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Saudis Intercept Houthi Ballistic Missile Targeting Riyadh Royal Palace
Saudis Intercept Houthi Ballistic Missile Targeting Riyadh Royal Palace For the third time in roughly seven weeks, Houthi rebels have fired a ballistic missile into Saudi Arabia, according to a spokesperson. This time, the target was al-Yamamah palace in the Saudi capital, Riyadh. US President Donald Trump notably held meetings with the Saudi king at […]
What’s Really Going On in Saudi Arabia
What’s Really Going On in Saudi Arabia “Trump Says Saudi Elites Caught In Anti-Corruption Probe Were ‘Milking’ Kingdom For Years.” This is just nonsense from Trump. Corruption is and has been everywhere in Saudi Arabia. How else could it be with all the countless billions changing hands in a fairly closed society? So, it is […]
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 […]
Kingdom Of Fear: Saudi Arabia On Lockdown
Kingdom Of Fear: Saudi Arabia On Lockdown Events in Saudi Arabia are unfolding at a blinding pace, with a radical shift taking place within the upper echelons of government. Last weekend, King Salman announced the set-up of a special anti-corruption force that wasted no time in rounding up more than a dozen government officials—both former […]
Saudi Arabia Orders Its Citizens To Leave Lebanon Immediately
Saudi Arabia Orders Its Citizens To Leave Lebanon Immediately In a odd coincidence, just moments after we published an article laying out Hezbollah’s military power at a time when both Saudi Arabia and Lebanon appear to be targeting Lebanon, and just two days after we discussed a leaked Israeli cable that confirmed Saudi Arabia and […]
Saudis Call Missile Attack “Blatant Act Of Aggression” By Iran, “Could Be Considered Act Of War”
Saudis Call Missile Attack “Blatant Act Of Aggression” By Iran, “Could Be Considered Act Of War” War is coming… This weekend’s chaos in the middle east just got considerably more serious. Yesterday we detailed reports that the Saudis intercepted a ballistic missile over the nation’s capital Riyadh… At the time, Al Jazeera reported that Yemen’s […]
Lebanon Plunges Into Crisis After Premier Resigns, Fearing Assassination Plot
Lebanon Plunges Into Crisis After Premier Resigns, Fearing Assassination Plot The Lebanese Prime Minister, Saad al-Hariri, unexpectedly resigned on Saturday, saying in a fiery televised broadcast from Saudi Arabia that he feared for his life while also fiercely criticizing Iran. According to regional analysts, the move has “plunged Lebanon into crisis” amid heightened regional tensions. […]
How US Helps Al Qaeda in Yemen
How US Helps Al Qaeda in Yemen Exclusive: The Obama administration, eager to assuage Saudi Arabia’s anger over the Iran nuclear deal and the failure to achieve “regime change” in Syria, has turned a blind eye to Riyadh’s savaging of Yemen, even though that is helping Al Qaeda militants expand their territory, writes Jonathan Marshall. For […]
What Could Go Wrong? Saudis Want To Give Surface-To-Air Missiles To Syrian Rebels
What Could Go Wrong? Saudis Want To Give Surface-To-Air Missiles To Syrian Rebels When the Russians started flying from Latakia on September 30 it put the Syrian opposition in a decisively precarious situation. Whereas the Syrian air force was largely out of date and relied on replacement parts and continual maintenance to remain viable, Moscow […]
John Kerry Makes Last Ditch Effort To Avert World War III As Saudis, Turks Prepare For Syria Invasion
John Kerry Makes Last Ditch Effort To Avert World War III As Saudis, Turks Prepare For Syria Invasion Tomorrow, John Kerry will meet Sergei Lavrov and several of his other counterparts from Europe and the Mid-East in Munich in a last ditch effort to revive Syrian peace talks, which fell apart amid an intense Russian […]
Venezuela fails to persuade Saudis to cut oil production
Venezuela fails to persuade Saudis to cut oil production Meeting called ‘successful,’ but no word of agreement to help boost prices AFP/Getty ImagesVenezuela’s minister of petroleum and mining, Eulogio Del Pino, seen in December. DUBAI — Saudi oil minister Ali al-Naimi met with his Venezuelan counterpart on Sunday but didn’t announce any plans for the […]
Saudi Arabia Conducted 119 Airstrikes Against Civilian Targets In Yemen, UN Panel Finds
Saudi Arabia Conducted 119 Airstrikes Against Civilian Targets In Yemen, UN Panel Finds In March, Saudi Arabia’s air campaign in Yemen will enter its second year. Riyadh began flying combat missions last year in an effort to rollback the Iran-backed militiamen who drove Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi into exile. The results of the […]
Stocks Slump After Saudis Threaten Nukes Against “Nefarious” Iran
Stocks Slump After Saudis Threaten Nukes Against “Nefarious” Iran Earlier this month, a black swan landed in the Mid-East when Saudi Arabia executed prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr along with 46 other “terrorists.” Most of those executed were not Shiites but that didn’t matter. Al-Nimr was a key voice among Saudi Arabia’s dissident Shiite minority […]
Saudi Devaluation Odds Highest In 20 Years, Kingdom Now More Likely To Default Than Portugal
Saudi Devaluation Odds Highest In 20 Years, Kingdom Now More Likely To Default Than Portugal On Monday, we brought you “Saudi Default, Devaluation Odds Spike As Mid-East Careens Into Chaos,” in which we outlined the jump in riyal forwards and widening of CDS spreads that Riyadh witnessed in the aftermath of the kingdom’s move to […]
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 […]
