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Blood for Oil: Lebanon Burns as Powers Haggle Over Hormuz

This live coverage reveals the fundamental contradiction at the heart of imperialist war in the Middle East: a ceasefire that halts direct US-Iran combat but explicitly permits Israel to continue devastating Lebanon with 250+ deaths in a single day. The arrangement exposes the ceasefire not as...

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Israel Bombs Lebanon as US Ceasefire Unravels

The Israeli strikes on Lebanon—killing over 200 people within hours of a US-brokered ceasefire with Iran—expose a fundamental contradiction within the imperial alliance structure. While the United States seeks to manage its declining hegemony in the Middle East through negotiated settlements that...

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Vance's Hungary Trip Exposes US Imperial Double Standards

The spectacle of US Vice President JD Vance traveling to Budapest days before Hungary's election to endorse Viktor Orbán—while simultaneously accusing the European Union of 'foreign interference'—represents a crystalline example of imperial projection. The contradiction is not merely ironic but...

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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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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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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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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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