Qatar calling for the Holy Mosques in Mecca and Medina to be placed under international control undermines the Saudi family’s international legitimacy.
Tag: Saudi Arabia
What are Washington’s stakes in the Syrian conflict?
Washington’s interest in the Syrian civil war is partly about ensuring Israel’s regional security and partly it is about doing the bidding of America’s regional Sunni allies: Turkey, Jordan and the Gulf Arab States. Saudi Arabia which has been vying for power as the leader of the Sunni bloc against […]
The Great War For Civilization: The Reasoning
There might be several reasoning for the forthcoming Great War but the current one focusses on Iran which continues to defy the American-Israeli interest for global supremacy and its geostrategic imperatives. Those are well documented in several books. From the beginning of the human race we find lessons of kings […]
A Public Saudi-“Israeli” Rapprochement Could Backfire On Riyadh
It’s been an open secret in the Mideast for years now that Saudi Arabia and “Israel” have been cooperating with one another against their shared Iranian rival, and that this and their equally strategic ties with the US is what’s brought them together. However, due to political sensitivities on both […]
Terrorism as Pretext for Intervention in Middle East
In order to understand the hype surrounding the phenomena of Islamic radicalism and terrorism, we need to understand the prevailing global economic order and its prognosis. What the pragmatic economists have forecast about the free market capitalism has turned out to be true; whether we like it or not. A […]
“The New Middle East”: Russian Style (IIB)
(Please read previous section before this article) This section examines how and why the two formerly most stable states in the Mideast (at least according to conventional Western understanding) have become the ones facing the greatest prospects of full-scale destabilization: The Saudis Are Running Scared Biting The Russian Hand: The […]
Polar Reorientation In the Mideast (US-Iran)? (IV)
(Please read Part I, Part II, and Part III prior to this concluding piece) All of the previously acquired information from the three earlier parts allows one to form four phased scenario forecasts that help predict the contours and consequences of the US-Iran and Russia-Saudi Arabia ‘reorientations’. The first one […]
Polar Reorientation In the Mideast (US-Iran)? (III)
(Please read Part I and Part II prior to this article) Perceptions & Motivations The third part of the series deals with the perceptions and motivations behind the possible polar reorientations. Much can be discussed in terms of these broad topics, but for comprehension’s sake, they’re split into eight separate […]
Polar Reorientation In the Mideast (US-Iran)? (I)
Political developments are moving extraordinarily fast in the Mideast nowadays, with Russian and American diplomacy being the primary catalysts. Moscow has teamed up with Tehran to kick-start a new round of Syrian reconciliation talks, and it’s working with Riyadh in an effort to get the latter to agree to its […]
Slogans vs messages: Middle East style
On the 4th of April 2015, and in the wake of the Saudi-led coalition attack on Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hasan Nasrallah gave an unprecedented speech in which he openly and overtly attacked Saudi Arabia and predicting its defeat in Yemen. In his previous public presentations, Nasrallah strongly […]
A Royal shame: Abdullah leaves a legacy of regional militancy
King Abdullah is being eulogized in the most unrealistic ways possible, from CNN designating him as a “reformer” to Chuck Hagel calling him “a powerful voice for tolerance, moderation and peace — in the Islamic world and across the globe.” Israeli President Reuven Rivlin takes the cake, however, by proclaiming […]
Abdullah-Thani As The New Sykes-Picot
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 […]
Popular
-
China-India Conflict Is Far More Dangerous Than US-North Korea One
4,854 views -
The Croatian-Slovenian Spat Has Far-Reaching Implications For EU Unity
4,365 views -
Europe is a scapegoat in the US sanctions war against Russia
3,963 views -
Secrets of the ‘Dead Souls’ of Ukraine
3,105 views -
In Afghanistan the Russians are remembered with love
3,016 views
Our top contributors
Andrew KORYBKO (253)
Nikolay STARIKOV (41)Gulam ASGAR MITHA (31)
Vladimir KOZIN (26)
M. K. BHADRAKUMAR (12)
Nauman SADIQ (11)
Eric MARGOLIS (10)
Michael AVERKO (9)
William DUNKERLEY (7)Matthew COOPER (7)
Binoy KAMPMARK (6)Julien PAOLANTONI (6)
Atul BHARDWAJ (5)
Stephen EBERT (5)
Ollie RICHARDSON (4)
Tate MCCLELLAN (3)Adam GARRIE (3)
Martin KALYNIUK (3)
Kristian GIRLING (3)
Marcus GODWYN (3)
Eva BARTLETT (2)
Patrick ARMSTRONG (1)
Andre VLTCHEK (1)
Comments