Humanitarian Crisis in Kashmir: India’s “Economic Opening” Has “Closed Off Kashmir”

Humanitarian Crisis in Kashmir: India’s “Economic Opening” Has “Closed Off Kashmir”

The following is the speech that Andrew Korybko gave at the “Humanitarian Crisis In Kashmir: Paths To A Resolution” conference that was held in Moscow on 23 September. We’re here today to draw attention to what’s been happening in Indian-Occupied Kashmir for the past month and a half, and from the little that we know,…

Why Didn’t Iraq Retaliate Against Israel? Part 2

Why Didn’t Iraq Retaliate Against Israel? Part 2

The US and Israel are manoeuvring between the internal Iraqi differences in order to hit Hashd al-Shaabi, the “Popular Mobilisation Forces” (PMF). These forces have gathered significant domestic support and created many enemies among the Iraqis. The reason for this antipathy is the Iranian fingerprint within the PMF. Yet Iran is supposed to be close…

Sisi’s Final Act: Six Years On, and Egypt Remains Unbowed

Sisi’s Final Act: Six Years On, and Egypt Remains Unbowed

If Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi had chosen an alternative career, it should surely have been the stage. His was a sympathetic voice from military intelligence assuring both liberals and Islamists in Tahrir Square in January 2011 that the army was on their side. For the late President Mohamed Morsi, Sisi played the religiously observant, younger general. Sisi, the…

A Precision Strike on US Credibility – Shattering a US Paradigm

A Precision Strike on US Credibility – Shattering a US Paradigm

The precision attack on the Saudi ‘jewel in the crown’, crude-processing installation last week, is also a precision assault on Saudi credibility, on the believability of the US security ‘umbrella’, and a humiliation for Trump, and particularly to America’s image as a competent military and intelligence power. Gulf States will be pursing their lips as…