Author: M Barbu

US army steals new shipment of Syrian oil as Damascus works to protect wheat resources

Damascus says Washington and its Kurdish proxy militias are responsible for plundering 80 percent of Syria’s daily oil output, and are also working to damage the nation’s vast wheat fields

The US occupation army smuggled a new shipment of stolen Syrian oil from Hasakah governorate on 12 December, transferring a convoy of at least 37 tankers to Iraq via the illegal al-Mahmoudiya border crossing, according to local sources in the town of Yarubiyah who spoke with SANA.

Turkish police captures 44 suspected Mossad agents in Istanbul

The work of Israeli spy networks reportedly allowed the Mossad to launch online defamation campaigns and threats against Palestinians working and studying in Turkiye

Istanbul police and the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) on 14 December announced the arrest of 44 people suspected of leaking information about Palestinian expatriates in Turkiye to the Mossad.

A US tool against Iran: Kurdish militancy on the Iran-Iraq border

US and Israeli-backed armed Kurdish separatists on the Iraqi border have participated in every incident of Iranian domestic strife, from 2009 to 2022.

After hours of traveling around the Iraqi border between the autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) and Iran, you will come to a single conclusion: “This is a one-sided border.”

Stolen Syrian oil: The fuel for Syria’s partition

In July 2021, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin described the US theft of oil from the areas it occupies in eastern Syria as “bandit behavior.” The same term was previously used by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and other officials in statements denouncing Washington’s violation of Syria’s sovereignty.

Xi of Arabia and the petroyuan drive

Xi Jinping has made an offer difficult for the Arabian Peninsula to ignore: China will be guaranteed buyers of your oil and gas, but we will pay in yuan.

It would be so tempting to qualify Chinese President Xi Jinping landing in Riyadh a week ago, welcomed with royal pomp and circumstance, as Xi of Arabia proclaiming the dawn of the petroyuan era.

Global Prospects: A German View

What [German Chancellor Olaf Scholz] fails or decides not to mention is the need to acknowledge the return of the nation-state as the key force capable of correcting those mistakes.

Because a certain gang of Germans gave nationalism a bad name in the last century, one must not forget that in a world of diversity, the nation-state is the most workable model of socio-political and economic organization.

Destapan el alcance de las actividades del grupo Wagner en Libia

Nuevas investigaciones revelan la escala de las operaciones de Wagner, un misterioso grupo de mercenarios ruso, en la guerra civil de Libia. Una tableta Samsung recuperada de un campo de batalla al oeste de Libia, que presuntamente habría sido abandonada por uno de los integrantes del grupo, guardaría en su interior datos sobre el auténtico papel de los mercenarios en el marco del conflicto libio, nombres en clave de los combatientes y una “lista de la compra” de equipamiento militar de última generación. Las informaciones que acaban de ver la luz relacionarían al grupo con supuestos crímenes de guerra y desataparía sus vínculos con el ejército ruso. Hasta el momento Rusia continúa negando cualquier vínculo con Wagner.

Libia. El país desmembrado

Libia fue durante décadas un actor africano y árabe a tener en cuenta. Sus recursos y su ubicación, acompañado por un régimen dictatorial ambicioso, forjaron en el país una conciencia nacional capaz de contrarrestar el orden tribal enraizado en las tres regiones históricas del Estado norafricano. Bajo la figura de Muanmar el Gadafi, la Tripolitania, la Cirenaica y el Fezzan mantuvieron una cohesión ficticia, gracias a un sistema de poder central bajo el parapeto de ideologías panárabes y panislamistas.