The Mainstream Media’s deliberate misportrayal of Libyan National Army General Haftar as “Russian-backed” is meant to turn him into a bogeyman for the purpose of discrediting his military gains after he turned on his American patron. Haftar “Goes Rogue” Much of the Mainstream Media’s reporting about the latest events in Libya usually always includes at…
Russia sealed a $2 billion fighter jet deal with Egypt. According to RT, the Arab Republic will purchase “more than 20 Russian Su-35 multi-role air-defense fighters and air-launched weapons”, which continues the recent trend of Russia and Egypt working to restore their Soviet-era strategic relations. President Sisi, who came to power after deposing his Muslim…
We have all been here before, several times. We were here when Islamists won the first round of elections in Algeria in December 1991; when an uprising in Yemen started on 27 January, 2011; when Hosni Mubarak stepped down after 18 days of demonstrations in Egypt on 11 February; when the protests in the town…
Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has been busy on the international circuit. One weekend it’s the Munich Security Conference, where he tells his German hosts he will not appear on the same stage as the Emir of Qatar. The next it’s his country’s resort town Sharm el Sheik, where he hosts the first league of…
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo started out the new year—the date was Jan. 10—preaching “the truth” about U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, and for reasons we will get to below, he chose to do so at the American University in Cairo. He implied that he was particularly capable of discerning the truth…
The battle lines in the 21st century’s Great Game aimed at shaping the creation of a new Eurasia-centred world, built on the likely fusion of Europe and Asia into what former Portuguese Europe minister Bruno Macaes calls a “supercontinent,” are all but cast in cement. For now, the Great Game pits China together with Russia,…
