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US-Saudi Split Looming?
By Finian Cunningham |
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The American
"protection racket" — for
that's what it is — also
comes with the added
incentive of gargantuan
weapons sales to the Saudis.
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Two Iraqi policemen killed in
Islamic State attack on Mosul checkpoint
Iraq: Erdogan vows to 'finish'
Kurdish militants in Iraq to avenge dead
soldiers
One Syrian soldier killed in
shelling by militants
Russia says it provided Syria
with 24 advanced S-300 launchers for
free
Saudi airstrikes leave five more
civilians dead in southern Yemen
Shocking images of starving
children show reality of the war in
Yemen
Tehran says Saudi Arabia unable
to replace lost Iranian oil
Journalist Jamal Khashoggi
'killed inside Saudi consulate', Turkish
officials say
Jamal Khashoggi disappearance:
Turkey asks to search Saudi Arabia's
consulate in Istanbul
The Khashoggi
Affair:
He may have been killed in the
consulate, or drugged and flown to
Riyadh, to be either executed or held
incommunicado. The Saudi government has
offered only flimsy denials.
11 protesters wounded by Israeli
occupation forces live fire at Gaza
fence
Robert Fisk; I watched a
Palestinian family lose their land 25
years ago – and this week I returned to
find them
Watch: "The Godfather" – CBC
exposé on Sheldon Adelson's influence on
Trump, Harper, & Mideast policies
A New Wave of
Democrats Tests the Party’s Blanket
Support for Israel:
A Democrat running for Congress in
Detroit, has said she will oppose aid to
Israel.
In case you missed
it;
Prince Charles
blames ‘foreign Jews’ for Middle East
turmoil in 1986 letter:
The Prince of Wales also called
on the US to ‘take on the Jewish lobby’
Party running for Haifa
municipal elections to create Jews-only
merchant list
AFRICA
Egyptian security forces kill 52
militants in North Sinai
Cameroon candidate Kamto
declares victory, ruling party denies
ASIA
Death toll of Indonesia quakes,
tsunami climbs to 1,944 as search to end
Afghanistan: 57 Alleged,
Insurgents Killed by Afghanistan
National Security Forces
Afghanistan: 38 alleged, ISIS-K
militants killed, wounded in U.S. drone
strikes in Nangarhar
US-China tensions flare as
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets
with counterparts in Beijing
Chinese stocks fall almost 5% in
market bloodbath as investors digest a
week of bad news in a single day
EUROPE
How Russia plans
to disentangle its economy from US
dollar:
Russia seeks to
de-dollarize the economy by 2024.
Fear of infuriating Trump made
UK drop opposition to death penalty for
British Isis suspects, court told
Greece: Syriza’s
Repressive Turn and its Background:
Alexis Tsipras’s government
promised to end austerity. Now it’s
defending the banks against people
evicted from their homes — and
persecuting those who protest.
Former French
President Sarkozy Loses First Appeal In
Corruption Trial:
Former French President Nicolas
Sarkozy on Monday lost a first appeal
against facing trial over influence
peddling and corruption charges
We have 12 years to act on
climate change before the world as we
know it is lost. How much more urgent
can it get?
Trump ‘poses the
single greatest threat’ to our climate,
bombshell UN report makes clear:
Trump team approves landmark climate
report -- and then rejects it
AMERICAS
Russia Sets Up Weapons
Maintenance Database in Venezuela
Venezuela Accuses Colombia of
Harboring Assassination Suspects
Mineral Frontiers
and American Power
: As the
United States began to grow closer to
war in the late 1930s, this concern over
vital minerals extended to other
regions, particularly Latin America, as
U.S. planners feared that their own
stocks could be exhausted
Bioweapon? Scientists Sound
Alarm Over DARPA Plans To Spread Viruses
Using Insects
Immigrant Detainee Called ICE
Help Line Before Killing Himself in
Isolation Cell
The Government Is Blacklisting
People Based on Predictions of Future
Crimes
Ron Paul: US is barreling toward
a stock market drop of 50% or more, and
there's no way to prevent it
"I've Never Seen
A Slump Like This That Didn't Spread To
The Whole Country":
Dark clouds gather over the US
housing market - If the fall we are
seeing at the top spreads, the impact
could be significant.
Wealth in
America: Where are the richest and
poorest states based on household
income?:
Much of the gains in median
household income went to households that
were already wealthy.
"It Was All Made Up, It Was
Fabricated": Trump Says Kavanaugh Victim
Of Democrat "Hoax"
Florida man
threatens to shoot senators over
Kavanaugh vote, deputies say:
A man was arrested after
posting on Facebook that he wanted to
"go to literal war against liberals" and
shoot members of Congress and their
families
Watch; Judge
Andrew Napolitano: Brett Kavanaugh and
the Patriot Act:
Judge Andrew Napolitano looked
at some troubling parts of Supreme Court
nominee Brett Kavanaugh's legal career.
At Secretive Retreat,
Evangelicals Celebrate Brett Kavanaugh’s
Confirmation
Clintons gear up to cash in on
the lecture circuit
Trump says he has no plans to
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