‘Empire of Chaos’ in the
House
Is The House of Saud Starting To Have Second
Thoughts
By Pepe Escobar
January 29, 2015 "ICH"
- "RT"
- The real ‘Masters of the Universe’ who run
the ‘Empire of Chaos’ want the House of Saud
to do most of their dirty work against
Russia; and in a later stage they will take
care of the “towel heads”
No one in Western corporate
media will tell you why US President Barack
Obama is hitting Riyadh with a high-powered
delegation to “pay his respects” to the new
House of Saud potentate, King Salman.
Talk about a who’s who –
including CIA head John Brennan; General
Lloyd Austin, head of US Centcom; Secretary
of State John Kerry; leading House Democrat
Nancy Pelosi; and even senile Senator John
“Bomb Iran” McCain.
It must have been heart
wrenching for most in this crowd to skip a
visit to the Taj Mahal in India so they
would be part of the last-minute,
“unscheduled” stop in Riyadh.
This is how the
astonishing mediocrity that doubles as US
Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes,
spun it; “Principally, I think this is
to mark this transition in leadership and to
pay respects to the family and to the people
of Saudi Arabia, but I’m sure that while
we’re there they’ll touch on some of the
leading issues where we cooperate very
closely with Saudi Arabia.”
The White House and the
Pentagon did not bother to “pay their
respects” in person to the people of
France after the Charlie Hebdo massacre. The
House of Saud – “our” top bastards
in the Persian Gulf – is of course much more
valuable.
And yet, Air Force One, we
got a problem. High-level US financial
sources assure this correspondent the trip
is all about Obama shoring up the new King’s
support for their financial/economic war on
Russia as the House of Saud is starting to
have second thoughts. The Saudi role in this
war has been to come up with the oil price
shock – which is hurting not only Russia but
also Iran and Venezuela, among others.
Besides, the US puppet theoretically in
charge in Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, has
just visited Saudi Arabia.
Russia is not Iran – with
all due respect to Iran. If the House of
Saud really believes they are talking to the
head of a superpower rather than a
ventriloquist’s puppet – which is Obama’s
role – they are effectively doomed. Nothing
Obama says means a thing. The real
‘Masters of the Universe’ who run the
‘Empire of Chaos’ want the House of
Saud to do most of their dirty work against
Russia; and in a later stage they will take
care of the “towel heads” - as the
saying goes in Washington - over their
development of nuclear missiles with
Pakistan. And especially because the
Saudi-launched oil price war is bound to
destroy the US oil industry - against US
national interests.
The House of Saud has
absolutely nothing to gain from this
undeclared financial/economic war on Russia.
The Saudis have already “lost”
Yemen and Iraq. Bahrain is held by mercenary
troops containing the alienation of the Shia
majority. They are freaking out with the
possibility of ultimate “enemy”
Iran reaching a nuclear deal with His
Master’s Voice. They are desperate that
“Assad won’t go”. They want every
Muslim Brotherhood in sight – or the
vicinity – jailed or beheaded. They fear any
Arab Spring-style stirrings as worse than
the plague. And then there’s the fake
Caliphate of ISIS/ISIL/Daesh threatening to
go all the way to Mecca and Medina. The
House of Saud is effectively surrounded.
The suicide roadmap
Meanwhile, as the tempest
approaches, all is smiles – amid a silent
family bloodbath. The powerful Sudairi clan
has exacted their “revenge” as King
Abdullah’s corpse was still warm. King
Salman, almost 80, and with Alzheimer’s
about to turn him into mush, took no time to
appoint his nephew Mohammed bin Naif as
deputy crown prince. And just in case
nepotism was not evident enough, he also
appointed his son Prince Mohammed bin Salman
as defense minister. Mohammed bin Naif is a
Pentagon/CIA darling; the House of Saud’s
head of counterterrorism.
So yes, this is a desert
version of Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s classic
The Leopard; Se vogliamo che tutto rimanga
com'è bisogna che tutto cambi (“things
must change, in order that they can stay the
same”.) But the juicier bit is that
this seems to apply much more to the House
of Saud nowadays than to the ‘Empire of
Chaos’.
Apparently, the game of
thrones at “our” bastard’s abode
leads to everything staying the same; they
remain “our” privileged bastard.
The Pentagon even came up with the lovely
idea of having the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff sponsor an essay
competition to honor late King Abdullah.
So shell out your essays
lavishing the King for the no holds barred
repression of the Shia minority in oil-rich
eastern Saudi Arabia. Praise him for the
sentencing of Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr - a
popular Shia cleric and outspoken political
dissident; he should be beheaded, Daesh-style,
just because he led a non-violent movement
committed to promoting Shia rights, women’s
rights, and democratic reform in Saudi
Arabia (even Human Rights Watch has admitted
that Saudi Arabian Shias “face
systematic discrimination in religion,
education, justice, and employment.”)
Honor the late King for
the thousands of political prisoners;
“terrorism” charges against women who
dare to drive; the 25 percent of the
population living under the poverty line;
and last but not least, for facilitating the
expansion of al-Qaeda in Iraq, who turned
into ISIS. The Pentagon will love you for
that.
All that desert storm of
Saudi cash spent on global Wahhabi
proselytizing and indoctrinating – and I’ve
seen this from the Maghreb to Java – has
been such a powerful legacy; a medieval,
toxic “religion” (nothing to do
with legitimate Islam) that will keep
destroying lives and communities and
breeding fanatics till Kingdom Come. Hail
the King for that – on behalf of the
Pentagon. And forget about reading any of
this on Arab corporate media – which is
totally controlled by the House of Saud.
The House of Saud
“reforming”? Away from that nefarious,
barbarian Salafi religious establishment?
That’s the joke of the millennium.
Everything will stay the same.
But playing the
‘Empire of Chaos’ game –
financial/economic war on Russia - is a
game-changer, as in playing with fire. US/EU
sanctions, attacks on the oil price and the
ruble by giant derivative players as agents,
are something way above the Saudi pay grade.
The House of Saud swore that they didn’t
change their production quota during 2014.
But there was an excess supply – and it was
brought into the market to help cause the
oil price crash, alongside the manipulation
by derivatives speculators.
Scores of oil analysts
still can’t figure out why the House of Saud
went after Russia; all reasons are
political, not economical (Russian support
for Syria and Iran, the Americans agreeing
with the strategy, etc.). The fact is Moscow
did perceive it as a declaration of economic
war by Saudi Arabia. Petroleum Intelligence
Weekly, cautiously, has already hinted it
may get much worse, as in “potential for
disruption in Mideast Gulf monarchies.”
Beware of an Emperor
bearing gifts – or mourning a late King. The
‘Empire of Chaos’ is essentially
asking the House of Saud to keep going
kamikaze all the way against Russia. Sooner
or later someone in Riyadh will realize this
is the roadmap to House suicide.
Pepe Escobar’s latest
book is
Empire of Chaos.
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