By Sami Moubayed | Asia Times | November 6, 2017 The writing has been on the wall in Lebanon since early summer. Many expected the marriage of convenience between Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri and President Michel Aoun to snap — but not as abruptly as it did on Saturday. Hariri announced his resignation in a […]
Andrew Korybko
Global Village
The past week was very geopolitically eventful for the Mideast even by the region’s dynamic standards, which shows that a new international order is indeed being formed there but that serious challenges still remain to its ultimate fruition.
The Secretary-General of Hezbollah, the Lebanese party-militia, Hassan Nasrullah, gave a major speech Sunday in the wake of the resignation of prime minister Saad Hariri. Nasrullah characterized this step as a Saudi move dictated to Hariri by Riyadh.
The Saudis have been meddling in Lebanon, and are being blamed for the resignation of the prime minister. Lebanon may fall into to civil war or a war between Israel and Hezbollah. It appears that the crown price is embarking on policies that are destabilizing the region. [...]
The resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, announced Saturday in Riyadh over Saudi state media, marks a further escalation of the US, Saudi and Israeli preparations for military confrontation with Iran. After becoming prime minister for a second time in 2016—he previously held the office from 2009 to 2011—Hariri, the leader of the Lebanese Sunni Future Movement party, headed[Read More...]
By Jonathan Marshall | Consortium News | November 5, 2017 Behind only North Korea, Iran is the country the Trump administration vilifies most. The White House endorses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s injunction that “We must all stand together to stop Iran’s march of conquest, subjugation and terror.” Parroting Netanyahu’s claim that Iran is “busy […]
Exclusive: By echoing the Israeli-Saudi bellicosity toward Iran, President Trump is repeating the same mistakes of his predecessors and inviting wider Mideast wars that could enhance Iran’s position, writes Jonathan Marshall. By Jonathan Marshall Behind only North Korea, Iran is…Read more →
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By M K Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline | November 5, 2017 Within hours of a decree by the Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz on Sunday announcing the constitution of a new committee to combat corruption under the chairmanship of the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman [MBS], an unprecedented purge of top establishment figures unfolded, signaling […]
