Home » Geopolitics (Page 308)
Category Archives: Geopolitics
How the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ Explains Turkey-US Relations
How the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ Explains Turkey-US Relations Turkey’s geopolitics is increasingly at the center of attention after the failed coup of July 2016. The era of Kamalism, with the army as “guardian of secularism” has ended. The AKP and its revered chief Erdogan are free as never before to go ahead in their ideological project of […]
The Natural Gas War Burning Under Syria
The Natural Gas War Burning Under Syria Qatar always wanted to punch above its weight. In Syria, it got the chance. In 2009, Qatar, a leading natural gas producer, approached Syria about routing its planned 1,500 mile pipeline to the gas markets of Europe through Syria’s Aleppo province. Qatar wanted a pipeline straight to Europe as its current […]
How US Propaganda Plays in Syrian War
How US Propaganda Plays in Syrian War U.S. foreign policymakers have experimented at planting propaganda in social media and then citing it as evidence to support their goals, a process now playing out in the Syrian “regime change,” as Rick Sterling explains. Manipulation of public perception has risen to a new level with the emergence of […]
LAVROV MAKES HISTORY: ‘Ceasefires’ were bogus, nixes future ‘unilateral measures’ [VIDEO]
LAVROV MAKES HISTORY: ‘Ceasefires’ were bogus, nixes future ‘unilateral measures’ [VIDEO] Lavrov at today’s security council meeting – Video below after text Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov made history today at the UN’s meeting of the Security Council, declaring that future unilateral pauses couched as ‘ceasefire agreements’ are off the table. He has skillfully referred […]
Four Flash Points That Could Trigger World War III: “We Have Not Been This Close To Nuclear War In A Long Time”
Four Flash Points That Could Trigger World War III: “We Have Not Been This Close To Nuclear War In A Long Time” As can readily be seen by the current events, the world has not been this close to a nuclear war and World War 3 in a long time. There are four major flashpoints […]
Russia Deploys Flagship Aircraft Carrier To Syria Coast
Russia Deploys Flagship Aircraft Carrier To Syria Coast Back in the summer of 2013, just around the peak of the first major escalation involving Syria and the US attempt to remove its president al-Assad, the Mediterranean briefly looked like a parking lot, with US and Russian ships on anchor just off the Syrian coast prepared for any […]
Why Syria Matters to You
Why Syria Matters to You Firstly, I want to thank all of you who reserved your online seat for the premiere of my new documentary, Crisis & Chaos: Are We Moving Toward World War III? The keen response has shown us just how many of you are deeply concerned about the turmoil casting a shadow on most […]
Getting Fooled on Iraq, Libya, Now Russia
Getting Fooled on Iraq, Libya, Now Russia Exclusive: After the British report exposing falsehoods to justify invading Iraq in 2003, a new U.K. inquiry found similar misconduct in the 2011 attack on Libya, but no lessons are learned for the West’s new propaganda about Russia, writes Robert Parry. A British parliamentary inquiry into the Libyan fiasco […]
1/3 of Saudi strikes hit Yemeni hospitals, schools & other civilian targets – study
1/3 of Saudi strikes hit Yemeni hospitals, schools & other civilian targets – study People stand on the rubble of a school destroyed by a Saudi-led air strike in an outskirt of the northwestern city of Saada, Yemen September 14, 2016. © Naif Rahma / Reuters In five of the last 18 months of the Saudi-led […]
Leaked Colin Powell Email Confirms Israel Has “200 Nukes All Targeted On Tehran”
Leaked Colin Powell Email Confirms Israel Has “200 Nukes All Targeted On Tehran” While the media has been mostly obsessing over the recently leaked Colin Powell emails that discuss either Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, or Donald Trump, a just as important, from a geopolitical perspective, email was revealed by the DCLeaks website, in which the former Secretary of State admits […]
War Is Never Just: The End of “Just War” Theory
War Is Never Just: The End of “Just War” Theory Several weeks back I was invited to speak this coming October at a U.S. university on ending war and making peace. As I often do, I asked whether the organizers couldn’t try to find a supporter of war with whom I could debate or discuss […]
Japan Stands Firm on Senkaku Islands in East China Sea
Japan Stands Firm on Senkaku Islands in East China Sea In recent years, relations between China and Japan have come under increasing strain amidst the escalation of a decades-old territorial dispute over eight uninhabited islands in the East China Sea. The islands of this contentious archipelago are known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan, and the […]
A Political Hurricane is About to Sweep Across Europe
A Political Hurricane is About to Sweep Across Europe If you’ve been paying attention, you could see this coming a mile away. Although I’ve forecast huge political shifts in the West for years now, I made my strongest prediction on European changes late last year following the Paris terror attacks. In the post, A Message to Europe […]
Wolf Blitzer Is Worried Defense Contractors Will Lose Jobs if U.S. Stops Arming Saudi Arabia
Wolf Blitzer Is Worried Defense Contractors Will Lose Jobs if U.S. Stops Arming Saudi Arabia SEN. RAND PAUL’S expression of opposition to a $1.1 billion U.S. arms sale to Saudi Arabia — which has been brutally bombing civilian targets in Yemen using U.S.-made weapons for more than a year now — alarmed CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Thursday […]
Germany Prepares For Domestic Troop Deployments As “Catastrophic” Terrorist Attack Deemed “Conceivable, Even Probable”
Germany Prepares For Domestic Troop Deployments As “Catastrophic” Terrorist Attack Deemed “Conceivable, Even Probable” Merkel continues to publicly defend her “open border” immigration policies despite continued erosion of her popularity amid rising nationalist sentiments in Germany and across the EU. Meanwhile, Germany is preparing to deploy troops within its borders for the first time since […]
