The Middle East is ‘conservative’ no more. Rather, a very different ‘Awakening’ is gestating. The long war to reaffirm western and Israeli primacy is undergoing a shape-shift. On one front, the calculus in respect to…
Category: Alastair Crooke
Alastair Crooke CMG (sometimes mis-spelled as Alistair Crooke), born 1949, is a former British diplomat, and is the founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum, an organisation that advocates for engagement between political Islam and the West. Previously he was a ranking figure in both British intelligence (MI6) and European Union diplomacy.
The West doesn’t have the financial clout to pursue global primacy – if it ever did. The election has occurred; Trump will take office in January; many of the existing Party Nomenklatura will be replaced;…
Playing nice’ won’t change its paradigm. Failure does. With the assassination of Sayed Hassan Nasrallah and a number of the Hizbullah senior leadership in Beirut – expressly without prior warning being given to the Pentagon…
Trump is not the ‘right card’, in the view of the U.S. power-élites; the Joker should have been pulled from the pack. As the ousted ‘Emperor’, Biden made his ‘final walk’ from the dias at…
VIDEO: Alastair Crooke : Netanyahu Gambles on Slaughter By Alastair Crooke Produced by Judge Napolitano Republished by The 21st Century The views expressed in this article are solely those…
Isn’t it time that the western ruling structures raised their eyes from their reverie, and read the runes that manifest all around them? The signposts are there for all to read: The West – in…
We see clearly the collapse of the manipulation that has confined discourse to within the various Washington villages. The Editor at Large for the Wall Street Journal, Gerry Baker, says: ‘We’ve been “gaslit’ and deceived”…