We have been waiting for the Likuds in Israel to launch their final attempt to torpedo the Iran nuclear accords, so Netanyahu's picking June 30^th, the eve of the beginning of the final draft talks, came as no surprise. But what did was having the “discovery”...

Set against the backdrop of complex geopolitical processes that are now taking place in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq, there are complex trends towards the creation of new states. Most importantly is the situation in Iraqi Kurdistan, where...

Unlike the terrorist offenses in Libya, Syria, and now Iraq, backed by the United States, the UK, the EU, members of NATO as well as regional collaborators such as Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Qatar, where any attempts to stop extremists from...

The Ukrainian crisis and attempts by the U.S. and its closest allies in the EU, mainly Poland and the Baltic countries, to preserve Ukraine as the main transit route for Russian gas to the EU, including its efforts to put a stop to the “South Stream” project...

Turkey once had an empire. It knows the Ottoman Empire will never return. But in order to be the big political player its recent economic success demands, it has to be head of some international alliance, the modern equivalent of having an...

On July 1, 2014, the Japanese Cabinet finally passed a new reinterpretation of Article 9 of the country’s constitution. It will now allow Japan to protect their allies from armed aggression as part of the collective self-defence principle. This thus opens...

Human Rights Watch (HRW released a long awaited report this week on the ongoing violence and killings of Shia Hazara Muslims in Pakistan. The report, entitled We are the Walking Dead: Killing of Shia Hazaras in Balochistan, Pakistan, details the continuing campaign of...

There are some political scientists and analysts who continue to view the current armed conflict in Iraq as a clash between Sunnis and Shiites, ignoring its political component and the regional dimension in the sense that through Iraq...

In recent weeks, intelligence agencies of France, Russia and Britain along with key members of the UN’s nuclear non-proliferation organization, the IAEA, have leaked critical documents outlining not only that 9/11 was a nuclear event but the science and...

Most people tend to take a neutral position in relation to the various parties who are embroiled in a conflict. Moreover, the very essence of neutrality can be of a different nature, i.e. one may walk past a street fight, stop and take a look or even attempt to intervene...

The latest events in Iraq have shined a spotlight on the unseemly role that Washington played when it threw all of its might on this defenceless nation, plunging its people into a fratricidal civil war while setting its political, social, economic and cultural...

Azerbaijan and its population of nine and a half million, sits along the western coast of the Caspian Sea, bordering Russia to its north, Iran to its south, and Georgia, Armenia, and Turkey to its west. Its geostrategic position alone makes it...