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It is the children’s nursery rhyme, Ring-a-Ring-a Roses, that originated during plague years, that ends with “we […]
Alastair Crooke
Alastair Crooke is the founder and director of the Conflicts Forum, which works for engagement between political Islam and the West.
Covid-19 may be the trigger, but it is the U.S. dollar that is the root problem, Alastair […]
The ‘unsaid’ in this narrative is an old story of warfare. Destroy your enemy’s supply-lines to weaken […]
The intrusion of the pandemic has exposed cruelly the shortcomings and workings of the existing status quo. […]
Will people accept a command system, if they see its principal purpose being the return to a […]
As the US and the UK, to stem Covid-19 infections, adopt a close-to-wartime approach, with intrusive levels […]
As the U.S. ineluctably moves up the exponential virus curve, the appeal of Bernie’s ‘healthcare available for […]
Strategically, Turkey has lost its game of ‘chicken’ in Syria, and may be about to experience an […]
The élite’s betrayal is represented by the extent to which institutions have been undermined, in order to […]
Don’t the Americans understand the implications of creating a desperate, unemployed and radicalised constituency across the entire […]
Trump may not be prepared to go to war for Israel, but others in the US Establishment […]
U.S. pressures will escalate – in line with the binary ‘either/or’ ultimatum, and Iran will then push […]