Open Dialogue Research Journal
The negotiations are a disaster from the start Special Ambassador Steve Witkoff no doubt talked to President Trump about the US-Iran meeting in Oman. We don’t have a special wiretap on his call to the President, but it is a sure bet Witkoff told the President things were going well […]
The long-running scandal surrounding the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has taken a new political turn, with former US President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton now agreeing to testify before a congressional committee. Their decision comes amid intensifying pressure from a Republican-led panel […]
The US dollar has entered its weakest phase in years, and President Donald Trump appears not only unfazed by the slide, but openly comfortable with it. His recent remarks dismissing concerns about the dollar’s decline have intensified market anxiety and reinforced the sense that the White House is willing to […]
The US’ retention of its nuclear superiority vis-à-vis China is non-negotiable, so it’ll either unilaterally maintain its existing edge outside of strategic arms control pacts or institutionalize it through a new such pact involving China. A global nuclear arms race is possible after Trump let the New START, the hitherto last remaining […]
What’s actually known about any Epstein-Putin contacts is that there weren’t any, but that Epstein persistently tried to contact Putin, as is shown in the Epstein files as was reported in the following excellent news-report from Sky News on February 5th: https://news.sky.com/story/i-still-would-like-to-meet-putin-epsteins-unrequited-love-for-russian-leader-13502862 https://archive.is/fc96P ANALYSIS ‘I still would like to meet […]
The attempted assassination of Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev in Moscow on February 6 has shaken Russia’s military and political establishment and reignited fierce debate about the true forces working to derail any diplomatic settlement of the Ukraine conflict. Shot three times from behind in the entrance of his own apartment […]
The latest release of millions of documents connected to Jeffrey Epstein has landed not with a single explosive revelation, but with a slow, sickening accumulation of details. Like financial collapse or institutional scandal, it followed a familiar pattern: first a trickle, then a flood. When the US Department of Justice […]
Jeffrey Epstein certainly got around. He moved virally, galloping through the cells of the establishment. What was more, he was permitted to. Dead and buried, the financier, convicted paedophile, sex trafficker, eugenics follower, and the man all in power would want to know, continues to ruin reputations, casting doubt on […]
On February 6, 2026, a shocking attack in Moscow sent ripples far beyond Russia’s capital. A gunman opened fire on Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev, the First Deputy Chief of Russia’s Main Directorate of the General Staff, as he was leaving his apartment. Multiple shots were fired at close range before […]
On February 6, 2026, Moscow was shaken by an assassination attempt on Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseev, First Deputy Chief of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (formerly GRU). An unidentified assailant ambushed him in the entrance hall—or, according to some reports, the elevator lobby […]
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