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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 3h

Read Who Will Control Syria’s Oil? by Harrison Budak on UntoldMag.
🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/aagkswxpyq

#Syria #OilPolitics #EnergyJustice #PostWarEconomy #Sanctions #UntoldMag #Geopolitics #MiddleEast #Croatia #INA #HumanRights #TransitionalJustice #ResourcePolitics

UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 3h

Syria’s oil once symbolized sovereignty and progress.
Today, it risks becoming a new chapter in the story of global extraction - where profit eclipses justice, and those who endured the war remain excluded from its rewards.

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 3h

Meanwhile, UN reports warn of abuses, killings, and insecurity in some Syrian regions.
“Policies failing to protect civilians and minorities,” said UN Envoy Geir Pedersen, “undermine any chance of rebuilding a Syria that works for all.”

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 3h

INA’s part-owner, Hungary’s MOL Group, remains locked in a decade-long arbitration with the Croatian government.
At the World Bank’s ICSID, MOL was awarded $235 million, highlighting how energy politics and corruption intersect well beyond Syria’s borders.

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 3h

Energy consultant Christina Abi notes:
“The terms of the contract have changed by default - they don’t apply to the situation anymore.”
Still, INA insists its rights remain valid - a claim that may reignite old disputes over ownership and compensation.

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 3h

With sanctions relaxed, Gulf and European companies are positioning themselves for new contracts with Syria’s transitional leadership.
The country’s total output has collapsed to just 80,000 - 100,000 barrels per day - a fraction of its pre-war levels.

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 3h

At the center is Croatia’s INA, whose history in Syria dates back to the 1960s.
Once producing 350,000 barrels a day in partnership with the Assad regime, INA withdrew in 2012 under sanctions - but quietly kept assets “in case geopolitical circumstances change.”

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 3h

After more than a decade of war and sanctions, Syria’s oil is back in global focus.
As restrictions ease, Gulf investors and European firms are lining up to reclaim access to its battered oil fields.
Who stands to benefit this time?

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 1d

Read more on UntoldMag:
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#Palestine #Gaza #21stCenturyGenocide #MemoryAndResistance #UntoldMag #MediaForJustice

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 1d

From Across War Zones, Targeting Healthcare Has Become a Strategy, Not an Accident by Walid el Houri
Fifteen Palestinian medics were found executed - hands tied, shot in the head.
Healthcare is no longer collateral damage; it has become the battlefield itself.

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 1d

From No Pride in Genocide: A Comic Strip by Joseph Kai
Zionist propaganda weaponizes queer Palestinians, twisting liberation into a tool of erasure.
Visibility becomes another battlefield - where queerness is instrumentalized to justify genocide.

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 1d

From Beyond Project Nimbus by Reem Almasri
As bombs fall on Gaza, Silicon Valley profits from the infrastructure of war.
Nimbus and the recruitment of Unit 8200 veterans, Big Tech has become an arm of occupation - embedding surveillance and AI into the machinery of genocide.

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 1d

From A Chronicle of Loss and Unending Grief by Abdalhadi Alijla
For Palestinians, grief is unending - layered across generations, interrupted before it can heal.
A grief that breathes between rubble and exile, passed on like memory itself.

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 1d

From The Memory of the City Resisting Genocide by Mariam Mohammed Al Khateeb
In the ruins, memory refuses erasure.
“The stories of the people are the story of the city - its erased history. Even amid destruction, its memory resists.”

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 1d

From “I Carry Their Grave Wherever I Go” by Husam Maarouf
In Gaza, mourning has become a privilege.
With DNA testing banned, families guess who to bury - walking over unmarked graves of the unknown.

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 1d

From The Cartographic War by Zina Q.
Google Earth’s new satellite images of Gaza reveal “haunted house” pins marking destroyed homes - a new form of psychological warfare that turns ruins into data.

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 1d

On this day two years ago, a new chapter of pain and devastation began in Palestine, not as a passing event, but as the beginning of an ongoing genocide that transcends time and place.

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 2d

With 300 million Indians dependent on forests, the clash in Nagarhole is a test:
Will conservation continue a colonial legacy of exclusion or recognise indigenous stewardship as central to justice?

Full story by Vasudevan Sridharan:
https://f.mtr.cool/aauyseivxu

UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 2d

Meanwhile, billion-dollar development schemes promise infrastructure and schools for tribal communities. But without the right to live in forests, these promises remain hollow.

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 2d

“The real problem is not the law, but the state’s persistent disregard for it, and the lack of judicial oversight,” notes governance expert C.R. Bijoy.

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 2d

The 2006 Forest Rights Act was meant to change this.
On paper, it overrides colonial laws and protects tribal rights.
In practice: nearly half of 5 million claims filed nationwide were rejected or left pending. Thousands of Jenu Kuruba claims remain in limbo.

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 2d

“There was an orchestrated effort in portraying us, villagers and tribals, as poachers,” says tribal leader J.C. Thimma.

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 2d

Since the 1970s, tiger protection policies displaced hundreds of families.
Some lost homes to the Kabini Reservoir.
Others were forced into resettlement colonies or bonded labour in coffee plantations.

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 2d

The truth is different.
The Jenu Kuruba are not intruders but guardians of the forest, sustaining biodiversity through honey gathering, fire management & medicinal foraging long before conservation laws.

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 2d

In Karnataka’s Nagarhole Tiger Reserve, the Jenu Kuruba- honey-gatherers who lived in these forests for centuries- sat down for a meal.
Police arrived. Shelters were torn down. They were branded “encroachers.”

An article by Vasudevan Sridharan

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