The US Is Conspiring With The Quad to Kill RCEP and Force China’s Capitulation

The US Is Conspiring With The Quad to Kill RCEP and Force China’s Capitulation

The US believes that the clinching of bilateral trade deals with the other three members of the so-called “Quad” — Australia, India, and Japan — could kill China’s plans for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, thus forcing its capitulation in the “trade war” by depriving it of the backup plan on which it’s been relying…

The Real Reason the US Is Staying in Afghanistan and a Peace Deal With the Taliban Is Impossible

The Real Reason the US Is Staying in Afghanistan and a Peace Deal With the Taliban Is Impossible

As someone who lived and worked at the field level in Afghanistan for six years (2008-14) implementing projects for the U.S. Agency for International Development, I am bemused by the fact that the mainstream media (who should have known better or worse yet, actually did) misled the public into believing that it was — or…

Are Netanyahu and Gantz Really So Different?

Are Netanyahu and Gantz Really So Different?

It would prove to be a difficult task to find essential differences between the leaders of the two largest parties in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Likud and Blue and White Chairman Benny Gantz. This is due in part to Netanyahu adopting policies that are at times dramatically different from his pronouncements, especially some of those preceding…

Washington’s Arctic Antics

Washington’s Arctic Antics

The Pentagon’s recent Report to Congress on Arctic Strategy makes it clear that the US considers the region as “US homeland” and therefore “When necessary and appropriate, the United States will challenge excessive maritime claims in the Arctic to preserve the rules-based international order and the rights and freedoms of the international community in navigation…