Philip Roddis Let none accuse me of frivolity. My three selected reads this month address subjects that could not be more serious. As Western media and leaders continue to...

Binoy KLampmark They all do it: corporations, regimes, authorities. They all have the same reasons: efficiency, serviceability, profitability, all under the umbrella term of “security”. Call it surveillance, or...

This presentation updates a talk I gave to ISAA just over two years ago, in August 2017, on the topic, ‘Western policy on Putin and a resurgent Russia’. The previous...

Frank Lee The NATO build-up 2014: The expansion of NATO in the late 20th and early 21st centuries had posed a serious strategic threat to Russia’s security. In 1999...

Eric Zuesse Robert O’Brien is a respected authority on international relations and now replaces John Bolton as U.S. President Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor. He is a neoconservative who...

Binoy Kampmark “Every time the president, or Pompeo, or anyone in the [Trump] administration came up with an idea, they had to face Dr No.” Cliff Kupchan, Chairman of...

Back in the 1960s, the CIA official Cord Meyer said the agency needed to “court the compatible left.” He knew that drawing liberals and leftists into the CIA’s...

​It is an age-old question as to the extent art reflects the world we live in. Bertolt Brecht allegedly said to the contrary that art was “not a mirror...

It used to be done regularly and it worked: The West identified a country as its enemy, unleashed its professional propaganda against it, then administered a series of sanctions,...

Prof. Anis H. Bajrektarević Does our history only appear overheated, while it is essentially calmly predetermined? Is it directional or conceivable, dialectic and eclectic or cyclical, and therefore cynical?...

It may well be a finding of some implication should Julian Assange find his way into the beastly glory that is the US justice system. In its efforts...

My former professional background as a policy planner ( 1985-90) in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and related areas where I worked for 30 years enabled me...

Last December, the U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the Pentagon started the process of withdrawing its troops from Syria. Even then, many people were quite skeptical about the...

Frank Lee We’ll start with the 10 per capita poorest countries in the whole of Europe. In rank order: Moldova – GDP US$2560 Ukraine – GDP US$3560 Kosovo –...

I can't tell you how many videos of dusty men screaming into walkie talkies I've seen. Each and every one labelled "daring rescue caught on camera" or "Syrian war...

Max Parry Last month marked three decades since the conclusion of the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations in China. The anniversary is opportune for Washington and its Western partners to...

Colin Todhunter There has been an on-going tectonic shift in the West since the abandonment of the Bretton Woods agreement in 1971. This accelerated when the USSR ended and...

The full force of the U.S. military was about to be brought to bear upon a package of top-level Iranian targets with no strategic value whatsoever. Apparently, “planes were...

Andre Vltchek Year after year, month after month, I see two sides of the world; two extremes which are getting more and more disconnected: I see great cities like...