Alastair Crooke

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 – Netanyahu fired the start gun on an implicit Israeli widening of war to – using Israel’s term – the ‘octopus’ tentacles’: Hizbullah in Lebanon; Ansarullah in Yemen; the Syrian government and the Iraqi Hash’ad A-Shaabi forces. Well, after the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh and part of Hizbullah’s leadership cadre (including a senior Iranian general), Iran – demonised as the ‘octopus head’ – entered the … Continue reading →

All the war “games” played over successive years have resulted in America losing.

Of course, a victory narrative was too valuable to be foregone. Yet nonetheless, unexplained events matter.

The West doesn't have the financial clout to pursue global primacy – if it ever did.

Trump may not appreciate just how isolated the U.S. and Israel are among Israel's Arab and Sunni neighbours.

A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media

The Middle East is ‘conservative' no more. Rather, a very different ‘Awakening' is gestating.

Thu, Dec 12, 2024 Syria has entered the abyss. The state just dissolved in the middle of the night; the police and army went home, leaving weapons depots open for looting.

The Zionist & American Aim is to Splinter Syria along Ethnic Lines & to Reconfigure the Middle East on Sectarian Lines

Israelis generally are celebrating their ‘victories'. Will this euphoria weigh with U.S. business élites?