Alastair Crooke

The more the rival US élite factions cloister themselves in their enclaves, certain in their separate views […]

The ‘max pressure’, Make America Great Again formula is not going to work, for the simple reason […]

The crisis between Iran and Washington is only nominally about nuclear issues. It is rather, a political […]

Ultimately, Trump will find himself in a corner in which he never wished to find himself: It […]

The Kushner – Trump ‘Deal’, in respect to the integration of Israel into the regional energy economy […]

The consensus on ‘no conflict’ unfortunately, may turn out to have been overly sanguine. This is not […]

The pendulum of power in the Middle East has shifted northwards, as a result of Syria’s defeat […]

The escalation against Iran serves rather as camouflage for a considerably more profound civilizational and metaphysical conflict. […]

Iran’s calculus implicit in its messaging is that Trump does not want a war, and Iran does […]

Inspired by his intellectual hero Bernard Lewis, Pompeo, together with Richard Perle’s PNAC colleague, John Bolton, seems […]

Has Trump convinced himself that the Administration’s wider bluster is actually winning: Making America Great Again? On […]

Iran will not necessarily look for escalation: to wriggle through will be to win a major symbolic […]