Why There Won’t Be a Revolution in Iran

January 5, 2018

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani did the right thing going on television and at least acknowledging popular anger over hard economic times. Inflation is high at 12% but down from 40% at the start of R…

Why is Trump’s Man in Iran, Michael D’Andrea, Missing From Conversations About the Protests?

January 5, 2018

Opinion

Most of us know the extremely rare but slightly creepy feeling of driving down a road or seeing a hill or listening to a conversation and being overcome by the absolute conviction that we’ve seen it o…

ISIS Defeat, Jerusalem & Bribes: Biggest Geopolitical Upheavals of 2017

January 5, 2018

Opinion

The last 12 months has seen the geopolitical landscape turned on its head with major diplomatic incidents, high-profile corruption scandals and the destruction of Islamic State’s powerbase sending sho…

Trump Nuking North Korea Would “Make America Great Again”?

January 5, 2018

Opinion

If Trump is willing to accept the enormous loss of American life — which are the only people that he cares about as the US President — then turning the Korean Peninsula into Asia’s nuclear panhandle w…

‘I, Neocon’ – the Foreign Policy of Emperor Trump

January 5, 2018

Opinion

Not many observers believe that US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will survive as the most-neutered US Secretary of State since the days when Richard Nixon’s national security adviser Henry Kissinge…

Erasing Obama’s Iran Success

January 5, 2018

Opinion

Those wishing to kill the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the agreement that restricts Iran’s nuclear program, have never given up. The agreement’s ever-lengthening successful record, now …

NATO Mobilizes Cyber Capabilities

January 5, 2018

Opinion

At the peak of the WMD arms race, global balance was largely secured by nuclear weapons. Today the same role is increasingly being played by cyberwarfare. However, its relatively low cost and effectiv…

The Donald Trump – Steve Bannon Feud. “Fire and Fury Inside the Trump White House”

January 5, 2018

Opinion

Former allies are now enemies – Trump sharply at odds with his former White House chief strategist Bannon. Comments he made, quoted by Michael Wolff in his upcoming book, titled “Fire and Fury: Inside…