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The woke ideologues will likely split the U.S. Blues into Old Guard and the new, ‘soft totalitarians’, […]
Alastair Crooke
Alastair Crooke is the founder and director of the Conflicts Forum, which works for engagement between political Islam and the West.
A hot humid day, but a gentle, warm breeze is blowing. The smoke and tear gas swirl […]
The Middle East has little choice: It will be pushed to view the U.S. as its past, […]
Convulsions ahead? The decay of an era, and the inevitability of social and political mutation? The Leopard, […]
This coming U.S. election is viewed by both Red and Blue as existential. Perhaps the most portent […]
The story of the Coronavirus in the West exposes our hidden fragility of presuming upon life to […]
We inhabit the psychology of ‘betwixt times’. Instinctively, we know the world will never be the same […]
It is the children’s nursery rhyme, Ring-a-Ring-a Roses, that originated during plague years, that ends with “we […]
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 […]