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Imperial Retreat: US Bombing Campaign Fails to Break Iran

The announced US-Iran ceasefire represents a striking case study in the contradictions of late imperialist warfare. Despite five weeks of devastating bombardment that destroyed 90% of Iran's navy and struck over 13,000 targets, the fundamental US war aim—regime change and complete...

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Politics

Government Shutdown Exposes War Machine's Funding Priorities

The juxtaposition within this single news cycle reveals a fundamental contradiction of the American state: domestic governance functions essential to working people remain shuttered for eight weeks while the machinery of imperial war operates without interruption. The Department of Homeland...

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International

Colombian #MeToo Exposes Workplace Power Hierarchies

Colombia's second #MeToo wave demonstrates how sexual harassment operates not as individual misconduct but as a structural mechanism for maintaining hierarchical control in workplaces. The movement's expansion from journalism to medicine, education, and NGOs reveals harassment as endemic to...

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Politics

UK Complicity in Iran War Exposes Labour's Imperial Contradictions

The Guardian's live coverage reveals a growing crisis for the Starmer government as opposition parties demand Britain withdraw military support for US operations against Iran. Liberal Democrats warn that continued access to British airbases makes the UK an 'accomplice to war crimes,' while the...

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International

Oil and Empire: Who Pays for the Iran War

The escalating US-Israeli war on Iran reveals the central role of energy infrastructure in modern imperialist conflict. Israel's strike on Iran's South Pars petrochemical facility—responsible for half the country's petrochemical production—and Trump's explicit threats to destroy power plants and...

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International

Oil, Ultimatums, and War Crimes: The Real Stakes in Iran

The five-week US-Israel war on Iran reveals the fundamental contradictions of late imperial capitalism in crisis. Trump's explicit threat to bomb civilian infrastructure—power plants and bridges—strips away any pretense of humanitarian intervention, exposing naked resource warfare. The article...

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Politics

War Abroad, Authoritarianism at Home: Capital's Double Crisis

This article captures two simultaneous developments that appear disconnected but are dialectically related: an escalating US-Israel war against Iran featuring crude presidential threats, and an intensifying domestic conflict between Trump's executive power grabs and federal judges attempting to...

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