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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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01/02/2018 Article

Behind Korea, Iran & Russia Tensions: The Lurking Financial War

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Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture Foundation, 31 December 2017 What have the tensions between the US and North Korea, Iran and Russia in common? Answer: It

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01/02/2018 Article

The Songs of Angry Men

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Alastair Crooke, Comment, 22 December 2017 This last week has seen –not one, but two – highly significant portents:  Taken together, they speak of the

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01/02/2018 Article

Bad Moon: (Trouble) Rising

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Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture Foundation, 18 December 2017 It seems that we are coming to the crux: President Trump, like Reagan before him, was elected

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01/02/2018 Article

RUSSIA HAS DISSOLVED AMERICA’S UNI-POLAR PROJECT IN THE MIDDLE EAST

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Alastair Crooke, Valdai Discussion Club, 14 Dec 2017 Last week the Russian Armed Forces’ Chief of Staff announced that “all terrorist units of ISIS on

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01/02/2018 Article

The ‘End of Dreams’, and the Saving of Appearances

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Alastair Crooke, Automatic Earth, 25 Nov 2017 Robert Kagan first called attention to the fact that America would need to awake from its ‘dream’ a

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01/02/2018 Article

Trump’s Saudi Scheme Unravels

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Alastair Crooke, Consortium News, 17 Nov 2017 Aaron Miller and Richard Sokolsky, writing in Foreign Policy, suggest “that Mohammed bin Salman’s most notable success abroad

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13/11/2017 Article

Gambling all on black at the Roulette Wheel

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Saudi Arabia’s Desperate Gamble Alastair Crooke, Consortium News, 10 Nov 2017 It is always tempting. The Syrian war is coming to an end, and the losses

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08/11/2017 Article

Power showdown coming to the Middle East

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Israeli-Saudi Tandem Adjusts to Syria Loss Alastair Crooke, Consortium News, 4 Nov 2017 It seems that matters are coming to a head.  For many states,

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08/11/2017 Article

The Dissolution of America’s ‘World Order’, and its emerging Determinants

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Alastair Crooke, Comment, 3 Nov 2017 The ‘World Order’ visibly is dissolving.  Most blame President Trump, and there is no doubt that the US President

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