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Trumpism: A Morbid Symptom of Declining Empire

The second Trump administration exposes the deepening crisis of US imperialism and deterioration of its preeminence within the global capitalist system. While still the dominant global economic and military power, the US is seeing fracture and decline in the “world order” that it has constructed and maintained through bipartisan commitment and execution since the end of World War II. It is facing counter-hegemonic challenges by Russia and its emergent allies in Central Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, as well as by political division and political fragmentation among its allies in Europe and Asia; by Chinese economic influence across Asia and Africa and its subsequent burgeoning military buildup; and from Iran and its aligned forces across the Middle East.

Can an Imperialist Ceasefire Work?  

The announcement that a ‘ceasefire’ has been reached between the Zionist entity and Hamas has been cause for celebration for the Palestinian people. The current ceasefire blueprint was established back in May 2024, a plan which was “endorsed unanimously” by the United Nations Security Council, but whose implementation was blocked by the Netanyahu and Biden administrations in favor of extending the US-funded, Israeli slaughter.

US OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST! Stop the Genocide and Imperialist War

US OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST! Stop the Genocide and Imperialist War. Presentation by Joseph Daher, who is an internationalist anticapitalist and an academic. He teaches at Lausanne University, Switzerland and at the university of Ghent, Belgium. He is the author of Marxism and Palestine (2024) Syria after the Uprisings (2019) and Hezbollah: The Political Economy of Lebanon’s Party of God (2016). He is the founder of the blog Syria Freedom Forever.

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