The Bali Bombings
This reports examines the 2002 Bali bombings in Indonesia, focusing on the roles played by Indonesian and western intelligence agencies.
Breaking Yugoslavia
This report examines the roles played by Western International Financial Institutions (IFIs), intelligence agencies, militaries and strategic interests in the break up of the Yugoslav Republic.
MI5 & the IRA
This report examines the role played by British intelligence and the British Army in collusion with the IRA and other paramilitary terrorist organizations; supplying weapons and explosives, allowing bombings to go forward and even committing murder in the name of “fighting terror.”
Can Syria’s Five Seas Vision Be Revived?
The plan could overhaul regional connectivity in the Middle East, but it’s not without its geopolitical risks.
Canada Defense Spending: A “Fire-proof House” under Threat?
The combination of internal pressure from defense-minded voters and external pressure from NATO allies is spurring Ottawa forward on defense spending. And though the 2% NATO target will remain elusive over the short term, a paradigm shift may be in-the-making.
EU Salzburg Summit Sinks May’s Latest Brexit Plan
The demise of Prime Minister May’s Chequers plan increases the odds of a hard Brexit.
Israel and Iran: Growing Tensions
Iran’s nuclear program has put it on a collision course with the United States and Israel as both countries reject Iran’s insistence that the program is for peaceful civilian purposes.
Operation Gladio
Through NATO, working with various Western European intelligence agencies, the CIA set up a network of stay behind “secret armies” which were responsible for dozens of terrorist atrocities across Western Europe over decades.
BRIC Countries: Energy Security Report
This report is the first in an annual series that aims to explore the global energy supply situation.
Extraordinary Rendition
Since the early 1990s, the United States government has been operating a program to forcibly seize suspected terrorists in foreign countries and transfer them to a 3rd state without the knowledge or consent of the host country. This practice is known as extraordinary rendition.