Turkey Pivots to the Center of the New Great Game

January 3, 2021

When it comes to sowing – and profiting – from division, Erdogan’s Turkey is quite the superstar. Under the delightfully named Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), the Trum…

Europe Embraces Multipolar World With Nord Stream 2 and China Investment Deal

January 3, 2021

Opinion

Material need usually wins out against ideological creed. Necessity over dogma. Twice this week, the European Union demonstrated that maxim in practice when it rebuffed Washington over the Nord Stream…

What Will We Remember About the “Trump Era”?

January 3, 2021

Opinion

Although Donald Trump had previously assured everyone that all the talk about his plans for a third presidential term was just a joke, on the eve of the elections, not for the first time he voiced thi…

Arbitrariness and Censorship Are Back in the West

January 3, 2021

Opinion

When we founded the Voltaire Network in 1994, our first concern was to defend freedom of expression in France, and then around the world. Today, however, this concept is, in our view, distorted and fo…

2020: America’s Wake-Up Call

January 3, 2021

Opinion

Who could have predicted how dreadful a year 2020 would be. By this New Year’s Eve, 19 million to 20 million Americans will have contracted a deadly virus in a pandemic that exploded out of China to c…

United States and Morocco Redraw Map of North African Territory

January 3, 2021

Opinion

There is a major effort underway to convince and coerce African and Asian nations to “normalize” relations with the State of Israel in exchange for promised United States financial, military and diplo…

The International Criminal Court: Now Simply Indefensible

January 3, 2021

Opinion

Support for the rule of international law, and for the institutions which uphold it, is one of the principles of this blog. I have therefore always been extremely keen to defend and support the Intern…

British Diplomats Probed Kissinger on Possible Use of Force Against Saudis

January 3, 2021

History

The British government desperately tried to patch up relations with the US after relations between the close allies nosedived during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war when the US was reported to have drawn up…