As next in line to be king of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Nayef was unaccustomed to being told what to do. Then, one night in June, he was summoned to a palace in Mecca, held against his will and pressured for hours to give up his claim to the throne. By dawn, he had given […]
REPORT: Radical Islam in UK Funded by Public Donations…
A classified report found that radical Islamic groups in Britain are raising huge sums of money through public donations, the Government has revealed. “In some cases these organisations receive hundreds of thousands of pounds a year. This is the main source of their income. Those giving may not know or support the organisations’ full agenda,” […]
9/11 Families Consider Lawsuit Against UAE over Role in Attacks…
The families of hundreds of people killed in the 9/11 attacks are considering adding the United Arab Emirates as a defendant to a legal case against Saudi Arabia for its roles in the outrage, Middle East Eye can reveal. Nearly 3,000 people died when hijacked airplanes crashed into New York’s World Trade Centre, the Pentagon […]
The Technical Failure That Could Clear the Oil Glut in a Matter of Weeks…
OPEC exports have come under pressure this week from technical threats to oil fields, with Saudi Arabia’s Manifa problems grabbing the headlines. Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser, while addressing the World Petroleum Congress in Istanbul, stated that the outlook for oil supplies is “increasingly worrying”, due to a loss of $1 trillion ($1000 billion) in […]
Trump Energy Policy May Finally End the Rule of OPEC…
In November 2014 I wrote about the attack OPEC started on the American oil industry. Saudi Arabia said it wanted to put the American frackers out of business. Then-President Barack Obama did nothing. He was opposed to the oil industry and was more in favor of non-carbon based sources of energy. OPEC bet their countries’ […]
Egypt Blocked UN Sanctions Against Saudi Branch of Islamic State…
Egypt led a concerted effort to prevent the Saudi Arabian branch of Islamic State being added to a UN terrorism sanctions list, in what has been described as a “classic case” of Riyadh and its allies keeping its security problems away from prying eyes. The US had proposed that four IS affiliates in Saudi Arabia, […]
American as Exporter: Energy Superpower ‘Saudi America’ Has Been the World’s Largest Petroleum Producer for 26 Months in a Row…
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) released new data today on international energy production for the months of November and December 2014, and here are some highlights of that update: For the 26th month in a row starting in November 2012, “Saudi America” took the top spot again last December as the No. 1 petroleum producer […]
Former Clinton Foundation Donors Flocking To The McCain Institute…
With the Clinton Foundation standing at the heart of the many scandals that dogged Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 presidential campaign, it was no small wonder that donations to her family’s controversial charity began to dry up soon after her loss last November. Just weeks after the election, donations to the foundation from foreign governments plummeted, […]
David Ignatius’s ‘New Realism’ Column Is Dead Wrong, But Exposes a Huge Truth about the Age of Trump…
The Washington Post’s David Ignatius declared “The New Realism” has dawned Tuesday evening, in a column that’s wrong on both history and nature, yet still manages to illuminate an international phenomenon. “The politics of national self-interest,” he wrote, “is on steroids these days. For global leaders, it’s the ‘me’ moment. The nearly universal slogan among […]
How Obama’s CIA Armed Terrorists in Syria by Gareth Porter…
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