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Nov 13 2023 
The Unspoken Elephant in the Room of Netanyahu’s Intent in Gaza
By Alastair Crooke and first posted at Strategic Culture
Is this punishment on Gaza’s civilian population, prompted by desire for vengeance? Or is it an outpouring of eschatological rage and determination?
The point about the Gaza crisis is that should everyone agree to stick their head in the sand and ignore the ‘elephant in the room’, it’s… Continue reading
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Nov 06 2023 
The Great Schism – Will It Be Quietly Ignored?
By Alastair Crooke and first posted at Strategic Culture
We must re-configure our thinking – onto the longer plane – to take account of the intrusion of shifting dimensions in consciousness.
Dominique De Villepin, former Prime Minister of France, who famously led France’s opposition to the Iraq war, recently described the term ‘Occidentalism’ (currently the prevalent sentiment… Continue reading -
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Jul 17 2023 
A Bonfire of the Vanities
By Alastair Crooke and first posted at Strategic Culture
Hubris consists in believing that a contrived narrative can, in and of itself, bring victory. It is a fantasy that has swept through the West – most emphatically since the 17th century. Recently, the Daily Telegraph published a ridiculous nine minute video purporting to show that ‘narratives… Continue reading
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Apr 15 2023 
We are Closening to a Move Through the Cycle – But First Will Come Disorder
By Alastair Crooke and republished from Strategic Culture
Is the collective West nearing the end of a cycle? Or are we still in mid-cycle? And could it be an epochal point of inflection?
The question posed at this point is: Is the collective West nearing the end of a cycle? Or are we still in mid-cycle? And… Continue reading
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Tectonic plates shifting: geo-politics & geo-finance
By Alastair Crooke and first posted at Strategic Culture
Managing the Ukraine Denial Narrative
Look around: the tectonic plates of geo-politics and geo-finance are shifting – shifting radically away from an increasingly flailing West.The inflection has begun. It has been messaged by the Financial Times (FT) and The Economist – the two media that so faithfully… Continue reading
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The Crux of the Putin-Xi Revolution
The Crux of the Putin-Xi Revolution for a New World Order – Arresting the Slide to Nihilism
Reprinted from Strategic Culture and within their framework: Republishing is welcomed with reference to Strategic Culture online journal www.strategic-culture.org.
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Ed. Note: This article by Alastair Crooke is one of the best that I have ever seen. The writing grabs the… Continue reading
