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Showing posts with label MENA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MENA. Show all posts
Sunday, September 1, 2019

"We will destroy Lebanon..." Michael Katz, MoD of Israel in Tweet yesterday — Col. W. Patrick Lang

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The IDF appears to have overcome its long-standing fear of "another 2006" and to be preparing for war against Hizbullah and indee...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

Zero Hedge — Iran Sanctions Fallout: China Takes Over French Share In Giant Iran Gas Project

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The world just got a lot more complicated. When it comes to the Middle East, China has not been shy about its recent ambitions to expand it...
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Monday, August 6, 2018

A "Tour d'horizon" of the ME — Lang's opinion

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Comprehensive update for those following MENA affairs. Sic Semper Tyrannis A "Tour d'horizon" of the ME - Lang's opinio...
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Monday, April 2, 2018

Emile Nakhleh — Inauspicious Anniversaries and Lessons Unlearned

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Sad story of American liberal interventionism putatively based on spreading freedom and democracy gone wrong in the Middle East, told by an...
Saturday, February 17, 2018

Viktor Katona — Russia Is Taking Over Syria’s Oil And Gas

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In accordance with an energy cooperation framework agreement signed in late January, Russia will have exclusive rights to produce oil and g...
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Monday, February 5, 2018

Bill Mitchell — The IMF and the Germans wreaking havoc in Northern Africa

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Some years ago, I started collecting information about the so-called Maghreb countries, which typically refers to the region spanned by Alg...
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Saturday, November 4, 2017

Moon of Alabama — Lebanon - Hariri's Resignation - The Opening Shot Of The Saudi War On Hizbullah

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More twists and turns in the snake pit. Here we go again. Yesterday [Lebanese Prime Minister] Hariri was visited in Beirut by Ali Velayat...
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Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Graham E. Fuller — Washington Does Have a Clear ME Policy—It’s Just the Wrong One

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What, then, is US policy in the Middle East—under Trump, Obama, Bush and Clinton (and even earlier)? When all the rhetoric has been stripp...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Kenny Hodgart — Turkish market crumbles as Erdogan overreaches

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This portends to have wide-reaching ramifications. Turkey is already on the outs with Germany, and now the US.  Is Turkey long for NA...
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Monday, July 10, 2017

Alastair Crooke — Trump and the New Mideast Paradox

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President Trump got excited over a Saudi-Israeli scheme to combat Iran, but Trump’s cooperation with Russian President Putin on Syria goes ...
Monday, December 12, 2016

RT — Israel will be ‘destroyed’ if Trump sparks war in Middle East – Iran defense minister

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The Iranian defense minister says Donald Trump’s election has led to "unease," and that any war with Iran caused by his administr...
Friday, December 9, 2016

Robert Parry — The Need to Hold Saudi Arabia Accountable

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Background that is important in light of Donald Trump's stance on Iran, as well as that of Lt. General Flynn, Trump's choice for Na...
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Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Philip Giraldi — Fake News Versus No News

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How Russia is pilloried while real news about Israel goes unreported The Unz Review Fake News Versus No News Philip Giraldi | Executive Di...
Saturday, November 26, 2016

Voltarie Network — Egypt supports the Iraqi, Libyan and Syrian armies

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Egypt comes out as being all in. Another poke in the eye of the globalizers. On November 23, 2016, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sis...
Saturday, October 15, 2016

Paul R. Pillar — US Escalates War Role in Yemen

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Backgrounder on doing more stupid stuff.  Pillar argues that the US has no national interest in Yemen. In spite of this US policy there i...
Saturday, October 1, 2016

RT — Direct aggression by US against Damascus to cause 'tectonic shift' in Middle East - Moscow

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“If the US launches a direct aggression against Damascus and the Syrian Army, it would cause a terrible, tectonic shift not only in the cou...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

John Helmer — The New Byzantine Alliance

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Monumental shift in geopolitical alignment shaping up. Russian sources are non-committal on what role US military and intelligence agencies...
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Sunday, April 3, 2016

Gordon M. Hahn — Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood Strategy, the ‘War’ Against Jihadism, and Russia’s Syria Intervention, Part 3: Obama’s America and Erdogan’s Turkey

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Backgrounder on Erdogan's Turkey. Flirting with the devil. Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood Strategy, the ‘War’ Against Jihadism, and Russ...

Ollie Richardson — Partitions, Coups, and Colonies: A Timeline for the Middle-East

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Backgrounder on colonialism and the Middle East. It' difficult to understand the present situation without knowing the history of the r...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Gregory R. Copley — Does The U.S. Have A Middle East Strategy Going Forward?

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But a closer examination of U.S. policies, now almost entirely dictated by the Obama White House, shows no cohesive national goals or polic...
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