Category: Middle East
Thai-Cambodian Conflict Threatens Asian Stability by Design
Brian Berletic, December 15, 2025
Renewed fighting along the Thai–Cambodian border in December highlights how local disputes in Southeast Asia are increasingly shaped by broader great-power strategies aimed at constraining China’s rise.
Thai-Cambodian Conflict Threatens Asian Stability by Design (archived)
Trump’s new national security strategy: 5 key takeaways +
More on the US National Security Strategy paper…
Here are Sputnik’s questions and my full answers regarding the recently released US National Security Strategy document below – I will also be doing an article/video this coming week…
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Lena Bloch and the Echo of Marina Tsvetaeva: A Dialogue Across Time
“‘Gen Z’ Mobs Strike Again – Target Mexico”
“Gen Z” Mobs Strike Again – Target Mexico – Evidence So Far of Who is Behind it US NED-funded media like “Animal Politico” and US NED “Democracy Award” winner and former Mexican president/millionaire Vicente Fox are openly promoting the protests “organized” on mainly US-based social media platforms – as per VERIFIED US-engineered color revolutions elsewhere this year including Nepal, and dating all the way back to the so-called “Arab Spring” in 2011. The US destabilizing Mexico amid impending war on Venezuela in South America would reflect Washington’s acceleration toward, not “retreat” from its pursuit of GLOBAL hegemony – Latin America being located on the globe along with Africa, the Middle East, and Eurasia…
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It’s Here: The Neocon Reader


The book arrived yesterday in solid shape—still wrapped in its library cover, barcode intact. I ordered a bookmark for it too.
The Pentagon’s IPO for War: Now With 100% More Cowbell
The Pentagon’s acquisition system is being overhauled into a “Warfighting Acquisition System,” turbocharging weapons production, slashing bureaucracy, and empowering officials to deliver arms at “wartime speed.” Portfolio Acquisition Executives now wield sweeping authority, startups are courted like prom queens, and the defense industrial base is being rebranded as Silicon Valley with missiles.
So much for the “peace president”—Trump’s arsenal of freedom looks more like an IPO for war, where venture capital meets missile launchers and bureaucrats cosplay as battlefield commanders.
Forging the Arsenal of Freedom
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Empathy in the Empire: Challenging Misconceptions of Islam and the Middle East
Nailing the neocon myth [Excerpts from The Neocon Reader]

Nailing the neocon myth (excerpt from “Neoconservatism” edited by Irwin Stelzer aka “The Neocon Reader”)
Read More »Taiwan Wants To Be the Israel of Asia (And Steal Your Tax Dollars)

Taiwan Wants To Be the Israel of Asia (And Steal Your Tax Dollars)
Israel and Taiwan are “Goliaths” in their neighborhoods of the world due to support from the United States. In contrast, the “Davids” are the people of the United States robbed by foreign powers and groups, like the Palestinians, slaughtered by Washington-funded proxies. Until the US is truly free from the influence of foreign lobbyists and the self-imposed responsibility of policing the globe, the American people will never be free. Those who claim to be non-interventionists or “America First” should oppose making Taiwan the Israel of the South China Sea.
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Why Zelensky’s Dream of Ukraine Becoming ‘Big Israel’ Makes Moscow Nervous
The US-backed NED candidate Willy Lie from the NED-backed party won

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