imperialism
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The Age of Liberal Gangster Capitalism
How political institutions shifted from public service to organised extraction and turned representation into controlled participation Gangster capitalism now describes the governing condition taking shape across much of the Western political order. Public institutions continue to speak the language of democracy, representation, and constitutional legitimacy, yet the practical operation of power increasingly serves concentrated wealth,… Continue reading
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The Myth of American Democracy
How Democratic Language Masked Elite Rule Beneath Public Participation The men who gathered in Philadelphia during the summer of 1787 did not meet to create a democracy in the modern sense of the word. They met to design a stable political order that could protect property, prevent unrest, secure commerce, and maintain elite control after… Continue reading
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A System That Charges Gulf States for Protection
How Gulf states bankroll U.S. military presence while buying weapons and defending the petrodollar (Disclaimer: I did not create the headline cartoon image) The Gulf states are charged for the “myth” of protection. They didn’t start the Iranian war nor were they even consulted. They just woke up to the news of the double tap… Continue reading
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Marco Declares Colonialist War on the Global South
Marco Rubio’s Munich Declaration of Colonial Revivalism amid the Crisis of Western Primacy and the Rise of the Global South Marco Rubio used the Munich Security Conference to present a civilisational argument grounded in imperial expansion and Western dominance. He declared that “for five centuries, before the end of the Second World War, the West… Continue reading
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Narrative Hegemony and the Architecture of Manufacturing Consensus Reality
An Opinion Analysis of Systemic Conditioning, Cognitive Dissonance, and Identity Defence in Caitlin Johnstone’s Critique of Western Narrative Hegemony Western public discourse surrounding foreign policy rests upon a conceptual infrastructure that most citizens rarely examine in structural terms. Caitlin Johnstone argues that resistance to critiques of the United States and its allied power structures does… Continue reading
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The U.S Occupation of Nigeria Begins
The Quiet Invasion of Nigeria Under the Banner of Peace: How the War on Terror Masks Resource Interests in Nigeria The recent announcement that the United States has deployed military personnel to Nigeria under the banner of counter-terrorism has generated significant debate about the true motivations behind such interventions. “This decision was announced in the… 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
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The Limits of Regime Change in a Hardened State
Manufactured internal dissent, external pressure, and the endurance of a layered Iranian political order The demand for regime change in Iran has become a litmus test for political coherence in the present international order. Advocacy for the overthrow of the Iranian state, when detached from the material balance of power that governs outcomes, functions as… Continue reading
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Creeping Recolonisation
Military immunity, data governance, and Kenya’s changing sovereignty No African leader comes close to President William Ruto when it comes to reversing gains of the liberation struggle and selling their people to western interests for personal gain. If the African people seek an understanding of how the trans-atlantic slavery was facilitated and as a precursor… Continue reading
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Africa’s New Data Dependency – A Quiet Transfer of Sovereignty
Data agreements are replacing colonial armies as tools of domination and the return of external governance Data colonialism on the African continent has moved from abstraction into formal state policy through binding agreements signed without public consent, parliamentary scrutiny, or meaningful legal protection for citizens. Nigeria’s memorandum of understanding with France on tax administration data,… Continue reading
