Security & Conflict
CTBT: A Growing Challenge
With the end of the mutual deterrence between east and the west, and with the nuclearisation of South Asia, number of serious efforts were...
The end of the US-Russian agreement on plutonium
On October 3 last the Russian Federation suspended the agreement reached in 2000 with the United States to downblend the bilateral surplus plutonium for...
The current Syrian issue
In spite of confidentiality, which is obvious in these cases, President Obama’s plan for Syria was announced a few days ago. Firstly, the secret...
The ceasefire in force in Syria as from September 12, 2016
On Saturday, September 10, between Geneva and Munich, the traditional venues for the numberless negotiations on war in Syria, the US State Secretary, John...
Additional ideas on the new role played by OSCE
Germany, especially through his Minister for Foreign Affairs Steinmeier, has long been saying to the Atlantic Alliance that a change of strategy towards the...
The strategic nature of the US bombings in Libya
Although some US military decision-makers have recently said that the air raids on Sirte are to be considered "purely tactical" - as also General...
The intelligence war in Syria
As Aeschylus said, “in war, truth is the first casualty”. However, every civilization has its own truth or rather its "myth of truth", just...
Enemy at the Gates
Although terrorism has never been isolated to one continent, one country or one ideology, before September 11th 2001, terrorism was not a high priority...
The Surreptitious Reincarnation of COINTELPRO with the COPS Gang-Stalking Program
In 1975 Senator Frank Church convened a joint senatorial/congressional inquiry into the egregious human rights and civil liberties violations of the Central Intelligence Agency...
Trump wrong … again – This time on suicide bombing
That perception is prelude to reality is implicit. We believe it in our bones. But it is not always so, particularly in the case...