class analysis
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Is the US Insurgency Strategy Against Iran Now in Play?
How Brookings’ Which Path to Persia? envisaged support for armed opposition and what the escalating insurgency in Sistan and Baluchestan reveals about the wider campaign against Tehran. Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The escalation of armed violence in Sistan and Baluchestan during 2026 corresponds precisely to a strategic option formally examined in the Brookings Institution’s… Continue reading
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The Feminisation of Authority: How the Accumulation of Unaccountable Power is Breaking Society
The transformation of female social networks from geographically bounded conservators of culture to digitally mediated engines of consensus has produced a novel form of power that overrides every parent, every community, and every tradition and it is accountable to no one Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The transformation of female social organisation over the past… Continue reading
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Social Unrest in Europe: A Revolt of the Excluded
From Madrid to Berlin, from Paris to Rome, the working classes of Europe are rising against austerity, housing speculation, and a war economy that serves an oligarchy while demanding their sacrifice Editorial Analysis | October 2026 A wave of social unrest is sweeping across Western Europe, from the housing protests in Spain triggered by the… Continue reading
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The Generals in Kiev: Die for the Alliance, But Don’t Ask to Join
NATO alliance’s top military body visited Ukraine to show solidarity while the US says membership that would require them to defend Ukraine is “not on the table” Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The NATO Military Committee’s visit to Kiev on 7 October 2026, the first such visit in eight years, constitutes a strategic communication exercise… Continue reading
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How the White House Sold a Pyramid Scheme to the American People
The billionaires who gathered at the White House signed a non-binding promise to police themselves, while their data centres drain the water and electricity of American towns and their AI models replace the jobs of American workers Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The White House gathering on 29 September 2026 brought together the most powerful… Continue reading
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Why You Are Getting Poorer While the Economy Grows
The Case Against Central Banks Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The banking system that governs the global economy is not a neutral mechanism for intermediating between savers and investors but a class weapon wielded by a transnational financial oligarchy to control credit allocation, determine which sectors expand and which contract, and discipline labour by creating… Continue reading
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The Hunters Became the Hunted
How Iran flipped the war on its attackers and turned oil into a weapon aimed at the American economy Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The Taylor Rule, developed by Stanford economist John Taylor in 1993, was designed to guide central banks in setting interest rates in response to inflation and economic output, and it assumes… Continue reading
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The Cannibal Economy
How the US is converting civilian industry to arms production and draining its clients to sustain primacy Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The United States has entered a phase of imperial decline in which the strategies employed to sustain global primacy are themselves accelerating the erosion of the material foundations upon which that primacy rests.… Continue reading
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The Shield of the Americas – How a Visa Revocation Became an Arrest Warrant and a Prosecutor Became a Prisoner
Bolivia’s Attorney General was detained without warrant forty-eight hours after Washington revoked his visa, and the case he was pursuing reached networks stretching from Mar-a-Lago to La Paz Editorial Analysis | October 2026 Bolivian police arrested their own Attorney General, Roger Mariaca, on 30 September 2026, without a judicial warrant, and detained thirteen other officials… Continue reading
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The Empire’s Exit as Iraqi Resistance Forced America Out and Exposed the Lie of Victory
Trump’s withdrawal announcement is not a triumph but a retreat, and the mechanisms of American power that remain reveal both the limits of military occupation and the durability of financial and intelligence coercion mechanisms Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The claim by Donald Trump that the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq constitutes a victory,… Continue reading
