China, Russia and Iran to Conduct Military Exercises in Latin America

Alexandre Lemoine Beijing, Moscow and Tehran intend to make a show of force for the United States in their “backyard.” The three countries plan to hold joint naval maneuvers off the coast of Latin America and the Caribbean in early August. According to experts, this is a sign that some Latin American countries intend to…

Assessing the Current State of Anti-Imperialism in Latin America

The Iranian Marxist publication, Iranfardamag, interviews Rainer Shea. What’s your take take on Petro’s electoral victory and the prospects of his administration joining organizations such ALBA? Would he become a Boric-style president or a Morales-style one? I believe he’ll become a Boric-style president for three main reasons. One, he’s more likely to have his progressive…

Iran, Russia, China to Conduct Joint Drills in Venezuela in August

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Russian President Vladimir Putin Iran, Russia, and China are setting the stage for a series of joint military drills in Latin America, and Venezuela is set to host the drills on its soil in August, a report by the Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS) said. Tehran, Moscow, Beijing,…

The West’s Plan B: Secure the Realm

Fadi Lama Having failed in preserving the unipolar order, the west will resort to Plan B – reviving a bipolar world based on the ‘civilized’ west and the ‘barbarian’ rest. Plan A: Global Hegemony By the late 1990s, it was clear that a China-led Asia would be the dominant economic, technological and military power of the…

St. Petersburg Sets the Stage for the War of Economic Corridors

Pepe Escobar At St. Petersburg on Friday, backers of multipolarity pushed forward integration of their networks In St. Petersburg, the world’s new powers gather to upend the US-concocted “rules-based order” and reconnect the globe their way The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum has been configured for years now as absolutely essential to understand the evolving dynamics…

Venezuela and Iran Sign 20-Year Cooperation Agreement

Peoples Dispatch The governments of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi signed a 20-year cooperation agreement on June 11. (Photo: VTV) The agreement between the two sanctions-hit countries prioritizes energy and food security in both nations The governments of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi signed a 20-year strategic…

The Sanctioned: How Iran-Russia are Setting New Rules

Pepe Escobar Iran and Russia are taking the lead in establishing alternative financial networks to bypass western sanctions While China, keen to ward off US sanctions as long as possible, is lagging, its RIC partners Iran and Russia are doing the legwork to break the west’s global financial grip. The first Eurasia Economic Forum, held last week…

The Return of the “Oil Tanker War” with Messages Affecting the Nuclear File

Elijah J. Magnier After two years of a fragile lull, the “Oil Tanker War” has reappeared in the international arena. Iran has confronted the US through its European ally, Greece, which has been pushed against Tehran. However, the confrontation this time is different as the Iranian message is not limited to the seizure of one…

We Are at the End of Unipolarity

Tehran Times The Ukraine war proved that the world has reached the end of unipolarity, a Turkish historian and political scientist says. “Following the most recent events, we can state that we have arrived at the end of unipolarity,” Mehmet Perincek tells the Tehran Times. “The end of the unipolar world and the establishment of…

Why is the US Trying to Provoke a Conflict on the Afghanistan—Tajikistan Border?

Valery Kulikov Ever since the withdrawal of the last US troops from Afghanistan and the fall of the country to the Taliban (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation), Washington has been unable to come to terms with the loss of its influence in the region. It is therefore doing all it can to…

High Level Delegation from Iran Visits Nicaragua

Tortilla Con Sal “They think they will humiliate the world’s Peoples, they think that they will force those Peoples to surrender, but Peoples have Creativity, they have Dignity, they have Strength.” –Daniel Ortega Meeting of the President-Comandante Daniel and Compañera Rosario, Vice President of Nicaragua, with High-Level Delegation of Iran May 6th 2022 Words of…

Iran Promises to Provide Fuel to Nicaragua

Iran is committing to supply fuel to Nicaragua and says its vision for the bilateral relationship is not solely economic. Iran’s high-level delegation, headed by Minister of Petroleum Javab Owji, is in Nicaragua to strengthen cooperation in the areas of agriculture, livestock, technology, medicine, energy, petroleum, and parliamentary and foreign relations exchange. The delegation held…

Terror from Balochistan: A Menacing Tool to Disrupt Sino-Pakistani Economics

Pepe Escobar Balochistan can only benefit from Chinese infrastructure investment in the immensely impoverished Pakistani province. But an uptick in attacks on Chinese workers by militant separatists suggests that external agendas may be in play. A Baloch suicide bombing targeting Chinese workers in Karachi comes a mere month after the US-backed ousting of PM Imran Khan….

Iran, Ukraine, Venezuela: The Business of Sabotage in Multi-factor Warfare

Eder Peña There are multiple and diverse cases in which sabotage groups have managed to twist situations and scenarios in favor of the interests of the corporations that run the United States and Europe (Photo: Oleksandr Klimenko / Reuters). Sabotage has been an inherent part of the unconventional warfare that has been orchestrated by the…

Russia Threatens Its Enemies with a Tsunami of Sanctions

Elijah J. Magnier Gas still continues to flow into Europe through the Yamal-Europe pipeline, Blu stream 1 and 2, Nord-Stream 1 and Turkstream despite the undeclared war between the U.S. and its European allies on Russia in the territories of Ukraine. However, the West has found an adversary that has many cards to play and…

Iran-Russia Hit Maximum Strategy

Pepe Escobar Two of the three main Eurasian powers, Iran’s Ebrahim Raisi and Russia’s Vladimir Putin meet in Russia to advance their strategic relations. Photo Credit: The Cradle Three ain’t a crowd: The Iran-Russia summit this week, concurrent with RIC military drills in the Sea of Oman, in advance of a Xi-Putin meeting in two weeks,…

A Silent Turkish-Russian Standoff in Kazakhstan

Yeghia Tashjian Recent turmoil in Kazakhstan highlighted another Russian-Turkish fault line in Central Asia Photo Credit: The Cradle Turkey’s dream of a common army for Turkic countries may have been dashed by the quick Russian-led CSTO operation to subdue violent unrest in Kazakhstan early this year. Long seen as the pole of stability in Central Asia,…

Cuba & Venezuela Economy to Grow Above Regional Average

Kawsachun News Cuba and Venezuela are set to see positive GDP growth in 2022, above the regional average, according to forecasts by the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL) which has released its annual report this month. The report predicts that in 2022, the Cuban economy will grow by 3.5%, and that of…