Op-ed

Giancarlo Elia Valori Turkey’s President Erdogan has recently dismissed almost all the Turkish flag officers still in service, thus leaving only a small proportion of them, with a view to later favouring the quick career of subordinate officers with a nationalist or Islamist background and training. President Erdogan’s …

Prof. Louis René Beres As presented to the United States Senate, Articles of Impeachment concerning Donald J. Trump will focus upon various pertinent elements of Constitutional and statutory law. Still, at least in part, this country’s most hallowed and fundamental legal foundations lie elsewhere. More precisely, these “peremptory” …

Giancarlo Elia Valori The Memorandum of Understanding for maritime cooperation between Turkey and Libya of the Government of National Accord (GNA) led by Fayez al-Sarraj was definitively voted by the Turkish Parliament on December 5 last. The President of the High Council of State, Khalid al-Mishri, also officially …

Trump’s behavior that is at the center of the impeachment inquiry was unpatriotic. It entailed the subordination of the U.S. national interest to the narrower interests of denigrating opposition political candidates and advancing one’s own political party. Sometimes an accusation that a mote is in someone else’s eye …

Quite simply, it makes no sense for U.S. taxpayers to subsidize the defense of nations capable of defending themselves. Shared interests will continue to justify military cooperation. However, the alliance as today constituted no longer serves American interests. President Donald Trump returned early from the London NATO summit. …

By Giancarlo Elia Valori International World Group (IWG), the new and already well- established company founded by Giancarlo Elia Valori has signed a very important Agreement with China’s National Ocean Technology Center (NOTC). This is the result of the great attention that President Xi Jinping  and  his  Minister  of  …

Giancarlo Elia Valori Protests against the petrol price rise and rationing in Iran began on November 15 in Ahvaz, when the Iranian government announced the fuel price increase up to 300%. They quickly spread to major Iranian cities. Before the enactment of this new rule, car owners could …

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pivots back from America First. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo unleashed a litany of neoconservative talking points at a Monday afternoon press conference, marking a turn away from the Trump administration’s “America First” foreign policy. “We are recognizing the reality on the ground,” …

Giancarlo Elia Valori Currently the material break, rather than the real fall, of the Berlin Wall is at the core of many strategic and historical misrepresentations. The naive rhetoric of “global democracy” that broke into Potsdam for the will of the conscious people – just to use an …