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Dollar system in crisis: The real reason the US bailed out Japan

The US Treasury's intervention to prop up the yen reveals growing cracks in the dollar-based financial system, as foreign governments reduce Treasury holdings and dedollarization gains momentum.

Aug 23, 2026

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Our Entire Civilization Is Run By Oligarchs And Empire Managers — And Other Notes

Caitlin Johnstone critiques Western empire, Zionism's Islamophobia, and leftists who condemn Iran, arguing that anti-imperialists must target the US and its allies, not resistance states.

Aug 22, 2026

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South Africa and the Weaponisation of the “Foreign Criminals” Narrative

Mckay Chukwu uses prison data to debunk the narrative that foreign nationals, especially Nigerians, dominate South Africa's prisons, exposing it as a psy-op targeting Africa.

Aug 22, 2026

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What Radicalized You?

A satirical response to “What radicalized you?” catalogs US imperial violence, corporate ecocide, and economic inequality, questioning how anyone remains unradicalized amid such systemic atrocities and oligarchic rule.

Aug 21, 2026

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Pentagon Weighs Leaving Persian Gulf After Iran 'Exposed Vulnerabilities': Report

The Pentagon is reassessing its military footprint in the Persian Gulf, potentially moving bases to Jordan, Israel, or Saudi Arabia, after Iranian strikes damaged US installations and depleted key weapons systems.

Aug 20, 2026

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Why Does China Keep Rescuing the Empire That Wants It Dead?

China's foreign policy of bailing out the US—its declared adversary—is a strategic paradox risking its survival, as anti-imperialist allies must challenge rather than applaud these actions that court defeat.

Aug 20, 2026

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De la Espriella Threw Soccer Balls at Earthquake Survivors | w/ Javier Guerrero

Colombian President de la Espriella's quake response is condemned as criminal, favoring US and Israeli aid while rejecting other nations, as his right-wing agenda aligns Bogotá with Washington.

Aug 20, 2026

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NATO Beach, Portugal, & US Imperialism

Investigative report from Portugal's NATO Beach reveals how the country's military bases and arms industry sustain US imperialism, from colonial-era suppression to support for genocidal wars across West Asia.

Aug 20, 2026

Podcast

Debunking "Free Tibet": The Truth Behind the Propaganda

Tibet's history debunks 'Free Tibet' propaganda: over 95% serfdom before liberation. The CIA provided weapons and training to separatists. The Dalai Lama fled to India after armed escalation in 1959. An unverified 80,000 death figure lacks documentation.

Aug 19, 2026

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Letters from the American Empire: August 19, 2026

During ICE raids in Minnesota, residents resisted through collective action and encrypted neighborhood networks using the SALUTE reporting protocol, fostering reliance on eyewitness accounts over official narratives as a survival mechanism.

Aug 19, 2026

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Against Zionism and Normalization

The IPA denounces the Isaac Accords expanding Zionist influence in Latin America and the Caribbean, and criticizes Venezuela's consular coordination with Israel as a regression from anti-Zionist solidarity, urging popular forces to resist normalization and imperialist penetration.

Aug 19, 2026

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How The IMF Destroyed The World

Argues that the global divide between rich and poor nations was manufactured through centuries of imperial extraction and the IMF's structural adjustment programs, which reversed postcolonial development gains by imposing austerity, privatization, and trade liberalization.

Aug 19, 2026

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The U.S. Embassy Job Advert That Says the Quiet Part Out Loud

A U.S. Embassy job listing in Abuja covertly aims to map and cultivate Nigerian influencers, revealing the mechanics of foreign influence operations within sovereign nations.

Aug 18, 2026

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Content Monetization and The Hijack of Africa's Digital Space

Global platforms monetize sensationalism over substance, co-opting African creativity, steering it away from sovereign narrative and toward engagement that hollows intellectual discourse, demanding a choice of quality over clicks for genuine digital independence.

Aug 17, 2026

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China’s poverty alleviation: lessons to study and obstacles to global poverty reduction - Friends of Socialist China

Over the past 40 years, China's poverty alleviation lifted close to 800 million people above the $1.90/day line, accounting for nearly three-quarters of global reduction since 1980; the paper argues US-led imperialism now poses the primary obstacle to sustaining such progress.

Aug 17, 2026

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Michael Hudson: Trump Is Desperate To Save The Dollar Ponzi Scheme

Michael Hudson argues the dollar system is running out of options, functioning as a Ponzi scheme, with the US yen intervention selling euros rather than dollars exposing fragility and its dependence on the yen-threatened carry trade.

Aug 15, 2026

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US-Iran Stalemate: Why Can’t Trump End the War?

Former CIA officer Larry Johnson analyzes the unresolved US-Iran conflict, Israeli influence, Gulf security shifts, and the prolonged Russia-Ukraine war within the changing global order.

Aug 13, 2026

Podcast

Episode 39 - Dr Naledi Pandor: Leadership, Education And South Africa's Future

Dr Naledi Pandor discusses South Africa's education system, teacher preparation, and the remaining challenges, reflecting on her family's legacy and the influence of figures like Z.K. Matthews and Nelson Mandela on her political career and the country's constitutional development.

Aug 10, 2026

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How to Launder Genocide: Spain's Imperial Multiculturalism

A report from Madrid exposes how Spain's multicultural facade, exemplified by Casa Arabe, launders its colonial past and ongoing imperial genocide, linking migrant deaths at Europe's borders to the Gaza extermination.

Aug 9, 2026

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The Willingness to Destroy: RPH vs. Exterminate All the Brutes (pt.1)

Red Power Hour hosts discuss Raoul Peck's documentary series Exterminate All the Brutes, exploring how colonization and genocide shape white supremacy and ongoing attacks on truthful narratives.

Aug 7, 2026

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Resisting Trump's escalating attack on independent media

Rania Khalek discusses BreakThrough News's legal battle against a congressional subpoena, framing it as a McCarthyist witch hunt targeting independent media critical of US foreign policy.

Aug 7, 2026

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From Minneapolis to Iran with Nick Estes

Nick Estes and the host discuss the federal occupation of Minneapolis as part of Operation Metro Surge, connecting the fascist violence of the US domestic front to settler-colonialism and global imperial aggression, including the kidnapping of Maduro and tensions with Iran.

Aug 5, 2026

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ICE Terrorizing Haitians -- & Deporting Them Back to a Crisis the US Created

ICE terrorizes Haitian TPS holders, forcing ankle monitors or deportation to a country destabilized by US and French intervention, while their rights struggle is a working-class fight.

Aug 5, 2026

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Out of Ideas, Pentagon Crowd-Sources Iran War Planning to Troops: Live Q&A w/ Greg Stoker

Greg Stoker returns to military analysis, arguing the democratization of warfare is rendering US carrier groups and bases vulnerable, and examining the Pentagon's crowdsourcing for Iran war plans amid Gulf data center risks.

Aug 3, 2026

Podcast

The Willingness to Destroy: RPH vs. Exterminate All the Brutes (pt.1)

Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie analyze Raoul Peck's documentary Exterminate All the Brutes, discussing its visceral portrayal of genocide, slavery, and the contradictions of Enlightenment ideals.

Aug 3, 2026

News podcast

News Round-Up Ep. 250

Saudi Arabia bombs Iraq in retaliation for an attack it blames on Iraqi resistance, a move that likely undermines Iraqi disarmament efforts and risks escalating regional conflict.

Jul 29, 2026

News podcast

Rock The Cradle Ep. 36

Turkey cannot support the US-Israel war on Iran due to deep historical ties with Tehran and economic dependencies that bind its ruling class to Western interests, revealing a fundamental contradiction in Ankara’s foreign policy orientation.

Jul 29, 2026

News podcast

Chris Hedges on Why the US Empire Is Entering Its Final Stage

Journalist Chris Hedges argues that rampant militarism, economic collapse, and diplomatic failures signal the terminal decline of US hegemony.

Jul 23, 2026

Book

Unequal Exchange

Trade between rich and poor countries constitutes a form of imperialism that devalues labor in poorer nations, critiquing mainstream economics for overlooking this dynamic. It details unequal exchange as a systematic transfer of value, grounded in colonial history, and stresses that undervaluation stems from power imbalances, not natural conditions.

Jul 1, 2025

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Endless Holocausts

The United States has a long history of causing mass death, which it terms 'endless holocausts,' asserting that this pattern is fundamental to American identity and policy. Published by Monthly Review Press in 2023, it examines how this recurring violence shapes the nation's domestic and international actions.

Jan 1, 2023

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Capital and Politics

Examines the interplay between capital and politics, focusing on how capitalist accumulation shapes political dynamics and vice versa within contemporary capitalism and its crises. Published by Monthly Review Press in the Socialist Register series, it approaches political economy from a critical left-wing perspective.

Dec 1, 2022

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International Economic Governance in a Multipolar World

International economic governance, already in crisis before the pandemic, was widened and deepened by COVID-19 into a new cold war on China, revealing capitalism's crisis versus socialist countries, while analyzing regional integration challenging Western powers, trade regime evolution, and production system shakeup.

Jun 1, 2022

Book

New Polarizations and Old Contradictions: The Crisis of Centrism

Centrism, as a political strategy, is in crisis due to new polarizations and old contradictions, a thesis central to the Socialist Register 2022 edition published by Monthly Review Press on 2021-12-27 in eBook and paperback formats, highlighting how contemporary politics confronts unresolved tensions.

Dec 27, 2021

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Extraordinary Threat

The book documents the U.S. Empire's use of media and political interference to attempt coups in Venezuela over twenty years, detailing how these tactics were employed to undermine the nation's sovereignty. It underscores the significance of these actions as a persistent threat to Venezuela's stability and self-determination.

Jul 20, 2021

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Value Chains

Global value chains represent a new form of economic imperialism, structured to extract value from developing countries. This analysis reveals how the modern global economy perpetuates inequality through ostensibly neutral trade networks, underscoring the need to recognize and challenge these mechanisms of exploitation.

Aug 22, 2019

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The Lie of Global Prosperity

Neoliberal economists distort global data to conceal the persistence of poverty and exploitation, masking the realities of inequality through flawed statistics and narratives.

Aug 5, 2019

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Imperialism

The book examines imperialism from the colonial age to the present, arguing that it remains a defining feature of global capitalism, thereby positioning itself as a classic text in Marxist political economy that demonstrates how capitalist exploitation and militarism persist across historical eras.

Feb 15, 2019

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Mythologies of State and Monopoly Power

Veteran human rights lawyer Michael Tigar analyzes how foundational mythologies within the American legal system obscure the realities of state violence and corporate monopoly power, arguing that these narratives serve to legitimize systemic inequality rather than ensure justice.

Sep 24, 2018

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Russia, Ukraine and Contemporary Imperialism

Challenging both Western demonization of Russia and official Russian discourse, this collection from writers across Russia, Ukraine, Canada, the US, Europe, and Australia, gathered in Yalta after the Donbas conflict erupted, scrutinizes the Ukraine conflict's events and agents' motives, exposing underlying causes of critical post-Soviet flashpoints.

Apr 11, 2018

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Modern Imperialism, Monopoly Finance Capital, and Marx's Law of Value

Modern imperialism is rooted in monopoly finance capital, with Marx's law of value essential for analyzing it. It connects monopoly capital to this law, offering a critical framework for understanding contemporary capitalism. Published by Monthly Review Press in 2018, the work underscores the stakes of applying Marxist theory to challenge imperialist structures.

Feb 22, 2018

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