US Empire

America’s Suicide Pact

May 9, 2026 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Educate! Capitalism, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, US Empire

Civilizations, as the historian Arnold J. Toynbee famously argued, “die from suicide, not by murder.” They collapse from within. They fall prey to moral, social and spiritual decay. They are seized by a parasitic ruling class. Democratic institutions seize up. The citizenry is immiserated, wealth is funneled upwards to the ruling class and coercion is the principle form of control. Our suicidal march began long before Donald Trump and his bizarre court of buffoons, sycophants, grifters and Christian fascists took power. It began when the ruling class, especially under the Reagan and Clinton administrations, set out to harvest the country and empire for personal profit.

Gulf Monarchies And The Price Of American Patronage

May 9, 2026 Ziyad Motala, Mondoweiss. Educate! Foreign Relations, Trump Administration, US Empire, West Asia

Empires do not require invitations. They arrive, impose and endure until, as the anti-colonial struggles of the past demonstrated, they are expelled. That was the grammar of colonialism as it left scars across Asia, Africa and the Middle East: a one-way street paved with extraction, humiliation and the slow suffocation of self-determination The tragedy of the current Gulf predicament in the Middle East is not that empire persists, but that it has been invited with ceremony, financed with petrodollars and normalized as strategy. The rulers of the Gulf did not resist the imperial embrace.

American ‘Micro-Militarism’

April 30, 2026 Alfred W. McCoy, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! History, Iran, Multipolar World, US Empire, Wars and Militarism

There is mounting historical evidence that America is indeed an empire in steep decline, while President Donald Trump’s war of choice against Iran is becoming the sort of micro-military disaster that helped destroy successive empires over the past 2,500 years — from ancient Athens to medieval Portugal to modern Spain, Great Britain, and now the United States. And at the core of every such ill-fated war-making decision lay a problematic leader, often born into wealth and prestige, whose personal inadequacies reflected and ramified the many irrationalities that make imperial decline such a painful process.

A Sigh Of Relief, But Breathing Easy Is Impossible In A Circumference Of US Empire

April 10, 2026 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Ceasefire, Frederick Douglass, Iran, Oppressors, US Empire, Wars and Militarism

Yesterday evening, the world collectively breathed a sigh of relief as it was reported that the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States reached a deal for a two-week cessation of hostilities to allow for negotiations that will ultimately lead to a longer peace deal between the two nations and the zionist ethnostate of Israel. Yet Iranians and the entire world are not breathing easy as it’s understood that the U.S. and Israel have lost credibility as it pertains to keeping their word and adhering to parameters of a ceasefire agreement.

America’s Moral Suicide

April 9, 2026 Michael Brenner, Consortium News. Educate! Collective West, Gaza, Iran, US Empire, Wars and Militarism

Collective suicide always is an ugly business to observe — especially when it’s your own country debasing itself. Yet, we seem unfazed. Indeed, we redouble our acts of inhumanity as if reiteration somehow normalizes the perversity of what we have done. The systematic insulation of ourselves from the magnitude of our turpitude is all the more remarkable for its requiring the constant filtering of graphic images of odious criminality to which we are accomplices. There may be some faint recognition, subliminally, of our culpability in the diligence with which dissenters and truth-tellers are suppressed and punished.

No Kings In America, Real Resistance In Rome

April 6, 2026 Michael Leonardi, Counter Punch. Strategize! Antiwar Movement, Democrats, Italy, Liberal class, No Kings, US Empire

The “No Kings” slogan sounded promising when it exploded across the United States in 2025: a mass rejection of authoritarianism, unchecked executive power, and the cult of the strongman. But like so many liberal-led mobilizations in the Trump era, the U.S. version has revealed itself as carefully managed theater — heavy on performative outrage, light on principle, and deliberately blind to two of the greatest crimes of our time: Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the illegal U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. The contrast with the Italian “No Kings and Their Wars” mobilization in Rome could not be starker.

US Imperialism And The Hubris Of White ‘Supremacy’ Ideology

April 2, 2026 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Capitalism, US Empire, US Imperialism, White Supremacy

Last week, New York Times columnist Carlos Lozada in a piece entitled, Pax Americana, Meet Lax Americana, remarked, “We had a good run - some eight decades or so - but it’s clear now that the United States has ceased to be the leader of the free world.” Who exactly Mr. Lozada meant by “we” is a subject for another time - but I would argue that “we” certainly does not refer to the masses of poor and working class Black, Brown, Indigenous and white folk who have little to do with the barbaric and draconian imperialist and neo-colonial machinations of the U.S. empire in the same way that developing nations have little to do with the profligate greenhouse gas emissions driving and exacerbating the climate crisis.

Saying No To The Empire Is Not Enough

March 29, 2026 Max Elbaum, Portside. Strategize! Anti-war Movement, Iran, Left Politics, Socialism, US Empire, Wars and Militarism

The joint US-Israeli war against Iran puts an exclamation point on the Gaza genocide. It sends a message to the world from the regimes in Washington and Tel Aviv that if you didn’t get it before, you better get it now: We will do absolutely anything that our military strength allows us to do. There are no rules or international laws we are bound to acknowledge, much less respect. You have two choices: capitulate or be destroyed. Most European governments, all too many regimes elsewhere, and major sections of the Democratic Party leadership here offer at most a few “process objections” to this level of ruthlessness but go with the flow.

Strait Of Hormuz Closure Brings Empire To Brink

March 26, 2026 Kit Klarenberg, Scheer Post. Educate! Iran, Oil and Gas, Strait of Hormuz, US Empire

Since the criminal Zionist-American war on Iran erupted, the Strait of Hormuz has remained stubbornly closed. Despite Donald Trump’s dire threats, Tehran has brought maritime traffic to a total standstill. The Empire has futilely scrambled to assemble an international coalition to reopen the economically vital waterway ever since, only to be rebuffed. NATO allies have been slammed for making a “foolish mistake”, by refusing to help militarily secure the Strait. In truth, there is no hope it can be forcibly reopened in the foreseeable future.

Imperial Decline In The Strait Of Hormuz

March 17, 2026 Alfred McCoy, Consortium News. Educate! Iran, Regime Change, Strait of Hormuz, US Empire, Wars and Militarism

In the first chapter of his 1874 novel The Gilded Age, Mark Twain offered a telling observation about the connection between past and present: “History never repeats itself, but the… present often seems to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends.” Among the “antique legends” most helpful in understanding the likely outcome of the current U.S. intervention in Iran is the Suez Crisis of 1956, which I describe in my new book Cold War on Five Continents. After Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal in July 1956, a joint British-French armada of six aircraft carriers destroyed Egypt’s air force, while Israeli troops smashed Egyptian tanks in the sands of the Sinai Peninsula.

How Might The US-Israeli War On Iran Fail?

March 15, 2026 Bassam Haddad, Mondoweiss. Educate! Iran, Israel, Peace, US Empire, Wars and Militarism

What was framed as a swift and definitive strike against Iran is fast becoming something far more unpredictable and potentially more dangerous. The expanding U.S.–Israeli war on Iran was sold, implicitly or explicitly, as a decisive blow: a campaign that topple the regime, trigger mass protests, fracture the Iranian state, and reassert U.S.–Israeli dominance across the region. Beyond the assassination of the country’s Supreme Leader and an unknown number of Iranian military and political officials, U.S.-Israeli bombardment has killed over 1300 Iranian civilians, injured upwards of 10,000 more, and damaged over 13,500 civilian buildings.

How Iran War May Accelerate The Fall Of US Empire

March 5, 2026 Soumaya Ghannoushi, Middle East Eye. Educate! colonization, Greater Israel, Gulf States, Iran, Trump Administration, US Empire, Wars and Militarism

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.

Empire ‘Sleepwalking’ Into Iran War Catastrophe

March 4, 2026 Kit Klarenberg, Al Mayadeen. Educate! Iran, US Empire, US military, Wars and Militarism

Over recent weeks, an ominous US military buildup throughout the waters and territories of West Asia has gathered pace. Concurrently, murderous mass protests - openly sponsored by Western leaders - have raged with fluctuating intensity throughout major Iranian cities. All along, President Donald Trump has issued dire threats of impending “bad things” if Tehran rejects curbs on its nuclear research and missile production. But as the drums of war reach a belligerent crescendo, urgent notes of warning are being widely sounded.

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

February 24, 2026 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report colonization, European Union (EU), Marco Rubio, US Empire

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.

The New Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

January 25, 2026 Arnie Saiki, Decolonize Accounting. Strategize! Economic crisis, Societal Collapse, US Empire, Violence

We face a difficult question: what happens when the asset bubble pops and savings prove far less dependable than we assumed? What happens when things get worse? How should we prepare for the psychological, financial, discriminatory, and violent upheaval that approaches like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? In my header, Esme Washington watches from her Main Street salon as Thiel, Musk, Fink, and Trump charge down the street as symbols of an economic breakdown. These threats are intertwined because collapse will be experienced as a chain reaction. Bills and financial strain drives stress and family instability.

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