International Conflict, Western World Threats and Geopolitical Intelligence
Tensions between the US and Turkey are growing as Ankara considers attacking PKK bases in northern Iraq and a congressional committee in Washington pushes forward a resolution calling the World war I massacre of Armenians “genocide.” German commentators are concerned at the deteriorating relations between the NATO allies. more…
Pursuing the PKK: Turkey Prepares for Incursions [...]
If we do not take this path, then a major war will disrupt the Middle East very soon, and we will all lose what we hold dear: the Iranian people will lose their lives, their land and their history; the West will lose its energy and the vital trade links with all the promise they [...]
I have written a couple of essays regarding the Greek impact on the rise of modern science, and why the Scientific Revolution didn’t happen in the Islamic world. I find this to be an interesting topic, especially since there are so many myths regarding this perpetrated by Muslims and their apologists today, so I will [...]
SCO: Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. Led by China
CST: Collective Security Treaty. Led by Russia
* New alliance seeks cooperation not confrontation with the West
DUSHANBE: A Russia-led defence alliance signed an agreement on Friday to link up with a China-headed security body, but both sides denied they were challenging the Western alliance, NATO.
The agreement, signed in the Tajik [...]
A’jad put the message explicitly in his peroration, i.e., his summary and conclusion.
“I officially declare that the age of relations arising from the Second World war as well as materialistic thought based on arrogance and domination is now over.” (italics added)
Translation: The West, and particularly the United States, emerged dominant [...]
After more than a decade of turmoil following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia is again asserting itself on the international stage. In a three-part series, National Post reporter Peter Goodspeed will examine the ways in which Russia is moving to reclaim its former status as a great power, and the consequences for Canada [...]
An Interview with Paul Kennedy
Paul Kennedy is the J. Richardson Dilworth professor of history, the Brady-Johnson distinguished fellow in grand strategy, and the director of the International Security Studies program at Yale University. His books include The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict From 1500 to 2000.
In the International [...]
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian bear is showing its claws again, but how sharp are they?
President Vladimir Putin has rattled the West with a wave of dramatic military announcements redolent of the Cold War.
Long-range Russian bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons are back on flying patrol around the world, prompting NATO fighters to scramble in [...]
The Russian-Western relationship has hit rock-bottom. We’re not talking about a temporary spat any more. Following a succession of escalating tensions - Kosovo, disarmament, energy security, “frozen conflicts” in Eurasia, encroachments on American airspace - the partnership that the West and Russia have been trying to forge for 15 years is in a deep crisis.
Many [...]
A new Cold war between Russia and the United States seems to be breaking out in all earnest. Who will be the ultimate victor in this war?
– (Karaganov) — It’s not a Cold war - just increasing competition between Russian and the USA, or between Russia and Europe. I think the competition between Russia and [...]
What is the significance of “Peace Mission 2007″ - the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) exercise now under way at the Chebarkulsk training ground in Chelyabinsk, Russia - and the summit that will follow in Bishkek?
Is the SCO, which consists of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, on the verge of being transformed into a [...]
Russia should abandon its “confrontational” rhetoric and join the Western allies to combat the common threats of terrorism and failed states, the secretary-general of Nato said yesterday.
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, the former Dutch foreign minister who has led the organisation since 2004, told The Daily Telegraph that “nobody wants a new Cold War, neither the [...]
Viktor Kremenyuk, deputy director of the Institute of USA and Canada Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told AP this week that Moscow is at a critical point in its history, trying to decide what role to play in global affairs.
The nation, he said, stands between three “elephants” — Europe, with the world’s strongest [...]
Western apologist literature has convinced and confused readers, including those in America’s Defense intelligentsia, that Jihad is not as lethal as it is. FSM Contributing Editor Dr. Walid Phares opens our eyes to the stunning successes of this enemy’s disinformation campaigns.
In the 1990’s, apologist literature attempted to convince readers and audiences in the West [...]
Have you noticed that those who try to resist the hysteria of multiculturalism are immediately stigmatized as racists, red necks, chauvinists or fascists? FSM Contributing Editor Philip Atkinson’s piercing analysis implicitly suggests that Western culture may be in decline.
Muslims, the traditional enemy of Christians, are allowed to become citizens of Australia, a Christian country, because [...]
OVER THE LAST few years, the world has watched jihadist assassinations on the streets of Amsterdam, civilian slaughter in Madrid and on the London Underground, France’s car-and-vanities bonfire, and the global assault on Denmark after one of its newspapers dared to depict the Prophet Muhammad in a derogatory cartoon. For ordinary Europeans who pride ourselves [...]
Tailoring foreign policy to the Beijing Olympics
CHINA’S foreign policy, usually vilified in the West for its brazen mixture of commercial self-interest and callous disregard for even the most basic human rights, has been enjoying better press lately. Ahead of its great global coming-out party next year, the Beijing Olympics, China seems to be more concerned [...]
Terrorists appear to have understood that boldness at the right moment brings rewards
in their asymmetrical war against Western civilization. FSM Contributing Editor Col. Ken Allard (US Army Ret.) writes an explosively sardonic commentary, ridiculing our faint-hearted warfare.
I respectfully greet the Supreme Council of the Grand Ayatollahs, gratefully acknowledging their request that I, the Revolutionary Guards [...]
Britain’s relationship with its Muslim community is not getting any easier. Many Muslims want to build mosques, schools, and adhere to Islamic dress codes with ever more energy. But that energy also derives from the same culture and accompanying institutions that produced British-born suicide bombers. The space in which to argue that Islam is an [...]
Angered by western ‘imperialism’ and emboldened by soaring oil riches, the Russian bear is growling again. Sunday Times reporters analyse the new threat from the east and explain why it cannot be ignored.
“We expect more respect for our national interests,†Fedotov said. “The very notion of friendship in international relations is very subjective. If it [...]
During an extended interview with Western and Russian journalists before this week’s G-8 summit in Germany, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that if U.S. missile defense elements are deployed in Europe, “We will be forced to take adequate steps in response.” Putin elaborated: “New targets will appear in Europe. The systems that may be [...]
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