political economy
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Why Zambia’s Mineral Wealth Has Not Produced Prosperity
Extraction without Accumulation: The Political Economy of Zambia’s Underdevelopment Zambia’s position within the global minerals economy conforms closely to John Perkins’ description, reflecting extraction structured through political control, legal asymmetry, and external economic power. Perkins wrote that modern economic structures operate “to convince leaders of underdeveloped countries to accept huge loans, so that even more… Continue reading
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Trump’s Tariffs Backfired and Weakened Economic Power
The Burdem of United States Trade Policy Failure Fell on American Consumers, Firms, Allies, and Markets The reintroduction and expansion of United States tariffs under the Trump administration formed the centrepiece of a strategy publicly presented as economic nationalism, strategic leverage, and industrial revival. The policy failed on each stated objective while imposing measurable domestic… 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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The Bank Collapse That Wasn’t Allowed to Be Seen
How America’s first bank failure of 2026 was buried as silver broke, markets fell, and war decisions stalled The first United States bank failure of 2026 occurred without public disorder, market panic, or sustained media attention, reflecting a deliberate administrative approach shaped by post-2008 regulatory practice, an approach described by former Federal Reserve official Daniel… Continue reading
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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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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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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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Europe Reconsiders Russia as North America Fractures Under Trade Pressure
Europeans considering re-engagement with Moscow as Canada turns toward China under US pressure European political leaders appear to be recalibrating their posture towards the Russian Federation after years of hostility driven by the conflict in Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz have each articulated versions of… Continue reading
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Collapse of Western Power and the Global System in 2026
Monetary Weaponisation, Financial Fragmentation and Strategic Overreach during the Western Collapse Phase Western power in 2026 reflects the accumulated outcome of choices made since the end of the Cold War.The system did not drift accidentally into its present condition. Policy decisions consistently favoured financial expansion, global leverage, and institutional growth over domestic production and social… Continue reading
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The United States as the Principal Adversary of its Own Currency
The political economy consequences of turning financial infrastructure into weapons hence de-risking from America is a rational response to concentrated monetary power The United States dollar emerged as the core instrument of global trade and finance after 1945, supported by American industrial dominance, military reach, and the Bretton Woods framework. That position rested on confidence… Continue reading
