French President Macron's declaration of a 'profound geopolitical rupture' reveals the deepening contradictions within the transatlantic alliance and the broader capitalist world order. As US-China competition intensifies, European capital finds itself caught between maintaining its subordinate...
The US-Iran negotiations in Oman exemplify the fundamental contradiction at the heart of imperial diplomacy: talks conducted under explicit military threat cannot produce genuine peace, only managed subordination. The Trump administration's positioning of an 'armada' near Iranian waters while...
This live news roundup reveals the interconnected crises of contemporary capitalism through several seemingly disparate events. The attempted assassination of a Russian military intelligence chief occurs against the backdrop of stalled peace negotiations, while Norway warns of increased Russian...
The expiration of the New Start treaty represents far more than a diplomatic failure—it marks a qualitative shift in inter-imperialist relations as the post-Cold War framework of managed competition gives way to open rivalry. The treaty's collapse reflects the fundamental contradiction between...
Russia's record-breaking missile and drone assault on Ukraine's energy infrastructure—launched as temperatures plunged to -20°C and left hundreds of thousands without heat—exposes the fundamental contradictions between rhetorical commitments to peace and the material logic driving this conflict's...
Mario Draghi's declaration that the current world order is 'dead' represents a rare moment of candor from a ruling-class figure about the terminal crisis of post-Cold War liberal internationalism. Yet his diagnosis remains firmly within capitalist logic: the threat is not the collapsing order...
The Trump administration's threat to impose tariffs on any country selling oil to Cuba represents imperialism at its most naked: the deliberate engineering of a humanitarian catastrophe to achieve regime change. With Cuba facing complete fuel depletion within three weeks, we witness the material...
The Paris mayoral election, framed as a dramatic left-versus-right showdown, actually reveals the narrow parameters of political contestation under neoliberal capitalism. Both major candidates operate within a framework that accepts privatization, tourism-driven economic development, and the...
Berlin's 'Kartoffel-Flut' presents a striking illustration of capitalism's fundamental irrationality: a system that produces abundance yet cannot distribute it without crisis. The story reveals how agricultural overproduction—historically a recurring feature of capitalist farming—creates...