Politico’s 2026 coverage of Cuba is not neutral reporting. It speaks directly to Donald Trump, building a narrative from crisis to collapse to intervention. This analysis by the Cuba Debate Media Observatory examines how language, source hierarchy, and repetition normalize extreme scenarios against Cuba. A must read for media critics. . . .
Theory Corner
Understanding Patriarchy
Patriarchy is the single most life threatening social disease assaulting the male body and spirit in our nation. Yet most men never think about patriarchy, what it means, how it is created and sustained. bell hooks explains why ending patriarchy is necessary to liberate men from emotional crippling. . . .
The Problem with Black American Identity
‘Black’ is not a national identity. It is the name imposed on us through genocidal violence. ‘New Afrikan’ nationhood is an African anti-colonial project internal to the Amerikkkan settler state. To identify as ‘Black American’ is to fold Black resistance into a project of anti-Black world making. . . .
A Discourse on the New Petty Bourgeois Soul
Visibility and virality are among the defining ideological forms of this period of techno neocolonialism. What appears as self-expression is in reality structured by platform design, market incentives, and imperial extraction. The task is not moralism but political struggle against the degraded superstructure. . . .
Rules for Thee: Rodney, Genocide, and the Legal Logic of Imperialism
International law was made by Western nations to serve their own economic and political objectives. From Palestine to Cuba to Iran, the colonized cannot wait for the colonizer’s laws to save them. Walter Rodney’s method helps us understand why. Cuba and Iran show us what actually works. . . .
Marxism Wasn’t Exported to the Caribbean It Was Proven There
Marxism wasn’t exported to the Caribbean. It was proven there. From the Haitian Revolution to Cuba under blockade to Grenada’s revolutionary rupture, Caribbean political economy thinkers and revolutionaries have shown that colonial capitalism was distorted, not absent. Class struggle unfolds under imperial constraint. . . .
Dialectics, Iran and the Long Durée of Anticolonial Revolution
The war on Iran is not a dispute over a nuclear program or regional destabilization. It is a structural imperative of imperialism. Iran refused its role as an enclosure for foreign capital. The siege is class war, and understanding this is essential for building a unified front against the dictatorship of capital. . . .
Cyclones Garance and Chido, States of Colonial Calamity
Cyclone Garance devastated Reunion Island. Now the French colonial state is using the disaster to expropriate the inhabitants of La Colline. This is not an emergency response. It is a deliberate strategy of land grabbing and dispossession. From Reunion to Mayotte, colonialism never wastes a crisis. . . .