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The Gulf will control Yemen forever if the south secedes now
Afrah Nasser
a multi-award winning Yemeni freelance writer and blogger focusing on human rights violations, based in Sweden since May 2011.
Recent dramatic events in southern Yemen mirror the vicious circle in which the…
Summit Overthrow and Black Comedy
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By Abdullah AL-Sabri
An unprecedented degeneration of Arab and Islamic regimes and cultural, media and secular elites as it celebrates and praises Trump's visit to Riyadh and the American-Islamic summit, for which…
Why Donald Trump’s ‘Arab Nato’ would be a terrible mistake
Rashid Khalidi
There is nothing new under the sun in the Middle East, where almost everything we associate with civilization was first invented: writing, cities, agriculture, astronomy and libraries, for instance. So for anyone with…
The War on Yemen and the Great Saudi ‘Modernizer’
Daniel Larison
As Paul Pillar observed yesterday, Trump’s Riyadh speech amounted to “bowing to the Saudi regime.” The Wall Street Journal is predictably delighted, and encourages the administration to keep bowing:
In…
Taking Yemen Toward Partition
Abdel Bari Atwan
The quarrel between Saudi Arabia and the UAE over war aims and allies is leading to the secession of the south
The secession of southern Yemen from the rest of the country is proceeding apace by the day. The credit for…
Yemen, Cholera, Israel and WMDs
By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
Use of WMDs, bioweapons, cluster bombs, sarin gas would be impossible without network of CIA stooge governments, cardboard lothario dictators and narco-republics that provide basis for worldwide criminal…
The Saudi leadership and Donald Trump? Two sides of the same coin
Madawi Al-Rasheed
visiting professor at the Middle East Centre at LSE.
Donald Trump’s first overseas tour starts this week in Riyadh, followed by Israel and the Vatican. This is not an inter-faith pilgrimage to three holy sites,…
Why Saudi Arabia would rather pay a ransom to Trump than support its own people
The price tag of an audience with Donald Trump is high, and rising. Saudi Arabia has already pledged an estimated $300bn in defence contracts over the next decade and $40bn in infrastructure investment. The final figure, according to…
US politicians grow sceptical of Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen
Alex Kane
Alex Kane is a New York-based freelance journalist whose work focuses on the American Jewish community, Israel/Palestine and the US “war on terror.” A former editor at Mondoweiss and AlterNet, his work has also appeared in the…
Saudi bashing ends as Trump visit signals growing ties with Gulf
Mona Alami
Donald Trump once claimed a Saudi prince wanted to "control the US", said Saudi Arabia "blew up the World Trade Centre" and insisted that the country "wouldn’t exist" without American help.
Later this…