President Trump’s Losing Strategy: Embracing Bolsonoro’s Brazil and Confronting China

President Trump’s Losing Strategy: Embracing Bolsonoro’s Brazil and Confronting China

Introduction The US embraces a regime doomed to failure and threatens the world’s most dynamic economy. President Trump has lauded Brazil’s newly elected President Jair Bolsonaro and promises to promote close economic, political, social and cultural ties. In contrast the Trump regime is committed to dismantling China’s growth model, imposing harsh and pervasive sanctions, and promoting…

Fall of Empires: London, Washington & Paris on Brink of Collapse

Fall of Empires: London, Washington & Paris on Brink of Collapse

Despite the thrashing around of the NATO disinformation apparat, the imperial heartland has entered 2019 in a state of complete chaos. Washington, London, and Paris – the three capitals of the Empire – are today effectively ungoverned, shutdown, tottering on the brink of collapse or under siege by their own people. Their self-chosen Nemeses –…

Trump Retreats from His Promise of Withdrawal While al-Qaeda Makes Progress in Syria

Trump Retreats from His Promise of Withdrawal While al-Qaeda Makes Progress in Syria

Al-Nusra front – al-Qaeda rebranded as HTS (Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham) – is expanding its influence and military control over entire Syrian cities and villages in northern and western rural Aleppo. Abu Mohammad al-Joulani, the ex- ISIS (the Islamic State terror group) Emir of Syria and the self proclaimed Emir of al-Qaeda in the Levant, is…

With Golan at Stake, Netanyahu, Bolton Set Trump Straight on US Syria Withdrawal Plan

With Golan at Stake, Netanyahu, Bolton Set Trump Straight on US Syria Withdrawal Plan

The state of Israel seems to share at least some of the responsibility for the latest shift of U.S. Syria policy — as National Security Adviser John Bolton announced on Sunday that President Donald Trump’s call to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria would now be “coordinated” with Israel, after meeting with top Israeli officials including…

Peace for Syria or a New Kurdistan as a Regional Stabilizing Factor

Peace for Syria or a New Kurdistan as a Regional Stabilizing Factor

The US will withdraw her troops from Syria. Will they really? – Let’s take Trump at his word, just for argument’s sake. Though in the meantime, RT reports that the withdrawal may be slower than anticipated, to allow Erdogan making his own “strategic arrangements”, while US troops depart. During his flash visit to the US…