Global Affairs

Op-Ed blog

January 7, 2020

The Forgotten War: Genocide of the Yazidi people

While most of the world has not heard of the Yazidi, the Islamic State hunts them down for one specific reason: their religious beliefs….

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January 3, 2020

Why the killing of Qasem Soleimani isn’t war

Qasem Soleimani, who was the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force was killed in a US drone strike…

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Hostilities by nationals in foreign service

Over the past few years it has become evident that both Iraq and Syria have turned into failed states. The Islamic State (IS…

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November 23, 2019

Brexit and populism

This is a re-post of a blog post I did on own blog in 2016. Three years later and Brexit still hasn’t…

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October 4, 2019

PM Boris Johnson’s ‘new’ deal….again

While members of Parliament have been sparring for months over the deal Boris Johnson proposes to the European Union with Brexit, there…

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September 23, 2019

A history of violence; teaching a new generation how not to resolve conflicts

Back in 2016 I wrote the article below as a dire warning for the children that were being subjected to the Syrian…

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