US-Israel Iran War Exposes Imperial Logic of Total Destruction
This live coverage reveals the mechanics of modern imperialist war in stark detail. Secretary Hegseth's press conference operates on two registers: triumphalist celebration of destruction ('their Navy is gone, their Air Force is no longer') and systematic deflection from civilian casualties...
Hormuz Crisis Reveals Imperial Overreach and Energy Vulnerability
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz represents a dramatic materialization of contradictions long inherent in US imperial strategy in the Persian Gulf. For decades, American military planners understood that attacking Iran would trigger precisely this response—the choking of a passage carrying a...
Bayer Got Private EPA Access, Then Got Government Protection
This Guardian investigation provides a textbook case of what Marxists call the capitalist state functioning as an executive committee for managing the affairs of the bourgeoisie. Bayer's CEO secured a private meeting with the EPA's top officials to discuss the corporation's legal strategy for...
War Funding Flows as Government Collapses Around It
This live blog captures a moment of cascading crisis in the American imperial state, where the contradictions of late capitalist governance have become impossible to obscure. The most striking revelation is structural: while the Department of Homeland Security shutdown has crippled TSA and...
Oil War Exposes Empire's Cost to Workers Worldwide
The US-Israeli military assault on Iran, now entering its third week, represents a stark illustration of how imperialist warfare operates in the contemporary capitalist system. What the Western media frames primarily as a security operation targeting nuclear capabilities is simultaneously a...
Oil Crisis Shows Workers Pay for Capital's Energy Gambles
The war in Iran has triggered what the International Energy Agency calls 'the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market,' removing at least 10 million barrels per day from circulation. This crisis exposes the fundamental irrationality of organizing global energy systems...
Nigeria's Endless War: Imperialism's Bloody Dividend in the Sahel
The deaths of 65 Nigerian soldiers and abduction of 300 civilians by Islamic State West Africa Province (Iswap) cannot be understood merely as a 'security failure' or 'terrorism problem.' This ongoing catastrophe—displacing over 2 million people across a two-decade insurgency—emerges from the...
Oil, Empire, and the War to Control Iran's Resources
The US-Israeli military campaign against Iran represents a crystallization of imperialist competition over strategic resources, disguised beneath humanitarian and security rhetoric. The Strait of Hormuz—through which one-fifth of global oil flows—has become the material fulcrum of this conflict...
UK Fuel Crisis Exposes Class Politics of Energy Policy
This sprawling live blog captures British politics in crisis-management mode, revealing how state actors navigate between competing class pressures during geopolitical turmoil. Chancellor Rachel Reeves hedges on fuel duty while Reform UK's Farage stages theatrical petrol station protests, framing...