Daily Digest

The Iranian crisis reveals the coordinated brutality of imperial statecraft in its most naked form. US Treasury Secretary Bessant's admission at Davos—'maximum economic sanctions worked because in December, their economy collapsed'—strips away humanitarian pretenses to expose sanctions as...

The convergence of Ukraine peace negotiations, the Greenland territorial dispute, and Europe's energy crisis reveals the intensifying contradictions within the global imperialist order. As US, Ukrainian, and Russian delegations meet in Abu Dhabi, the fundamental question of territorial...

Historian Brooke Newman's research reveals a fundamental truth about capitalist development: the primitive accumulation that built British imperial power was inseparable from the systematic enslavement of African people. The British crown wasn't merely complicit in slavery—it was the world's...

Donald Trump's false claim that NATO allies 'stayed a little back' from frontline combat in Afghanistan has provoked unusual bipartisan condemnation across the British political spectrum, from Labour ministers to Conservative Brexiteers. This diplomatic rupture illuminates deeper contradictions...

The 'Chifagate' scandal engulfing Peru's interim president José Jerí illuminates far more than individual corruption—it exposes the structural position of peripheral nations caught between competing imperial powers. While the immediate controversy centers on secretive meetings with Chinese...

The emergency EU summit on Greenland crystallizes a profound contradiction within the Western imperial alliance: European capitalist states depend entirely on US military power while simultaneously competing with American capital for strategic resources. Trump's aggressive moves toward...

The reversal of planned care home closures in Lancashire represents a significant, if limited, victory for working-class organization against austerity governance. When Reform UK—a party that markets itself as anti-establishment—attempted to close five care homes affecting some of society's most...

The parliamentary exchange reveals a profound contradiction facing the British state: how to maintain its privileged position within the US-led imperial order while that very order's hegemon makes increasingly naked territorial demands. Starmer's repeated insistence that he 'will not yield' on...

The Trump administration's unprecedented campaign against the Federal Reserve represents a significant intensification of intra-capitalist conflict over control of monetary policy—the central mechanism through which the state manages capitalist crisis. The attempt to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook...