Alastair Crooke

The Gulf grandees have a right to be edgy, Alastair Crooke writes. They can see that Trump’s […]

Is not the stand-off taking place within the EU somehow a re-run of the struggles that were […]

‘The West’ is no longer the West. There is the belligerent ‘West’ of Trump, Pence, Bolton and […]

Wherever Pompeo travels on his journeys through the region, he cannot fail but to notice that US […]

The deep sense of growing inequalities is matched only by popular fears of community ‘safety-nets’ that have […]

The Israeli military and security establishment have never relished the prospect of outright war with Iran, unless […]

We might conclude that the Ben Op is just a uniquely American manifestation, of little wider import […]

The US, it seems, after earlier chastising Pakistan (for not doing enough to curb the Taliban) has […]

“Here is a story that should seem familiar. A great power, unsurpassed in military might and technological prowess, […]

Europe is hovering at the cusp of debt-induced recession. But to speak about the first recession in […]

How, even after the disaster of Libya, European leaders can ignore the long history of interventions in […]

For the first time, an American official has definitively exposed the fact that the US has no […]