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Arab media: Saudi purge promises tighter control
Long-standing Saudi efforts to dominate the pan-Arab media landscape appear to have moved into high gear with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's purge that...
The 100 years after the October Revolution: Is Lenin still In?
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution of October 1917. As we in the United States try to imagine a revolutionary...
Trump Assessment on Election Anniversary
It is a year since Donald J. Trump's election as president on November 8, 2016, and a couple of months less since his inauguration. ...
Murder in The Hague: Saudi-Iranian proxy war heats up
Shot dead this week on a street in The Hague, Ahmad Mola Nissi may have died the violent life he lived, but his murder...
Balfour Declaration: Christian Zionism of 19th Century
November this year marks the completion of 100 years of the most audacious act of British Imperialism in flagrant violation of international norms and...
Getting the Saudi fight against corruption right
Kuwaiti billionaire Maan al-Sanea should have seen it coming after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman vowed to root out corruption. ...
No time to rest: Why Putin can’t afford to retire now?
Though the official campaign for the 2018 Russian presidential election has not yet started, many experts say that current president Vladimir Putin has started...
Reining in the Ubiquitous Use of U.S. Military Force
Four US soldiers died in Niger on October 4, and the president's insensitive phone call to the widow of one has brought the subject...
Saudi Crown Prince’s unprecedented power grab could come to haunt him
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has won the first round of what could prove to be an unprecedented power grab that comes to...
Saudi crackdown raises spectre of wider spread dissent
Few paid attention to a rare protest in Saudi Arabia in late January 2011 as a wave of popular uprisings swept the Middle East...