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Western Cross-Currents: Cultural Populism Vs Deep Architecture – OpEd

Western Cross-Currents: Cultural Populism Vs Deep Architecture – OpEd

The starting gun for the U.S. 2026 Midterms was fired this past week with three consequential elections and a key

12.11.2025 20

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U.S. Foreign Policy In Contention: Is Trump Allowed To Agree A Deal With China (but Not Russia Or Iran)? – OpEd

U.S. foreign policy, drenched in the hubris that the U.S. won the Cold War militarily (in Afghanistan); won it economically

03.11.2025 20

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The World Financial And Geo-Political Framework At A Time Of Imminent Disorder – OpEd

Trump’s attempt to build a ‘Budapest scenario’ (i.e. a Putin-Trump summit grounded on the earlier Alaska ‘understanding’) was unilaterally cancelled

29.10.2025 10

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Waiting On Images Of Abject Submission That Don’t Appear – OpEd

Trump: “This problem with Vietnam … We stopped fighting to win. We would have won easy. We would have won

14.10.2025 30

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Moving Fast; Breaking Things’: A New Doctrine Takes Root; A New Era Of Coerced Dominance – OpEd

Creeping, thunderous changes are underway in the West. A new political doctrine has taken root: Western Conservative (and younger) populist

08.10.2025 10

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American Juncture As Israel’s Eighth Front Ignites – OpEd

The second stage to Trump’s ‘hand-off’ of the Ukraine war to the Europeans was clearly set out in his Truth Social post of

02.10.2025 20

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The Genie Of ‘Israeli First’ Dominance Is Out Of The Bottle – OpEd

‘Gaza is on fire; the Jewish state will not relent’, Israeli Defence Minister Katz excitedly proclaims: “The IDF is striking with

22.09.2025 10

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Maintaining Escalatory Dominance: Trump And The Predominant Sway Of ‘Israel Firsters’ – OpEd

The strike on the Hamas negotiating team assembled in Doha to discuss the ‘Witkoff Gaza proposal’ is not just another

16.09.2025 20

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Can Trump Re-Adjust In The Post-Tianjin SCO Moment? Was The Timing Of China ‘Throwing Down The SCO Gauntlet’ Entirely Fortuitous? – OpEd

The gloves are off. The SCO Summit was a clear demonstration of the reality of power starkly coalescing, on the

09.09.2025 30

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Israel’s ‘New, Violent Zionism’ As A Harbinger Of Imperial Geo-politics Of Submission And Obedience – OpEd

Israel’s strategy from past decades continues to rest on the hope of achieving some literal Chimeric transformative “de-radicalisation” of both

04.09.2025 10

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Is The Trump ‘Mystique’ Broken? Does MAGA Sense Betrayal? – OpEd

The Epstein cloud is metastasizing and becoming a rallying point for deep-seated popular alienation from certain ruling strata. The public

29.07.2025 20

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US Hubris-Driven Blunders Transform Entire Complexion Of Wider War – OpEd

The big issue emerging from the U.S.’ 22 June strike on Iran – second only to ‘wither Iran?’ – is

16.07.2025 20

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It’s A Test To The Institutions – OpEd

By Daphne Posadas For the first time in years, we are witnessing multiple flashpoints, where the world would have looked

09.07.2025 10

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‘The Land Of Performance’: Trump Wanted A Perfect War, A Headline Showstopper – OpEd

“Depending on who you ask, the U.S. bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan was either a smashing...

09.07.2025 10

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What Means ‘Winning’? – OpEd

At one level, Iran plainly ‘won’. Trump had wanted to be regaled with a reality-TV style, splendid ‘Victory’. Sunday’s attack

02.07.2025 30

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The Key Nuclear Allegation That Started The War Was Coaxed From A Palantir Counter-Intelligence Algorithm – OpEd

The IAEA Board’s ‘Non-Compliance’ Resolution on 12 June 2025 was the planned precursor for Israel’s ‘bolt from the blue’ strike

23.06.2025 70

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Is The Trump Project Unravelling? – OpEd

The Musk versus Trump fallout (at least for now) has a distinct ‘made for television’ quality to it. But do

17.06.2025 30

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The Silence Of The Bears – OpEd

Russia’s leadership is in ‘conclave’ determining its riposte. Trump has been silent for two days. Unprecedented. In the last days,...

09.06.2025 20

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One Quiet Early Morning In Beijing, The Dollar’s Crown Slipped – OpEd

“I believe we must start from the notion of defeat leading to revolution – to grasp the Trump revolution”.  “The experience

02.06.2025 40

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A Storm In The West: The Liberal Intellectual Paradigm Is Broken – OpEd

Presentation at the XXIII International Likhachev Scientific Readings, St Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences, 22-23 May 2025 –

28.05.2025 40

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‘Transition’ To A New World Order Is Beyond Most In The West – OpEd

Even the need for transition – just to be clear – has only just begun to be recognised in the U.S. For

19.05.2025 20

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Why Doesn’t The ‘Deal-Maker’ Close The Deal? – OpEd

The story, both on Ukraine and Iran, is that President Trump wants a ‘deal’ – and both deals are available –

05.05.2025 30

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The Kellogg Framework Is A Disaster For Trump – OpEd

Political warfare in Washington is endemic. But the body count at the Pentagon has started to rise precipitously. Three of Secretary of Defence...

28.04.2025 10

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A ‘Trump Deal’? Juggling War, ‘Easy War’ And Negotiation – OpEd

Trump clearly is in the midst of an existential conflict. He has a landslide mandate. But is ringed by a

27.04.2025 20

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Elon Musk Channels Milton Friedman’s Pencil: The Message Of Free Trade – OpEd

The right answer to bad trade policies abroad is not worse trade policies at home. By Diogo Costa Trade wars

17.04.2025 40

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Trump Axes A Stricken World Order, But There’s Opportunity Amidst The Turmoil – OpEd

The Trump ‘shock’ – his ‘de-centring’ of America from serving as pivot to the post-war ‘order’ via the dollar –

17.04.2025 30

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‘Break-A-Leg’ (That Old Mafia Warning): Trump Has Threatened Iran Over An Ultimatum That Likely Cannot Be Met – OpEd

Trump’s ultimatum to Iran? Colonel Doug Macgregor compares the Trump ultimatum to Iran to that which Austria-Hungary delivered to Serbia...

07.04.2025 10

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Transactional Weakness Tips The Balance Of Power: ‘Hold To No Illusions; There Is Nothing Beyond This Reality’ – OpEd

The post-WWII geo-political outcome effectively determined the post-war global economic structure. Both are now undergoing huge change. What remains...

05.04.2025 10

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Trump And Putin Begin Addressing Cumulated Geo-Strategic Debris… Amidst Trump’s Ultimatum To Iran – OpEd

The phone call on 18 March between Presidents Trump and Putin has happened. It was a success, insofar as it allowed both sides to

24.03.2025 40

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The Kingdom Of Judea Vs. The State Of Israel – OpEd

Israel is deeply fractured. The schism has become bitter and heated as both sides see themselves to be in an

17.03.2025 50

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Europe Faces A MAGA ‘Vibe-Shift’ As Trump Moves To His Primordial Objective: The Global Reset – OpEd

President Trump wants Ukraine settled, full stop. This is so that he can move ahead quickly – to normalise with

12.03.2025 50

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Reality Confronts The Euro Ruling-Strata: ‘Through The Tear In The Fantasy Bubble, They See Their Own Demise’ – OpEd

They (the Euro-élites) don’t have a chance: “If Trump imposes this tariff [25%], the U.S. will be in a serious trade

04.03.2025 20

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America As Republic, Not As Empire: Europe’s ‘Sound And Fury’ After Jaw-Dropping Pivots In US Policy – OpEd

The bits are falling into a distinct pattern – a pre-prepared pattern. Defence Secretary Hegseth at the Munich Security Conference

26.02.2025 30

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The Greatest (Geo-Political) Showman’s ‘Inside Out’ Political Solution – OpEd

How to do the impossible? America is instinctively an expansionist power, needing new fields to conquer; new financial horizons to

07.02.2025 20

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Is Trump Positioning For A ‘No-Deal’ With Russia – Or Not? – OpEd

Trump’s rhetoric about Russia having lost one million men in the Ukraine conflict is not just nonsense (the real number

29.01.2025 30

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Aristotle Predicted Trump’s Inauguration – OpEd

By James E. Jennings The Athenian philosopher Aristotle predicted Donald Trump’s second inauguration on January 20, 2025 more than 2,300

21.01.2025 30

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The Competency Crisis Proliferating The West – OpEd

The essayist and military strategist, Aurelien, has written a paper entitled: The Strange Defeat (original in French). The ‘strange...

21.01.2025 10

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Trump, Iran And The Obama Strategic Blueprint – OpEd

Like a smashed antique clock – with its elaborate cogs, ratchet wheels and innards splayed out from the casing –

14.01.2025 10

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Can Trump Save America From Itself? – OpEd

Russian FM Lavrov last week dismissed Team Trump’s floated peace proposals for Ukraine as unsatisfactory. Essentially, the Russian view is

11.01.2025 10

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Imperial Hubris (And Its Consequences) In Syria – OpEd

The Syria story, it seems, is not so simple as ‘President Assad fell’ and the ‘ technocratic Salafists ’ rose to power. At one level, the...

02.01.2025 10

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The ‘King-Makers’ Pull The Rug From Syria, Yet Again: A ‘Greek Tragedy’ Begins – OpEd

James Jeffrey, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Turkey, in a March 2021  interview  with PBS Frontline, laid out very plainly the template for...

23.12.2024 5

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A New Geo-Political Map Is Unfolding: The End Of Syria (And Of ‘Palestine’ For Now) – OpEd

Syria has entered the abyss – the demons of al-Qa’eda, ISIS, and the most intransigent elements of the Muslim Brotherhood are circling the skies....

17.12.2024 6

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Erdogan’s Idlib Shock Shadows ‘Kursk’ – OpEd

‘Doomsters’ is an occasional Russian expression used to categorise commentators that only see the ‘dark side to events’ (a vice quite...

07.12.2024 6

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The Long War To Reaffirm Western And Israeli Primacy Undergoes A Shape-Shift – OpEd

The long war to reaffirm western and Israeli primacy is undergoing a shape-shift. On one front, the calculus in respect to Russia and the Ukraine...

03.12.2024 3

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The Counter-Insurgency Is ‘On’ – Against Trump’s ‘Storm’ – OpEd

The Deep State whispered to Trump: ‘You cannot withstand the storm’. Trump whispered  back : “I am the storm”. The war is on. The Deep State has...

23.11.2024 10

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There Are No ‘Easy Wars’ Left To Fight, But Do Not Mistake The Longing For One – OpEd

Israelis, as a whole, are exhibiting a rosy assurance that they can harness Trump, if not to the full annexation of the Occupied Territories (Trump...

16.11.2024 8

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The West’s Very Fundamental Accumulating Contradictions – OpEd

The election has occurred; Trump will take office in January; many of the existing Party Nomenklatura will be replaced; different policies will be...

12.11.2024 4

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Netanyahu’s ‘Imaginary War Narrative’ Strategy: ‘If It Works, Fine; If Not, No Big Deal. We’ll Try Something Else’ – OpEd

On Oct. 26, an Israeli force of some 100 aircraft attacked Iran from a stand-off position in Iraq, some 70 kilometres outside the Iranian border....

04.11.2024 4

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A ‘Heroic’ Preference For Self-Destruction Is Taking Hold In Israel – OpEd

Centuries ago a boy was born. His parents understood that he had a remarkable fate before him which reflected the Will of the Great Shaman. His...

30.10.2024 3

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A Stunning De-Capitation? The Netanyahu ‘Madness’ – OpEd

A major war between Israel and Iran is soon likely to erupt – so says Israel’s Defence Minister Gallant. It will be initiated when Israel launches...

28.10.2024 2

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