Trump's Fed Battle Reveals Capital's Fight for State Control
The Trump administration's unprecedented campaign against the Federal Reserve represents a significant intensification of intra-capitalist conflict over control of monetary policy—the central mechanism through which the state manages capitalist crisis. The attempt to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook...
Greenland Crisis Exposes NATO's Internal Imperial Rivalries
The confrontation between US President Trump and UK Prime Minister Starmer over Greenland and the Chagos Islands reveals the deepening contradictions within the Western imperial alliance as competition for strategic military and resource control intensifies. What presents itself as a diplomatic...
UK Juggles Chinese Embassy Security and US Imperial Demands
This live blog captures a revealing moment in British political life where the contradictions of managing a declining imperial position become starkly visible. The UK government finds itself caught between competing pressures: approving a massive Chinese 'super-embassy' while simultaneously...
Supreme Court Tariff Ruling Exposes Tensions in Capitalist State Power
The pending Supreme Court ruling on Trump's tariffs reveals a fundamental tension within the capitalist state apparatus: the conflict between different fractions of capital over how best to manage accumulation in an era of intensifying inter-imperialist competition. The tariffs, imposed through...
UK Caught Between US Imperialism and European Capital
The Trump administration's tariff threats against NATO allies over Greenland expose the deep structural contradictions of British capitalism's position in the global imperial order. Prime Minister Starmer's carefully calibrated response—criticizing Trump's tactics while refusing retaliatory...
Worker-Owned Food Magazine Rises From Corporate Media Ruins
The revival of Gourmet magazine as a worker-owned cooperative represents a significant, if modest, development in the ongoing crisis of corporate media. When Condé Nast shuttered the legendary publication in 2009 during the financial crisis, it marked another casualty of media consolidation under...
Trump's Financial Empire Merges Presidential Power With Private Profit
The launch of Trump Media's 'America First' ETFs at the New York Stock Exchange represents a qualitative escalation in the fusion of executive state power with private capital accumulation. This development illustrates how financialized capitalism has reached a stage where the nominal separation...
Workers Test Their Power Against State Repression
The Free America Walkout represents a significant tactical evolution in American protest movements, as organizers explicitly frame their action in terms of labor withdrawal rather than traditional weekend demonstrations. By calling workers to leave their jobs, students to leave schools, and...
Public Health Retreats as Profit Logic Prevails Over Prevention
The US government's retreat from flu vaccination recommendations amid a severe outbreak reveals a fundamental contradiction between public health imperatives and the ideological commitments of capital-aligned governance. While 7,400 Americans have died this flu season—including at least 17...