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Pompeo Took 12-Hour Flight To Saudi Arabia For ’15 Minute Meeting’ With King Salman

It’s looking more likely that neither the US nor the rest of the Western world will do much to punish the world’s most important oil exporter, which can « weaponize » the oil market seemingly on a whim.

ZeroHedge.com
Par ZeroHedge.com
Mike Pompeo Saudi Arabia

Even before the publication of last night's Saudi trial balloon hinting that the kingdom would soon acknowledge that the extrajudicial killing of Jamal Khashoggi - the insider-turned dissident journalist who walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last week and never walked back out - was the result of a "botched" kidnapping attempt carried out

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Saudi War on Yemen: World’s Worst Famine in a Century Could Claim 13 Million

The United Nations coordinator for Yemen has warned that the world has only 3 months to halt the slide toward catastrophe in Yemen

Juan Cole
Par Juan Cole
Yemen Famine

Yemen is a country of some 29 million persons, but over a third of them are at risk of starvation if Saudi and UAE bombing campaigns continue. Lise Grand, the United Nations coordinator for Yemen, has warned that the world has only 3 months to halt the slide toward catastrophe. She seems to think that an immediate armistice must be called in the

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Iran’s Definitive Account of the Iran-Iraq War: Written by a Female Iraqi Kurd

Thirty years after the end of Iran’s “War of Sacred Defense” Iran’s “military parades” are attacked, but the world still doesn’t really comprehend exactly what the West is attacking in Iran.

Ramin Mazaheri
Par Ramin Mazaheri
Iran-Iraq War

On September 22nd there was a terrible terrorist attack in the Iranian city of Ahvaz which killed 25 innocent people and wounded 70 other people. This was universally reported in the West as having occurred at a “military parade”, when it was actually a parade to commemorate the 1980 start of the Western-backed, Western-funded, Western-armed

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Saudi Coalition Targets Buses of Fleeing Civilians in Hodeida, Killing 19

There are no humanitarian corridors in Hodeida to allow civilians to flee or ambulance crews to transport the wounded to hospitals outside of the province.  To make matter worse, a seemingly endless barrage of coalition airstrikes presents a constant danger to those seeking to flee the fighting.

Ahmed Abdulkareem
Par Ahmed Abdulkareem
Saudi attack on bus Hodeida Yemen

HODEIDA, YEMEN -- In a familiar atmosphere of fatalities that have come to mark the passing of a day in Hodeida, at least 49 people were killed or injured on Saturday when two Saudi Coalition airstrikes targeted two buses carrying civilians fleeing the fighting on a highway in Jabal Ras district in Hodeida. Yemen’s Ministry of Public Health and

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Despite Bannon’s Role in Campaign, Bolsonaro is not Brazil’s Trump – He’s Far Worse

Bolsonaro is different from Trump in that – instead of planning to build a wall or enact an immigration ban – Bolsonaro believes in using military and police violence to purge Brazil of “undesirables.”

Whitney Webb
Par Whitney Webb
Jair Bolsonaro Brazil

BRASILIA, BRAZIL -- The rise to prominence of Brazil’s far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro has given many in Brazil and abroad cause for concern. Bolsonaro – once considered a “fringe” politician – has publicly proposed bringing back elements of the country’s former military dictatorship, which he has often promoted over his

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Denounced by UN on Humanitarian Grounds, US Sanctions Amount to ‘Psychological and Economic Warfare,’ Rouhani Says

« In the past 40 years, there has not been a more spiteful team than the current U.S. government team toward Iran, Iranians and the Islamic Republic. »

Julia Conley
Par Julia Conley
Iran Hassan Rouhani

Ahead of the United States' newest round of sanctions targeting his country, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday accused the Trump administration of "psychological and economic warfare" and of working toward regime change in Iran. Speaking at Tehran University, Rouhani expressed outrage amid rising tensions following President Donald

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