This Guardian liveblog captures a snapshot of European capitalist governance at a moment of acute crisis, revealing the fundamental contradictions of the current conjuncture. EU defense ministers convene in Brussels to discuss allocating €90 billion for Ukraine and expanding domestic arms...
The Pentagon's congressional testimony reveals the material contradictions at the heart of US imperial policy in the Middle East. A war initially promised to last six weeks has already consumed $29 billion with no end in sight, while simultaneously depleting critical munitions stockpiles that...
The MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak offers a stark illustration of how global health infrastructure operates along class and imperial lines. A virus endemic to Argentina—where it affects rural and working-class populations with little international fanfare—becomes an 'unprecedented' emergency only...
This live blog presents a revealing juxtaposition: a hantavirus outbreak aboard an Antarctic cruise ship requiring international coordination, while in the background, great powers continue military escalation in Ukraine and the Middle East. The contrast illuminates fundamental contradictions in...
The swearing-in of Péter Magyar as Hungary's prime minister marks a significant shift in the country's political superstructure while leaving its capitalist economic base fundamentally intact. Magyar, a former insider of the Orbán system who only turned against it in 2024, represents not a...
This collection of European developments—a temporary Russia-Ukraine ceasefire, Hungary's transition from Orbán to Magyar, and the hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius approaching Tenerife—reveals the layered contradictions of contemporary European capitalism navigating multiple crises...
The 2026 Victory Day parade in Moscow presents a crystalline image of imperial overreach meeting material limits. What was once a triumphalist display of military power—complete with intercontinental missiles and armored columns—has been reduced to a 45-minute ceremony under internet blackout...
The ongoing US-Iran confrontation over the Strait of Hormuz reveals the fundamental contradictions of contemporary imperialism, where military force serves to maintain control over global energy flows essential to capitalist accumulation. The US frames Iran's closure of the strait as an...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio's Rome press conference reveals deep fissures within the NATO alliance, as the US confronts the contradiction between maintaining European bases for 'power projection' and European allies who refuse to participate in American military adventures. Spain's denial of...