Arctic Resource Race Exposes NATO Alliance Fractures
The intensifying US push to acquire Greenland reveals fundamental contradictions within the Western capitalist alliance system. While framed as a security concern regarding Russian and Chinese influence in the Arctic, the material basis of this conflict lies in Greenland's vast reserves of rare...
Climate Science Under Attack as Fossil Capital Fights Back
The coordinated campaign of harassment against Spanish climate scientists represents a critical battleground in the struggle between fossil capital's entrenched interests and the scientific community's efforts to communicate climate reality. Spain's Environment Minister Sara Aagesen's letter to...
Arctic Scramble Reveals Climate Crisis as Imperialist Catalyst
The escalating tensions over Greenland expose a fundamental contradiction of capitalist development: the climate crisis, generated by decades of fossil fuel-driven accumulation, is now melting Arctic ice and creating new frontiers for resource extraction and strategic competition. Trump's open...
G7 Sanctions Threat Masks Western Economic Stakes in Iran Crisis
The G7's coordinated response to Iran's brutal crackdown on protesters reveals the complex intersection of humanitarian concern, imperial competition, and economic interest that characterizes Western engagement with the Middle East. While the statement condemns the 'deliberate use of violence'...
Forest Fires Reveal Carbon Capitalism's Deadly Feedback Loop
The global surge in forest fires represents a profound crisis of capitalist accumulation encountering planetary boundaries. As the article documents, fires now destroy more than twice as much forest as two decades ago, with 2024 marking the worst wildfire year on record. This environmental...
Trump's Greenland Gambit Exposes NATO's Imperial Contradictions
The escalating confrontation between the United States and its ostensible NATO allies over Greenland reveals the fundamental contradiction at the heart of the Western alliance: it was never truly about collective defense or shared democratic values, but rather about managing inter-imperialist...
Venezuelan Opposition Leader's Nobel Gesture Reveals US Imperial Dynamics
María Corina Machado's attempt to share her Nobel Peace Prize with Donald Trump following the US military seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro exposes the intricate relationship between comprador political figures and imperial power. The Nobel Committee's swift rejection—citing the...
China Crushes Underground Churches to Maintain Ideological Control
The Chinese state's intensifying suppression of unregistered Christian communities reveals a fundamental tension within actually existing socialism: the contradiction between a nominally atheist party-state and the persistent religious consciousness of significant portions of the working class...
Young Workers Turn to Religion Amid Economic and Social Crisis
The remarkable 134% surge in UK Bible sales since 2019 reflects deeper material and social conditions affecting young people in contemporary capitalism. As the article notes, this demographic has grown up in secular environments yet now seeks meaning through religious texts, coinciding with what...