EDITORS—Former British diplomat Alastair Crooke examines the kind of foreign policy to be embraced by Donald Trump, especially in the Middle East, where his notorious hyper allegiance to the Zionist entity is liable to cause further tragedies and possibly an expansion of the war well beyond the region’s core borders. In West Asia, Trump may prove far less flexible than in Ukraine, but in both areas the heavy Neocon imprint will be felt on all parties, leaving little room for actual diplomacy.
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ALASTAIR CROOKE—John Kerry, just last week at the World Economic Forum, so clearly blurting out the truth: “Our First Amendment stands as a major block to our ability to be able to hammer [disinformation] out of existence”. Translated: Governing is all about narrative control. Kerry articulates the ‘International Order’s’ solution to the unwelcome phenomenon of an uncontrolled populism and of a potential leader who speaks for the people: Simply, ‘freedom to speak’ is unacceptable to the prescriptions agreed by the ‘inter-agency’ – the institutionalised distillation of the ‘International Order’.
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ALASTAIR CROOKE—The strategy of using Israel as the regional battering ram to achieve U.S. (imperial) objectives was worked out essentially in the 1960s by Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson. Jackson was nicknamed ‘the Senator from Boeing’ for his support for the military-industrial complex. And the military-industrial complex backed him to become chair of the Democratic National Committee.
