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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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19/12/2018 Article

What Didn’t Happen at G20 is Far More Important than What Did

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Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture Foundation, 10 Dec 2018 Sometimes what doesn’t occur tells us much more than what did  — as in Sherlock Holmes’ case

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19/12/2018 Article

Italy, the EU, and the Fall of the Roman Empire

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Alastiar Crooke, Strategic Culture Foundation, 3 Dec 2018 The EU leadership is trying to contain a crisis that is emerging at increasing speed: This challenge

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01/12/2018 Article

The Khashoggi Effect: Erdogan Inverts the Paradigm, whilst Gulf & Allies Sink in Quagmire

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Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture Foundation, 26 Nov 2018 It seems that the quartet (US, Israel, UAE and MbS himself, naturally), acting in the cause of

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24/11/2018 Article

The Iranian Albatross the US Has Hung Around Its Own Neck

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Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture Foundation, 19 Nov 2018 “Mr. Trump, nor anyone else in his administration, has announced any conclusions about how Mr. Khashoggi died,

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14/11/2018 Article

After Midterms, Will Trump Go On Risking World Trade and the Off-Shore Dollar Sphere?

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Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture Foundation, 12 Nov 2018 The midterms are done.  A ‘blue wave’ did not materialise, but rather, the close result is claimed

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09/11/2018 Article

The Unraveling of the Netanyahu Project for the Middle East

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Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture Foundation / Zerohedge, 5 Nov 2018 Nahum Barnea, a leading Israeli commentator, writing in Yedioth Ahronoth in May (in Hebrew), set out, unambiguously,

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09/11/2018 Article

A Rules-Based Global Order or Rule-less US Global ‘Order’?

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Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture Foundation / Zerohedge, 31 Oct 2018 “It has taken the US military/security complex 31 years to get rid of President Reagan’s last

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09/11/2018 Article

Khashoggi’s Murder – At the Complex Intersection of Three Points of Inflection

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Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture Foundation, 23 Oct 2018 Realists point out that Khashoggi’s alive dismemberment and killing is still just one dead journalist; that such

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09/11/2018 Article

In Trade, as in Foreign Policy, America Goes for ‘Broke’

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Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture Foundation, 9 Oct 2018 Trump’s Administration is putting its ‘all’ on red on the roulette wheel of a radically leveraged US

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