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Trump’s strategy against Russia and China

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 2 November 2018

The war in Syria has shown that when it comes to conventional weapons, the US Armed Forces are no longer the top dog. Russia is now in control. Moscow has brought a new resource onto the war pitch: the most recent generation of hypersonic nuclear carriers. This introduction should see Russia (...)

Xi Jinping: the Geo-Economic Emperor with a 15 year head start

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 4 November 2017

While the Western Press mocks the Grand Mass of the Chinese Communist Party’s Congress, Alfredo Jalife is taking President Xi’s announcements very seriously. Far from comparing him to an emperor, Jalife sees him as one of the senior officials that have made China “millénaire”. Jalife observes how (...)

Brexit coincides with India’s and Pakistan’s entry into the SCO

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 2 July 2016

Professor Alfredo Jalife-Rahme, reputed to be a leading Latin American expert in geopolitics considers that the UK exiting the EU at the same time India and Pakistan become members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (OCS) is an acid test, proving that the world is alive. De-globalization (...)

From the "Yinon Plan" to the "Ya’alon Strategy"

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 24 November 2014

While the United States on the one hand, and France and Turkey on the other, are trying to reshape the Levant in their own way, Alfredo Jalife-Rahme highlights the continuity between the 1982 Oded Yinon Plan and Moshe Ya’alon’s present-day strategy. While endorsing the vision of both plans, (...)

What do wars in Ukraine, Gaza, Syria and Libya have in common ?

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 8 August 2014

For Mexican geopolitical expert, Alfredo Jalife-Rahme, the simultaneity of the events illuminates their meaning: soon after announcing the creation of an alternative to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, that is to say the dollar, Russia is having to face at the same time the (...)

Ukraine Crisis Accelerating the Restructuring of the World

by Pierre Charasse

Mexico City (Mexico) | 30 April 2014

The Ukrainian crisis has not radically changed the international situation but it has precipitated ongoing developments. Western propaganda, which has never been stronger, especially hides the reality of Western decline to the populations of NATO, but has no further effect on political reality. (...)

Hugo Chávez, The Poor Boy from Sabaneta

by Luis Hernández Navarro

Mexico City (Mexico) | 8 March 2013

Hugo Chávez was a character of flesh and blood taken from the most imaginative novel of Gabriel García Márquez. A poor boy from Sabaneta (capital of the state of Barinas) who swore not to betray his infancy of deprivation and scarcity, he learnt very quickly to sow and to sell sweets. Son of (...)