Trump-Zelensky-Ukraine: What is really going on here?
Tony Kevin I have over several days reflected on the official White House record (also embedded below) of the Trump-Zelensky conversation on Ukraine-US relations on 25 July 2019, a...
Three New Reads – September
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...
Russia and the West : The last two action-packed years
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...
East-West Strategic Temperature Hotting up in Asia-Pacific
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...
Gulf of Oman: International Context
Tony Kevin It is now clear that the US has manufactured a false case against Iran for the two-tanker sabotage incident in the Gulf of Oman on 13 June....
In Conversation: Yevgenia Albats at ANU
Tony Kevin I had the pleasure of hearing Yevgenia Markovna Arbats, Russian independent journalist, political scientist, radio host, and chief editor of the Moscow-based New Times magazine, in public...
Venezuela: US regime change operation falters
Tony Kevin The US-led regime change operation in Venezuela formally began with a bang , on 23 January 2019 in Caracas, when self-declared Opposition Leader Juan Guaidó, who had...
Dad’s Army’s cover blown
A formidable and secret UK government-funded anti-Russian StratCom (strategic communication) enterprise, its cover having recently been embarrassingly blown, now presents itself as a bumbling Dad’s Army outfit. But don’t...
False Western Narratives Have Caused a Real Russia-West Split
Tony Kevin We have a situation now in which two major world governments, UK and Russia, both nuclear powers and permanent members of the UNSC, are upholding entirely opposed...
America’s latest witch-hunt
The current Maria Butina indictment in the US reminds one of Voltaire’s famous saying: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will...
Has new Australian foreign agent law been safely neutered?
Tony kevin The Australian parliament is about to pass a complex package of national security laws aimed at strengthening Australia’s protections against espionage, sabotage, (covert) foreign interference and (overt)...
How the West continues to fatally misunderstand Russia & Putin
Let me focus now on what has sadly become over the past few years my main area of expertise, the deteriorating political relationship between Russia and the Western alliance,...
ANALYSIS: Signs of Compromise in Yulia Skripal's Statement
by Tony Kevin Tony Kevin’s summary responses to the MoA view that Yulia’s statement is suspect, because it was allegedly written under duress of some kind, and from a...
