The sudden reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Qatar has enormous implications for the War in Syria and beyond, with the potential to divide the Mideast and North Africa between rulers Abdullah and Thani in a more far-reaching way than Sykes and Picot did nearly 100 years ago. Saudi Arabia and […]
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Modern and Ancient Parallels of Arabian Aristocracy
“So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.” William James Durant (a prolific American writer, historian, and philosopher known for the 11-volume The Story of Civilization, written in collaboration with his wife Ariel Durant and published […]
The Caliph fit to join OPEC
Islamic State leader Caliph Ibrahim – aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – never ceases to amaze us – and most of all his powerful petrodollar-stuffed backers. The Caliph is for all practical purposes now an oil major worth of membership of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). His takfiri/mercenary goons […]
Middle East: The Regional Chessboard
PRELUDE ‘When the rich get richer they get more powerful and that puts them in the position to lobby for policies that make them richer still’ – former Clinton advisor Larry Summers. It is not the intent here to get into specific details about the Middle East which is of […]
Saudi Arabia’s “Stalingrad”
The problems of Islamic countries have long been high on the agenda of global politics and the international media. The crisis there continues to grow, drawing in new countries and regions. If it reaches Saudi Arabia – the most influential country in the Arab world – what then? Will the […]
Bandar Bush, ‘Liberator’ of Syria
Talk about The Comeback Spy. Prince Bandar bin Sultan, aka Bandar Bush (for Dubya he was like family), spectacularly resurfaced after one year in speculation-drenched limbo (was he or was he not dead, following an assassination attempt in July 2012). And he was back in the limelight no less than […]
Portraying Fathers of the Syrian Revolution
During the whole of the “Arab Spring” and the Syrian war in particular, the Arab press has kept the actions of the emir of Qatar, Saudi Arabia’s royal family and the leader’s of Israel and Turkey in their crosshairs. When confronted with the published facts, it is possible to believe […]
Islamic Centre: KSA’s Strategic Move on the Afghan Chessboard
Afghanistan is an ideal springboard and battleground for the spread of Saudi Sunni Wahhabism and Iranian Shiite fundamentalism throughout Central Asia; especially out towards the former Soviet breakaway nations that are hungry for any teaching necessary to fill the failed Bolshevik indoctrination vacuum; especially any form of Islam. Their knowledge […]
Authors and Producers Behind the Blueprint for the Syrian Drama
It became clear recently that the West’s former blueprint for Syria – a conversion of Aleppo into the country’s Benghazi, a foothold for a sweeping offensive against the government forces – was irreversibly defeated. Having done the due editing on their tactic, the Syrian opposition’s curators remote-controlling the process from […]
The Arab World: In Search of “Subjectivity”
The greater irritation shown by the countries that currently are the Arab world’s chief “integrators” — Saudi Arabia and Qatar — during and after the “Group of Friends of Syria” conference in Tunisia points to growing problems in the Wahhabi integration project that stretches from the Atlantic to Iran. In […]
“Nuclear Caliphate” On the Agenda Of the Day
Death of Sultan bin Abdul Aziz al-Saudi and the intrigues around the Saudi throne. The most likely contender for the throne, Nayef bin Abdel-Aziz al Saud, is a hardcore adherent of the Saudi hegemony. His coming to power will accelerate the creation of a “new Caliphate” founded upon the GCC, […]
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