Bosnia-Herzegovina: Dysfunctional Elections in a Failed...
Britain on the Leash with the United States – but at...
The Two Brett Kavanaugh Stories
Former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum.
Alastair CROOKE
In Trade, as in Foreign Policy, America Goes for ‘Broke’
Markets are worrying about the consequences for global trade – and US corporate earnings – were the current Cold War to deepen: i.e. that the roulette ball does not happen to land on ‘red’.
The ‘Pivots’ to the Coming Era Can Already Be Discerned
We live in a moment of the waning of two major projects: the decline of revealed religion, and - simultaneously - of the discrediting of the experience of secular Utopia.
Two Major Middle East Projects Are Afoot & Gaining Mass; They May Collide Before Long
A turnaround in Iraq puts a spike into the balloon of President Trump’s aspiration to reassert US energy dominance over the Mideast.
Making Quagmires in Syria Is a Step Towards ‘Regime-Change’ in DC
It is less than 60 days until the mid-term elections and ‘no more dithering’ (as Ignatius put it). The so-called Resistance is going all out – à outrance – both to discredit Trump politically before...
Is a ‘Suez’ Event Being Prepared for Syria?
The Art of the Deal has effectively been neocon-ised into a tool for enlarging American power – and there is nothing of earlier ‘mutual advantage’ to be heard of, or to be seen, these days.
Asymmetric Financial War and Radical US Leverage – What Will It Bring?
America has radical financial leverage at this moment precisely because of the ‘strong dollar’. Make no mistake. This is not just the result of Fed hiking rates.
The Metaphysics to Our Present Global Anguish
The American millenarian ‘myth’, then and now, was (and is), rooted in the fervent belief in the Manifest Destiny of the United States, ‘the New Jerusalem’, to represent humanity’s best hope for a...
The Deal: Smelling a Rat, Arabs Sense a Coming Humiliation
Iran will not be crippled by sanctions, and whatever becomes of Trump's Deal, Israel will find itself in a region in which the locus of politics is drifting towards the alliance of forces who prevailed in the epic struggle over...
President Donald Trump has announced the decision to exit from the bedrock 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), which bans all land-based missiles...
Here is what independence à l'américaine is like, with the United States’ friends and allies absolutely free to comply with their protector’s...
Nearly three weeks after what most of the world suspected to be a foul murder, the Saudi regime has officially admitted that Jamal Khashoggi was killed in its consulate in...
America’s international alliances are transforming in fundamental ways. One matter driving these changing alliances now toward unprecedented realignments is that some...
