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Source : Truthdig, Chris Hedges, 18-03-2018
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Sputnik – 27.04.2018 The Saudi Foreign Minister had announced that Riyadh was willing to send troops to Syria as part of a wider international coalition if it receives an invitation to do so. He also expressed his opinion that Qatar must do the same. Hamad bin Abdullah Al-Thani has branded Saudi Arabia’s demands for Qatar […]

By Dmitry MININ | Strategic Culture Foundation | 25.04.2018 The White House has had a hot new idea – to leave Syria but also stay there at the same time by deploying an Arab contingent to US military bases, primarily from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). So to Arabize one of the bloodiest wars […]

With Trump’s comments about withdrawing US military presence from Syria still blowing about on the winds of the media, Trump has been looking both for a way to save face and yet still achieve his government’s interests in Syria.

(MEE) — The US government will stop protecting Qatar if the country doesn’t fund the American military venture in Syria, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister warned on Tuesday. “Qatar has to pay for the US military’s presence in Syria and send its military forces there before the US president cancels the American protection of Qatar, which has an American military […]

Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs, Adel al-Jubeir, has said that Qatar should pay for the presence of U.S. military forces in Syria, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on April 24.
Jubeir’s statement was allegedly based on remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump during a joint press conference with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.

RT | April 25, 2018 A member of the Russian upper house security committee has described a recent Saudi statement urging Qatar to send troops to Syria as blackmail, and warned that any such step would bring only chaos and casualties to the region. “The statement made by the head of Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry […]

A veteran of Pentagon propaganda operations was hired last year by a Dubai-based company to create a film accusing Qatar of links to terrorism, the Bureau can reveal.
Charles Andreae, whose firm Andreae & Associates was contracted to produce the film, used to work for PR firm Bell Pottinger. Whilst at Bell Pottinger, he helped oversee a $500 million contract with the Pentagon to run top-secret influence operations during the Iraq war.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia could consider a proposal to dig a maritime canal along the kingdom’s border with Qatar, turning the peninsula-nation into an island and transforming its only land border into a military zone and nuclear waste site, state-linked Saudi newspapers reported Monday.The project has not been given official approval and faces many obstacles.

An interview I did while in NYC last week, with thanks to Lee Camp for having me on his show.