Events during the Obama administration probably point to the way things will work out again, if the attack on Syrian forces continues for more than a few weeks.

Sebastian Gorka is back.  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump last week named Gorka as the administration’s “terrorism czar” on the National Security Council.  Trump has made a series of disastrous appointments to his administration since his election on Nov. 5.  But this might be the worst.  Don’t remember Sebastian Gorka? 

The U.S. is playing with fire in Ukraine.

It was said at the time that Operation Cyclone was the most successful covert operation in CIA history. It involved sending over $2 billion in weapons to Muslim rebels in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan between 1982 and 1987.

The list of Trump’s team members is long, so let’s concentrate on a short list of “troika” candidates who deal with foreign affairs and national security.

We are experiencing times of global transition. Where we have been is self-evident. Where the world is headed remains obscure. Some states are implacably resisting that transition; others strive to foster a modified international system that conforms to emerging realities. The actions of governments in the two categories are reinforcing each other’s commitments to pursuing these incompatible tacks. There’s the rub.

Calling Trump’s DNI pick an ‘asset or a dupe’ has its roots in a long history of chilling anti-war speech

Theories, speculation and rumour have surrounded the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines since they were blown up in 2022. If, as seems very likely, the trail does not lead back to Moscow, then where does it lead?

The Euro Bytes hosts talk with former Soviet dissident Ed Lozansky, Founder and President of the American University in Moscow.

The war in Ukraine started in 2014, as both NATO’s Stoltenberg and Ukraine’s Zelensky have said. It was started in February 2014 by a U.S. coup which replaced thedemocraticallyelectedand neutralist Ukrainian President, with a U.S. selected and rabidly anti-Russian leader, who immediately imposed an ethnic-cleansing program to get rid of the residents in the regions that had voted overwhelmingly […]