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If The Saudi Arabia Situation Doesn’t Worry You, You’re Not Paying Attention
If The Saudi Arabia Situation Doesn’t Worry You, You’re Not Paying Attention A key geopolitical axis is swiftly shifting While turbulent during the best of times, gigantic waves of change are now sweeping across the Middle East. The magnitude is such that the impact on the global price of oil, as well as world markets, […]
Things Are Escalating Quickly
Things Are Escalating Quickly I didn’t spend all week writing about the gigantic tremors occurring in the Middle East because I thought it was fun. If I’m even remotely correct in my analysis, the entire world will be affected and shaped for decades to come by what’s about to go down in the region. Rather […]
The End of “The End of History” – U.S. Mid-East Policy’s Fork in the Road
The End of “The End of History” – U.S. Mid-East Policy’s Fork in the Road In 1989 Francis Fukayama declared that we had reached “The End of History.” Democracy as a form of government would, in fact, be the end of the evolution of human interaction. The West had triumphed and that the rest was ‘just […]
How Saudi Arabia Sows Instability
How Saudi Arabia Sows Instability U.S. propaganda claims Iran causes Mideast instability, but the truth is that Saudi Arabia – from backing Islamic extremists to blockading and bombing Yemen – is the real culprit, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar explains. The anachronistic family enterprise known as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has long been […]
The U.S. and Saudi Arabia Are About to Make More Disastrous and Idiotic Mistakes – Part 2
The U.S. and Saudi Arabia Are About to Make More Disastrous and Idiotic Mistakes – Part 2 In Part 1 of this series, I detailed the recent aggressive power plays initiated by 30-something Saudi princeling Mohamed bin Salman (MBS), who is effectively the absolute leader of Saudi Arabia at this time. I also highlighted how […]
The U.S. and Saudi Arabia Are About to Make More Disastrous and Idiotic Mistakes – Part 1
The U.S. and Saudi Arabia Are About to Make More Disastrous and Idiotic Mistakes – Part 1 Many of Donald Trump’s core supporters are not particularly keen on Saudi Arabia, and for very good reasons. Candidate Trump exploited this sentiment on the campaign trail, often tweeting in populist terms when it came to the barbaric […]
Is Saudi Arabia Heading For War With Iran?
Is Saudi Arabia Heading For War With Iran? Is a major war in the Middle East looming on the horizon? Most of us living in the western world simply do not realize how much Saudi Arabia and Iran truly hate one another. Saudi Arabia is the global center for Sunni Islam, and Iran is the […]
Oil Jumps To $56, Highest Since July 2015 On Saudi Turmoil, Venezuela Default
Oil Jumps To $56, Highest Since July 2015 On Saudi Turmoil, Venezuela Default With the launch of electronic trading, WTI crude has jumped from the highest close since July 2015 amid Saudi turmoil which over the weekend included a crackdown on 11 Saudi princes – including billionaire Alwaleed – and dozens of current and former […]
Another Gulf Crisis: Dinar Devaluation Looms As Bahrain Begs Neighbors For Bailout
Another Gulf Crisis: Dinar Devaluation Looms As Bahrain Begs Neighbors For Bailout Despite the recent rise in oil prices, all is not well among the allies in the Gulf. The ‘pegged-to-the-dollar’ Bharaini Dinar has tumbled in the last few days as Bloomberg reports the nation has asked Gulf Arab allies for financial assistance as it […]
US Tries to Stir Up Trouble for Iran
US Tries to Stir Up Trouble for Iran As President Trump’s foreign policy falls deeply under the Israeli-Saudi spell, his Mideast diplomats are stirring up conflict against Iran and drawing a rebuke from Iraq, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar explains. In Iraq, as in Syria, the imminent extinguishing of the mini-state of the so-called […]
Are Our Mideast Wars Forever?
Are Our Mideast Wars Forever? “The Kurds have no friends but the mountains,” is an old lament. Last week, it must have been very much on Kurdish minds. As their U.S. allies watched, the Kurdish peshmerga fighters were run out of Kirkuk and all the territory they had captured fighting ISIS alongside the Americans. The […]
A New Oil Crisis Is Developing In The Middle East
A New Oil Crisis Is Developing In The Middle East After over 40 years in the energy business, more than two decades of that with a parallel career in intelligence, I regularly witness the impact of global developments on the energy markets. So it’s hardly surprising that I often address geopolitical events here. Currently, situations […]
Half A Million Bpd At Risk From Geopolitical Firestorm
Half A Million Bpd At Risk From Geopolitical Firestorm It’s been a long time since geopolitical developments caused major movements in the oil price, but the escalating tension between the U.S. and Iran, combined with the sudden military clashes in Iraq, has pushed geopolitical risk back on to the agenda for the oil market. “Geopolitical […]
War with Iran Was Planned Decades Ago
War with Iran Was Planned Decades Ago Last night, as I reflected on my recent three-part series filled with bold predictions, I began to question whether or not I was being too negative. Upon hearing Trump’s Iran speech today, I became convinced that everything I wrote had merit. The speech was downright terrifying, serving to […]
