Turkey Plays Its Latest Card in the New Great Game

Turkey Plays Its Latest Card in the New Great Game

“Olive Branch” is the Orwellian-named Turkish invasion of a chunk of Syria. The operation comes as no surprise. President Tayyip Erdogan had hinted for nearly a year that a move was likely in the Syrian Kurdish canton of Afrin. With Ankara staging a full-scale offensive into this small piece of Syrian real estate, which is roughly 40 kilometers long and 30…

Negotiate or Lose ‘Hundreds of Millions’ in Aid, Trump Tells ‘Disrespectful’ Palestinians

Negotiate or Lose ‘Hundreds of Millions’ in Aid, Trump Tells ‘Disrespectful’ Palestinians

US President Donald Trump has warned Palestinians they will miss out on US aid if they don’t sit down and hold talks with Israel, after they snubbed the visit from Vice President Mike Pence. Trump voices his threat during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland….

What Is ‘Safari Club II’ and How It Can Change Middle East Dynamics

What Is ‘Safari Club II’ and How It Can Change Middle East Dynamics

During the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency convinced certain European and Middle Eastern allies to establish an informal intelligence alliance whose links to the United States would be “plausibly denied” in typical CIA parlance. In 1976, a group of pro-Western intelligence agency directors secretly met at the Mt. Kenya Safari Club in Nanyuki, Kenya…

“Who Lost Turkey?” – The U.S. – Kurdish Project in Syria Endangers NATO

“Who Lost Turkey?” – The U.S. – Kurdish Project in Syria Endangers NATO

Back in the 1950s the U.S. political sphere was poisoned by a groundless smear campaign against country-experts in the State Department who were identified as those who lost China. If the Trump administration proceeds on its current course we may soon see similar accusations. The accused, those “who lost Turkey”, will again be the ones…

By Remaining in Syria the US Is Fuelling More Wars in the Middle East

By Remaining in Syria the US Is Fuelling More Wars in the Middle East

Seldom has an important new US foreign policy crashed in flames so quickly and so spectacularly, achieving the very opposite results to those intended. It was only ten days ago that the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson unexpectedly announced that American military forces would remain in Syria after the defeat of ISIS. Their agenda…