Putin Derangement Syndrome After Mueller
War with Russia Is Not ‘Inevitable.’ Keep Repeating That
Belt and Road Initiative in Full Swing in Europe
Former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum.
Alastair CROOKE
Why the Gulf States Are So Edgy
The Gulf grandees have a right to be edgy, Alastair Crooke writes. They can see that Trump’s ‘war hawks’ are intent on cornering, pressurising and provoking Iran.
The Looking Glass Splinters
Is not the stand-off taking place within the EU somehow a re-run of the struggles that were precisely opposed to the notion of an European Empire imposing its rigid ‘Lex Europa’ over diverse peoples, by a centralized and aloof, authority?
Western Wishful Thinking – ‘Excluding Everything That Makes China What It Is’
‘The West’ is no longer the West. There is the belligerent ‘West’ of Trump, Pence, Bolton and Pompeo – and this is the ‘West’ that is incrementally losing traction across the Middle East,...
An Iran-Syria ‘Belt & Road’: A Far-Reaching Geopolitical Strategy Unfolds
Wherever Pompeo travels on his journeys through the region, he cannot fail but to notice that US policies – and the constancy of such policies – are not trusted.
The EU ‘Reichstaat’ in Systemic Disarray: A ‘Long War’ Portends
The deep sense of growing inequalities is matched only by popular fears of community ‘safety-nets’ that have been dismantled, and of the insecurity of living perpetually at the cusp of economic extinction.
Will Trump’s Hawks Dare to Risk Israel?
The Israeli military and security establishment have never relished the prospect of outright war with Iran, unless conducted with the US fully in the lead, Alastair Crooke writes.
US Conservatives Pursue a ‘Ben Option’ of Global Ramification
We might conclude that the Ben Op is just a uniquely American manifestation, of little wider import to the world at large. But if we did, we would wrong.
Mr Bolton’s Long Game Against Iran – Pakistan Becomes Saudi Arabia’s New Client State
The US, it seems, after earlier chastising Pakistan (for not doing enough to curb the Taliban) has done a major U-turn: Washington is now embracing Pakistan (with Saudi Arabia and UAE writing the cheques).
The new model of development which has increasingly won over central, and eastern Eurasian countries as well as Greece and Italy have provided a breath of fresh air for citizens...
A close and mutually advantageous relationship is one thing, but Canada’s de facto loss of independence is another. Not only does the US control Canada’s diplomacy,...
Davi Barker of The Black Sale joins James Corbett to discuss his book, Authoritarian Sociopathy. They talk about the various psychological experiments that have been done in the...
The axis of resistance, despite all the little moves, is winning the war of attrition. The US’s maximum pressure policy has a finite lifespan because leverage like all...
