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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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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 Arithmetic of Attrition in Ukraine’s Manpower
Official Admissions, Divergent Casualty Claims and the Strategic Limits of Ukraine’s Manpower Base General Article | September 2026 General Article | September 2026 In late August 2026 Kyrylo Budanov told a national telethon audience that Ukraine could not mobilise fewer than 30,000 people each month if it wished to preserve the current disposition of its… 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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The Brookings Repertoire and the Manufacture of the Iran War
An independent analysis of the strategic repertoire that produced the 2026 Iran war, the institutional networks that sustained it across seventeen years, and the material contradictions that now threaten its architects Editorial Analysis | September 2026 Crafting a durable policy toward the Islamic Republic of Iran has confounded every American administration since the revolution of… 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
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The Unipolar Delusion and the Return of Great-Power Politics: Why Western Escalation Reflects Panic Rather Than Strength
Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The collapse of the Soviet Union produced a distribution of global power that left Washington in effective control of the international system. That concentration of power, combined with the desire to maintain it in perpetuity, created structural incentives that shaped American foreign policy for three decades. One side emerged from… Continue reading
