Open Dialogue Research Journal
For most of six years in Donald Trump’s orbit, Natalie Harp occupied a role that was essential but largely invisible to the public: the aide who followed him with a portable printer, fed him curated headlines, and drafted the social media posts that would later carry his name. That obscurity […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sCGF7gbwBc “The Suez Crisis stopped the British Empire. Will Hormuz defeat the US? | Laleh Khalili | Deja Vu” interview of Laleh Khalili, author of (2020) Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula and the even better (2025) Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy […]
There is very little information on CIA Director Ratcliffe’s visit to Moscow. Even so, there is enough information to make some observations. One reason for Ratcliffe’s visit was to warn Moscow about replacing the Kiev regime which, Washington fears, may be on the verge of collapse. The idea of a […]
When Donald Trump ordered strikes on Iran alongside Israel, he framed the operation as swift and decisive – a war measured in weeks, not months. Eight months later, that promise has become the single clearest liability of his second term. A Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed Monday put Trump’s approval rating […]
Introduction and Update This is a very detailed article. First published on January 24, 2025, four days after the inauguration of the Trump Presidency. It documents very carefully a chapter in our recent history which has not been the object of debate in the House of Commons, nor coverage by […]
The conflict with Iran continues to deliver its mean shocks to an increasingly doddering US imperium. Depleted munitions, depleted stocks of goodwill and, it would seem, a disruption in resupplying warships operating in the Middle East, have become dents in a struggling war machine. This month, the aircraft carrier USS […]
Eight bombs fell on the runways and hangars of the Abu al-Duhur air base in northern Syria early Tuesday morning, and within hours the incident had done something more consequential than damage a single airstrip: it pulled three of Washington’s closest Middle East partners – Israel, Turkey, and Syria’s new […]
For more than seventy years, one fact has quietly defined the US-South Korea alliance: if war ever resumed on the peninsula, an American four-star general – not a Korean one – would direct South Korea’s own troops. That arrangement, born of the 1950-53 Korean War and never fully undone, is […]
Sixty days – that was the window the June memorandum of understanding gave Washington and Tehran to turn a fragile lull into a lasting peace. The clock ran out on Monday, August 17, and instead of a deal, the two sides produced the opposite: a senior Iranian official told Reuters […]
On Sunday evening, just hours before the annual US-South Korea “Ulchi Freedom Shield” exercises were set to begin, Donald Trump issued an order to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to significantly scale back US participation. In his Truth Social post, he wrote: “Given my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un […]
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