Developments during Secretary of State Blinken’s visit to Saudi Arabia fit with growing speculations about the Gulf Cooperation Council becoming more autonomous of the U.S., writes Abdul Rahman.
Blinken’s Failed Saudi Visit
Category: Middle East
Netanyahu Promoting Armed Intifada in West Bank
By satisfying an extremist religious constituency, Ramzy Baroud says the prime minister is turning Israel into a country with leaders determined to institute a religious war.
AS`AD AbuKHALIL: Soros in the Arab World
Imagine if a Chinese billionaire were funding a political message in Western societies the way Open Society is doing in Arab countries.
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Free Will Trumps Determinism in the Gulf
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US Occupiers Lash Out as Syria War Draws to an End
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BP Extracted £15 Billion of Iraqi Oil After British Invasion
Shell, the other U.K. “super-major” oil company, also re-entered Iraq in 2009 after an invasion in 2003 that was widely denounced at the time as a war-for-oil on the part of the U.S. and U.K., Matt Kennard reports.
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The politicians and shills in the media who orchestrated 20 years of military debacles in the Middle East, and who seek a world dominated by U.S. power, must be held accountable for their crimes.