19 September 2019 — Moon of Alabama
The crisis about the Yemeni drone and cruise missile attack on two Saudi oil installations is for now over.
The Saudis and the U.S. accuse Iran of being behind the “act of war” as Secretary of State Pompeo called it. The Saudis bomb Yemen with U.S. made bombs since 2015. One wonders how Pompeo is calling that.
19 September 2019 • 19:39 — The New Dark Age
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Trump Regime Anti-Iran Blame Game
https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-anti-iran-blame-game/5689657
How the Houthis overturned the chessboard
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/09/19/how-the-houthis-overturned-the-chessboard/
19 September 2019 • 15:00 — The New Dark Age
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Piers Morgan leapt in to defend Laura Kuenssberg. It didn’t end well
The European Union And The Euroscepticism (I)
https://orientalreview.org/2019/09/19/the-european-union-and-the-euroscepticism-i/
18 September 2019 — The Saker
The Yemeni Shiite group’s spectacular attack on Abqaiq raises the distinct possibility of a push to drive the House of Saud from power
A Yemeni Shiite man holds his weapon and a flag with an Arabic inscription reading ‘Disgrace is far from us,’ as he takes part in a religious procession held by Houthi rebels to mark the first day of Ashura. Photo: Hani Al-Ansi/dpa
We are the Houthis and we’re coming to town. With the spectacular attack on Abqaiq, Yemen’s Houthis have overturned the geopolitical chessboard in Southwest Asia – going as far as introducing a whole new dimension: the distinct possibility of investing in a push to drive the House of Saud out of power.
Blowback is a bitch. Houthis – Zaidi Shiites from northern Yemen – and Wahhabis have been at each other’s throats for ages. This book is absolutely essential to understand the mind-boggling complexity of Houthi tribes; as a bonus, it places the turmoil in southern Arabian lands way beyond a mere Iran-Saudi proxy war.
19 September 2019 — WSWS
British class justice was on full display last Friday, as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was detained indefinitely at Belmarsh prison, beyond the completion of his sentence, while fascist leader Tommy Robinson was released 10 weeks early from the same jail.
18 September 2019 — Information Clearing House
By Finian Cunningham
It must be deeply troubling for the Saudis in that their oil economy seems to be defenceless – despite having spent hundreds of billions of dollars on US anti-missile systems. – Continue
18 September 2019 — Black Agenda Report
Glen Ford, BAR executive editor
In any alliance with corporate oppression and militarism, Black America
squanders reservoirs of respect among the Earth’s peoples. We betray
ourselves and become Black Gringos.
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