⛏️ Extractivism

The Grayzone

Argentina's Central Bank lost over $1 billion in gold reserves as nearly 11 tons of gold left the country without public consent, raising questions about national wealth and economic sovereignty under Milei.

Neutrality Studies

Alex Krainer argues that British imperial power persists through international banking networks, tracing debt, oil concessions and corporate finance from Yugoslavia's breakup to Bosnia and Enrico Mattei's case.

Orinoco Tribune

Iran's IRGC Navy reports a third oil supertanker struck in the Strait of Hormuz after ignoring warnings, vowing decisive responses against vessels cooperating with US forces as transit through the waterway collapses.

Sovereign Media

Kambale Musavuli argues that a US-brokered DRC-Rwanda deal entrenches imperial extraction, linking Congolese coltan and tantalum to the global AI boom and Rwanda-backed M23 control of eastern mines.

Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris

Oil tankers suffer catastrophic damage in the Strait of Hormuz as Saudi Arabia keeps bombing Yemen, while Washington's Ukrainian proxy is humiliated and $15 billion in Canadian aid to Ukraine goes missing.

Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris

Yemeni strikes on Saudi airports and the kingdom's largest oil field, plus escalating Iranian attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, are examined as signs that the Saudi regime is in deep trouble.

Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris

Russian affairs analyst John Helmer discusses Trump's announced 'massive' oil deal with Russia, the market reaction, and Ukraine's strike on a Russian refinery within hours of the announcement.

Orinoco Tribune

Venezuela's acting president reports 22 consecutive quarters of growth, 6.5% third-quarter expansion, slowing inflation and rising consumption at the Fedecámaras business assembly, alongside new oil, gas and mining agreements.

Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris

Yemeni missile and drone strikes on Saudi oil facilities and Riyadh airport expose the vulnerability of the Saudi dictatorship, while Iran escalates pressure on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

Geopolitical Economy Report

The US war on Iran widens as Saudi Arabia restarts its war on Yemen's Ansarallah government, with Pakistan, Turkey and Syria drawn in, destabilising oil markets and the global economy.

Orinoco Tribune

A US-backed reactionary wave has swept Latin America, and after Washington abducted President Maduro, Venezuela faces a forced negotiated sovereignty under an oil deal that leaves Chavismo intact but constrained.

Colonial Outcasts

Palestinian writer and former Apple employee Tariq Ra'ouf discusses Apple's complicity in Israel's occupation, from IDF salary top-ups to Israel-designed chips, and the Apples Against Apartheid campaign.

The New Atlas

US troop withdrawals from Iraq are repositioning rather than ending its occupation, while the Mecca Alliance and Project Meridian extend Washington's proxy and technological reach in its war on Iran.

BreakThrough News

Saudi Arabia's $142 billion arsenal and US backing fail to defeat Ansar Allah in Yemen, as fighting over the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and Hormuz reshapes the Red Sea war.

BreakThrough News

A former Apple retail worker fired for pro-Palestine speech details the company's ties to Israel, including R&D centres and an AI startup founded by Unit 8200 veterans, and urges launch-day pickets.

Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris

Oil industry experts warn that Trump's strategy for forcing oil through the Strait of Hormuz is unsustainable, while Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen fails to deter Yemeni resistance and risks collapsing its proxy regime.

Dr. Radhika Desai

Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi argues that seven months of siege and sanctions against Iran are instead strangling the oil-dependent Gulf monarchies that backed the war, leaving US bases around Iran destroyed or half destroyed.

The Spearhead

A pan-African roundtable examines Nigeria's $700bn critical minerals deal with the US, alleged foreign-backed destabilisation plans against Eritrea, and the legacy of Kwame Nkrumah and Ghana's Big Six.

Sovereign Media

Brazil's new critical minerals law gives Lula leverage over foreign deals like USA Rare Earth's Serra Verde takeover, as Washington backs Flavio Bolsonaro to secure rare earths for its war machine.

Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris

Yemeni forces strike an Aramco refinery in Riyadh and the Red Sea port of Yanbu in response to Saudi bombardment, while satellite imagery shows damage to a major UAE oil facility amid a spiralling oil crisis.

Friends of Socialist China

John Ross, a British economist at Renmin University, calls the Xi-Trump summit positive mainly because the US launched no big attacks on China, though few substantial agreements emerged and the tariff truce ran only to January.

Progressive International

Venezuela signed a memorandum with India's Greens Zoological Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre, run by the Ambani-backed Vantara, to modernise its zoos and wildlife centres despite controversy over animal transfers.

Orinoco Tribune

The US Treasury updated OFAC licenses covering Venezuela's oil, petrochemical and electricity sectors, easing some transactions while keeping Washington's blockade framework and financial controls firmly in place.

Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris

Dimitri Lascaris examines attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, questions maritime oil-export data, and assesses Iran's chokepoint strategy alongside the Saudi war on Yemen.

Vocal Politics

A Florida-based speedboat plot to overthrow Cuba's government is examined through interviews with survivors in Cuban custody, alongside the US oil blockade and social media warfare against the island.

Orinoco Tribune

Xi Jinping's September 2026 Washington summit with Trump produced very few concrete outcomes; a 24 September White House dinner seated Xi with US executives worth $2.4 trillion, drawn by China's 1.4 billion-person market.

Orinoco Tribune

Russia's foreign minister demanded at the UN General Assembly the release of Venezuela's captured president and first lady and an end to the US blockade of Cuba, while Venezuela's diplomacy pursued bilateral meetings.

Geopolitical Economy Report

Trump's three-day September summit with Xi Jinping produced few concrete results; the 24 September White House dinner drew top US CEOs together worth $2.4 trillion. China's 1.4 billion-person market, over 900 million middle class, explains the pull.