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19/12/2018 Article

America’s Technology and Sanctions War Will End, by Bifurcating the Global Economy

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Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture Foundation, 18 Dec 2018 “The true reason behind the US-China ‘trade’ war has little to do with actual trade … What

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31/03/2016 Article

The inner meaning of the oil rout (and the prospects for stability carnage in the Middle East)

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Conflicts Forum Weekly Comment, 22 January 2016 First of all, it (the oil rout) is worse than generally supposed: Source: Zerohegde  Adjusted for inflation, Saudi Arab

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31/03/2016 Article

Entwined Security Architectures: Europe & the Middle East

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Alastair Crooke, Valdai Discussion Club, 25 January 2016 Europe is thinking less about ‘values’ and more about functionality — a functionality that consists almost wholly

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31/03/2016 Article

2016: WELCOME TO THE YEAR OF (UNWELCOME) ‘REALITY’

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Alastair Crooke, Valdai Discussion Club, 19 January 2016 This year, 2016, will be the year energy and raw material producers face bitter reality, and it

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11/12/2015 Article

Cornering Russia, Risking World War III

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Official Washington is awash with tough talk about Russia and the need to punish President Putin for his role in Ukraine and Syria. But this

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11/12/2015 Article

Is a Strategic Partnership between Russia & Iran in the Making?

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Comment by Guest Editor, Conflicts Forum, (first circulated 27 Nov 2015) Western Europe and the US are hopeful that a deal on Iran’s nuclear program and

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11/12/2015 Article

Syria & Greece: Europe’s Crises of Extending & Pretending

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Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment, 27 Nov – 4 Dec 2015 Jeremy Warner, Assistant Editor of the Telegraph, tells us an iconic story which somehow encapsulates all

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11/12/2015 Article

Conflicts Forum Weekly Comment

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21-27 Nov 2015 Turkey’s apparently deliberated destruction – or ambush – of a Russian ground attack aircraft engaged on counter–terrorism operations within Syria undoubtedly gives

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11/12/2015 Article

Paris Attack Shows Why Al Qaeda Might Have Been Right About ISIS All Along

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Alastair Crooke, World Post/ Huffington Post, 17 Nov 2015  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alastair-crooke/paris-attack-isis-qaeda_b_8582180.html?utm_hp_ref=world  At this point, there are important components to events which are not clear: Were the

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17/11/2015 Article

Obama and the legacy of the “dark side”

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Conflicts Forum, 13 November 2015  “We also have to work – though sort of on the dark side – if you will” Dick Cheney When, in

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