Hardly anyone will buy President Donald Trump’s explanation for his abruptly canceled visit to London next month. The real reason, no doubt, was to avoid embarrassing scenes of mass street protests marring his official welcome. Whatever has become of the so-called “special relationship”? Nigel Farage, the former UKIP leader and one of the few British…
The last 12 months has seen the geopolitical landscape turned on its head with major diplomatic incidents, high-profile corruption scandals and the destruction of Islamic State’s powerbase sending shockwaves across the globe. Trump throws Jerusalem grenade into Israel-Palestine peace process US President Donald Trump sent shockwaves across the world when he announced the US would…
Iranian protests in recent days resurfaced questions about just how far Western intelligence agencies have gone in sowing unrest against political opponents. “The Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG), a unit in one of Britain’s intelligence agencies, is tasked with creating sock puppet accounts and fake content on social media in order to use ‘dirty tricks’ to ‘destroy, deny, degrade [and]…
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani attributes days of violence to foreign intervention, saying: “The enemies of the Islamic Republic of Iran are angry with the glory, success, and the progress of the Iranian nation, and they have vowed to get the regional troubles into Iran, but, sure, the people and officials of the Islamic Republic of…
As PM May praised the military for keeping the UK safe in her Christmas message, troops abroad were not exactly in a festive mood. It has emerged that 500 soldiers in Afghanistan received just £1 each to celebrate the holiday. Five hundred British troops deployed to Afghanistan were allocated a total of just £500 ($700)…
Plagued by division and defeat, it seems that the protagonists of the war on Yemen – the US, UK, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – have embarked on a new strategy: a major attack on Yemen’s main port of Hodeidah. This new strategy, if not thwarted, will push Yemen into total devastation. The problems…
