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Rule number one if you are trying to win a debate: never admit your own thesis is a “fantasy.” And yet, this is the grim position that John Glaser finds himself in, stating that “there is something fantastical about my policy preferences.” Fictional foreign policy ‘fantasy’s’ like Glaser’s, …

2015 ended up becoming the year that Russia stopped standing back and patiently watching as Washington and its allies provoked crisis after crisis in the Middle East, taking the helm in the fight against terror by launching its own military and diplomatic effort to resolve the crisis in …

Russia and the USA have agreed on the next stage concerning Syria and and the future of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad, securing his right to nominate himself for presidential elections. Both have agreed on the principles, which is a victory per se for Russia and its president …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky US foreign  policy has nurtured Al Qaeda, a creation of the CIA for more than 35 years, with the support of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and Saudi Arabia’s  infamous  General Intelligence Presidency (GIP).  Lest we forget Osama bin Laden was recruited in 1979 by the CIA …

In the wake of the Islamic State’s (IS) attacks in the Sinai Peninsula, Beirut and Paris, there is an urgent need to mobilize resources to deal with the threat, especially resources in the Arab world. Instead, Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies are devoting their resources and efforts …

Hezbollah party leader Samir Kuntar was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Damascus early Sunday, the Lebanese group and Syrian government sources said. Israel welcomed his death, but stopped short of confirming responsibility for the strike that killed him. Hezbollah, a Shiite Muslim group, said Kuntar was “martyred” …

Their disappointment with Obama has led the Saudis to adopt a sophisticated and aggressive strategy. No longer the world’s oil barrel, Riyadh is now using oil prices to remove American companies from the market, punish the Russians for their support of Assad and shatter Iran’s hopes of exporting …

Bruce Hoffman B“This is sort of the new normal,” FBI Director James Comey observed after the most recent Fourth of July. Comey was talking about the ten persons who were arrested in connection with a variety of plots linked to ISIS in the weeks leading up to that …

Russia’s aerial campaign in Syria has sent Daesh terrorists packing, while the US-led coalition’s airstrikes had done little to check the group’s expansion, Egyptian media wrote on Monday. “From the very start of their operation against Daesh in Syria, the Americans and their allies kept saying they were doing something, only …