1 Background 2 Retaliation 3 China – the new Mideast Broker? 4 Bibi’s Washington visit 5. Response from the West 6. Iran introduces new weapons systems 7. Response from Russia 8. Putin Shifts Azerbaijan to BRICS 9. Response from other powers 10. The OIC meeting 11. How a Brics trio is staring down Israel 1. […]
1. The Terrorist Gang State 2. Israel’s Internal Dynamic 3. The ICC/ICJ Issue 4. Zionism vs Judaism 5. The US-Israel Tango 1. The Terrorist Gang State On 31 May 1948, a Polish Zionist – David Ben Gurion- transformed the Zionist terrorist groups – Haganah, Irgun, and Palmach – into what would be called the “Israeli Defense […]
By the 3 Musketeers, we mean Russia, China and Saudi Arabia. The Shanghai 5 & The Grand Chessboard The first Chechen war ended in mid-1995. Russian President Boris Yeltsin was worried that unrest in the Caucasus would spread to other Russian provinces in its south-the so-called “soft underbelly of Russia. He flew to China, met […]
In this part 2, we will discuss Iran’s relations with Russia and China. Target Russia… Iran & Russia Relations between the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Persian Empire (Iran) officially commenced in 1521, Past and present contact between Russia and Iran have long been complicatedly multi-faceted; often wavering between collaboration and rivalry. The two nations have a long history of […]
The Global South AKA Zone B The End of the Unipolar World On February 24, 2022, the start of the special military operation in Ukraine marked the end of the unipolar world. Six months after the start of the Special Military Operation (SMO) by Russia in Ukraine, the geopolitical tectonic plates of the 21st century have […]
China’s rise to global power began in 1949 with the removal of the entire parasitic financial, comprador and speculative classes who had served as the intermediaries for European, Japanese and US imperialists draining China of its great wealth. China’s Transition to Capitalism Beginning in 1980 the Chinese government initiated a dramatic shift in its economic […]
Russia & China in the Middle East By the series of actions in recent months in Iraq and across the Middle East, Washington has forced a strategic shift towards China and to an extent Russia and away from the United States. If events continue on the present trajectory it can well be that a main […]
Background. There were 4 major trends happening in Iraq, and its convergence led to a blow-up in the country, followed by the death of Qasem Soleimani. They are as follows ; The frustration of the Iraqi people at the government and the undue and resentful influence of Iran in Iraq; the role of outside powers […]
The election of Donald Trump as the next American president has added a major new element of uncertainty to a Middle Eastern picture that had already achieved its highest state of confusion, violence, and uncertainty in its modern history. The factors that will determine the policies Trump will pursue there are many, and they are all […]
“Control food and one controls people; control finance and one controls governments, but control oil and one can control the destinies of nations “ Henry Kissinger 1972. It was oil that made up the core of the wealth and power of the Rockefeller family. The founder John D Rockefeller started out in the oil business in […]
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