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The Neocon Lament

Wed, 25/01/2017 - 09:02
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Wed, 25/01/2017
Kagan Nuland

Nobody wants them in Trump's Washington
PHILIP GIRALDI 
There is no limit to the hubris driven hypocrisy of America’s stalwart neoconservatives. A recent Washington Post front page article entitled “‘Never Trump’ national-security Republicans fear they have been blacklisted” shares with the reader the heartbreak of those so-called GOP foreign policy experts who have apparently been ignored by the presidential transition team seeking to staff senior positions in the new administration. 

Here’s how the Trump presidency will play out

Tue, 24/01/2017 - 09:21
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Tue, 24/01/2017
Trump presidency

by Pepe Escobar

The Trump era starts now – with geopolitics and geoeconomics set for a series of imminent, unpredictable cliffhangers. I have argued that Trump’s foreign policy guru Henry Kissinger’s strategy to deal with the formidable Eurasia integration trio – Russia, China and Iran – is a remixed Divide and Rule; seduce Russia away from its strategic partnership with China, while keep harassing the weakest link, Iran.

Jerusalem is the Center of Gravity

Mon, 23/01/2017 - 08:51
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Mon, 23/01/2017
Jerusalem


By Prof. Efraim Inbar
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 398

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Making strategic choices requires distinguishing which issues are urgent and which are important. Right now, the securing of Jewish control over Jerusalem is both urgent and important. Jerusalem carries great symbolic and strategic value for Israel, and Israeli control of the city must be protected.

Trumpus Andronicus? What the Byzantine Empire can tell us

Mon, 23/01/2017 - 08:47
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Mon, 23/01/2017
Trumpus Andronicus

By MAXIMILIAN LAU

Comparisons have abounded between historical villains and Donald Trump, but Maximilian Lau finds 12th century similarities that may have a useful message 

Where Is The Left-Wing When A Country Needs One?

Fri, 20/01/2017 - 08:57
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Fri, 20/01/2017
Left-Wing politics vsTrump


By Paul Craig Roberts

One would think the left would support a president so fiercely opposed by the CIA, but, no, Trump is delegitimized as a racist elected by a racist electorate. The hate card overwhelms common sense.

Why Ankara’s honeymoon with Trump may be short-lived

Fri, 20/01/2017 - 08:46
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Fri, 20/01/2017
Ankara Trump


AUTHOR  Semih Idiz

Turkey has increased pressure on Washington in recent weeks, as President-elect Donald Trump has been preparing to be sworn in, by openly renouncing the outgoing Obama administration and signaling to the new administration what its conditions for improved ties with the United States will be.

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