Imperialism & War > United States
Nato paralysis and US decline
17 Jun 2011
No candidate to replace the USA exists or looks likely to arise, writes James Turley
Vanishing capitalists?
10 Apr 2025
Mike Macnair reviews A Hanton Vassal state: how America runs Britain Swift Press 2024, pp298, £12.99
Capitalism with Chinese characteristics
10 Apr 2025
The US-China trade war has seen both tit-for-tat tariffs and a strategic attempt to shift away from any reliance on the American market. Yassamine Mather gives her take on current dilemmas and the socio‑economic nature of the People’s Republic
Recession threats loom
10 Apr 2025
Where is the full-scale US-China trade war taking the world? Michael Roberts looks at the likely outcome when it comes to the headline inflation, output and productivity stats
Articulate attack dog
10 Apr 2025
Despite being from a troubled background, JD Vance found the help of some very rich friends. Mike Belbin looks at the ideas, compromises and ambitions of the US vice president
Escalation on the cards
03 Apr 2025
After the exchange of letters, maximum pressure sanctions and the almost comical revelations of ‘Signalgate’, Yassamine Mather warns that Trump might soon give the green light for a punishment war against Iran
Divine right of CEOs
20 Mar 2025
What explains the dominance of the ‘tech right’? Paul Demarty traces the ideological evolution of the Silicon Valley oligarchs from new-age woo to the hard right
Notes on the war
20 Feb 2025
Three years since the launch of the ‘special military operation’, the post-World War II order is being shredded by America. Trump is a revolutionary counterrevolutionary, says Jack Conrad
Notes on the war
30 Jan 2025
With Donald Trump’s second term and talk of a negotiated settlement, Volodymyr Zelensky’s political career seems to be rapidly heading towards its failure. Jack Conrad warns that in the immediate term this will likely benefit the far right
Rise of lifeboat imperialism
16 Jan 2025
What’s the big deal about Greenland? Paul Demarty examines Donald Trump’s promised new wave of American continental colonial expansion
Atmospheric blow-dryer
16 Jan 2025
Danny Hammill argues that the LA wildfires have been made hellishly worse by urban sprawl, budget cuts and, most of all, global warming
Decade of disaster
16 Jan 2025
Last year was the hottest ever recorded and deadly heat looks like our future, writes Eddie Ford - even if we overcome capitalism
Let them drink dirty water
05 Dec 2024
Eddie Ford looks at the environmental disaster that threatens with the appointment of climate deniers, cronies and billionaires committed to ending what they call ‘excessive regulations’
An acronym versus the hegemon
28 Nov 2024
America and its arrogant bullying is much resented. But, asks Yassamine Mather, does the expanding Brics alliance represent a viable alternative?
Notes on the war
28 Nov 2024
Volodymyr Zelensky lost no time in using Atacms and Storm Shadows. In response, Putin changed Russia’s nuclear doctrine and issued orders for an intermediate-range ballistic missile strike. Jack Conrad assesses the growing dangers of walking towards the nuclear abyss
Grand imperial claims
28 Nov 2024
America does not consider itself bound by the ‘law governed world order’. Mike Macnair gives the background to the denunciations of the International Criminal Court’s warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant