Conflicts Forum analyses geo-politics & geo-financial shifts, with a focus on Middle East/West Asia. Includes commentaries by Alastair Crooke. @Conflicts Forum on Twitter; ALL other Twitter & Telegram accounts attributed to CF or Alastair Crooke are fake.
Graham Fuller's understanding of human, political, historical, and national dynamics across the Middle East is impressive, and always meaningful when he writes on current issues. He is among my all time top 5 analysts of the region, and I recommend him highly.
"Dysinfluence" - from Dys, meaning harmful, and influence - examines a critical evolution in digital manipulation - the strategic exploitation of influence systems to shape not just what people believe, but how they come to believe it.
Trita Parsi is the Executive VP of the Quincy Institute and an award-winning author. Washingtonian Magazine has named him one of the 25 most influential voices on foreign policy. Noam Chomsky calls him "one of the most distinguished scholars on Iran"