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Carlos Martinez | Why the Iran War Ends the US Empire and Accelerates China

Support our Work: Patreon:   / empirewatch   Carlos Martinez @FriendsofSocialistChina joins Global South Rising to dissect how the US war on Iran is accelerating imperial collapse, and why China will likely emerge stronger. He explains why this isn't just another war: it's a war on Palestine, a war on the Belt and Road Initiative, and a war on multipolarity itself. As Washington bombs Iran, killing children indiscriminantly, Beijing keeps building. Schools in Iraq. Solar energy. Life expectancy targets. The contrast has never been starker. Carlos situates this moment within the broader crisis of a declining US imperial system that can no longer mask its violence behind humanitarian rhetoric. The mask is off. No more democracy propaganda. Just raw, fascistic aggression at home and abroad, from ICE stormtroopers rounding up immigrants to Trump announcing he gets to choose Iran's next Supreme Leader after assassinating the last one. But this war will fail. Just like Iraq. Just like Afghanistan. Just like Vietnam. The US didn't get what they wanted then, and they won't get it now. Iran is a proud sovereign nation with decades of resistance. The most the empire can do is flatten cities and create chaos, but it cannot install a puppet, cannot break the resistance, and cannot stop the trajectory toward multipolarity. Join Us! Global South Rising LIVE. Every FRIDAY. 9AM Brazil | 12PM London | 8PM Beijing. João Amorim, Ileana Chan and Sara Vivacqua break down the week's news through an anti-imperialist lens. This week with Special Guest Carlos Martinez! Carlos Martinez is a researcher, author and political activist from the UK. His latest book is 'The East is Still Red – Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century'. He is a co-founder and co-editor of Friends of Socialist China and co-founder of No Cold War. For the book: https://socialistchina.org/2023/05/16... João Amorim is a Brazilian-American filmmaker, producer, and animator focused on social and environmental storytelling from the perspective of the Global South. He directed Utopia Tropical (featuring Noam Chomsky and Celso Amorim) and 2012: Time for Change—a documentary on sustainability and transformation featuring David Lynch, Sting, Elliot Page, and Gilberto Gil. His recent work includes Pesticides Without Borders (Agrotóxicos sem Fronteiras), with researcher Larissa Bombardi, which premiered at COP30 and engages directly with grassroots movements. Sara Vivacqua is a lawyer graduated from Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Germany) and is a master's student in investigative journalism at Birkbeck, University of London, who has lived in Brazil, Spain, Germany and UK. She was a lawyer for the British Government Legal Department until her summary dismissal in May 2025 for potentially "embarrassing the government" for advocating human rights, Julian Assange's freedom, and Palestinian sovereignty. The British government officially acknowledged that there was no negative impact on her professional performance nor any misuse of information from her position, after almost one year of a fishing expedition. Ileana Chan is a London-born actress, activist, and podcast host of Chinese heritage, born to a Malaysian father and a mother born in the Philippines. She has lived in China, Malaysia, New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom. She earned a BA with First Class Honours in English Literature in New Zealand and trained at the Atlantic Acting School in New York. While residing in Los Angeles, she appeared in TV series such as Stumptown and Superstore. Ileana previously served as Strategic Communications & Digital Campaign Manager for Stella Assange, is a committee member of Friends of Socialist China, and hosts the Global Majority for Peace podcast, amplifying anti-imperial voices from the Global South and challenging Western propaganda and neocolonial narratives. Follow Ileana: Instagram/X/Tiktok: @ileanacforpeace Support our work:   / empirewatch   One time donation: https://buymeacoffee.com/empirewatch https://gofund.me/2cd9de43 #independentmedia #weeklynews Subscribe and Follow Empire Watch: YouTube: @EmpireWatch Instagram: @EmpireWatchMedia TikTok: @EmpireWatchMedia X: @EmpireWatchX Listen on SATURDAY: Patreon:   / empirewatch