NATO countries, Russia, Iran abandon Syria, its people and leadership while Israel laughs

NATO countries, Russia, Iran abandon Syria, its people and leadership while Israel laughs

The collective cynicism is ugly. The innocent Syrian people are now doomed. The author hopes that his predictions shall soon be proven wrong… Jan Oberg December 8, 2024 This article was published at 02:36, about 4 hours before the HTS terrorists occupied Damascus. • Lebanon-based al-Mayadeen reports tonight, December 8, 2024, that Russia, Iran, Turkey […]

NATO’s Imperialist March and Its Victims

NATO’s Imperialist March and Its Victims

Article by TFF Board member Professor Biljana Vankovska presented to the Russian Valdai Discussion Club Biljana Vankovska November 12, 2024 Here is the paper as published by the prestigious Valdai Discussion Club

How Blinken turned the diplomatic corps into a wing of the military

How Blinken turned the diplomatic corps into a wing of the military

In 2021 the administration said it would pursue ‘relentless diplomacy.’ They call it something else today in Ukraine. Ted Snider October 9, 2024 It is said that Henry Kissinger asserted that little can be won at the negotiating table that isn’t earned on the battlefield. In several wars in recent weeks, U.S. officials have echoed […]

Who Caused the Ukraine War?

Who Caused the Ukraine War?

John J. Mearsheimer Aug 05, 2024 The question of who is responsible for causing the Ukraine war has been a deeply contentious issue since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The answer to this question matters enormously because the war has been a disaster for a variety of reasons, the most important of which […]

NATO’s Civilian Bases

NATO’s Civilian Bases

Photo: NATO Joan Roelofs* July 25, 2024 Why has NATO been so generally accepted in Europe by almost all the major political parties and especially puzzling, the social democratic ones? Its economic costs, illegal aggressive wars, environmental damage, and the risks of nuclear annihilation would seem to make it a prime platform item. Well-informed political […]

Service in Dissent: Joint Statement of U.S. Government Officials Who Have Resigned over U.S. policy towards Gaza, Palestine, and Israel

Service in Dissent: Joint Statement of U.S. Government Officials Who Have Resigned over U.S. policy towards Gaza, Palestine, and Israel

July 4, 2024 “Each of us has had our own experience of the cascading failures of process, leadership, and decision-making that have characterized this Administration’s intransigent response to this continuing calamity. Taken together, these paint a picture of an overlapping and systemic set of problems in this Administration’s policy approach, and a series of warnings […]

On the Brink: The NATO-Russia Ukrainian War Comes to Europe

On the Brink: The NATO-Russia Ukrainian War Comes to Europe

Robert Rauschenberg, Untitled (Black Painting with Portal Form), 1952-53 (alternative orientation) San Francisco MOMA. Gordon Hahn June 4, 2024 The NATO-Russia Ukrainian war for and against NATO expansion, is on the brink of expanding to the NATO countries that provoked Russia to invade Ukraine on 24 February 2024 and have supported its continuation ever since, […]

World War III and The Grand Chessboard

World War III and The Grand Chessboard

John Jiggens May 20, 2023 Imagine being Tony Blinken and facing the arduous responsibility as US Secretary of State to rule the globe! This seems a daunting task, but fortunately, Blinken doesn’t have to strain his brain too much because he has a manual already written to instruct him. Originally published by “Pearls and Irritations” […]

War on Gaza: Western powers never believed in a rules-based order

War on Gaza: Western powers never believed in a rules-based order

Liberal democracies remain shamefully complicit with Israel, despite its ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people Richard FalkTFF Associate April 26, 2024 Students of world politics have long understood that when it comes to the strategic interests of leading states, international law is marginalised unless it is useful in waging a propaganda war against adversaries.  Indeed, […]

Weaknesses of the U.S. National Security Strategy 2022: Equating security with superiority in a “race to the top.” 11 parts.

Weaknesses of the U.S. National Security Strategy 2022: Equating security with superiority in a “race to the top.” 11 parts.

Kristin Christman TFF Associate March 12, 2024 A major publishing event in the field of security studies A unique and very thorough 11-part analysis of the US National Security Strategy from October 2022. Christman began publishing it at the beginning of May 2023. If you want to know what the United States is up to […]