July, 2023

• 20 July

  The BRICS Currency Project Picks Up Speed – Analysis

  

  On Friday, July 7, 2023, news broke in the financial market media that the “BRICS” (that is, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) will implement their plan to create a new international currency for trading and financial transactions, and that this new currency will be “gold backed.” Most recently, …

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• 20 July

  25 Years Of India-France Strategic Partnership: Resilient In The Darkest Storms – Analysis

  

  Prime Minister Modi has just wrapped up a two-day visit to France, where he was guest of honour at France’s Bastille Day Parade. This is a rare honour, given that it’s not every year that the parade has a foreign chief guest—the last time was in 2018 when Singapore PM …

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• 17 July

  Russia, Iran coordinating to expel US troops from Syria: Report

  

  The US army has been reinforcing its occupation in Syria over the past few months In a report released by Al-Monitor on 14 July, a high-ranking US military official was quoted as saying that Russian and Iranian forces in Syria have been coordinating with the specific aim of forcing Washington’s …

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• 17 July

  Iraq did not notify US of oil for gas deal with Iran

  

  Whether or not US officials will consider the deal a violation of US sanctions on Iran, and therefore attempt to block it, is unclear Iraqi officials did not notify their US counterparts before reaching the recent deal to barter oil for natural gas with Iran, the Associated Press reported on …

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• 17 July

  Iraqi PM meets Assad in Damascus

  

  The two-day visit is the first by an Iraqi premier to Syria since before the start of the war In the first visit by an Iraqi prime minister to Syria since before the start of the US-backed war in 2011, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani visited Damascus on 16 July for a …

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• 17 July

  US loots new batch of Syrian oil, reinforces bases in occupied Hasakah

  

  Washington’s theft of Syrian oil has the intended goal of funding the de-facto Kurdish administration of northeast Syria US occupation troops in Syria smuggled a new shipment of stolen oil from the resource-rich Jazira region to their bases in Iraq on 10 July with the help of their Kurdish proxy …

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• 17 July

  Oil, politics, and sovereignty: The Iraq-Turkiye legal dispute

  

  Despite Turkiye’s professed support for Iraq’s sovereignty, its actions, including nine years of illegal oil imports from Kurdistan, reveal quite the opposite, with the repercussions now affecting global oil supply. In a joint press conference held in 2019 at Turkiye’s Presidential Complex in Ankara, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his …

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• 17 July

  India’s foreign policy dilemma: Counter or cooperate with China?

  

  New Delhi’s inclination towards the Atlanticist core contradicts its position as a self-reliant economic and military force, and hinders its aspirations for Eurasian integration through collaboration with China and Russia. In an era marked by shifting geopolitical dynamics and strategic realignments, India’s evolving role as a “supplying and maintenance agent” …

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• 17 July

  MbS to Blinken: ‘No’ to Israeli normalization, ‘yes’ to Syrian reconciliation

  

  In his interview with CNN on 9 July, US President Joe Biden announced that “we are still far away” from reaching agreements to normalize Saudi-Israeli relations, establish a Saudi civilian nuclear program, and a Washington guarantee for Saudi security. What Biden revealed was based primarily on his feedback from a …

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• 17 July

  U.S. Soldiers Don’t Belong in Ukraine

  

  So how many American soldiers fight in Ukraine? The Biden bunch is careful not to reveal or refer to their presence, mercenary or otherwise, but the question keeps coming to mind. It popped up again June 27, when Russia bombed what the Ukraine press called simply a restaurant in Kramatorsk. …

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