In Libya, ‘We Came. We Saw. He Died.’ Will There Be a...
Britain’s New Aircraft Carriers: The Pride of Airstrip One
How Chrystia Freeland Organized Donald Trump’s Coup in...
Former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum.
Alastair CROOKE
The Dire, Unintended Consequences of Trump’s MAGA War on China
Whatever one’s attitude towards globalization – good or bad – America’s way of waging its MAGA war on China likely will have unintended sequelae that may well lead to some last century style pain and disruption.
‘The Establishment’s Last Roll of the Dice’: What Will Become of Europe?
Europe is hovering at the cusp of debt-induced recession. But to speak about the first recession in 26 years, is also to speak about a Europe where the youngest generation has no experience of what a recession is like.
Suddenly Europe Is an Open Question – ‘A Nazi EU?’
How, even after the disaster of Libya, European leaders can ignore the long history of interventions in Venezuela, to support a new intervention?
A Progressive ‘Artifice’ of Democratic Impotence: The ‘World’ Finally ‘Gets It’
For the first time, an American official has definitively exposed the fact that the US has no vision for the future, and that the US now can only act disruptively in the Middle East.
‘The Ultimate Showdown’: Pompeo’s Cairo Speech Reflects the Gathering Schism at Home
Most people in the Middle East were perplexed. Not surprisingly – they have little experience of American evangelical ‘Rapture’ politics.
Entering a Major Regional Re-set – The Syria Outcome Will Haunt Those Who Started This War
The Middle East is metamorphosing. New fault-lines are emerging, yet Trump’s foreign policy ‘hawks’ still try to stage ‘old movies’ in a new ‘theatre’.
It’s Not Just a Trade War; It’s Not Just China – Its Russia, Too
It’s not just a trade war: behind that, hides a tech-war – and behind that, lie the plans for a full-spectrum arms race – from space to cyber.
America’s Technology and Sanctions War Will End, by Bifurcating the Global Economy
The bifurcation of the global economy stems from America’s geo-political financial sanctions regime and the consequent attempts by targeted states to de-couple from the dollar sphere.
The United States seems to be losing its imperialistic mojo most significantly in Asia and the Middle East, not only militarily but also diplomatically and economically.
The US knows that once the gas is flowing an inseverable artery to German factories is in place for the foreseeable future. It’s a link that is stronger than any amount of...
Today’s German Government does not represent the German public — at least not on these central issues of German foreign and national-security policies.
These programs should be just the beginning to an illiberal future where motherhood stops being looked at by lawmakers as some sort of hobby but as a profession that women have...
