Alastair Crooke

America is suffering a profound psychological reaction to its humiliation in Kabul. Clearly, the principal casualty of […]

Western intelligence agencies were so consumed with ‘counter-terrorism’ that they failed to see the new dynamics at […]

China is more determined to shape the region than many analysts realise A huge geo-political event has […]

Alistair Crooke, the former British diplomat and founder and director of the Conflicts Forum, let us embark […]

The exclusionary ideology is being turned-in upon itself. Turned-in, within western societies, and not just outwards, towards […]

Raisi’s discourse is a particular challenge to the West, grounded, as it is, in the values of […]

If Republicans and Democrats talk as though they are living in different realities – it is because […]

Alistair Crooke, a former British diplomat, founder and director of Conflict Forum, details the culture war in […]

With JCPOA fading as a prospect, the West predictably is musing military options. The US is souring […]

Perhaps Iran will take a sojourn in the East, for a while, until America takes leave of […]

Narratives have become smart cruise missiles: Say ‘Iran is not a threat to America’; Say ‘the US […]

Balance and reviving inundations are deemed heretic and will not be tolerated. “I am angry. I am […]