Syria has entered the abyss – the demons of al-Qa’eda, ISIS, and the most intransigent elements of the Muslim Brotherhood are circling the skies. There is chaos, looting, fear, and a terrible passion for revenge scalds the blood. Street executions are rife....
Alastair Crooke
Erdogan’s Idlib Shock Shadows ‘Kursk’
by Alastair Crooke | Dec 6, 2024 | Featured Articles
“Doomsters” is an occasional Russian expression used to categorise commentators that only see the “dark side to events” (a vice quite prevalent during the Soviet era). Marat Khairullin, a highly respected Russian military analyst, says, “Today, a network of mercenary...
The Long War to Reaffirm Western and Israeli Primacy Undergoes a Shape-shift
by Alastair Crooke | Dec 3, 2024 | Featured Articles
The long war to reaffirm western and Israeli primacy is undergoing a shape-shift. On one front, the calculus in respect to Russia and the Ukraine war has shifted. And in the Middle East, the locus and shape of the war is shifting in a distinct way. Georges Kennan’s...
The Counterinsurgency is ‘On’ – Against Trump’s ‘Storm’
by Alastair Crooke | Nov 26, 2024 | Featured Articles
“The Deep State whispered to Trump: “You cannot withstand the storm.” Trump whispered back: “I am the storm.” The war is on. The Deep State has launched a war of disruption to disable Trump’s “storm.” Last week’s ATACM strike was but one part to an inter-agency...
The West’s Very Fundamental Accumulating Contradictions
by Alastair Crooke | Nov 12, 2024 | Featured Articles
The election has occurred; Trump will take office in January; many of the existing Party Nomenklatura will be replaced; different policies will be announced – but actually taking power (rather than just sitting in the White House) will be more complex. The US has...
Perfidy in Tehran
by Alastair Crooke | Oct 8, 2024 | Featured Articles
John Kerry, just last week at the World Economic Forum, so clearly blurting out the truth: “Our First Amendment stands as a major block to our ability to be able to hammer [disinformation] out of existence.” Translated: Governing is all about narrative control. Kerry...
Will the Suffocating Cage of Leviathan be Avoided?
by Alastair Crooke | Oct 1, 2024 | Featured Articles
As the ousted “Emperor,” Biden made his “final walk” from the dias at the UN, he was not the Emperor of yore, brimming with the bravura that the U.S. is back, and “I’m running the world.” For as the Middle East explodes, and the Ukrainian bubble deflates, the White...
Will Israel ‘Recklessly’ seize the day? ‘Have the doors to a war without limits been opened?’
by Alastair Crooke | Sep 24, 2024 | Featured Articles
“After today [the day of the pager simultaneous explosions], there can be no talk about settlement and solutions,” writes Ibrahim Amine, Editor of Al-Akhbar, known for his close contacts with the Hizbullah leadership: In just one minute, the enemy succeeded in...
Closing Hatches Before Rains Founder the Western Vessel
by Alastair Crooke | Sep 17, 2024 | Featured Articles
Israel is entering the next phase of its war on Palestine by completing its takeover of the Gaza Strip – from the northern border to the Netzarim corridor. It is likely that they intend for this area to then gradually be made available for Jewish settlement and...
Enabling a ‘Brutus’ to Slay the Elon Musk ‘Caesar’
by Alastair Crooke | Sep 10, 2024 | Featured Articles
In the Washington Post on Monday, the headlines read: Musk and Durov are facing the revenge of the regulators. Former US Labor Secretary, Robert Reich, in the British Guardian newspaper, published a piece on how to “rein-in” Elon Musk, suggesting that “regulators...
The Western Way of War – Owning the Narrative Trumps Reality
by Alastair Crooke | Aug 27, 2024 | Featured Articles
War propaganda and feint are as old as the hills. Nothing new. But what is new is that infowar is no longer the adjunct to wider war objectives – but has become an end in and of itself. The West has come to view “owning” the winning narrative – and presenting the...
‘An Intricate Fabric of Bad Actors Working Hand-in-Hand’ – So is War Inevitable?
by Alastair Crooke | Aug 13, 2024 | Featured Articles
Walter Kirn, an American novelist and cultural critic, in his 2009 memoir, Lost in the Meritocracy, described how, after a sojourn at Oxford, he came to be a member of "the class that runs things" – the one that “writes the headlines, and the stories under them.” It...
The 1948 Irgun Re-born?
by Alastair Crooke | Aug 6, 2024 | Featured Articles
The signposts are there for all to read: The West – in deliberately overlooking such explicit markers – cannot then complain, or escape, the ensuing consequences. No, the “tin ear” is not some new western derangement – a unique mass collapse of sanity – that we are...
Is There a Risk that Kamala Harris Might ‘Go Soft’ on Foreign Policy?
by Alastair Crooke | Jul 29, 2024 | Featured Articles
Extraordinary Times: Biden renounces his election bid via in the slimmest of Sunday afternoon postings; retreats into a silence which finally is broken by a “long farewell” pronounced from the Oval Office. Biden’s staff didn’t hear of his renunciation until...
‘Operation Jupiter’ and a Revolution in the Making
by Alastair Crooke | Jul 16, 2024 | Featured Articles
Brussels Élites let out their long sigh of relief – the French Right was blocked. Markets complacently shrugged; “everything must ‘change’ to remain the same.” The Centre will find a way! Macron successfully had blocked the “populist” Right and Left through...
We were ‘deceived and gaslit for years’, all in the name of ‘democracy’; then ‘poof’, it collapsed overnight
by Alastair Crooke | Jul 10, 2024 | Featured Articles
The Editor at Large for the Wall Street Journal, Gerry Baker, says: ‘We’ve been “gaslit’ and deceived” – for years – “all in the name of ‘democracy’”. That deceit “collapsed” with the Presidential debate, Thursday’. Until the world saw the truth … [against] the...
The West – Indubitably – has Lost Russia, and is Losing Eurasia Too
by Alastair Crooke | Jul 2, 2024 | Featured Articles
There perhaps was a momentary shrugging-off of slumber in Washington this week as they read the account of Sergei Lavrov’s démarche to the US Ambassador in Moscow: Russia was telling the US – “We are no longer at peace”! Not just “no longer at peace,” Russia was...
Putin’s ‘War’ to Re-Shape the American Zeitgeist
by Alastair Crooke | Jun 25, 2024 | Featured Articles
The G7 and the subsequent Swiss “Bürgenstock Conference” can – in retrospect – be understood as preparation for a prolonged Ukraine war. The three centrepiece announcements emerging from the G7 – the 10 year Ukraine security pact; the $50 “billion Ukraine loan;” and...
Israel and the Misjudgement of Reality
by Alastair Crooke | Jun 13, 2024 | Featured Articles
On all fronts, the Israeli internal paradigm is fracturing; and externally, the West is itself fissuring, and becoming a pariah on the global stage. The western leaderships’ explicit facilitation of a bloody cleansing of Palestinians has incised the old spectre of...
The Coming Novus Ordo Seclorum – Change We Must; There is No Choice!
by Alastair Crooke | Jun 4, 2024 | Featured Articles
On a visit to Oxford a few weeks ago, Josep Borrell, the EU’s High Representative, (Walter Münchau writes), made an interesting remark: “Diplomacy is the art of managing double standards.” Münchau illustrated its inherent hypocrisy by contrasting the enthusiasm...
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