Geostrategic Media Political Commentary, Analysis, Security, Defense
Samuel Geddes Trump’s desperate bid to crush Iran’s economy without military escalation places the US’ sanctions regime against Iran, Russia, China and all its other adversaries at existential risk. So far, 2026 has been the most sobering year in living memory for the American self-image. Having at long …
September, 2026
August, 2026
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31 August
Britain’s Hidden Hand in the Kurdish Crisis
Hadi Elis The Puppeteer of the Middle East: Britain’s Legacy of Sabotage Against the Kurds Standfirst: From WWI chemical weapons to the recent betrayal of Rojava, Britain has consistently worked to deny Kurdish self-determination, using Turkey as its willing proxy. Since World War I, Britain has systematically manipulated …
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31 August
US to respond to Iranian attacks on forces in Middle East: Trump
US President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States will retaliate against Iran following missile and drone attacks on American forces in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). “We’re going to hit them hard. There will be a response,” Trump told Fox News. He noted that …
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31 August
The West Bank’s Ultra-Apartheid (and the Collusive International Silence)
By Dan Steinbock Gaza showed the genocidal face of Israel’s expulsive strategy. In the West Bank, the same objective is realized with incremental escalation. The ultimate goal is the same – the final expulsion of the Palestinians. Today, the West Bank is a nightmare of vicious settlement expansion, …
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31 August
Putin, Xi gather with world leaders for SCO summit in Kyrgyzstan
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and more than a dozen other world leaders are gathering in Kyrgyzstan on Monday for a two-day summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a regional bloc increasingly positioned as a counterweight to Western influence. The group is marking its …
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31 August
Araghchi accuses Netanyahu of deceiving US over war on Iran
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of practicing deception and duplicity, describing him as a “serpent.” Araghchi stated that Netanyahu openly boasts in Hebrew about having deceived the US administration and pushed it into waging a war on Iran on behalf of …
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30 August
China’s Rise Under Trump: Tactical Windfall or Lasting Strategic Gain?
There may be few people who have done more to improve China’s image around the world than Donald Trump. What Beijing could not accomplish through decades of diplomacy, trade and public diplomacy, Trump’s confrontational approach toward America’s allies and partners has, in many respects, helped accelerate. A recent …
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30 August
Between the Old and the New: Have the Arabs Stopped Reading History?
Eng. Saleem Al-Batayneh The most disturbing thing revealed by the Fourth Gulf War and its aftermath is not that it answered old questions. It is that it opened a much larger set of new ones. Perhaps the most unsettling is also the simplest: Is the Arab world approaching …
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30 August
Canada Chooses to Fight Back: Ottawa Enters a Trade War With Washington
For more than three decades, Canada and the United States built one of the world’s most deeply integrated economic relationships on an assumption that once seemed almost axiomatic: geography, shared infrastructure and an extraordinarily dense network of trade would ultimately prove stronger than political disagreements. That assumption is …
