Initially, Saudi Arabia supplied the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) with money only. After 1954, when Nasser cracked down on the MB, Saudi Arabia provided an important refuge for the MB, and many of its members flocked to the kingdom. This migration occurred just as the US was giving up on Nasser and turning to Saudi Arabia. The […]
The Beginning: How Britain begat the Brotherhood Jamal Eddine al-Afghani In 1885, an Iranian proposed the idea of a British-led pan-Islamic alliance among Turkey, Egypt, Iran and Afghanistan against czarist Russia. It was the era of the Great Game, the long-running geopolitical struggle between Britain and Russia for control of Central Asia. The biggest land grab […]
The Turkish Ottoman Empire had been one of the most powerful and successful empires in the world for more than 6 centuries. Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the spiritual and political head of the Ottoman Empire, and head of the Islamic Caliphate, had been maneuvered in 1881 by the British and French creditor banks and governments […]
Introduction Europe and the West faced an unprecedented social crisis as shock waves of a brutal war in Syria spread around the world. The ISIS or Islamic State erupted violently onto the world stage in 2014 proclaiming a Global Caliphate. War and terror in Syria created a massive refugee crisis across Europe. In September 2015, Russia […]
“Control food and one controls people; control finance and one controls governments, but control oil and one can control the destinies of nations “ Henry Kissinger 1972. It was oil that made up the core of the wealth and power of the Rockefeller family. The founder John D Rockefeller started out in the oil business in […]
Decline of Global Trade | Currency Wars |De-Dollarization Decline of Global Trade While the global economy is doing well, the amount of stuff that is imported and exported around the world goes up, and when the global economy is in recession, the amount of stuff that is imported and exported around the world goes down. […]
The downing of the Russian plane in mid-November over the Sinai Peninsula was a targeted hit. It was aimed at two countries – Russia and Egypt. We can understand Russia; but why Egypt? To better understand the dynamics of Egypt, let’s do a brief background on the country. Egypt Egypt has always given the world […]
As a follow up to the previous issue, we now discuss the story of the Mosul to Haifa pipeline, and this will bring us to the real reason for Israel’s excitement in northern Iraq. We have taken passages from an article by the late Joe Vialls, called “Israel’s Blitzkrieg on Middle East Oil “. This […]
Over the past 18 months the world has been gripped by the phenomenon of ISIS. Who and what is ISIS. Let’s go back to the beginning. Since the early 1950’s, when the CIA station chief in Munich became aware of the effective use of radical Jihadist Muslims from the Soviet Union, US intelligence has […]
The name “Arab Spring” is a term coined in distant offices in Washington, London, and Paris. The upheavals in the Arab World are not an Arab awakening either; such a term implies that the Arabs have been sleeping while injustice has been surrounding them. In reality the Arab world has been filled with wars and […]
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