Geopolitical Economy Report

22/06/2025

BREAKING: Donald Trump has launched direct US airstrikes on Iran, after helping Israel start a war of aggression.

Tehran has vowed to retaliate. It could hit some of the 40,000 US troops and dozens of US military bases in the region.

The US is officially at war with Iran.

Donald Trump launched direct US airstrikes on Iran, after helping Israel start a war of aggression. Tehran vowed to retaliate. It could hit some of the 40,000 US troops & dozens of bases in the region

21/06/2025

To justify US war on Iran, the Donald Trump administration is repeating the same disinformation used by George W. Bush to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003, based on false claims of "weapons of mass destruction" (WMDs).

19/06/2025

The United States and Israel are waging war on Iran, but why? What are their real goals? The US empire seeks to:
-impose hegemony in West Asia (aka the Middle East),
-destroy the Axis of Resistance,
-colonize Palestine,
-destabilize the revolutionary Iranian government,
-preserve the petrodollar system,
-prevent de-dollarization,
-divide BRICS, and
-break up the Iran-Russia-China partnership.

17/06/2025

The war on Iran is a joint US-Israeli war.

Donald Trump provided Israel with the missiles and intelligence needed to launch the first attack on Iran. He personally gave Netanyahu the green light to start the war.

The US military is directly involved.

14/06/2025

Israel has attacked Iran in an aggressive act of war. The US government supported the strikes, providing intelligence and planning with Netanyahu.

Donald Trump cynically used fake "peace talks" with Tehran as cover, as he secretly oversaw the joint US-Israeli operation.

11/06/2025

Donald Trump deployed the US military to repress protesters in Los Angeles, California, as people flood the streets to denounce the lawless abuse of immigrants by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement).

The brutal crackdown shows how the oppressive tactics used by the empire eventually return home, and the imperial wars that were previously waged abroad are turned inward.

03/06/2025

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivered an extremely hawkish speech in which he demonized China as a "threat" and said the Trump administration is "preparing for war".

28/05/2025

Donald Trump claimed he would "un-unite" Russia and China, but the US divide-and-conquer strategy is failing.

In a meeting in Moscow, Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin reaffirmed that "China-Russia relations have reached the highest level in history" and will "jointly resist any attempts to interfere with and disrupt the traditional friendship and deep mutual trust between China and Russia".

24/05/2025

US Vice President JD Vance revealed the Trump administration's "generational shift in [foreign] policy", emphasizing "great power competition" and preparation for war with China.

They're abandoning soft power and focusing on "hard power" and "overwhelming force", in a return to blatant, 19th century-style imperialism.

22/05/2025

What makes money unique? Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson explain how money is a form of debt, and why the attempt to impose a single global money causes instability.

20/05/2025

What exactly is money? Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson explain what makes something into money, and why it is not a commodity.

08/05/2025

Donald Trump claimed he would be a "peacemaker", but he is actually waging more wars, increasing the military budget to $1 trillion, and pledging to expand the US empire by colonizing foreign territory.