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28/05/2018 Article

Trumpism Folds into Netanyahu-ism, or ‘Neo-Americanism’

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Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture Foundation, 21 May 2018 The 8 May US Presidential declaration (on exiting JCPOA) requires of us fundamentally to revise our understanding

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28/05/2018 Article

Is Israel readying for war?

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Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture Foundation, 7 May 2018  Last Thursday, General Mattis told the US Senate Armed Forces Committee that he believes a military confrontation between Israel

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28/05/2018 Article

“The Biggest Player in the History of the World”

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Alastair Crooke, Zerohedge, 1 May 2018 John Mauldin gives us a highly pertinent anecdote about China: “Back in the 1990s, Robert Rubin, a Secretary of the Treasury

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28/05/2018 Article

The West’s Trauma of its Dissolution

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Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture Foundation, 23 April 2018 The tangled web of deceit: The Pentagon calls out a perfect mission – all 105 missiles struck target;

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28/05/2018 Article

As the West & the Russia/China axis lock horns, Israel will have to make its choice

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Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture Foundation, 10 April 2018 A recent cluster of unrelated events is bringing Israel to a point of inflection; or at least,

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28/05/2018 Article

The Geo-Political Poker Game: Where’s the ‘Off-Ramp’?

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Alastair Crooke, Sic Semper Tyrranis blog, 29 March 2018 At the beating heart of Trump’s Presidency lies the notion of the Art of the Deal.

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28/05/2018 Article

Geo-political ‘May madness’?

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Alastair Crooke, Comment, 24 March 2018 Ben Caspit, a doyen of Israeli political correspondents, puts Israel’s ‘dilemma’ starkly: “Should it carry out a military strike

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28/05/2018 Article

Is the North Korea Deal a Stalking Horse for Trump’s Mid-East Makeover?

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Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture Foundation, 22 March 2018 Clearly Donald Trump’s Presidency is entering a new phase. He is feeling his oats: he now has

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28/05/2018 Article

Trump Precipitates the Post-Oslo Era

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Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture Foundation, 16 March 2018 Prime Minister Netanyahu received a truly warm welcome this week in the White House, with AIPAC subsequently

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