🍔 Imperial Core

The New Atlas

US midterm elections serve to distract from unelected corporate interests that drive foreign and domestic policy, ensuring continuity of wars against Russia, Iran and China regardless of who voters choose.

African Renaissance Podcast

An investigation into right-wing Afrikaner lobbying of the White House, foreign-funded Volkstaat ambitions, and claims of genocide examined against data, framed as destabilisation of South Africa.

Caitlin Johnstone

A viral boar-trap video becomes a metaphor for how oligarchs and empire managers are quietly building surveillance, AI, drones and digital currency into a cage to crush any revolutionary movement before it can end capitalist abuses.

Geopolitical Economy Report

Marco Rubio's Athens speech praising colonialism, erasing Indigenous genocide and demanding Western global domination is analysed as a fusion of neoconservative warmongering with MAGA's white-supremacist and Christian-nationalist rhetoric.

Caitlin Johnstone

Netanyahu ordered Israeli military, the attorney general and Shin Bet to investigate soldiers who spoke anonymously in the documentary NAZA, which the author frames as proof that Israel treats the truth about Gaza as a security threat.

International Development Economics Associates

Orthodox domestic resource mobilisation rests on the flawed loanable funds theory, treating money as scarce and forcing global South economies into austerity and dependency; domestic resource creation, grounded in endogenous credit, offers a sovereign alternative.

Geopolitical Economy Report

Marco Rubio's Athens speech praising colonialism and Western supremacy is fact-checked, arguing that the idea of a unified 'Western civilization' is a political myth used to justify US imperialism and erase colonial history.

Friends of Socialist China

Sun Lei, China's deputy UN representative, rebutted Western criticism at the Third Committee, condemning smears by the UK, Australia, Japan and others while citing China's poverty gains and UK poverty figures.

Empire Watch Media

Rita Gimenez argues the EU's trade-deficit blame on China masks imperial rhetoric, tracing Europe's deindustrialisation and colonial legacy to explain its contradictory China policy.

Dr. Radhika Desai

Dimitri Lascaris argues that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's anti-Trump reputation is a political scam, masking a neoliberal agenda aligned with Washington on military spending, digital taxes and war on Iran.

Orinoco Tribune

Argentina and Israel signed a defense memorandum in Buenos Aires, deepening military cooperation under President Milei's alignment with Washington and Tel Aviv and extending existing regional security agreements.

Friends of Socialist China

The Communist Party of Ireland marked the 77th anniversary of the People's Republic of China at a Dublin embassy reception, deepening party ties with Beijing through conferences and academic exchanges.

The Cradle

Geoeconomics consultant argues that sovereignty is a myth because privately owned central banks and control of the global financial system, not elected governments or armies, constitute the real pillars of imperial power.

Neutrality Studies

Psychiatrist Niall McLaren argues that narcissism, hierarchy and entitlement among Western elites explain imperial expansion, propaganda and the decline of democratic restraint in the imperial core.

Caitlin Johnstone

Live-streamed images of Israel's assault on Gaza broke through Western apathy and propaganda, forcing ordinary people to confront a genocide their own governments enable and prolong.

The Grayzone

Max Blumenthal traces how US-funded evangelical Christianity, exported via USAID and the Rockefellers, helped build Brazil's right-wing movement and the Bolsonaro family's political rise.

International Development Economics Associates

The World Bank and IMF pushed financial liberalisation that fuelled the 1997 Asian financial crisis, then imposed austerity that caused lasting slow growth, lost national ownership and rising inequality across Southeast Asia.

Geopolitical Economy Report

Big Tech executives warn of AI existential risk while cashing out ahead of a historic bubble, as the US government shields the industry and Silicon Valley pushes to ban Chinese AI.

Empire Watch Media

MI5's espionage alert against a Chinese research institute is debunked as baseless fearmongering, exposing a double standard where Western universities partner openly with military and intelligence agencies while Chinese civilian research is branded espionage.

Geopolitical Economy Report

A US ambassador's threat to overthrow Greece's government is placed in the long history of CIA-backed coups, showing how normalised and bipartisan imperialism remains in Washington today.

Caitlin Johnstone

A collection of notes criticising attempts to rehabilitate Biden's record on Gaza, rejecting accusations that anti-Zionism equals antisemitism, and urging leftists to take responsibility for their own inner wellbeing.

Dr. Radhika Desai

Roger Köppel argues at the Valdai Discussion Club that Europe is too weak economically, militarily and politically to confront Russia, and that moralism over realism has made Europeans pay while Ukrainians fight and Americans profit.

India and Global Left

Trend forecaster Gerald Celente examines the geopolitical and economic forces driving global instability, from the hidden history of the Iranian conflict to billionaire influence over war and peace.

Orinoco Tribune

A former Venezuelan culture minister defends the government's decision to negotiate with the United States rather than resist, framing dialogue as the only path to a dignified peace under hybrid war.

Colonial Outcasts

A critique of Pete Hegseth's "State of the Force" reforms, arguing that personnel purges, religious offices, and a new autonomous warfare command will produce a more demoralised and incompetent US military.

Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris

Western leaders like Mark Carney are said to be pursuing self-destructive policies-hyper-militarisation and backing US wars-that serve oligarchic interests while degrading living standards for ordinary citizens.

BreakThrough News

Economist Michael Roberts argues the $4 trillion AI investment boom is a speculative bubble built on circular financing that could trigger a 2008-style recession far worse than the original.