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We open with the strangest under-reported story of the Iran war: China quietly reduced its oil imports from Iran during the very moment Iran was under attack, and kept the global oil price low in ways that objectively benefited the Western war machine. What does that tell us about the “multipolar world” so many on our side have been celebrating? Ajamu’s answer is uncompromising — judge material consequences, not stated intentions. The BRICS bloc contains its own oligarchies, its own billionaires, and its own class interests, and pretending otherwise is how anti-imperialism curdles into a mirror-image nationalism.
From there we go deeper. Dimitri reports from the ground in Iran on where the pro-Western liberal camp actually went during the bombing, and why the Memorandum of Understanding between Iran and its ostensible allies was always going to collapse. We debate whether Iran should go nuclear, and what the North Korea precedent really teaches us. We examine the white colonial mentality underneath Western aggression — including from figures like Kirill Dmitriev, Russia’s own Islamophobic spokesperson to the Trump administration, and Ro Khanna, the liberal Zionist face of “reasonable” American imperialism.
The final third turns to global fascism — not as a slogan but as the political form capitalism is taking in its terminal crisis — and to the culture industries that launder it. We close on FIFA, the World Cup, and why building an Anti-Fascist Football Coalition is not a distraction from the anti-imperialist struggle but a front within it. Dimitri makes the case for boycotting professional sports entirely.
This is a conversation that will make comrades on multiple sides uncomfortable. That’s the point.
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