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The Dollar System and the End of Fiat Global Monetary Order
The Decline of Fiat Credibility and End of Monetary Universality in a Fragmenting Global Economy What is unfolding within the international monetary and financial system is more accurately described as de-fiatisation rather than de-dollarisation, because the structural erosion concerns confidence in state issued credit money rather than exclusive rejection of the United States dollar. Benjamin… Continue reading
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China’s Military Shake-Up
Understanding Xi Jinping’s balancing of loyalty, competence, and institutional stability in China’s armed forces, within the context of governance and national development The investigation and removal of General Zhang Youxia, one of the most senior officers in the People’s Liberation Army and vice-chairman of China’s Central Military Commission (CMC), marks an event of deep significance… Continue reading
anti-corruption campaign, Central Military Commission, centralisation, China, Chinese governance, Chinese political system, competence, corruption, cross-strait relations, economic development, international relations, leadership consolidation, loyalty, military purge, military readiness, People’s Liberation Army, PLA, poverty alleviation, regional security, strategic planning, taiwan, Xi Jinping, Zhang Youxia -
On the Verge of Iran War
The region braces for war as U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict could start at any moment, affecting both regional security and global markets. The confrontation involving Iran, the United States, and Israel has reached a stage where military forces are positioned for rapid action, diplomatic efforts are secondary to military readiness, and the risk of escalation depends largely… Continue reading
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Dutch Defense Minister Warns of “Imaginary” Growing Russian Military Threat
Ruben Brekelmans says Russia now fields “1.5 million combat-ready soldiers” and urges society to prepare for the risk of World War III The Dutch Defense Minister, Ruben Brekelmans, warned that Russia’s military strength continues to grow, stating that the Russian army now numbers “1.5 million combat-ready soldiers,” and urged citizens to prepare for the possibility… Continue reading
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The Board of Peace as a Turning Point in Global Governance
Institutional Self-Displacement at the United Nations: The Board of Peace as a Precedent for the Marginalisation of International Law and the Erosion of Collective Security The establishment of the Board of Peace represents a decisive institutional rupture in the post-1945 international order, because its legal form and political authority directly supersede the foundational role of… Continue reading
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Michael Parenti has Died but his Power of Labels will Live On
How mainstream media framing obscured the life and work of a persistent critic of power The world is being misled, and Michael Parenti’s death shows how this still works. Michael Parenti died yesterday at 92. Today, much of the mainstream press describes him as a “Marxist academic.” That label misses the point. It reduces his… Continue reading
AI and Digital Control, America, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Global Finance, Mineral Resources, NATO, politics, warcapitalism critique, class analysis, Cold War analysis, corporate power, critical theory, democracy critique, fascism studies, globalization, historian, imperialism, Marxist scholar, media criticism, Michael Parenti, political economy, political scientist, political theorist, radical politics, socialism, U.S. foreign policy -
The Persistence of an Unwinnable War
U.S.–Israeli Strategy Has Strengthened the Adversary It Sought to Break and Why Another War Is Likely to Reproduce Past Failures The current phase of confrontation unfolds amid an unprecedented concentration of military and naval forces across the Middle East, creating conditions widely recognised by defence analysts as consistent with imminent large scale conflict. Naval strike… Continue reading
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Public Anger Flares as Ukrainian Elites Make Light of Blackouts with Sex Jokes
Sex-toy comments and elite messaging inflame public anger amid Ukraine’s winter energy crisis Ukraine is experiencing widespread electricity and heating shortages as winter temperatures fall below freezing. The outages are the result of sustained damage to the country’s energy infrastructure, much of it caused by Russian missile and drone strikes on power plants, substations and… Continue reading
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On the Menu at Last
Mark Carney, Davos, and the Open Admission of Western Imperial Hypocrisy That Exposed the Conditional Morality of Western Power The speech delivered by Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney at the World Economic Forum in Davos warrants close scrutiny not for its surface-level defiance, but for the structural admissions it contains regarding Western power, hierarchy, and… Continue reading
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Who Is the Real Dictator? Western Hypocrisy and the Smearing of Iran’s Sovereignty
How U.S. power, media propaganda, and selective outrage redefine tyranny, while punishing any nation that refuses to kneel The New York Times labels Imam Ali Khamenei a “dictator.” But that accusation collapses the moment we apply the same standards to Western power. So let’s ask the obvious question: What do we call Donald Trump? A… Continue reading
