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Geopolitics

The Indo-Pacific Maritime Surveillance Collaboration (IPMSC): A New Digital Net for an Old Imperial Game?

The Quad foreign ministers announced a new maritime surveillance initiative for the Indo-Pacific, led by India, focusing on tracking vessels in the Indian Ocean with advanced technology. This is a thinly veiled expansion of Western-led surveillance architecture, aimed at constraining the sovereign maritime activities of civilizational states like China and India under the guise of 'security cooperation'.

Geopolitics

The Bombed Barracks: How Imperialist Intervention Manufactured Iraq's Sovereign Trap

US and Saudi airstrikes targeted sites in Iraq described as official security headquarters, killing members of the state-affiliated Popular Mobilization Forces and exposing the dangerous ambiguity of a security system where militias are embedded within the state yet act independently. This tragic episode is a direct consequence of imperialist interventions that have fractured sovereign nations, leaving them trapped in perpetual conflict to serve Western and regional power games, while the people of the global south pay the ultimate price.