Paul Jay and host Ben Norton discuss how by destroying legitimate opposition movements, the Saudi royals created a vacuum the was filled by al Qaeda and other extreme Islamist forces
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No more 'special relationships' with Middle East countries before we break the treasury with never ending wars and deaths.
thank you for great shows and analysis.
If your position is that we pit the islam against the concept of nationalism in the Middle East, and also the your assertion that we want regime change in Iran, please talk about how would you reconcile these two assertions regarding Iran..
Black nobility
Prince Bonesaw needs to be thrown out or all western countries should refuse to have any dealings with him. Right now the Saudis look much more dangerous than the Iranians ever have. Maybe it's time to start buying oil from Iran and Venezuela and shut down Murdering Bonesaw Saudi because MBS is the real danger here.
The Real Threat are the corrupt banksters and the dirty deals they made with the Saudis for the Petro Dollar.
Wahabism is Saudism
Too narrow a view. The Saudis are not the only one that killed progressive Arab intellectuals, everyone else did, from Iraq to Morocco. Their kings, army generals and presidents ensured that political activists place was either in jail or 6 feet under. And now it back to bite them; after burying the Arabic mind there was no place else to turn for aspiration except Islam which was hijacked by the Salifies and their petrodollars. If the Saudis collapse, not even their camels and mules will cry for them. The west lives in a make-believe bubble of the importance of the Saudis in the region and the weight they carry amongst the Islamic world but the murder of Khashoggi if anything, shows the underlying disdain for this corrupt family amongst the Arab population and the west, what the murder did is to pull out the blanket covering the rote underneath.
In other news the oil is wet and sticky.
MBS is also very much into brutality, fear, and oppression. https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/10/khashoggi-erdogan-and-the-truth/
If US can’t sanction SA because of that arm deal that shows how weak US is. Other western countries is already doing it.
Think we’d see this kind of analysis in the MSM? Ha!
take down the make believe kingdom of whabbi Saud.
What is that thing on top of your head? It’s so high!
Rational analysis, way over the heads of "modern" Americans.
What in the world is that thing on your face? Terrible!
You would have to be a fool to think that terrorist organizations aren't funded and directed by saudi intelligence.