Photo by Timo Volz on Unsplash Let’s cut through the bullshit. When Western politicians pontificate about Taiwan, they dress it up in all the usual suspects: democracy! Self-determination! The sacred rules-based international order! It’s a beautiful song, really. Makes you want to shed a patriotic tear...

There exists perhaps no more exquisite demonstration of the theatrical nature of international justice than the spectacle we have witnessed in recent years: the world’s most august legal institutions solemnly pronouncing judgment upon Israel’s conduct, only to watch helplessly as their verdicts are consigned to...

It is a curious thing when a nation discovers that its most prolific killer was not a foreign terrorist in a cave, but a man in a suit sitting in a corner office in Minneapolis. Brian Thompson, the late chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, presided over...

Photo by Emmanuel Ikwuegbu on Unsplash Nigeria stands as Africa’s most populous nation and one of the world’s largest oil producers, yet beneath its abundant natural wealth lies a complex web of exploitation that stretches back over a century. The story of Nigeria’s oil industry cannot...

Welcome to Pakistan, where the markets are chaos, inflation is eating people alive, and the IMF is back for its 23rd “rescue” mission since 1958. You’d think after two dozen bailouts, someone would ask: How the hell did a country with nukes, natural resources, and...

There exists a peculiar phenomenon in the intellectual landscape of our time — a man who hides behind the armor of credentials while spouting nonsense with the conviction of Moses descending from the mountain. Jordan Peterson, that professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Toronto, has...

Burkina Faso’s Renaissance: How a 36-Year-Old Leader Achieved 18% GDP Growth in Two Years While Challenging Western Hegemony In a remarkable economic turnaround, Burkina Faso’s GDP has surged from $18.8 billion to $22.1 billion during Ibrahim Traoré’s tenure — a striking 18% growth rate in just two years....

AIPAC-backed law threatening Americans with prison for boycotts of Israel collapsed after GOP lawmakers revolted over free speech concerns Photo by Louis Velazquez on Unsplash America’s Peculiar Relationship with Israel and the Limits of Political Fealty When one considers the curious spectacle of American legislators drafting bills...

Photo by Colin Lloyd on Unsplash According to a recent Gallup poll, 70% of Americans now believe the American Dream is no longer attainable for the average person. This stark figure represents a seismic shift in national consciousness. The myth of American exceptionalism is crumbling under...

Photo by Ahmed Abu Hameeda on Unsplash Let us dispense immediately with the comforting fictions that have clouded this subject for far too long. The Palestinian people have been subjected to what can only be described as a multi-generational atrocity — one executed with military precision, defended with...

1 in 5 American Homes Now Devoured by Wall Street Vultures: Corporate America’s Housing Heist Escalates as Homelessness Soars 18% Photo by Clay LeConey on Unsplash It is a truth universally acknowledged that a capitalist system in possession of good fortune must be in want of something...

Nestlé: How a Corporation Killed 10.9 Million Babies and Put Their CEO in Charge of the World Economic Forum The statistics confirm a catastrophic toll: Nestlé’s aggressive marketing of infant formula in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) directly caused ~10.9 million infant deaths between 1960–2015, with...

Photo by Nick Agus Arya on Unsplash In the pantheon of national self-delusions, none persists with such magnificent arrogance as America’s conviction of its own benevolence. Vincent Bevins’ “The Jakarta Method” serves as a forensic examination of this psychosis — documenting with clinical precision how the United States...

Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash Prelude to a Machine-Governed World One cannot help but marvel at the spectacular intellectual fraud being perpetrated upon the global public — a deception so grand in scope and ambition that it makes religious dogma seem quaint by comparison. We are being...

Photo by Fred Moon on Unsplash In the ostensible land of liberty, a most extraordinary contradiction has taken root and flourished with perverse vigor. The United States, that self-proclaimed beacon of democracy, harbors within its borders an increasingly militarized domestic force that operates with a shocking...

Photo by Patrick Perkins on Unsplash The human species — Homo sapiens — has existed for a mere 300,000 years in cosmic terms, yet has developed the peculiar habit of believing itself immortal. Despite our technological advancements and self-congratulatory posturing as Earth’s dominant species, we remain remarkably vulnerable to extinction....

A shocking case of bureaucratic cruelty has emerged from the borderlands of Texas, where 10-year-old Sara Hernández García, a U.S. citizen by birth and brain cancer patient, now finds herself stranded in rural Mexico without access to life-saving medical care. The facts, stark and undeniable, tell...

Photo by Florida Memory on Unsplash The recent declassification of approximately 80,000 pages of documents, collectively known as the “JFK Files,” has provided historians and researchers with unprecedented insight into one of the Cold War’s most contentious chapters: America’s covert war against Cuba. While these documents...

Photo by James Wiseman on Unsplash The story of Western involvement in Africa begins, as most imperial tales do, with breathtaking violence followed by sanctimonious justification. When King Leopold II of Belgium established his personal fiefdom in the Congo Free State, he did so under the...

Photo by Natilyn Hicks Photography on Unsplash One must forgive me, I hope, for finding a certain grim satisfaction in the spectacle of American billionaires — those heroic “job creators” so revered in our prosperity gospel culture — suddenly discovering a principled opposition to economic nationalism. The same titans of...

Photo by Raúl Nájera on Unsplash The Empire’s Selective Memory There exists a peculiar amnesia that afflicts the American political establishment whenever the subject of its foreign interventions arises. This convenient forgetfulness — this ability to rewrite history while it is still warm — seems particularly pronounced when discussing the...

Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash In the putrid pantheon of American self-deception, perhaps nothing reeks quite so foully as the pretense that the world’s wealthiest nation provides its citizens with that most basic necessity of civilized existence: clean water. The statistics from Germany versus the...

Photo by Luke Stackpoole on Unsplash In the complex tapestry of global geopolitics, power transitions rarely happen through single dramatic events. Instead, they occur through gradual shifts in economic influence, strategic positioning, and the deployment of various forms of statecraft. This article examines the intricate relationships...

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Ghana’s relationship with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been a contentious one, marked by repeated bailouts and stringent… Continue reading on Medium »