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Dialectics, Iran And The Long Durée Of Anticolonial Revolution

Dialectical and historical materialism cannot be understated as critically important in understanding the “war on Iran”. The framework is indispensable for moving beyond the phenomena of geopolitics (sanctions, military posturing, diplomatic tensions) to grasp the essential phenomena: the structural contradictions of imperialism in its current, neocolonial phase. By examining the nation-state as an enclosure, the process of primitive accumulation, and the dialectic between the dictatorship of capital and the dictatorship of the proletariat, we can see the war on Iran not as a discrete conflict between nation-states, but as a critical battle in the ongoing class war that shapes the entire imperialist world-system.

Rania Khalek: Resistance And The Fight For The Global South

From the frontlines of media to the heart of geopolitical analysis, Rania Khalek brings clarity to the crises shaping our world. In these three must-watch videos, she exposes the realities of imperial aggression, regional resistance, and global economic upheaval. First, she confronts Piers Morgan with the powerful perspective of a Lebanese journalist facing the threat of Israeli expansion. Next, she sits down with Iranian scholar Mohammad Marandi to explore Tehran’s stance against U.S. pressure and the risks of escalation. Finally, she speaks with Marxist economist Prabhat Patnaik on how this conflict reverberates across the Global South, threatening economies, livelihoods, and the balance of power worldwide.

There Will Be No Free Arab-Persian Woman While The Western Colony Of ‘Israel’ Exists In The Levant

Al-Qaeda is ruling in Syria today. I speak from anger and disgust, I speak from indignation and pain. Western savagery wants to turn Arab woman into trash. Jeffrey Epstein governs in Syria today. There is partying in the anachronistic Eurocentric colony falsely called “Israel.” It is a humiliation for every Arab and Persian woman to see Al-Qaeda ruling in Syria. It should be a humiliation, an outrage to every woman and man in the world to see Al-Qaeda ruling in Syria. There will be no free Arab-Persian world, nor free, sovereign, and democratic Kurdish and Turkish world as long as the Eurocentric colonial anachronism falsely called “Israel” exists on our ethnically Arab-Persian soil.

How Iran War May Accelerate The Fall Of US Empire

For more than two decades, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been circling a single horizon.  He has warned about it, lobbied for it, and dramatised it at podiums from Washington to the United Nations. Now it is here. The war he long argued was inevitable has arrived: a direct clash with Iran, carried not by Israel alone, but by the full military weight of the United States. This is neither a limited strike nor a calibrated show of force. It is the most dangerous and reckless confrontation of its kind; a war not born of American necessity, not compelled by imminent threat, not sanctioned by Congress or the United Nations, but driven by an Israeli vision of regional remaking.

What Is The US Plan To Reverse The West’s Decline?

The West’s global dominance has been in serious decline for several decades. The US government wants to reverse this by undoing the progress made by decolonization and reimposing Western hegemony on the world — by force. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered an overtly pro-colonialist speech to European leaders, in which he praised “the great Western empires” and said North America and Europe should unite to “build a new Western century”, based on the subjugation of the Global South. Speaking on behalf of the Donald Trump administration, Rubio made it clear that what Washington has done to Gaza, Venezuela, and Cuba is what it now hopes to do to the rest of the Global South — which represents 86% of the world population, and therefore constitutes the Global Majority.

Tensions Escalate Between Niger And Its Former Colonizer France

Tensions between Niger and France have continued to escalate following the recent attack on Diori Hamani International Airport and Air Base in Niamey, an incident Niger authorities say is part of a broader destabilization campaign allegedly linked to France. Relations between the two countries have been at an alltime low following the removal of French military forces from Niger and the formation of the Alliance of Sahel States in 2023. The Nigerien authorities have consistently maintained that France bears responsibility for the airport attack, which occurred several weeks ago and heightened already strained diplomatic and security relations between the two countries.

Indigenous Families Forced To Flee From Indonesian Security Forces

New raids and aerial strikes by Indonesian security forces in the central highlands of West Papua have once again forced Indigenous civilians to flee their homes and makeshift refugee camps into surrounding forests. Residents of Puncak Regency, already displaced by earlier clashes, were among those uprooted in the latest wave of violence that began with intensified military operations at the end of January. Civilians from at least nine villages in the Kembru District abandoned settlements and camps after what local monitors describe as air and ground strikes — including drone attacks near civilian areas — left families with little choice but to flee on foot through rugged terrain.

UN Official Says Israel ‘Consolidating Unlawful Annexation’ Of West Bank

The UN human rights chief said on Wednesday that Israel’s expansion of its civilian control in the occupied West Bank would entrench the territory’s integration into Israel and amount to unlawful annexation. Volker Turk, the UN's high commissioner for human rights, warned the move was the latest Israeli step that would render a viable Palestinian state impossible. “If these decisions are implemented, they will undoubtedly accelerate the dispossession of Palestinians and their forcible transfer, and lead to the creation of more illegal Israeli settlements," Turk said.

The US Occupation Of Gaza Has Begun

This week, Drop Site News revealed a draft resolution from Trump’s newly christened “Board of Peace.” The resolution outlines what is, in essence, Phase Two of Trump’s unrealistic peace plan that ushered in a new phase of horror in Gaza under the guise of a ceasefire.  The actions outlined in the resolution ignore realities on the ground and paint a very grim picture of what the United States is planning for Gaza. Far from abandoning the ludicrous and offensive imagery Trump shared in that AI video from last year of himself and Elon Musk on a beach in an unrecognizable Gaza, this resolution is the battle plan to turn Gaza into the playground for the wealthy that Jared Kushner presented to the World Economic Forum at Davos last week.

Danish FM: ‘Talks Did Little To Dissuade White House From Greenland Plan

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen announced on 14 January that talks with US officials at the White House did “little” to budge Washington's position on annexing Greenland. Rasmussen said the US remained fixed on acquiring the Arctic territory, despite Danish objections and warnings that such a move would violate sovereignty and Greenlanders’ right to self-determination.  “We did not manage to change the American position,” he told reporters after the meeting in Washington. Present at the talks were Rasmussen, Greenland’s Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt, US Vice President JD Vance, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. 

No To The Re-Militarization Of Puerto Rico

We are now on the threshold of a new year, and for the Puerto Rican people, it means a renewal of our struggle for independence and sovereignty. With renewed vigor, we may resume the battle against the militarization of our archipelago.  In 2003, we were able to expel the most powerful naval force in the world, the U.S. Navy, after four years of relentless struggle. The entire population, regardless of political beliefs, bravely united, facing beatings and arrests at the hands of U.S. security forces. The people were determined to close the bases that stored deadly weapons and from which the Navy bombed the pristine beaches of our small island of Vieques, sowing pain, disease, and death among its inhabitants.

The History And Future Of Latin America’s Engagement On Palestine

I wrote this article when Israel’s genocide in Palestine was in its most ruthless phase (June–July 2025). As I wrote it, I felt rage, helplessness, and despair. I went to bed every night with the accounts of the ongoing horror and woke up in the morning to news of hundreds more dead. I saw corpses wrapped in blankets or shrouds piled up in mass graves and small children with their skulls or chests pierced by bullets, their bodies mutilated or emaciated, ravaged by hunger, dehydration, and infection. Like the millions of people around the world who care deeply for Palestine, over the past two years what has kept me going is an obsessive search for a way to stop this genocide before the Palestinian people are exterminated in their own land.

Burkina Faso Suspends Participation In Francophone Judicial Body

In yet another move away from Françafrique, Burkina Faso’s High Council of the Judiciary (CSM) announced on December 15 its decision to suspend participation in the Francophone Network of Judicial Councils, known by its French acronym, RFCMJ. Headquartered in Quebec, a French-speaking part of Canada, the organization seeks to “develop common standards” in judiciaries of Francophone countries. Over half of its 23 members are former colonies in Africa. Burkina Faso’s CSM was one of the five judicial councils in RFCMJ’s current bureau, alongside Guinea, Lebanon, Quebec, and France, which presides over it.

Lifting The Veil On International Human Rights Day

The notion that the “West,” responsible for the most horrific crimes in the annals of human history, could somehow be associated with the defense of something they called human rights was always an obscene proposition. But with the assistance of the human rights industry, which is infused with Eurocentrism and white saviorism, the collective West was given ideological cover to continue its project of racist plunder and colonial fascism after fascist forces were partially defeated in Europe with the end of the second imperialist war in 1945. Outside of Europe, in the colonized world where fascism was originally born and practiced as a value extraction process that materially created the “West,” colonial fascism continued but was given a new face and tagline.

Ontario First Nations Are Building A Village To Block Mining Project

There’s a brand-new clearing on the point above the rapids on the Attawapiskat River, 70 kilometres from Neskantaga First Nation. By the time Ontario’s planned Northern Link road is built to the edge of this river in 10 years, Neskantaga’s chief says those living in a permanent settlement here will be there to block the bridge and the highway into the Ring of Fire. “It’s going to be a village,” Gary Quisess says. “People are going to move away from the reservations. We’re so compressed with reservations, in the box. People are going to move away, back to the old ways where people lived separately, all over the place. That’s the way of our life, our culture.”
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