Saudi Arabia
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Framing Palestine: Israel, the Gulf states, and US power in the Middle East
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The Middle East on a knife-edge: The US, Israel, Iran, and Palestine
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Sudan: More than a domestic conflict
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The Gulf Arab states and the new ‘East-East’ axis of world oil
Adam Hanieh — A major shift has taken place in the control of world oil over recent decades: the seemingly unstoppable rise of national oil companies run by governments in the Middle East, China, Russia and others in the Global South.
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Israel’s war on Gaza: The West against the rest?
Harald Etzbach — While the states of the Global South publicly proclaim solidarity with Palestine, the reality is more complicated.
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Geopolitics, the imperial system and socialist anti-imperialism: Interview with Claudio Katz
US policy in Syria: Confused or just confusing?
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By Tony Iltis
February 27, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Since the Syrian civil war began in 2011, the US has been involved, at first, through arming and supporting groups opposing the dictatorship of Bashar Assad, and supporting allies in the region doing likewise; and since 2014, through its direct involvement in leading an international coalition in an air war against ISIS.
Small numbers of US Special Forces and CIA operatives are also in Syria, supporting different, mutually antagonistic groups in the multi-sided conflict.
The US role in Syria often appears confused and contradictory. This seems set to increase under the new US administration.
Erdogan, the coup in Turkey and the global counter-revolution
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Saudi Arabia’s lesser known exports after oil: Wahhabism and pro-imperialism
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US President Barack Obama fetes the late King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.
By Rupen Savoulian
Middle East: Saudi Arabia's US-backed war on Yemen
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By Tony Iltis
Adam Hanieh: Power, wealth and inequality in the Arab world
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