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19/01/2017 Article

Obstacles to Trump’s ‘Growth’ Plans

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Alastair Crooke, Consortium News, 21 Nov 2016 https://consortiumnews.com/2016/11/21/obstacles-to-trumps-growth-plans/ We are plainly at a pivotal moment. President-Elect Trump wants to make dramatic changes in his nation’s course. His

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19/01/2017 Article

Trump’s Win – A Rebuke to the Elites

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Alastair Crooke, Consortium News, 12 Nov 2016 https://consortiumnews.com/2016/11/12/trumps-win-a-rebuke-to-the-elites/ So, there it is: Brexit, as we had earlier suggested, was no extraneous ‘flash in the pan’,

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26/10/2016 Article

‘End of Growth’ Sparks Wide Discontent

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The global elites’ false promise that neoliberal economics would cure all ills through the elixir of endless growth helps explain the angry nationalist movements ripping apart the

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30/09/2016 Article

How the US Armed-up Syrian Jihadists

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The West blames Russia for the bloody mess in Syria, but U.S. Special Forces saw close up how the chaotic U.S. policy of aiding Syrian jihadists enabled Al

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28/09/2016 Article

New Cold War Spins Out of Control

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Alastair Crooke, Consortium News, 26 September 2016 U.S. enthusiasts for the New Cold War with Russia appear to be ignoring less-belligerent orders from President Obama and

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28/09/2016 Article

Washington’s Hawks Push New Cold War

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Alastair Crooke, Consortium News, 20 Sept 2016 As a fragile and partial cease-fire in Syria totters, the back story is the political warfare in Washington

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13/09/2016 Article

‘Xi’s G20’ and a World on the Brink of Radical Change

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Alastair Crooke, Valdai Discussion Club, 13 Sept 2016 [Hyperlinks below added by Conflicts Forum] This time the G20 was different. Intentionally so. The Chinese had prepared

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08/09/2016 Article

Geo-Strategic Change: Syria, Ukraine and the G20

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Conflicts Forum Weekly Comment, 2 September 2016 So often, it is something – seemingly quite minor in itself – which presages major change. The weight

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10/08/2016 Article

Trump, the Syria Calculus and the Threat to America’s Foreign Policy

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Alastair Crooke, Conflicts Forum, 6 August 2016 (This piece was published by Consortium News on 6 August 2016 under the title: Stalling Obama’s overtures to

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