Latest
19/12/2018 Article

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

/

No comments

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

Continue reading »
Summary

Conflicts Forum. A Geo-Political Oracle.
Conflicts Forum showcases differing perspectives on sensitive issues, drawn from a wide range of sources. It aims to ‘interpret’ events and political developments, and to set them in geo-strategic and geo-financial contexts.

Activity

Latest
Comments

Recent
28/11/2012 Article

US lurching toward Middle East quagmire

/ M K Bhadrakumar

Tags: Middle East, Muslim Brotherhood, USA

No comments

Published November 28 2012 on Indian Punchline   Barack Obama’s second term as president hasn’t yet begun, but it is going to be a tumultuous one

Continue reading »
27/11/2012 Publication

Peace on new terms in the post-Arab Spring Middle East

/ Ismail Patel

Tags: Arab Spring, Middle East

5 comments

In the post Arab Spring milieu, the democratically elected government of the Palestinian people, Hamas, has found an ear from quarters once viewed by them

Continue reading »
26/11/2012 Article

The New Hamas: Challenges of Resistance

/ Ibrahim al-Amin

Tags: Hamas, Political Islam, Resistance

1 comment

Originally posted on Al-Akhbar English  November 23, 2012 The great praise being voiced for the steadfastness of the people and resistance in Gaza cannot blind us to

Continue reading »
19/11/2012 Article

Gaza: Questions for Egypt and Hamas

/ Ibrahim Al-Amine

Tags: Egypt, Gaza, Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine

2 comments

This Article is published with the permission of Al-Akhbar English. Israel has dealt a harsh blow to the resistance in Palestine. Its assassination of the

Continue reading »
19/11/2012 Article

Something Curious is Happening to Sunni Islam

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Muslim Brotherhood, Political Islam, Salafism

No comments

This article is republished with the permission of Al-Akhbar English  Something very interesting is happening within Sunni political Islam. As its religiosity increasingly becomes an

Continue reading »
29/10/2012 Article

The Crisis of March 14

The internal crisis threatening to bring down the March 14 alliance

/ Ibrahim al-Amin

Tags: Diplomacy, Hezbollah, Lebanon

No comments

Originally posted on Al-Akhbar English, 29 October 2012 Al-Akhbar’s editor-in-chief dissects the internal crisis threatening to bring down the March 14 alliance. The movement, he

Continue reading »
29/10/2012 Article

Washington Lobbies Europe to Join its War on Hezbollah

A senior US advisor criticises the “failure” of many European countries to designate Hezbollah a terrorist organization

/ Omar Nashabe

Tags: Hezbollah, Obama administration

No comments

Originally posted on Al-Akhbar English, 29 October 2012 Washington’s attempts to cultivate what it called “moderate Shias” as a counterbalance to Hezbollah, as revealed in

Continue reading »
26/10/2012 Article

The Treasures of War: ‘Britain’s Great Adventure in Basra’

Exposing the real priorities behind the British occupation of Iraq

/ The Editors

Tags: Business, Iraq, Media, War in Iraq

No comments

Originally posted on News Unspun, 26 October 2012 Radio 4’s Today programme of 16 October provided rare, frank insight into the priorities behind the British

Continue reading »
25/10/2012 Article

Russia to be an “Efficient Balancer” in Asia

Whilst Russia’s heart and soul is still with the West, the East becomes a highly selective engagement

/ MK Bhadrakumar

Tags: Dialogue, Diplomacy, Europe, Middle East, Russia

No comments

Originally posted by MK Bhadrakumar, 25 October 2012 It is a pity that I can’t recount the free-wheeling, scintillating discussions with the Russian intelligentsia and

Continue reading »