Day: May 23, 2018

Russia Is in the Middle East to Halt the War, Not Take Part in the Iran-Israel Conflict

May 23, 2018 Opinion

Frequent misconceptions surround the Russian role in the Middle East, and particularly its role in Syria. Many Syrians claim to see Russia attacking Israel or delivering to the Syrian government all i…

Trump-Pompeo’s Twelve “Idiotic-Insulting” Demands Upon Iran

May 23, 2018 Opinion

On Monday, May 21st, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo laid out a dozen demands upon Iran’s Government — demands which insult the sovereignty of Iran and dictate terms to its Government, as if the U…

Middle East in Washington’s Iron Grasp

May 23, 2018 Opinion

Mike Pompeo’s inspection – visit to the Middle East, as events demonstrate, became a trigger of sorts to an abrupt turn for the worse in this turbulent region. Saudi Arabia, the biggest customer of th…

Trumpism Folds into Netanyahu-ism, or ‘Neo-Americanism’

May 23, 2018 Opinion

The 8 May US Presidential declaration (on exiting JCPOA) requires of us fundamentally to revise our understanding of Trumpism. At the outset to his term of office, Trumpism was widely understood to be…

France Wants the Future to be Eurasia vs. Eurafrica

May 23, 2018 Opinion

A former French Prime Minister unveiled a detailed and very ambitious plan to form a Eurafrican Axis in the New Cold War as a means of “balancing” between East and West, but what he’s really calling f…

The Baltic States Ask the US for a Bigger Military Presence on Their Soil

May 23, 2018 Opinion

The foreign ministers (FMs) of the Baltic states have wound up their May 16-18 visit to Washington. They asked National Security Adviser John Bolton to reinforce the NATO battalions that have been dep…

Mahathir Will Continue Malaysia’s Multipolar Course

May 23, 2018 Opinion

Former long-time Prime Minister and nonagenarian Mahathir bin Mohamad returned to office after incumbent Najib Razak suffered a humiliating loss that many analysts attribute to the multibillion-dollar…

China’s Only Danger: A ‘Generation X’ Who Believes They Aren’t Communist

May 23, 2018 Opinion

When you have a world war, there is no question: We are all living in a postwar world. However, not all subsequent generations have been shaped the same. In debunking the standard view of the Cultural…