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- The Don gets his phone calls returned
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Tag Archives: Saudi Arabia
MbS: The Only Game in Saudi Arabia
Having left America for France, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is to arrive back in Riyadh empty handed. This wasn’t supposed to happen. Autocracies only half understand maritime republics. I venture that MbS remains less resolute today about the domestic … Continue reading
Posted in Saudi Arabia, Uncategorized
Tagged Crown Prince, MbS, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Vision 2030
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Prince bin Salman’s Paradox: Governing Yemen
There are three regions in the world that are heating up: the Info-Pacific, the Red Med-African Horn & the southern tier of the Arabian peninsula. Yemen is a real trap for the Saudi’s, it can destroy the House of Saud … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Uncategorized
Tagged Hadi, Houthi, Light Infantry, Saleh, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
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Saudi’s Try Coordination, Shale Fracks On
The rise in oil prices is due to two converging outcomes, neither of which is planned in a global commodity market. The Saudi’s are still wrangling both OPEC and non-OPEC members to slash 2% of supply so as to build … Continue reading
Capricious Rule: ARAMCO’s IPO & the Static Ethics of Islamism
A reckoning is happening throughout the land of Ishmael; a summoning fit for a great statesman. As of this writing, Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman is vacillating, something great leaders don’t do in the service of great ideals. The Arabs … Continue reading
Posted in Saudi Arabia, Uncategorized
Tagged ARAMCO IPO, Extended Order, Hayek, Prince Muhammed bin Salman, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Sons of Ishmael, Sons of Liberty
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The Sons of Ishmael, OPEC & U.S. Statecraft: The Weapon of Hayek’s ‘Extended Order’
Those that never had to compete never will. This is the answer to the rise of Europe’s Fascist right. What should we expect of political economies whose social base remains homogenized during a crisis. Economies and rigid social orders don’t … Continue reading
Failure. What Milton Friedman & Hayek Are Teaching ‘The Collective’ Today
The State of New York just made every State, City College & University FREE as of the fall of 2017. We know from Milton Friedman’s achievement in monetarist thought that the fall of Communism, the collapse of collectivism was due … Continue reading
Oil, American Renewal & Saudi Perfidy
Remember Obama’s retort ‘we can’t drill our way out of this one‘ referring to the mythology of scarcity that underwrites the malthusian justification to demonize either the market or American ingenuity. The simple truth is difficult for any autocrat to … Continue reading
US Policy in Iraq: Countering ISIS, Formal Policy Brief
While Nouri al-Maliki (a Shia) reels from being over-run by ISIS, its worth noting how he and The White House can formulate a coherent policy to bring Iraq back from the brink. Absent renewed ‘boots on the ground’, the only … Continue reading
Posted in Iraq
Tagged 18, Ahmad Chalabi, Ammar al-Hakim Muqtada al-Sadr, Ansar al-Islam, Army of men, Ba'ath Party, Central Asia, House of Saud, Iraq, Kurds, Military Tribal Council, Mosul, Naqshabandiyah, National Accord, Nouri al-Maliki, Petraeus, Saddam Hussein, Sadr, Saudi Arabia, Shia, Sufi, Surge., Turkey, Victors of Islam
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Apaiser: Peace or Imminent U.S. Defeat, The Parisian Afghani’s & Power Blocks
About 40 miles north of Paris is the lovely town of Chantilly, a town known for horse training. This luxury town is now witnessing the imminent defeat of America throughout the AfPak region. How is this so? America has a … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Central Asia, China, Empire, Frontier, Identity Development, India, International Relations, Iran, Islam, Russia, Uncategorized
Tagged Afghan Buffer Zone, Afghan High Peace Council, Afghanistan, Ahmad Zia Massoud, Buffer State, Chantilly France, China, CIA, Ghairat Baheer, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Haj Muhammed Muhaqeq, Hamid Karzai, Hazara Shiite, Hina Rabbani Khar, Hizb Islamic, India, Japan, Maldives, Mecca, Muhammed Yunus Qanuni, NATO, Neutrality, Northern Alliance, Pakistan, Proxies, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Taliban, The Great Game, Tournament of Shadows, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan
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A Review Of The Arab Spring
Amir Taheiri ranks as the most informed Persian interlocutor the West has as it engages a nuclear Iran for hegemony throughout the Persian Gulf and South America. Recently he has written a neat summary of the Arab Spring. This spontaneous … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Spring, China, International Relations, Near East, Politics
Tagged Arab Despots, Arab Spring, Eritrea, Four Movements/Political Blocks, Freedom Agenda, Libya, Mauritania, Middle East Autocracies, Near East, Petromonarchies, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen
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