Month: July 2017

Geopolitics

Weaponising Islam – The CIA backs a New Ottoman Caliphate in Eurasia Part 6 (of a 6 part series)

Sam Parker and Joe Mhlanga No Comments

The fall of the Berlin wall in November 1989 and the subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991 did not mark the end of more than four decades of Cold War with the West. It merely marked the beginning of a highly dangerous new phase of aggression against a severely weakened Russia desperate to […]

Geopolitics

Weaponising Islam – Al Qaeda Part 5 (of a 6 part series)

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In the 19th century, there was an ongoing struggle between Czarist Russia and the British Empire over who would control Afghanistan, a geo-strategically central land straddling Central, Southern, and Southwestern Asia. The stakes were huge. With control of Afghanistan, a major power could control or destabilize all of Central Asia through Afghanistan. It was the Soviet Union’s […]

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