Kremlin Press Service Jul. 22 2016 Saudi Arabia will offer Russia access to the Gulf Cooperation Council Market and regional investment funds if it ends its support for the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, the Kingdom’s Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir said in an interview with the Politico.eu news website. Russia’s military intervention in Syria…
Dore Gold and Anwar Eshki shake hands at a CFR event, as Elliott Abrams looks on. July 25, 2016 While the Saudis and Israelis appear to be enemies, the two in fact agree on many regional issues and are the two biggest U.S. allies in the Middle East. A former senior Saudi military general traveled…
The Transition The intricate relationship between energy markets and our global financial system, can be traced back to the emergence of the petrodollar system in the 1970s, which was mainly driven by the rise of the United States as an economic and political superpower. For almost twenty years, the U.S. was the world’s only exporter…
The Houthis have beaten back and counter-invaded Saudi. US and the Gulf Arabs have responded with — listen this — a statement pleading that ‘the conflict in Yemen should not threaten Yemen’s neighbours’ Since March 2015 Saudi Arabia, with active help of the U.S., UK and UAE, is trying to subdue Yemen by force. Using…
July 20, 2016 By Vanessa Beeley It has been reported that Israel has recently, officially, committed to supporting the NATO backed Saudi Coalition war of aggression against Yemen. Importantly, Israel is imposing the condition that it has use of the Taiz air-base in the Red Sea. It is also being reported that Israel has another…
In the previous articles, we explored the origins of the sectarian ideology in the early days of Islam, the Khawarij. We also examined surge of the Wahhabi mission, a similar Takfiri ideology that originated in the 18th century, one that continues to live until this day through the support of different imperial powers, the British…
