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Building Parallel Architecture Against Weaponised Finance
The Bishkek Summit and the Practical Contours of Eurasian Multipolar Construction Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The twenty-fifth summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation held in Bishkek generated less theatrical display than the preceding gathering in Tianjin yet advanced several concrete institutional steps that clarify the organisation’s evolving role. Member states adopted a final declaration… Continue reading
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China’s Objections at the United States-Hosted G20 Finance Meeting and the Limits of Manufactured Multilateral Consensus
An examination of the institutional, strategic and economic drivers behind Beijing’s refusal to endorse language on trade imbalances, non-market policies and critical supply chains in the chair’s statement issued after the Asheville gathering Editorial Analysis | September 2026 In the closing days of the United States G20 presidency’s finance track, finance ministers and central bank… Continue reading
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The Bishkek Declaration and the Architecture of Imperial Continuity
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s unanimous condemnation of the American-Israeli attack on Iran signals more than diplomatic posturing; it exposes the deepening structural contradictions within a unipolar order that can no longer enforce its will without provoking collective resistance. Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s Bishkek Declaration, adopted on 1 September 2026, represents… Continue reading
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Iran Signals Expansion of Retaliation Beyond Military Targets
After Larak Island strike, Iranian academic and former adviser Mohammad Marandi warns of a “different” and “very painful” response that may include economic assets, with potential effects on energy General Article |September 2026 United States Central Command confirmed that American forces struck two launchers on Larak Island late on 30 August. Officials stated that Islamic… Continue reading
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Iran and Oman Close America’s Hormuz Corridor
Joint navigation route through Iranian waters replaces the UN-backed southern path that US warships have escorted for five months America’s five-month effort to secure an alternative shipping corridor through the Strait of Hormuz is being rewritten by the very ally that helped establish it. Iran and Oman have agreed to create a temporary joint navigation… Continue reading
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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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Bessent Summons Markets as the Thirty-Year Yield Tests a Generation High
Expanded Treasury buybacks and a rare public intervention by the Secretary underline the rising cost of financing a public debt that now exceeds forty trillion dollars General Article | August 2026 The yield on the thirty-year United States Treasury note climbed to 5.34 per cent in recent sessions, marking the highest reading since the period… Continue reading
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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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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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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
