Alastair Crooke

My Week in Tehran

Broadcasting from Iran, I ask Marandi and Crooke why Trump’s negotiations seemingly go nowhere. Seyed Marandi is […]

This Trump transformation of America was intended to be rebuilt as America First. The story, both on […]

All of Kellogg’s underlying assumptions lacked any basis in reality. Yet Trump seemingly took them on trust. […]

The key MAGA issue is not foreign policy, but how to structurally re-balance an economic paradigm in […]

Trump and War Related Article: A ‘Trump deal’? Juggling war, ‘easy war’ and negotiation

Tensions in the Middle East are escalating, with Israel, Iran, and the U.S. at the center of […]

Trump’s actions were neither ‘spur of the moment’, nor whimsical. The ‘tariff solution’ had been pre-prepared by […]

Lo que se entiende ahora es que “ya no estamos jugando al ajedrez”. Ya no hay reglas. […]

What is understood now is that ‘we’re no longer playing chess’. There are no rules anymore. Trump’s […]

Trump Demands the Impossible from Iran

A U.S. economic ‘re-balancing’ is coming. Putin is right. The post-WWII economic order ‘is gone’ The post-WWII […]