Press TV – March 9, 2020
A Hamas spokesman has condemned the continued detention and prosecution of Palestinian figures in Saudi Arabia over their support for the Palestinian resistance movement, urging Riyadh to immediately release them.
“The national and pan-Arabism duty requires honoring those people and not trying them in this way,” Hazim Qassim told Lebanon’s Arabic-language al-Mayadeen television on Sunday.
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the arrest, via a dramatic morning home raid, of King Salman’s brother, Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz al Saud, and Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz al Saud.
Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman is nervous and tying up loose ends, perhaps in fear that those around him are plotting for his removal?
Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats ‘n Guns blog:
There is real power in the word “No.”
In fact, I’d argue that it is the single most powerful word in any language.
In the midst of the worst market meltdown in a dozen years which has at its source problems within global dollar-funding markets, Russia found itself in the position to exercise the Power of No.
Multiple overlapping crises are happening worldwide right now and they all interlock into a fabric of chaos.
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss meetings held in Vienna for the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) cartel and OPEC+, which resulted in an impasse for negotiating production cuts amidst the coronavirus outbreak. Crude prices hit 2017 lows.
OPEC+ leader, Russia, does not want to cut oil production and instead is calling for a “stimulus”. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other OPEC countries are desperate for further cuts, as demand for their own oil is declining.
Will Idlib be the tipping point for Erdogan whose troops are certainly taking a beating from Russia? If it is, Russia will finalise the process of bringing Assad in from the cold, in line with Gulf Arabs’ plans. But it will be the end of the affair for Putin and Erdogan.
Press TV – February 29, 2020
Yemen’s armed forces have encircled the strategic city of al-Hazm – the capital city of the northern al-Jawf province – as Saudi attempts to break Yemeni advances failed, a report says.
AL-MAHRAH, YEMEN — Saudi Arabia’s continued efforts to occupy Yemen’s province of al-Mahrah, which lies on the country’s border with Oman, appear only to have emboldened al-Mahrah tribes, who have resorted to using military tactics to drive out Saudi forces from their province. The tribes are fueled by a collective social desire for sovereignty stemming from their long history as an independent region and a local culture that remains wary of foreign forces.
Amid rising tensions with Iran, the United States is increasing its military presence in Saudi Arabia- separated from the Islamic Republic by only the Persian Gulf. Some 2,500 troops have arrived at their new home, the Prince Sultan Air Base, some 60 km southeast of Riyadh. On Iran, General John Walker, commander of the 378th Air Expeditionary Wing at the base, said: “We face a thinking enemy that is playing a real regional conflict for keeps, and they’re very good.”
