This live coverage from the Guardian reveals the intensifying contradictions facing European states as they navigate simultaneous crises in Ukraine, the Middle East, and transatlantic relations. The 20% increase in European defense spending to meet NATO's 2% GDP target—with commitments rising to...
The Danish election results and Hungary's diplomatic confrontations with EU partners reveal interconnected crises in European bourgeois democracy under conditions of escalating geopolitical tension. In Denmark, the Social Democrats' worst result since 1903 leaves no bloc with a majority, forcing...
The advancement of Israel's death penalty legislation represents a qualitative shift in the juridical architecture of occupation. While Israeli state violence against Palestinians has long operated through extrajudicial means—arbitrary detention, military courts, settler impunity—this bill...
The US-Israeli military campaign against Iran has entered its fourth week, exposing a fundamental contradiction of contemporary imperialism: the United States can wage war while remaining largely insulated from its economic devastation. As the Strait of Hormuz—through which 20% of global oil...
The US-Israeli war on Iran reveals profound contradictions within the imperialist bloc that has dominated global politics since World War II. Germany's president calling the war a 'breach of international law' while condemning the loss of 'trust in American power politics' marks an extraordinary...
The US-Israeli war on Iran represents a critical moment in the long history of imperial interventions to control global energy flows. The conflict exposes the fundamental contradiction at the heart of contemporary capitalism: the system requires cheap, abundant energy to sustain accumulation, yet...
The escalating US-Israeli war on Iran represents a concentrated expression of inter-imperialist rivalry over control of global energy flows, with the Strait of Hormuz serving as the strategic chokepoint through which one-fifth of the world's oil passes. Trump's 48-hour ultimatum to 'obliterate'...
The US-Israeli military assault on Iran has exposed a fundamental contradiction within the Iranian diaspora: the genuine desire for liberation from theocratic oppression versus the recognition that imperial bombing campaigns serve not liberation but domination. This tension manifests along class...
The US-Israel war on Iran represents a crystallization of multiple contradictions within the global capitalist system, where the pursuit of geopolitical dominance through fossil fuel infrastructure creates cascading crises affecting climate, energy security, and working-class survival worldwide...