Category: Geopolitics

Leroy Maisiri – Burkina Faso: Revolution, authoritarianism and the crisis of African emancipation politics

Leroy Maisiri – Burkina Faso: Revolution, authoritarianism and the crisis of African emancipation politics There was a time when Robert Mugabe stood as the towering figure of African liberation. Raised fists, Pan-Africanist banners, and chants of self-rule marked Zimbabwe’s emergence from white settler colonialism. Mugabe, like many of […]

Ukraine is a capital of freedom!

Ukraine is a capital of freedom! by anon (not verified)May 6, 2025 From Anarchist Communist Group The following text by Yana Makova was published by Voice of Anarchists and translated by Thunderbird. It also appears on the libcom site. These are the very theses that every Ukrainian can […]

‘A new arms race’

Week XIX, MMXXV Recently in The Signal: Why are people in the United States eating record amounts of meat? Glynn Tonsor on a mysterious outlier trend in the Western world. Today: “The argument in favor of these systems is ultimately about speed: Combat now often happens so fast […]

Romania’s Revolt Against Liberal Globalism

Orthodoxy and sovereignty strike back. Alexander Dugin May 07, 2025 Alexander Dugin sees George Simion’s first-round win in Romania’s presidential election as another spark in Europe’s conservative surge and a sign of the nation’s Orthodox revival. The victory of the sovereigntist candidate George Simion in the first round […]

American carnivores

Week XIX, MMXXV Brought to you by Congo Clothing Company Recently in The Signal: Why are people’s cognitive skills declining? Gloria Mark on how consumer technology is making us more error-prone, more stressed, and less productive. Today: “U.S. society is less trusting of experts. People follow their own […]

Not All Tariffs Are Created Equal

By Michael Lind, Tablet The Trump administration’s rollout of its tariff strategy on “Liberation Day,” April 2, was a debacle of historic proportions, causing the greatest stock market crash since the COVID-19 pandemic and the threat of an even more frightening flight from the dollar as a safe […]

China’s factories are in another world

China’s industrial proficiency is shocking to manufacturing experts. Their degrees of automation, of engineering expertise, and supply chain domination have no close peer across other modern economies. China’s latest innovation is “dark factories”, massive production centers that produce complex products with no humans involved. In an absurd example, […]

Too Hot to Work

Prostitution is cool again, oops I meant sex work Evgenia Apr 27, 2025 In the last few months since MAGA came into full power, it seems that the vibe shift I’ve been harping on has been taking a more definitive shape. It’s not just a vibe anymore, it […]

Friends like these

Week XVII, MMXXV Brought to you by The Human Rights Foundation Recently in The Signal: What do the new U.S. tariffs mean for global trade? Martin Wolf on the rapid onset of radical uncertainty. Today: Why is collaboration intensifying among the world’s most powerful autocracies? Lucan Way on […]

Who’s to judge

Week XVII, MMXXV Recently in The Signal: Why is collaboration intensifying among the world’s most powerful autocracies? Lucan Way on what unites and divides China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia. Today: Why are so many Americans so suspicious of the news media? Benjamin Toff on information overload, social media, […]

China, Soft Power, and Film

Global Impact: The Case of Film by Sijia Yao Over the past several decades, America’s Hollywood as a cinematic and entertainment industry has emerged and maintained a successful model of cultural globalization. In the past two decades, Hanliu or the Korean Wave, which first gained popularity in East […]

Teutonic Takeover

What the Chilean presidential election tells us about Germans in South America Andrew Cusack Mar 10, 2025 What is going on in Chile? They’re having a presidential election later this year, and the latest poll figures are out. The top three candidates are all right-wingers descended from German […]

The trade-war era

Week XVI, MMXXV Brought to you by The Human Rights Foundation Recently: What can democracies do about autocratic interference? Josh Rudolph on the challenges of resistance and resiliency. Today: What do the new U.S. tariffs mean for global trade? Martin Wolf on the rapid onset of radical uncertainty. […]

The Return of the Eurasian Macro-State

by Alexander Dugin Alexander Dugin Apr 15, 2025 Alexander Dugin argues that the restoration of a civilizational bloc in the post-Soviet and post-imperial space is inevitable. When it became clear that the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)1 could not fulfill the task of integration, the Eurasian Union2 was […]

Knowing is half the battle

Week XVI, MMXXV Brought to you by Autio Recently:  This week’s member’s despatch. + If Donald Trump isn’t an autocrat, what is he? Stephen Hanson on the old historical model for the new American presidency. Today: What can democracies do about autocratic interference? Josh Rudolph on the challenges of […]