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The Terminal Contradictions of American Empire
How the structural vulnerabilities of dollar hegemony, the shadow banking system, and geopolitical overextension are converging to produce an irreversible crisis of the capitalist order Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The American empire is not merely experiencing a cyclical downturn but is entering a terminal phase of structural decline in which the contradictions that have… Continue reading
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The Terminal Contradictions of American Empire
How the structural vulnerabilities of dollar hegemony, the shadow banking system, and geopolitical overextension are converging to produce an irreversible crisis of the capitalist order Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The American empire is not merely experiencing a cyclical downturn but is entering a terminal phase of structural decline in which the contradictions that have… Continue reading
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Why Pedro Sánchez’s speech named the three forces destroying international law, and why the silence that followed indicts everyone who clapped
Why Pedro Sánchez’s speech named the three forces destroying international law, and why the silence that followed indicts everyone who clapped General Article | September 2026 Pedro Sánchez walked to the United Nations podium on Wednesday holding a small blue booklet, and he held it up so the hall could see it clearly, and the… Continue reading
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The Masterstroke – Iran’s President Went Straight to the Empire’s Scriptwriters
Why meeting the think tanks that predicted Iran’s collapse is an act of intellectual warfare that targets the narrative machinery of American primacy General Article | September 2026 The encounter between Pezeshkian and the think tanks constitutes intellectual warfare rather than conventional diplomacy because it targets the institutions that write the briefing papers, draft the… Continue reading
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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 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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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
