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Thursday, April 2, 2015

Caleb Maupin — Revolutionary Yemen Faces Wall Street-Saudi Attack


What's really happening in Yemen. It's more complicated than the US media is reporting according to Maupin — part of Arab Spring and related to Occupy. Before getting into the situation in Yemen, first, he reviews Saudi Arabi as a key US ally.

While he US talks a good game of supporting democracy, the reality is that US foreign policy is based on geopolicy and geostrategy that is grounded in controlling territory, sea lanes, airspace, and vital resources like energy, which are considered essential to "national security" and "national interests." Why else would the US be supporting repressive, authoritarian and totalitarian Saudi Arabia? It's certainly not to support democracy.

New Eastern Outlook
Revolutionary Yemen Faces Wall Street-Saudi Attack
Caleb Maupin, a political analyst and activist based in New York; studied political science at Baldwin-Wallace College and was inspired and involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”
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6 comments:

  1. Dan LynchApril 2, 2015 at 9:25 PM

    US support for S.A. dates back to the 1976 "Doha Agreement" iron out by Kissinger, in which S.A. agreed to moderate oil prices in return for the U.S. propping up the Saudi regime.

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  2. Tom HickeyApril 2, 2015 at 9:37 PM

    Realpolitik. The has practiced it since. It is not compatible with liberal democracy and results in double-speak aka hypocrisy. Who believes that the US is actually a supporter of democracy while underwriting the Saudis and even kissing up to them. It's transparent for the world to see.

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  3. Jose GuilhermeApril 2, 2015 at 11:39 PM

    It all started way before 1976, on February 14, 1945 - the day FDR met King Abdul Aziz aboard the USS Quincy, over the waters of Egypt´s Great Bitter Lake.

    A thorough description of this meeting, where Roosevelt "gave the king the famous promise that would become the cornerstone of U.S. policy on Palestine for the next two years, until his successor, Harry S Truman, repudiated it by endorsing the partition of Palestine by the United
    Nations"     can be found here:

    http://www.ameu.org/getattachment/51ee4866-95c1-4603-b0dd-e16d2d49fcbc/The-Day-FDR-Met-Saudi-Arabia-Ibn-Saud.aspx

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  4. IgnacioApril 3, 2015 at 6:07 AM

    The evil alliance between wahhabists and the US government since the mid of the XXth century is what has created the chaos in the region.

    And still does... ISIS, a creation of the US State Dept, DoD and CIA.

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  5. Matt FrankoApril 3, 2015 at 7:06 AM

    We have to get off of oil....

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  6. Tom HickeyApril 3, 2015 at 12:01 PM

    @ Jose

    Thanks for the link. It's a must-read.

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