Category: Imperialism, Sanctions & Resistance
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Sanctions and the War on Meaning: A Civilizational Perspective on Western Coercion
Author: Peiman Salehi**Originally published on: geopolitika.ru Peiman Salehi In 2025, sanctions have evolved beyond being mere instruments of economic pressure. They have become tools of civilizational warfare—targeting not only material capacities, but also the symbolic foundations, cultural identities, and political legitimacy of non-Western societies. What was once labeled “maximum pressure” is…
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The Rise of Civilizational Resistance
Author: Peiman Salehi*Originally published on: Geopolitika.ru Introduction: The Promise and Betrayal of Liberalism Liberalism, once heralded as the final evolution of human political organization, promised freedom, dignity, and prosperity for all. Emerging from the Enlightenment and championing values such as individual rights, democracy, and free markets, it claimed moral superiority…
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Sanctions as civilizational warfare
Author: Peiman Salehi*Originally published on: Africa Is a Country Framed as hard diplomacy, economic sanctions are a subtler form of warfare—one that erodes sovereignty, punishes civilians, and extends colonial power under a new name. In today’s multipolar world, economic sanctions have become a primary tool of American foreign policy. While…
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SOMOSMASS99
Peiman Salehi* / SomosMass99 Miércoles 14 de mayo de 2025 Las sanciones económicas suelen describirse como alternativas “pacíficas” a la guerra. Sin embargo, para millones de personas en países como Irán y Venezuela, son como una guerra por otros medios. Estas sanciones, impulsadas principalmente por la política exterior estadounidense, han…
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Sanctions as Civilizational Warfare: A War Without Guns, A War Against Lives
Author: Peiman SalehiOriginally published on:opEDNews In a hospital ward in Tehran, a nurse quietly adjusts the makeshift bandage of a young girl suffering from epidermolysis bullosa– an incurable condition also known as “butterfly disease.” The child winces, not only from pain but from the awareness that the specialized dressings she…
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