🧠 Philosophy

Caitlin Johnstone

Techno-utopianism is a faith-based worldview that ignores how plutocrats and empire managers control all technology, so real change requires collective transformation rather than waiting for innovation to save us.

Jalees Hyder

A personal essay arguing that consumer culture and social media train us to encounter people as fragments, and that love, faith, anti-imperialism and Karbala demand sustained attention and recognition of others.

Dr. Radhika Desai

Warwick Powell argues that large language models are open-ended probabilistic systems whose financial backers face a profitability crisis, driving doomsaying and regulation talk while Chinese open-access models undercut Western firms.

Propaganda & Co.

A documentary series examining parallels between ancient Antichrist and Dajjal prophecies, science fiction, and the technological systems being built around artificial intelligence, surveillance, and control over reality.

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.

Socialista Champagne

Socialists must abandon purity politics and co-opt culture, tradition, and feeling the way fascists do, or a dying liberal order will keep losing the working class to reaction.

Caitlin Johnstone

Arguing that Jews are not exempt from the universal moral duty to oppose Israel's genocidal apartheid state, rejecting claims that anti-Zionism is inherently antisemitic.

Jalees Hyder

Cruelty wounds both victim and perpetrator, reducing the abuser's own capacity for compassion; true anti-imperialism therefore demands inner moral discipline, not just public opposition to domination.

Caitlin Johnstone

The botched execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee, who survived seven syringes of lethal injection, prompts a meditation on trauma, cycles of abuse, and why the death penalty cannot be justified.

Monthly Review

Applies Marxian ecological theory to critique AI capitalism, arguing that the technology accelerates metabolic rifts and entropic disorder under monopoly-finance capital.

Jalees Hyder

A parable set in the Valley of Mirrors where a heron accuses the badger who controls the spring and schoolhouse key of causing a young squirrel's death, and a court chaired by a fox scrutinises her anger rather than the accused.

Caitlin Johnstone

Claims that artificial superintelligence cannot fix humanity's crises because those crises stem from plutocratic greed and exploitation, not from a shortage of intelligence, and that AI already serves war, surveillance and profit.

Socialista Champagne

Dialectical materialism identifies the principal contradiction and demands partisanship, while eclecticism flattens opposing tendencies into false balance, disarming revolutionary movements and serving opportunist social democracy.

Divine Praxis

Poverty is reframed as a positive, self-reproducing world of deprivation generated by capitalism, whose phenomenological stasis blocks spiritual development and demands an Islamic socialist response.

Friends of Socialist China

A contribution to a book launch arguing that Chinese and Western approaches to international relations rest on opposing philosophical foundations, contrasting liberal individualism and power politics with Chinese concepts of harmony, collectivism and a community of shared destiny for humankind.

Vocal Politics

Philosopher Gabriel Rockhill discusses why leftist currents diverge so sharply on imperialism, contrasting Western Marxism, anti-imperialist Marxism, Trotskyism, the Frankfurt School and French Theory.

Caitlin Johnstone

Caitlin Johnstone describes the reader-funded writing project she runs with her husband Tim Foley, outlining its anti-imperialist ideology and goal of collective awakening.

Caitlin Johnstone

A case that humanity is already undergoing a messy, non-linear collective awakening of consciousness, evidenced by growing empathy, healing culture and global awareness among the young.

Jalees Hyder

An essay arguing that political agreement on social media is not comradeship, which instead demands fidelity, mutual correction, and shared consequence rooted in Islamic concepts of wafāʾ and suhbah.

Propaganda & Co.

A documentary series examining parallels between ancient Antichrist and Dajjal prophecies, science fiction, and the technological systems being built around artificial intelligence, surveillance, and automation.

Orinoco Tribune

Capitalism's value-form has reached its terminal limit as debt and financialised wealth replace real production, forcing a choice between predatory barbarism and a post-value society built on shared limits and desire.

Neutrality Studies

Filmmaker Jay Shapiro discusses his book Insufficient Rewards, arguing that consequentialist morality lets people rationalise complicity in state violence, war and injustice while believing themselves morally upright.

Caitlin Johnstone

Awakening happens on three levels - individual, interpersonal and global - and each requires confronting uncomfortable truths about the self, relationships and the Western empire.

African Renaissance Podcast

Advocate Carol Steinberg discusses the Nugent Commission's investigation into governance failures at the South African Revenue Service under Tom Moyane, the role of Bain consultants, and efforts to rebuild the tax authority.

Climate Vanguard

A toolkit from Climate Vanguard defining conjunctural analysis, offering examples, and guiding political organisations on how to assess the present moment to make strategic interventions.

Orinoco Tribune

Structural economic and political crises rarely produce revolutions, argues a Marxist framework of liminal time in which collapsing belief systems more often yield apathy, authoritarianism, or restoration than revolt.