By Pepe Escobar, posted with permission and first posted at Asia Times Few geopolitical hot spots across the planet may rival the Caucasus: that intractable, tribal Tower of Babel, throughout History a contentious crossroads of empires […]
Stephen KARGANOVIC President of the Srebrenica Historical Project The Turkish President should have consulted the prophecies of St. Paisius of the Holy Mountain rather than whatever kitaps he was reading before embarking on his risky provocation. […]
By Pepe Escobar – republished from Asia Times by permission of author Late afternoon in May 29, 1453, Sultan Mehmet, the third son of Murad, born of a slave-girl – probably Christian – in the harem, fluent in […]
Conn M. HALLINAN Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s latest gamble in Syria’s civil war appears to have come up snake eyes. Instead of halting the Damascus government’s siege of the last rebel held province, Idlib, […]
Alastair CROOKE The End of an Era. When the first World War came to its end, intimations of an end to the European Era were already evident in symptoms: aching diplomatic joints, straitened perceptual political vision […]
Darius Shahtahmasebi is a New Zealand-based legal and political analyst who focuses on US foreign policy in the Middle East, Asia and Pacific region. He is fully qualified as a lawyer in two international jurisdictions. Armoured […]
Author: Tom Luongo Peace in the Middle East is coming at us fast and we’re going to have Russian President Vladimir Putin to thank for it. The howls of agony coming from U.S. and European foreign […]
by Raúl Ilargi Meijer THE AUTOMATIC EARTH An article from long term Automatic Earth contributor Alexander Aston, who feels very strongly about the topic. Personally, I have many more questions left. It’s easy to say Trump […]
Syrian War Report – October 9, 2019: SDF Seeks Cooperation With ‘Bloody Assad’ Against Turkey The withdrawal of US troops from the Turkish border has caused a kind of panic among the leadership of the […]
By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Drop of Light / Shutterstock In October 1950, as U.S. forces were reeling from hordes of Chinese troops who had intervened massively in the Korean War, a 5,000-man Turkish brigade arrived to […]
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