RobPrince

Description - Ibrahim Kazerooni and Rob Prince - who started doing programs on the Middle East when both were associated at the University of Denver's Korbel School of International Studies then moved on for thirteen years to the monthly KGNU - Hemispheres - Middle East Dialogues (hosted by Jim Nelson) have now gone "free lance" and will continue with regular programming. Serious analysis ... and you can't beat the price! The upcoming program is on Israel's geostrategic dilemma: No one in the region is afraid of Israel anymore since its ill-conceived (and poorly carried out) summer, 2006 invasion of Lebanon to wipe out Hezbollah which failed, permanently shifting the balance of power in the region. Kazerooni and Prince look at the dilemma Israel finds itself in currently, as Prince notes "damned if it does, damned if it doesn't go to war"

Video analyzes the shift in Turkish policy from U.S. proxy to overthrow and partition Syria to multipolar regional player strengthening ties with China, Russia, Iran - and curtailing some of its neo-Ottoman ambitions to become Middle East overall powerbroker.

Syria has been welcomed back into the Arab League - an event of regional if not worldwide significance. Washington throws a tantrum

Just checking the system

Does the Russian invasion of Ukraine - provoked by NATO expansion among other factors - represent a challenge to the age of "liberal internationalism"?

Jeddah and Teheran

How is it that the United States finds itself in the center of the war in Ukraine, a country thousands of miles from our shores and, as some have noted, with very little to no strategic importance to U.S. global priorities? We need to remind our friends and audience of three factors that are at work here: a. the origins of U.S. interference in Ukraine b. the role of geography in the crisis c. the dynamics of how geography and U.S. geopolitical goals merge to form current U.S. Ukraine policy.

"We Stand With Ukraine" signs abound. Translation: "We Stand With NATO" NATO's Role, Goals in Russia's Special Military Operations in Ukraine. The second in a series... Photo: Schools Reopen in Mariupol