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One Map That Explains the Dangerous Saudi-Iranian Conflict
One Map That Explains the Dangerous Saudi-Iranian Conflict The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia executed Shiite Muslim cleric Nimr al-Nimr on Saturday. Hours later, Iranian protestors set fire to the Saudi embassy in Tehran. On Sunday, the Saudi government, which considers itself the guardian of Sunni Islam, cut diplomatic ties with Iran, which is a Shiite Muslim […]
Enough Already! It’s Time To Send The Despicable House Of Saud To The Dustbin Of History
Enough Already! It’s Time To Send The Despicable House Of Saud To The Dustbin Of History The attached column by Pat Buchanan could not be more spot on. It slices through the misbegotten assumption that Saudi Arabia is our ally and that the safety and security of the citizens of Lincoln NE, Spokane WA and […]
We Need to Talk About Saudi Arabia
We Need to Talk About Saudi Arabia Canadians may decry its executions and power moves, but we’re locked in an alliance. Iranians protest executions outside the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Tehran, Jan. 3, 2016. Raheb Homavanti, Reuters Media Express. Dealing with Saudi Arabia is becoming a mug’s game for almost everyone in the West — […]
North Korea claims fully successful ‘miniaturized hydrogen bomb’ test
North Korea claims fully successful ‘miniaturized hydrogen bomb’ test North Korean leader Kim Jong Un © Kyodo / Reuters North Korea has announced it has successfully tested a miniaturized hydrogen bomb following an “artificial seismic event” that has likely become the country’s fourth known nuclear test. In a “special and important” announcement at noon, North Korean TV […]
The Deceptive Debate Over What Causes Terrorism Against the West
The Deceptive Debate Over What Causes Terrorism Against the West Ever since members of the UK Labour Party in September elected Jeremy Corbyn as party leader by a landslide, British political and media elites have acted as though their stately manors have been invaded by hordes of gauche, marauding serfs. They have waged a relentless and undisguised […]
My Financial Road Map For 2016
My Financial Road Map For 2016 Happy New Year to All! May 2016 bring peace to you and your loved ones. Over the holidays, I had the opportunity to stay away from airports and hike Runyon Canyon with my dogs. For those of you that have never traversed Runyon’s peaks and dips, they are nature’s respite […]
Time to Start Paying Attention: Why Saudi Arabia Might Pull the US into Another War
Time to Start Paying Attention: Why Saudi Arabia Might Pull the US into Another War (ANTIMEDIA) After Saudi Arabia executed prominent Shi’ite cleric, Sheikh Nimr Baqr al-Nimr, and 46 other people, protesters stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran on Saturday, ransacking and setting fire to the building and its contents. In a surprise response the following day, Saudi Arabia announced […]
US Enabled Saudi Arabia’s Crackdown on Pro-Democracy Protesters
US Enabled Saudi Arabia’s Crackdown on Pro-Democracy Protesters Just days before Saudi Arabia performed a mass execution of 47 people, including four pro-democracy protesters; the US approved tens of millions in military contracts to the Saudi government. The contracts include $24 million to Raytheon Company for equipment relating to Patriot missiles, $12 million to Advanced Electronics Co. for electronics […]
How Obama Enables Atrocities
How Obama Enables Atrocities Exclusive: President Obama seems so scared of offending the Saudis and their Israeli allies that he will tolerate almost any outrage, including Saudi Arabia’s mass beheadings and/or shootings of the regime’s enemies including a Shiite political leader who dared criticize the monarchy, writes Robert Parry. As the New Year dawns, the neocons and […]
Can the UK Survive Brexit?
Can the UK Survive Brexit? LONDON – The upcoming referendum on the United Kingdom’s continued membership in the European Union, almost certain to be held this year, could turn out to be yet another major catastrophe to hit Europe. If, as seems increasingly plausible, British voters chose to leave, the result would be a profoundly […]
The American Empire: Murder Inc.
The American Empire: Murder Inc. As Indonesia’s former President Suharto lay ill in 2008, a supporter displayed a portrait of him outside the Jakarta hospital where the military dictator died two weeks later. It was in Suharto’s brutal three-decade reign that Indonesia invaded East Timor, where investigative journalist Allan Nairn covered atrocities the general’s […]
2016 Theme #2: the Hollow Shell of Democracy
2016 Theme #2: the Hollow Shell of Democracy This week I am addressing themes I see playing out in 2016. A number of systemic, structural forces are intersecting in 2016. One is the hollowing out of democracy globally. Democracy has three distinct states of being: formal, in actual practice and informal. Nations that claim the mantle […]
Saudi Arabia’s Gruesome Provocation
Saudi Arabia’s Gruesome Provocation Saudi Arabia’s execution of a prominent political leader of the monarchy’s Shiite minority has worsened Mideast tensions and is forcing the Obama administration to decide if there are any limits to the outrages that the longtime U.S. “ally” may commit, as Trita Parsi explains. There should be little doubt that Saudi Arabia wanted […]
The Europe Question in 2016
The Europe Question in 2016 NEW YORK – At the cusp of the new year, we face a world in which geopolitical and geo-economic risks are multiplying. Most of the Middle East is ablaze, stoking speculation that a long Sunni-Shia war (like Europe’s Thirty Years’ War between Catholics and Protestants) could be at hand. China’s […]
From Baghdad to Bahrain…From Beruit to Tehran – Tensions Are Exploding Across the Middle East
From Baghdad to Bahrain…From Beruit to Tehran – Tensions Are Exploding Across the Middle East Either the rebel prince succeeds in convincing enough people who matter to remove the King, or the King counters and drives the prince out. The former situation is far and away the best option for stability in the Middle East, […]
