Against the Stage: Towards a Politics Beyond Performance

Yikye Illustration by Sana Nasir Fascism has exploded through a culture of spectacle and performance, most of all in the digital sphere. If the left competes on the same stage, it is doomed to failure. Real politics needs to be based on relationships of care, mutuality and everyday resistance. Fascism today doesn’t stomp in jackboots…

U.S. Envoys Refused to Report “Apocalyptic” Conditions in Gaza.

Jonathan Whittall Destroyed buildings in Beit Hanoun. February 1, 2024. (Photo by Jonathan Whittall.) The U.S. embassy in Jerusalem suppressed a February 2024 report on northern Gaza because it “lacked balance.” These photos from the UN fact finding trip are visual evidence of the conditions. Exclusive Photos Show the Reality They Suppressed In February 2024,…

Is Venezuela’s New Petroleum Law Good For Venezuela?

Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris In late January, less than one month after the Trump regime kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, interim President Delcy Rodriguez signed into law a major reform of Venezuela’s massive petroleum industry. Among other things, the new law ends the monopoly of Venezuela’s stated-owned oil company, PDVSA, and paves the way for…

Venezuela: The Resurgence of Imperialist “Diplomacy”

Pablo Meriguet Meeting between Laura Dogu US Chargé d’Affaires for Venezuela and Venezuelan acting president Delcy Rodríguez and other officials. Photo: Prensa Presidencial One month after the attack, US authorities have resumed their imperialist rhetoric. Venezuelan authorities have been forced to change the historic course of the Venezuelan oil industry under threat of a second…

Hannibal in Khiam: Israel’s Carpet Bombing to Hide Its Losses

Free Palestine TV Laith Marouf & Hadi Hotait travel to al-Khiam village on the border with Occupied Palestine and overlooking al-Hula Valley. The two inspect the now demolished Town Hall of al-Khiam destroyed by the Zionists during their invasion, then visit a home riddled with bullet marks and discuss the valiant resistance fighters who managed…

Venezuela and Iran: Oil and Survival

Carmen Navas Reyes Venezuela, under threat following the attacks of January 3, and in perspective alongside the historical mirror that is Iran, allows us to study the models of classic oil nationalism and pragmatic resistance. But beyond the economy, some analysts have put forward the theory that Venezuelan and Iranian oil is not just a…

A Troubling Turn in the Maduro-Flores Case

Juan Martorano One month after the US military incursion into Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Congresswoman and First Lady Cilia Flores, their case has taken a somewhat unexpected legal turn. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a formal request with the Federal Court on Monday to postpone the…

Lebanon’s Construction Equipment in the Crosshairs of Zionism

Free Palestine TV Laith Marouf is joined by Steve Sweeney, RT’s Military Correspondent, as they inspect a dealership for heavy machinery that was targeted with at least 8 GBUs in the area of An-Najjariyah between the cities of Saida and Nabatieh in South Lebanon. This is the fourth dealership or storage for construction equipment to…

The Authoritarian Stack: Mapping Big Tech’s Capture of State Power

Francesca Bria A number of US tech barons, including Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, line up to congratulate Donald Trump at his swearing-in ceremony, Washington, DC, 20 January 2025. Photo: IMAGO / ABACAPRESS The Authoritarian Tech Right has a plan, and it is advancing with speed. Democracies must answer with equal clarity and greater legitimacy….

City-States Without Limits Part II

Iain Davis In Part 1, we discussed the NRx technocrats’ ideas and how they have influenced the city-state model that seeks to capitalise on the global proliferation of Special Economic Zones (SEZs). We examined the role of functional oligarchies in this endeavor. In Part 2, we look at how that city-state model manifests internationally and…

City-States Without Limits Part I

Iain Davis A powerful group of Silicon Valley oligarchs are using the Trump administration to push for the construction of privatized city-states in the US. Their interests are aligned with a global network of oligarchs who want to move away from the global governance of nation-states to the global governance of an international network of…

The Technofascist System and Hyper-Imperialism: The Death Throes of Empire

Prince Kapone Introduction: From the Cellblock to the Vanguard — A Personal Journey into the Heart of Technofascism I became a revolutionary at eighteen, in a county jail cell awaiting transfer to prison. Like so many others in this empire, my political awakening came through the fire of incarceration—a system designed to break the body…

Ex-CIA Chief David Petraeus Briefs Officials in Israel Overseeing “New Gaza”

Jonathan Whittall 2025/09/30: Gen David Petraeus, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States, attends a ceremony at the Warsaw Security Forum that awards Jens Stoltenberg as a Knight of Freedom on September 9, 2025. (Photo by Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Petraeus, who was a major proponent of biometric gated…

Venezuela: Invasion and Resistance

Luis Britto Garcia We are victims of a treacherous, bloody, and unprovoked attack. Without a prior declaration of hostilities, and with technologically superior weaponry, they massacred hundreds of our compatriots, most of them non-combatants. Until a dignified peace treaty is signed, we are at war: the U.S. military and authorities are enemies, and as such…

U.S. Military Tells Key Middle East Ally to Prepare for Attack on Iran

Drop Site News Trump in the Oval Office on January 30, 2026. Photo: Annabelle Gordon / AFP via Getty Images. In addition to military targets, Trump is considering strikes on senior Iranian leaders with the aim of spurring the overthrow of the Iranian government. Senior U.S. military officials have informed the leadership of a key…

Fortress America, Technofascism, and the Labor Regime of Imperial Decline

Prince Kapone The U.S. economy is generating profits without integrating people into stable life. Domestic labor is being recalibrated through precarity, surveillance, and managed migration. Fortress America turns the hemisphere into a disciplined rear-base of corridors, minerals, and compliant labor. The American Pole and technofascism are one system—an empire tightening the enclosure at home and…

Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Weaponized Colonialism

Eduardo Rodríguez U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), stage light armored vehicles ashore in Arroyo, Puerto Rico, September 22, 2025. Photo: DVDS Puerto Rico’s remilitarization reveals the island’s colonial role in Washington’s war on Venezuela. A legacy that extends through a century of militarism, constitutional colonialism, and…

The Kremlin Editorial for Iran is Surrender or Die

John Helmer On January 27 President Donald Trump (lead image) announced: “In June, we obliterated Iran’s nuclear capacity in Operation Midnight Hammer. You saw that. People have been waiting for 22 years to do that, and we were right at the end. They were about a month away from having a nuclear weapon. We had to…

Trump & Iran: Red Lines and Real Lines

Kevork Almassian Trump dropped the “protester” pretext and revealed the real endgame: reshaping Iran’s posture When I read Trump’s “massive armada” post, I didn’t focus on the macho vocabulary or the theatrical deadlines. I focused on what quietly disappeared. For weeks, we were told the red line was “the protesters.” Human rights. Humanitarian concern. The…

Neoliberalism and Race: A Love Story

Lars Cornelissen Lars Cornelissen offers an extract from his recent book Neoliberalism and Race, which argues that race functions as an organising principle of neoliberal ideology. Drawing on intellectual history and critical race studies, he traces both explicit and coded racial constructs within neoliberal thought from the interwar period to the present. The book shows that…

Mohammad Marandi: A War on Iran Would Destroy the US Empire and Its Gulf Clients

Resistance News Transcript of key excerpts from Mohammad Marandi’s interview on Rock the Cradle, hosted by Sharmine Narwani, January 24, 2026. What prevented Trump from attacking Iran? Iran’s support for Palestine is the core issue Alliances shifting in West Asia (Middle East) Iran’s relationship with Russia and China Source: The Cradle Transcript: Resistance News Sharmine Narwani: […] Let’s welcome…

U.S. Launches Global War On Freedom of Navigation

Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris Dimitri Lascaris speaks with John Helmer about the Trump regime’s global war on freedom of navigation. Since Donald Trump returned to the White House one year ago, the U.S. and its proxies have attacked or seized civilian vessels in the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, the North Atlantic, the Caribbean and the…

Patagonia Forest Fires Reveal Imperialist Theft of Protected Lands

Aby L. Sène The arson attacks that engulfed the protected forests of he Andean-Patagonia region serve as a reminder that Western conservation models, which dispossess Indigenous peoples of their lands, are another tool of imperialism. To protect those lands, we need Indigenous sovereignty over them from Latin America and the Caribbean to Africa.  Revolutionary Pan-Africanist Thomas Sankara, once declared at the…