Leaked Documents Expose Stunning Plan to Wage Financial War on Qatar — and Steal the World Cup

Leaked Documents Expose Stunning Plan to Wage Financial War on Qatar — and Steal the World Cup

A plan for the United Arab Emirates to wage financial war against its Gulf rival Qatar was found in the task folder of an email account belonging to UAE Ambassador to the United States Yousef al-Otaiba and subsequently obtained by The Intercept. The economic warfare involved an attack on Qatar’s currency using bond and derivatives…

Passports for Sale: How Storm-Hit Caribbean Islands Court Arab Investors

Passports for Sale: How Storm-Hit Caribbean Islands Court Arab Investors

Caribbean states devastated by recent hurricanes are selling citizenship to Middle Eastern investors to raise funds to help their recovery. But some officials warn that the islands’ rival schemes have fuelled a “race to the bottom” in which prized passports are being handed out cheaply. Islands badly hit by last month’s storms included Dominica, where…

U.S. Hegemony in the Arabian Peninsula and the Secret War Against Yemen

U.S. Hegemony in the Arabian Peninsula and the Secret War Against Yemen

In March of 2015, Saudi Arabia and their allies launched an airstrike campaign along with a full-scale military intervention and occupation of Yemen with the goal of propping up the Saudi-backed puppet government of President Hadi after revolutionary forces took control of Yemen’s capital. The World’s War Against Yemen In the past 900 plus days,…

Leaked UAE Emails: Saudi Arabia Came Close to ‘Conquering’ Qatar

Leaked UAE Emails: Saudi Arabia Came Close to ‘Conquering’ Qatar

Saudi Arabia came close to “conquering” Qatar, according to a recent email purportedly sent by the Emirati ambassador to the US, Yousef al-Otaiba. The claim came in a new batch of leaked emails, released online overnight on Wednesday, by an unknown party. In a May 2017 email thread with former US diplomat Elliot Abrams, Otaiba…

F***in’ Coo Coo’: UAE Envoy Mocks Saudi Leadership in Leaked Email

F***in’ Coo Coo’: UAE Envoy Mocks Saudi Leadership in Leaked Email

The UAE’s ambassador to Washington described Saudi Arabia’s leadership as “f***in’ coo coo!”, in one of a series of leaked emails that suggest years of Emirati frustration with Riyadh’s old regime that has coalesced into a clear strategy to usurp it by bolstering the rise of the young Mohammed bin Salman. The messages, obtained by Middle…

WikiLeaks: Riyadh Flirts with Tel Aviv Through Normalisation

WikiLeaks: Riyadh Flirts with Tel Aviv Through Normalisation

A “highly classified” press release by the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which was published by WikiLeaks, reveals the level of rapprochement between Riyadh and Tel Aviv. Saudi Arabia initiated discussions on the issue of normalization with Israel and the 2002 Saudi peace initiative that was adopted by the Arab League at the Beirut Summit…