The World in 2017: Under-Employed, Under-Inclusive and Under Threat
Economic inequality, societal polarization and intensifying environmental dangers are the top three trends that will shape global developments over the next 10 years, the...
The US intelligence and President Donald Trump
Everyone should or could carry out influence actions and operations or, if the situation is favourable, each country could even interfere with or intrude...
Cashing in on Counterterrorism: The Kuveyt-Turk Participation Bank Case
On June 13, St. Francis Assisi, a California-based nonprofit mutual benefit corporation, on behalf of Assyrian Christians, filed a complaint in the Northern District...
Anxiety in Ankara: Assassination, Geopolitics, and Democracy in Turkey
On December 19, 2016, the Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, was assassinated by Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, an off-duty police officer, in Ankara during...
The curious case of a Russian hacking
Ever since Donald Trump won the elections, the Democrats who have been (or ‘were’) very magnanimous about the fact they would accept the election...
Manufactured Bogeyman: Trump, Mainstream Media, and Russian Hacking
The current America media coverage in the West on the Russian-hacking scandal has largely been used to further portray President-elect Donald Trump as either...
THAAD MAD BAD, Pt. IV: Great Power Geostrategic Play in the South China Sea
T here is a fascinating interplay that goes on today on the global level when it comes to foreign affairs. On the...
Additional considerations on the Uyghur issue
X injiang is the leverage for China's future strategic destabilization. In fact, while we can see a shift of the US strategic...
The US Intelligence Community and President-Elect Donald Trump Needs Philip Giraldi
T here’s something to be said for nominating a Central Intelligence Agency (“CIA”) Director who actually knows and understands how to do...
Novel attempts to launch sectarian war in Afghanistan
S ectarian warfare is not a very new issue in the Islamic world because for decades Saudi-Arabia and Iran have had the...