⚖️ Geopolitics

Keith Bennett discusses how China, Vietnam, and Cambodia, despite shared revolutionary origins, turned on each other in the late 1970s, with China backing the Khmer Rouge amid atrocities and territorial disputes shaping Beijing's decisions.

Keith Bennett joins Radhika Desai to examine why China backed the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s, tracing territorial disputes with Vietnam and how shared revolutionary origins failed to prevent war among China, Vietnam, and Cambodia.

The Trump administration is outsourcing immigrant detention to foreign countries, paying governments like El Salvador and Liberia to imprison ICE detainees indefinitely, a policy that shreds US soft power and enriches private prison firms.

A Tehran-based journalist analyzes China-Iran relations, arguing Beijing's support is substantive despite not meeting critics' expectations, and highlights the Bishkek Declaration and defiance of US sanctions as key signals.

US airstrikes on Iran killed 18 people a week after Trump's sanctions campaign failed, escalating toward permanent war as Gulf bases and economies suffer.

The USS Abraham Lincoln's port call in Pattaya spotlights how US military R&R stops built Thailand's sex tourism industry, with hosts critiquing media jokes that normalize military sexual violence.

The US designated defunct Palestine solidarity group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization, a move Asa Winstanley argues targets Israel's critics and weaponizes antisemitism to suppress Palestine activism.

Investigative journalist Camila Lourdes Galarza reveals how Ecuador's president has enabled covert US military operations, including drone strikes on fishing boats, turning the country into a testing ground for imperial expansion.

A Pentagon leak reveals the US military is stretched thin across Iran, Ukraine, and Latin America, forcing hard choices.

A leaked Pentagon memo reveals US generals competing for scarce military assets, constraining intervention options in Iran, Ukraine, and Latin America, while economic warfare and sanctions face diminishing returns.

US imperialism's war on Iran, following the assault on Venezuela, aims to recolonize the Global South to resolve its economic stagnation and dollar hegemony crisis, presaging broader attacks.

US imperialism's war on Iran is a strategy to recolonize the Global South, overcoming economic stagnation and dollar hegemony threats through unequal treaties and resource control, while Iranian resistance inspires global opposition.