major powers into contests over the narrow waterway that connects those fields to oceanic shipping lanes. Approximately… Continue reading

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class distribution, energy chokepoints, innocent passage, International Energy Agency, material interests, middle distillates, naval power, petrodollar, political economy of oil, sanctions, Strait of Hormuz, strategic petroleum reserve, transit passage
August 21, 2026

The U.S. Vows to Impose the Toughest Sanctions in History on Iran

President Trump Declares ‘Economic D-Day,’ Threatening Crippling Sanctions for Dealing with Iran General Article | August 2026 Washington has launched what it describes as an economic D-Day against Iran, with United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent vowing to impose the toughest sanctions in history in a concerted effort to collapse the Iranian government. Speaking to… Continue reading

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Abbas Araghchi, Beijing, Brent crude, China, donald trump, economic D-Day, energy markets, iran, Iranian Foreign Ministry, maximum pressure, midterm elections, naval blockade, OFAC, Oil Prices, Persian Gulf, Scott Bessent, Strait of Hormuz, Treasury Department, US sanctions
August 21, 2026

What’s Happening with US Bonds, Debt, and Oil

Bond Market Reversal, $40 Trillion Debt Milestone, and Geopolitical Oil Premium: A Snapshot of US Fiscal and Market Pressures On August 19-20, 2026, US long-term Treasury yields largely erased the temporary relief from a surprise Treasury Department intervention, underscoring persistent fiscal and market tensions. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the department would at least… Continue reading

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30-year Treasury, bond buybacks, borrowing costs, Brent crude, fiscal deficit, government debt, Iran tensions, long-term interest rates, market intervention, national debt $40 trillion, Oil Prices, Scott Bessent, Strait of Hormuz, term premium, US economy 2026, US Treasury yields
August 20, 2026

The Ideological Architecture of the Free Market Myth and the Material Realities of State-Enforced Capital Accumulation

Class Power, Institutional Coercion, and the Dialectical Deconstruction of Market Neutrality in International Political Economy General Article | August 2026 The conventional framing of the global economic order around principles of unencumbered market exchange systematically disguises the coercive mechanisms that sustain contemporary capital accumulation. Liberal economic theory relies upon an abstract idealisation of market dynamics… Continue reading

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capital accumulation, class struggle, Free Market Ideology, Historical Materialism, imperialism, political economy, state capacity
August 18, 2026

Nowhere To Run

How America’s War on Iran Has Exposed the Limits of Military Power, the Fragility of Financial Hegemony, and the Terminal Decline of Western Imperialism Editorial Analysis | August 2026 The war on Iran, which American planners confidently predicted would conclude within four to six weeks, has instead become a grinding conflict that is consuming the… Continue reading

AI and Digital Control, America, China, economics, Energy, EUROPE, Financial markets, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Global Finance, imperialism, iran, israel, japan, knowledge, middle east, Mineral Resources, NATO, politics, reserve currency, Russia, South East Asia, war

class struggle, European Union, Financial Crisis, financial oligarchy, imperialism, iran, Marxism-Leninism, military failure, munitions depletion, oil production, petrodollar, Regional Conflict, Saudi Arabia, Strait of Hormuz, United States, war, yen crisis
August 12, 2026

The Logic of Controlled Demolition

How America’s Parallel Wars in Ukraine and West Asia Reveal a Strategy of Managed Decline The public mood inside Russia has undergone a profound and measurable transformation over recent months, driven by Ukrainian drone strikes that have penetrated the country’s interior with increasing frequency and lethality. The attack on a beach in Gelendzhik on the… Continue reading

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energy security, Extending Russia, Industrial Capacity, intelligence partnerships, iran, Kurdish militias, multipolar competition, munitions depletion, proxy warfare, Russia, Strait of Hormuz, United States strategy
August 9, 2026

Japan Got There First

How decades of economic stagnation turned Japan into a preview of the social crisis now spreading across the West General Article | August 2026 The tendency within Western media to frame Japan as an exotic curiosity, a place where human behaviour is filtered through an inscrutable cultural lens and presented as evidence of deep national… Continue reading

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economic stagnation, fertility, hikikomori, japan, loneliness, neoliberalism, precarity, social isolation, United States, work culture
August 8, 2026

The Makkah Agreement and the Emerging Architecture of Regional Defence

The Saudi-Türkiye-Pakistan Defence Partnership and the Reconfiguration of Regional Security General Article | August 2026 The geopolitical landscape of the Middle East and South Asia underwent a significant transformation on 7 August 2026 when Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan signed the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement at Al-Safa Palace in Makkah, establishing a framework that stipulates… Continue reading

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