The “Georgian Dream” Coalition Begins to Fall Apart
Billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, not holding any public office in Georgia, continues to play a huge role in the social life of the country. He said that he was disappointed by President Giorgi Margvelashvili and stopped to communicate with him...
Ukrainian Events seen through the Lens of Arab Media
In response to the events in Ukraine the Arab media outlets have published a wide array of analytical materials that explored the exacerbated crisis and the international aspect of it. Concerning the causes of turmoil in Ukraine, the Egyptian newspaper...
Death of Georgian PM Zurab Zhvania: was it murder?
Very few people in Georgia have ever believed the official version of the death of former Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania. The first version that he had been killed toxic fumes is now universally rejected. Undaunted, the Saakashvili government came out with...
Beware the Sheep with Fangs
Starting to heat up the Internet (well, at least in Russia and Eastern Ukraine, while likely not even to be acknowledged in Western Europe) is a hacked telephone call last week between the former Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council Nestor Shufrich and the former Prime Minister, recently-freed-from-prison, media darling Yulia Tymoshenko. The recording, which lasts just over two minutes...
Ukraine's Ku Klux Klan - NATO's New Ally
Naturally, the common people don't want war ...but it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked...
The Financial Elite and the Global Land Grab
The global financial crisis, which began in 2008, has significantly altered the way many speculators and financial institutions invest. Rather than taking huge risks with dodgy derivatives like credit default swaps and mortgage-backed...
US Forsakes Gay Saudi Diplomat: A Story of Western Hypocrisy
While human right crusades are dominated by headlines involving the "homophobic" Russian government and tales of homosexuals being strung up across Iran, there is a larger...
Oman-Iran: preconditions for the creation of a new union
Oman-Iran relations are seeing a remarkable recovery in the last few months. Recently Oman was paid an official government visit by an Iranian delegation led by President Hassan Rouhani. This visit is very important for the Persian Gulf Region. This is the first...
Results of the first year of Park Geun-hye's presidency
It has been a year since Park Geun-hye became President of the Republic of Korea (RK. Although the year was spent in expectations and personnel changes that are so typical for South-Korean politics, some preliminary assessments can be made. Normally, one or...
Turmoil in Turkey and Washington's Short Leash
Protests began in Turkey in May of 2013, allegedly over the government's plans to develop a park in Istanbul. While the Western media attempted to portray the growing unrest as "grassroots" and leaderless in fact, the opposition Republican People’s Party...
Flight 370: Another US Conspiracy?
On March 13, 2014 Veterans Today said they could prove Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 was “on the ground.” The mainstream media had sighted wreckage but families were calling passengers on the “downed jet” and those phones were ringing, an impossibility...
U.S. Foreign Policy: between Primarism and Retrenchmentism
A year ago there was held a remarkable discussion on this topic in the International Security Journal. It touched upon the “general line” of American Foreign Policy, which is often referred to in the U.S.A. as the “Great Strategy”. The topic itself...