Leaders make choices in moments of crises which can either lead to enhanced security or catastrophe for their nations, with the lives of innocents often hanging in the balance. Immediately after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, I went to the...
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‘This ONE Thing Will Fix Our Broken Foreign Policy And Broken Political System’ – RPI’s Daniel McAdams on the Kim Iversen Show
by RPI Staff | Mar 1, 2024 | Featured Articles
RPI Director Daniel McAdams joined the Kim Iversen show today for a wide-ranging, hour-long provocative discussion on what is wrong the the US political system, what is wrong with our foreign policy, what is wrong with current US culture...and how we can fix it....
US Seeks to Cap Middle East Violence; In This, Iran Is (a Kind of) ‘Ally’
by Alastair Crooke | Feb 27, 2024 | Featured Articles
Israel’s dual strategy for Lebanon is to exert pressure through direct raids to instil fear amongst the wider population, whilst deploying diplomatic pressure to purge Hizbullah – not just from the border, but from regions beyond the Litani River (some 23 kms to the...
The United States Vetoes Yet Another UN Humanitarian Ceasefire Over Gaza
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 21, 2024 | Featured Articles
There have been several interesting developments relating to Israel’s ongoing destruction of Gaza and its people, but one might well question the motives of at least one of the principal players in the drama, namely Joe Biden’s United States government. Last Tuesday...
The Resistance Has a Plan for Israel. But on the Other Side, Fantastical U.S. Stratagems Ensure a Cascading Failure
by Alastair Crooke | Feb 20, 2024 | Featured Articles
In a speech on Tuesday, Hizbullah leader Seyed Nasrallah said that the Party will continue the border offensive until at least the Gaza massacre stops. The war in Gaza however, is far from over. And Nasrallah warned that even were a ceasefire to be reached...
American Foreign Policy Seems to Have Nowhere to Go
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 17, 2024 | Featured Articles
Over the past four months I have carried out my daily morning scan of the major online news websites increasingly concerned over what I would be seeing given the mainstream media’s reluctance to report honestly and the persistent management by government propaganda...
Don’t Spare the Billions
by Eric Margolis | Feb 17, 2024 | Featured Articles
When I was a boy growing up in New York City I was taught – and re-taught – to always save half of my weekly allowance and never spend more than I had in savings. Too bad Joe Biden was not taught this useful Presbyterian virtue. Recently, Biden’s government has sought...
The World’s Gyre
by Alastair Crooke | Feb 13, 2024 | Featured Articles
The US is edging closer to war with Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces, a state security agency composed of armed groups, some of which are close to Iran, but which for the main are Iraqi nationalists. The US carried out a drone strike in Baghdad, Wednesday that...
The Three Strands to the ‘Swarming of Biden’
by Alastair Crooke | Feb 6, 2024 | Featured Articles
“The Iranians have a strategy, and we don’t,” a former senior U.S. Defence Department official told Al-Monitor: “We’re getting bogged down in tactical weeds – of whom to target and how – and nobody’s thinking strategically.” The former Indian diplomat MK...
In The Middle East The US Has Reached The End Of Its Abilities
by Moon of Alabama | Feb 6, 2024 | Featured Articles
The Biden administration is trying everything to better the situation for the Israeli government except by withdrawing its financial and munition support which are the only two measures that could bring Israel to its senses. There are now several small wars in the...
The Tragic Self-Destruction of an Enraged Israel
by Alastair Crooke | Feb 2, 2024 | Featured Articles
Israel is boxed-in, as is becoming very evident to many Israelis. One Israeli correspondent (formerly a Cabinet Secretary) illustrates its nature: “The meaning of the 7th October default is not only the loss of lives … but mainly the potential transformation...
Terrible Tragedies Continue In Unjust War
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Jan 31, 2024 | Featured Articles
The CBS national newscast on Jan. 20 showed the terrible anguish of a father holding a photograph of a little girl who had been killed a few days short of her first birthday by an Israeli bomb in Gaza. This father and another little daughter had just been pulled out...
‘Black Hawk Down’ For Biden in the Red Sea
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 26, 2024 | Featured Articles
The breaking news that Ansar Allah (Houthi) fighters have fired on the USS Carney in the Red Sea today (Friday, 26 Jan.) underscores the shocking failure of the Biden Administration, which initiated airstrikes on the Houthis this month with no plan for “victory”...
Netanyahu’s Shape-shifting ‘Endgame’ – It Is No Ploy, but a Reversion to Earlier Zionist Strategy
by Alastair Crooke | Jan 24, 2024 | Featured Articles, Uncategorized
The late Ariel Sharon, a long-time Israeli military and political leader, once confided to his close friend Uri Dan that, “the Arabs had never genuinely accepted the presence of Israel … and so, a two-state solution was not possible – nor even desirable.” In the...
Gut Feelings Make for Strategic Errors – US Lured Into Battlescape in Gaza, Yemen and Now Iraq
by Alastair Crooke | Jan 17, 2024 | Featured Articles
China and Russia have been remarkably quiet, watching carefully the global tectonic plates shifting around in response to the “two wars” (Ukraine and Israel’s “multiwar”). Really it is not surprising; both states can sit back to simply watch Biden and his team persist...
Israel Goes to Court for the Crime of Genocide
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 12, 2024 | Featured Articles
A friend of mine who follows international developments closely recently observed that the United States and Israel have “own goaled” themselves to become widely perceived as together the two most evil governments on earth. It is a judgement that is hard to disagree...
RFK Jr.’s ‘Unconditional’ Support for Israel is Costing His Campaign for President
by Scott Horton | Jan 12, 2024 | Featured Articles
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s staffers keep resigning. Many antiwar Americans were thrilled when Kennedy announced last spring that he’d be running against Joe Biden in this year’s primaries and that he’d hired former Democratic congressman Dennis Kucinich to be his...
Blinken’s Window Dressing Tour of Arab Capitals
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jan 10, 2024 | Featured Articles
The expectation raised by the United States in allowing a UN Security Council resolution on Gaza pass through on December 22, 2023 without having to exercise its veto — albeit a watered-down one that stopped short of calling for ceasefire — was that the manifest...
Something Lost, Never to Be Found Again
by Alastair Crooke | Jan 9, 2024 | Featured Articles
A strange ennui and distracted attention envelops the West today. Hat-tip to Simplicius’ Bones of Tomorrow, in which he reflects on a Culture that has become debased; its lures that used to trap us into the “Myth of the West” lie withered, as patently false...
Jewish Supremacism, Like American Exceptionalism, Breeds Barbarism
by Ilana Mercer | Jan 6, 2024 | Featured Articles
Today’s Jewish Taliban is not the Israel I grew up in Israel has rendered Gaza a “moonscape in war,” uninhabitable for years to come, reduced to rubble by “the most intense air campaigns in the modern record.” Not only is Israel murdering tens of thousands of Gaza’s...
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