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Open Letter to Global Geopolitics

Dear GG, You write that the International Criminal Court represents the most ambitious effort in history to create a permanent international tribunal capable of prosecuting genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. Your statement,...

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Open Letter to Global Geopolitics

President Trump Declares ‘Economic D-Day,’ Threatening Crippling Sanctions for Dealing with Iran and wants China to join America in its mission. It makes sense. Both China and USA jealous and worried at the same time. The two countries are the most affected...

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OPEN LETTER to Global GeoPolitics

Your article on the "Backfire" of war between Ukraine and Russia explains and demonstrates to perfection why I called one of my books "The Game of War". Wars are really the Sport of "Death and Destruction" 99% of the world population has to endure so that...

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Open Letter to Global GeoPolitics

Dear GG, WELL DONE!!!!! Your piece on “How Liberal Ideology Conceals the Dictatorship of Capital and the Class War That Defines Our World” is spot on. I would now like you to write an article on “How the Ideology of Democracy and Diplomacy Conceals the Dictatorship of...

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Open Letter to Global GeoPolitics

AMERICAN AND OTHER "WAR PLANNERS" Your article, GG, states "American planners confidently predicted the America-Iran war would conclude within four to six weeks," What a laughable lot these planners are! or they are all ignorant of the War Machinery. To me it has...

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Open Letter to Transcend Media Services

Howard Zinn is dead right; definitely every single person of the nearly one quarter of a million killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was killed unnecessarily. But also unnecessarily killed were the other 67 million people. The 37 million who died in WWI were also killed...

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Open Letter to Global Geopolitics

  Why, dear GG, do you beat about the bush? why do you feel the need to transform a business into a political narrative? the war in Ukraine, you´re dead right here, is not about territorial integrity, national self-determination, or the defence of democratic...

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Open Letter to Global GeoPolitics

GG, please don't forget that striking drones, no matter where they strike, no matter who dies, are a commercial necessity. Manufacturers' only way of advertising their products exists when politicians order their slaves (Armed Forces) to show the world - especially to...

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Open Letter to Global GeoPolitics

I understand the 'logic of demolition' because the war industry cannot 'build´anything, except the wealth of some individuals. From tiny bullets to gargantuan warships, everything the war industry produces is for demolishing, human, animal and green life. It destroys...

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Open Letter to Global GeoPolitics

TIT FOR TAT Russia Threatens Reciprocal Ship Seizures as Warship Maintains Permanent Channel Presence Logical steps by Mr Putin. He plays the 'child' role he´s paid for. Presidents and Prime Ministers have to play, like children, the 'tit for tat' game. Alberto...

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OPEN LETTER to Global GeoPolitics

THE YEN CRISIS The yen crisis is the fault of the Japanese government, for accepting to do what America wants them to do: to become another military power and to allow the US to have military bases in Japan. This destroyed the thriving Japanese economy. Thriving...

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OPEN LETTER to Global GeoPolitics

Dear GG, The Strategic Logic of American Energy Warfare and the Destruction of Global Stability could no be put into practice "without" the active cooperation of all other countries involved in the process. This is why we have the United Nations, created to "disunite"...

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OPEN LETTER to Professor Alicia Cabezudo

Alicia Cabezudo sent me an article about the veteran Brazilian politician and diplomat Celso Amorim, where he claims that Peace and Development go together, are indissoluble. At 84 years old, Celso Amorim is still as hypocritical as his younger colleagues, criticizing...

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OPEN LETTER to GlobalGeopolitics

GG, I understand that with GeoPolitics in your name, you write about politics, but "The Rules-Based Order Was Never Meant to Apply to Its Architects" exists well before politics and politicians exist. Well before Politics we have Religion. Religions teach that killing...

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OPEN LETTER to Global GeoPolitics

Dear GG, With your article "The Iran War Is Expanding Into a Regional Conflict", you confirm that things are going very well and according to plan. This is exactly what the war industry planned and needs, and their agents - politicians - are very willing to cooperate....

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OPEN LETTER to Global Geopolitics

The Iran-US war that never was Very interesting GG, you say that in his interview, the "Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi provided a sweeping account of the 40-day war" To me, more importantly, Mr Araghchi provided a sweeping account of how the Game of War was...

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OPEN LETTER to Global GeoPolitics

Ten Wounded as Ukraine Launches Largest Drone Raid on Moscow in Years As you all know, the military personnel, as slaves of their government cannot fire a single shot without politicians' orders. It seems to me that the only way we can live in Peace is to remove all...

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Open Letter to Global GeoPolitics

Global GeoPolitics, everything you say it happened is true, but we differ in the interpretation of those events. True that the confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz is not an isolated incident but another chapter in a continuous, decades-long war. But I disagree with...

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OPEN LETTER to Global GeoPolitics

The Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev rejecting further military aid to Ukraine and calling for a diplomatic solution to the war. This means Mr Radev either lives in cuckooland or that he is, like so many politicians, a hypocrite, a well trained "diplomat". Prime...

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OPEN LETTER to Global GeoPolitics

Dear GG, it seems you believe UN diplomats and politicians care about people's wellbeing! all the inconveniences, expenditure, housing, education, health and employment problems, cost of living, environmental pollution, homelessness and other humanitarian crisis...

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OPEN LETTER to Global GeoPolitics

GG, your analysis of US Senator Lindsey Graham's death and possible causes is excellent. However, saying "....since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022" is extremely inaccurate and misleading. Of course, in games of wars, the country commissioned to start...

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OPEN LETTER to Yasmeen Ali, Director of Pakpotpourri

My reply to the question "who leads the war racket?" There are no leaders. The War Business is a permanent competition between countries with a war industry. I give you one example, but you can use it to all conflicts in the world. During the very violent years of the...

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OPEN LETTER to Global GeoPolitics

GG, I'm afraid, in this particular instance, you misinterpret political/diplomatic/military/Media language. NATO’s narrative of Ukrainian victory is spot on. Ukraine is the star country for NATO. Thanks to Ukraine and its puppet president, NATO chiefs have managed to...

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OPEN LETTER

Your article, GG. is misleading. You report that "Moscow tells Berlin to stop arming Kiev instead of preaching peace". But Germany is not arming Kiev. Germany is selling arms to Kiev, like they sell to other countries and like many other countries sell artillery to...

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A very well-researched and enlightening article

Two Fronts, One Strategic Architecture By global geopolitics on July 10, 2026 How RAND’s Russia strategy and Brookings’ Iran strategy were written into the wars that followed RAND Corporation is not an independent commentator sitting outside the American state. It is...

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PD

PD ALL wars are 'proxy' wars, for those who fight them are only following orders. They have to fight against, torture, kill, people they've never met, people who've done nothing to them personally. The people who actually 'make' war, are men and women sitting in an...

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OPEN LETTER to Global GeoPolitics

Dear GG, what matters is not 'who' finances wars or 'who' procures weapons. All countries have their 'weapon programmes', even countries 'without' a war industry. The war business is not about 'manufacturing', it is about buying and selling. It is natural that...

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OPEN LETTER to Conflict and Resilience Monitor

On 1–2 August 2026, Heads of State will gather in Luanda, Angola for an Extraordinary Summit of the African Union (AU) on Strengthening Mechanisms for Conflict Prevention and Resolution in Africa. THIS MEANS WE CAN CONFIDENTLY EXPECT MORE CONFLICTS, WARS, VIOLENCE,...

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OPEN LETTER to Global GeoPolitics

GG, your analysis of the American economy as affected by military spending is correct from a conventional point of view. However, in real terms, that is the "reality", is different. In times of crisis, medical research, Health in general, Hospitals, education,...

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Open Letter to Global GeoPolitics

UNIVERSITY VERSUS LUCRATIVE CAREERS For a well paid and many-perk career, it is better to become a professional government slave and murderer; that is, join a branch of the Armed Forces and go on killing and destruction rampages whenever politicians' orders come. If...

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Open Letter

For you GG, the dispute between Estonia and the European Shooting Confederation (ESC) "shows how international competitions have become entangled with the geopolitical stance against Russia by the West." I'd invite you to study the history of sport, analyse the...

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Open Letter to Bitter Truth

Middle East Ceasefire or a Bigger War? You contribute to the 'bigger war' you do NOTHING to eliminate the war industry and the Armed Forces. Politicians have the obligations to ensure the industries products are sold and used. That is the ONLY way the Death and...

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OPEN LETTER

GG, your excellent article "America’s Terrorist Pipeline For War with China" is the best way of showing the world what I've been saying for decades: without politicians, without governments, we would not have Terrorism. They control everything, mercenary armies,...

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OPEN LETTER to Global GeoPolitics

GG, I'm truly surprised you don't know who rules America! It's been ruled for decades, like many other countries, by the war industry and subsidiary institutions, like Banks, Media, oil companies, etc. HUFUD Founder & President https://hufud.org/...

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OPEN LETTER to Pope Leo XIV.

  London 5th of July 2026. Your Holiness, in the speech you gave yesterday in Lampedusa, Italy, you said "Europe should work towards creating a world where nobody is forced to emigrate". Don't you know that Europe, like America, Africa, Asia and Oceania have...

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OPEN LETTER

GG, thank you for your article on what you call "Three theatres – Iran, Ukraine, and now the Philippines – one recurring pattern of escalation dressed as restraint". I understand your message and analysis, but I would like to add the three countries you discuss do not...

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OPEN LETTER to Global GeoPolitics

Why do you say "Information Space Has Become the Decisive Battleground of 21st-Century Conflict" only? all wars of the 20th Century were also based on false information specifically designed to mislead populations. And this practice applies not only to the United...

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The effects of the war industry

This Month in African Military Profiles West Africa's coastal states in focus The Sahel insurgency continues its southward spread Maritime security and counter-insurgency dominate defence priorities Modernisation efforts challenged by structural constraints West...

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SOUTH AFRICA

  Demonstrators have worn traditional Zulu attire. (Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu via Getty Images) CYRIL RAMAPHOSAMASS IMMIGRATIONSOUTH AFRICA    Wessie du Toit 27 JUN 2026 - 12:10AM 7 MINS As Britain reacted to an eruption of anti-migrant violence in Belfast earlier...

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OPEN LETTER

GG, your reasoning is 100% correct and what we have to remember is that, with different words, the Defense Planning Guidance document articulates the same ideas - and orders - that forty five years earlier, the late US president Dwight Eisenhower 'dictated' in his...

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OPEN LETTER

The Racket That Never Sleeps 2 GG, your description war, as you analyse Major General Smedley Butler's thoughts on the subject, is faultless. However the Alternative to war, as suggested by Margaret Mead is not so accurate. Ms Mead says "The greatest obstacle to peace...

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OPEN LETTER

Yes GG, you are right, war is a racket, but don't blame the organisers of war (politicians, governments) or the war industry itself. They are all doing their job, fulfilling their duties. Blame brainwashed humanity, who blindly or passively accept militarism. You ,...

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Open Letter to Global GeoPolitic

WAR GAMES We read “Russia attacked Ukraine” and “Ukraine attacked Russia”, but the truth is that both countries attack each other, and this is how it was agreed to happen. Politicians are not stupid. Why would they spend billions in the “attack” industry and on...

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OPEN LETTER to Global GeoPolitics

GG, your analysis is correct, the American and Israeli military campaign against Iran was straightforward: sustained aerial bombardment, but I think you you miss one point: Iran was prepared for what happened, as with all armed conflicts, everything was negotiated in...

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OPEN LETTER to Win Without War

My reaction after reading WWW's article "This amendment is key to how we cut the Pentagon budget — and it’s being debated NOW" Working families struggling to put food on the table, pay their bills, and cover high gas prices do not result from Trump’s war on Iran but...

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OPEN LETTER to The Mizrachi Perspective

Day 99: no agreement, no compromise with the colonizers, ever There is agreement!!! the agreement to fight. Without war agreements there would be no fighting. Politicians have slaves (Armed Forces) at their disposal and train them to fight, torture, kill, die, destroy...

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OPEN LETTER to Global Geopolitics

Everything you write in your excellent analytical article “Everyone Wants to Be Great Again” is accurate, but the most important words, the most meaningful message is in the subtitle of the piece: “The Putin–Xi Multipolar Declaration, the Data Behind It, and Why...

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Open Letter to Global Geopolitics

USA identifying China as the primary systemic competitor, means nothing in reality. Competition is a healthy activity, very stimulating and most productive.   In fact, USA and China have an all-round excellent business arrangement, with China being the largest -...

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Open Letter to NPR (National Public Radio)

Why do you say "the Iran War"? the war involves many countries. Firstly USA and Israel, then all countries selling military paraphernalia to all three countries and the war supremo, who watches and supervises all wars in the world, the obedient UN 'Secretary' General....

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Open Letter to Global Geopolitics

I very much hope Global Geopolitics continues and increases the education of its readers. 99% of the readers believe that diplomats are paid to betray their own country, without asking themselves why are these people called 'diplomats' in the first place.   A...

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Open Letter to Global Geopolitics

Why the "Ukraine War"? it is the "Russia-Ukraine" war, the lethal and destructive game agreed between the the two governments. Russia politely gave Ukraine the months requested by the smaller country to increase the number of fighters, desperately training innocent...

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Open Letter to the Mizrachi Perspective

Hello Alon,   Sorry that I don't become a paid reader of you rants, but I don't learn anything from what you say, despite you telling us the truth..   All negotiations to prevent war are "false". They have to be. The gullible world still believe the War...

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Letter to World Press

To me, the Architecture of Power is very visible!   Your "transnational oligarchs" can be people born in the poorest homes. Your "class interest" are in reality 'money or business interests'. There are hundreds of such people who are totally illiterate, who've...

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Open Letter to Global Geopolitics

All of this, financial losses, market breakdown, Economic contraction, energy disruption, inflation, rising debt costs is what governments generated in the thirties in order to produce WWII. As people accept the immorality of war and the war industry, politicians have...

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Open Letter to Pulse of Israel

Jews were not in Israel 5,000 years ago. They invaded, slaughtered and occupied the lands they claim. It's ALL in the Tannach, one of the bloodiest books ever written.   When the Ottomans invaded, around the 9th century, Jews didn't fight back, they left.  ...

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Letters to Think BRICS and to David Milliband

Bombs NEVER replace Bridges! bombs destroy bridges. This is exactly what they are made for. I oppose bombs (and all killing toys), so I have the right to complain about their manufacturing and trade. But anybody who accepts Militarism. that is the War Industry and the...

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Open Letter to Global Geopolitics

The more I read this GG article on the Gulf States, Israel and Iran, the more I understand why politicians who read my books agree with the title I gave them: "The Game of War" and "$$$$$s In Their Hearts" Alberto Portugheis HUFUD Founder & President

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Open Letter to Think BRICS

To me, BRICS or no BRICS makes no difference at all to humanity. The moment BRICS countries accept the waste of billions in Armed Forces, War industry and wars, they are the same as non-BRICS countries. Their economy, as well as that of their citizens will NEVER...

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Open Letter to Global Geopolitics

Everything is running smoothly according to plan, to the sinister plan of the war industry, who uses governments, all of them protected by the war supremo, (right now his name is Antonio Guterres, but it is the job of anybody called UN "Secretary" General)....

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Open letter to Global Geopolitics

Sometimes I feel this article is about criticizing the United States of America than about the truth. Targeted political assassination are practiced by many governments.   As to what Harry S. Truman said, that 'ultimate accountability in matters of state rests...

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United for Peace Conference

No To War, Yes to Peace: A Global Call to End Wars and Militarism   Time and Date:   Thursday   26 March, 2026   18:00 - 20:00 (UK Time)       To register for this event, please reply this email or use Eventbrite:...

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Message to Global Geopolitics

Peace will come when politicians in Iran, Israel and USA - and all countries with Armed Forces - stop benefiting financially.   NEVER forget "war is a racket"

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Open Letter to Global Geopolitics

" Unprovoked Iran Conflict"??????? Iran, like USA and the rest of the world play their role as members of the war club UN VERY WELL. Do you think Iranian politicians have nothing better to do with money than keep huge Armed Forces, buy thousands of missiles and...

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Letter to?

The Iran war is not failing. Wars are a 'racket' and one of the reasons governments involved do everything they can to promote them and make them last as long as possible.   The war industry supports politicians and political parties that support them....

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Open Letter to Think BRICS

BRICS is interested in "oil prices, fuels global inflation, reshaping, economic power balances". People dying in this futile and immoral wars doesn't seem to bother them.  

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Open letter to Global Security

GS "U.S. approves arms sales to 3 Mideast allies amid conflict with Iran"   AP This title should be "U.S. approves arms sales to 3 Mideast allies FOR THE conflict with Iran"   This is necessary to ensure the conflict escalates smoothly.   We shouldn't...

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Open Letter to Global Geopolitics

All Wars Are "Bankers" Wars is only partly true. There are many other 'beneficiaries'. Bankers are necessary, same as they are for al Business. The Merchants of Death (military manufacturers) need Bankers. Thee oil companies too.   The Banking System may be "A...

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Open Letter to Think BRICS

TB: The far-Right won the elections in Chile due to the failure of what was supposed to be the most Left-wing government since Allende   AP: And if the Left had won the elections, we could have said "The Left came to power in Chile due to the failure of what was...

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Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi

With all my admiration for Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi, I think that he makes the same mistake as most analysts and commentator. Why does he discuss only "Western" influence in global politics. Does he not know that the world is one and that "global politics"...

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Published in Global Geopolitics

I have lived for 85 years amid Infrastructure Warfare, Energy Market and Global Economic Shock, so I'm not surprised things haven't changed. It could NEVER be any different way, whilst the world believes we need the obscene and immoral industry of Death &...

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Open Letter to Kevork Almassian Newsletter

Kevork, " Gulf countries, Israel, South East Asia, Africa, Latin America, all built their security doctrine on the assumption that American military protection is the ultimate insurance policy."   They were all stupid, ignorant, gullible politicians, economists,...

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Open Letter to the Kevork Almassian Newsletter

Of course Ali Larijani was not a battlefield commander, but that doesn't matter in war games, which by the way, Iranian politicians and military involved in buying more missiles are enjoying very much (juicy commissions, $$$$$$$. What matters is to do anything that...

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Open Letter to Global Geopolitics

Why "miscalculation"? this article gives the impression that GG believes governments care about the economy! why would politicians care about high prices, inflation, cost of living, financial crisis, poverty hunger, etc. ?   Thanks to humanity accepting a...

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Open Letter to Think BRICS

Instead of 'striking back', China should use old Chinese wisdom and discuss the matter diplomatically with the Panamanian authorities over long first class meals and make Panama see the many 'disadvantages' their attitude causes to the small - but very beautiful -...

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Open Letter to Global GeoPolitics

Yes, that is the correct starting point for analysing the recent pattern of aircraft losses, using GG reasoning and is perfectly valid.   However, there is another equally valid 'starting point', the economic one. In my long life, I've never seen politicians pay...

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GG at the beginning stands for Global Geopolitics. A.

I read and read GG's comment "America Is Losing in the Middle East And Fast, Decades of Military Might, Gone in Days", and I wish I could find the way of making everybody understand that wars are not about losing or winning. Wars are a racket. War are the dirtiest,...

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Open Letter, to Global Geopolitics

Open Letter, to Global Geopolitic   Professor Sayed Mohammad Marandi is wrong in saying ‘Iran is not interested in negotiating with Trump". Iran and US have already negotiated with America long ago. With the US and the United Nations. In 1979 they agreed to play...

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OPEN LETTER TO A ZLICKEZINE GROUP

War Is a Racket - And So Is the State Because it cannot be any other way. War and State are one. Only the State has the right to have Armed Forces. Only the state has the right to concoct, negotiate and carry out wars. Even private, mercenary armies are hired by the...

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Open letter to Kevort Almassian Newsletter

Kevork, As an 85-year old Latin American, I've lived through many dictatorships. I also lived seven years in Switzerland, the most sophisticated dictatorship of them all. I can assure you Democracy does not exist. Nobody gave the 'Right' to governments to kill 37...

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Letter in Global Geopolitics

"Security First", that is weapons, militarism, the Armed Forces, are a business. That is, they have has nothing to do with Communism, Socialism, Liberal Democracy, Conservatism or any other political tendency. Money has no political colours  

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