political economy
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The Ideological Architecture of the Free Market Myth and the Material Realities of State-Enforced Capital Accumulation
Class Power, Institutional Coercion, and the Dialectical Deconstruction of Market Neutrality in International Political Economy General Article | August 2026 The conventional framing of the global economic order around principles of unencumbered market exchange systematically disguises the coercive mechanisms that sustain contemporary capital accumulation. Liberal economic theory relies upon an abstract idealisation of market dynamics… Continue reading
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The Pause That Reveals Everything: Understanding America’s Controlled Demolition of the Global Energy Order
An examination of how operational pauses, proxy pressure on Russian and Iranian energy flows, and the expansion of North American liquefied natural gas serve the long-term strategic objectives of transnational financial capital.. Editorial Analysis | August 2026 The periodic cessation of kinetic strikes conducted by the United States and its regional proxies against Iranian infrastructure… Continue reading
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The Strategic Logic of American Energy Warfare and the Destruction of Global Stability
The Geopolitical Economy of Energy Sabotage and Transnational Class Primacy in the American Campaign Against Multipolarism Editorial Analysis | July 2026 The ongoing diplomatic and military confrontations involving the United States, its regional allies, and the Islamic Republic of Iran do not constitute an isolated regional crisis, nor do they stem from sudden tactical miscalculations… Continue reading
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America at Two Hundred and Fifty- A Spectacle of Decline and Questions Over Who Actually Rules
Food stamps, opioid deaths and a cage fight on the White House lawn, read against rival theories of American power On 14 June 2026, President Donald Trump marked his eightieth birthday and the run-up to the semiquincentennial of American independence with a mixed martial arts card staged on the South Lawn of the White House,… Continue reading
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The Racket That Never Sleeps: How War Profiteers Manufacture Consent and Sell Sacrifice
A plain-language investigation into the business of organised violence, the myths that sustain it, and the interests that profit from it War is a racket. Those words were written in 1935 by Major General Smedley Butler, a decorated veteran who had spent his career fighting America’s foreign wars and came to recognise that he had… Continue reading
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China Rising, America in Decline?
A comparison of how the United States and China structure the relationship between capital and the state I found the video to be quite interesting and a great addition to the theme of today’s article. This is widely circulated Chinese economist policy commentator Eric X. Li (Li Shijun) interview commentary on China-US political economy, one… Continue reading
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Trump’s Beijing Delegation Exposed the Real Structure of American Power [Extended Version]
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The Beijing visit exposed how transnational corporations, financial institutions, and technology monopolies now operate openly as the permanent power structure beneath American electoral politics. Donald Trump arrived in Beijing flanked by the commanding layer of American corporate and financial power because the visit exposed something Washington normally prefers hidden behind electoral theatre: transnational capital, technology… Continue reading
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Kagan and Boot: The Guilty Are Writing the Verdict (Extended Version)
From Tehran to Taiwan: The Men Who Built America’s Empire Are Now Writing Its Autopsy The extraordinary significance of the Max Boot interview with former CIA analyst John Culver does not rest merely in the military assessments themselves, severe as they already appear. The deeper significance rests in who is speaking, where they are speaking,… Continue reading
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One Battle, Two Press Releases: Hormuz and the Crisis of American Deterrence
The Persian Gulf confrontation exposed the widening gap between military optics and operational control, while financial stabilisation and military escalation merged into the same strategic system A naval withdrawal inside the Strait of Hormuz would mark a strategic rupture extending far beyond one contested waterway, because the credibility of American maritime supremacy depends upon sustained… Continue reading
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The New Geography of Power: Europe Pays, America Pivots (Extended Version)
How Washington weaponised energy chokepoints, controlled instability, and alliance dependency against China, Iran, and Europe. The post-Cold War order is ending not because American power suddenly collapsed beneath external pressure, but because Washington abandoned the economic logic that previously sustained its own imperial system across multiple continents simultaneously. The United States no longer governs primarily… Continue reading
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