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November 16, 1997 - Dissidents And A Whiff Of Sleaze.

Another day in paradise . . . .

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Modern Slavery in GCC Countries

Adam Hanieh: Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council states created a super... more

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Youth of Kuwait Set To Protest

It has finally happened. The country for which my father is from and I lived a total... more

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Kuwait energy takes over two oil fields in Russia from Concord

Kuwait Energy Co said it completed the acquisition of Pechora Energy Co and OJSC VIK... more

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Tony Blair's company 'to make £27m advising Kuwait on how to govern itself'

Tony Blair’s company stands to earn £27million for advising the oil-rich... more

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Ask Australia to Ban Live Animal Export to Middle East

Ask Australia to Ban Live Animal Export to Middle East posted by: Megan Drake 7... more

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US Weapons Sales to Middle East Skyrocket under Obama

"U.S. to Sell F-15s to Saudis." That was the Wall Street Journal's 8/9/10 front page headline. "The Obama administration... won't equip them with... weapons... opposed by Israel." But the "$30 billion, 10 year arms package" is still "one of the biggest single deals of its kind."

Obama "has championed advanced weapons sales to Gulf states as a way to check Iranian power." The U.S. sells weapons "to the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf states." The 8/12/10 NY Times reported that Obama plans to sell 200 Patriot intercepter missiles, worth $900 million, to Kuwait. The White House also supplies the Lebanese army and Palestinian security forces in the West Bank, training Fatah’s police in Jordan.

Massive sales to Arab “allies” started under Bush. Between 2001 and 2008, Kuwait bought $1.7 billion worth of arms, Egypt $10.4 billion. The U.A.E. purchased $10 billion. Sales to the Saudis brought in $10.5 billion. Pakistan bought $4.5 billion. Post the 2003 invasion, Bush’s Iraq sales came to $3.5 billion. According to the Journal, Bush saw these regimes “as a bulwark against Iranian expansionism, and the Obama administration has expanded the effort."

In that 2001-08 period, Israel purchased $5.9 billion worth of American weaponry and now, at least until after November’s Congressional election, Democrat Obama and Likudnik Netanyahu are political and military pals.

The Gaza flotilla crisis bent the Turkish-Israeli partnership out of shape, but Washington and Ankara are still NATO military allies, even as Turkey continues to denounce anyone in Congress that dares to say that the Ottoman army committed genocide against Armenians during the 1st world war, or complains that today’s Turkey denies independence to millions of Kurds.

It is impossible to deeply understand any one aspect of Middle Eastern politics, Zionism and Palestine, or Iraq or Afghanistan, etc., without seeing it in its matrix, U.S. imperial involvement with the entire region.

READ ENTIRE ARTICLE AT LINK:
http://www.thestruggle.org/brenner_looking_back.html

http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/us-arms-sales.gif"U.S. to Sell F-15s to Saudis." That was the Wall Street Journal's... more

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Middle Eastern Men Seek Pay To Take Second Wife

Apparently a Kuwaiti Member of Parliament has proposed paying men to take a second... more

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Iraq War over, right or wrong decision

Iraq war is over now but More than 50,000 troops will remain in Iraq till 2011. The... more

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Iraq War ended, who succeeded?

US military vehicles left Iraq through Kuwait to end the longest war of the world that... more

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Breaking News: The Last U.S. Combat Convoy Leaves Iraq (Ahead of Schedule)

. The last U.S. combat convoy leaves Iraq ahead of deadline; 50,000 other troops... more

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Twenty Years Ago This Week - Iraq Invaded Kuwait - August 2-5,1990 | Newstalgia

Twenty years ago this week Iraq invaded Kuwait and triggered what would become our... more

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News of yet more accidents at oil and gas facility; refinery blaze in Kuwait forces 72-hour shutdown | ArabianOilandGas.com

A fire at a pipeline at Kuwait’s 270,000-b/d Mina Abdullah refinery yesterday... more

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Rites of Passage/Pearl Diving in Kuwait

A three hundred year old ritual bringing young boys into manhood in Kuwait is... more

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IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: -- "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability" The time for ACTION IS NOW!

Excerpt from Chapter 3: Sea-level rise will extend areas of salinisation of... more

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CIA Contractor Flying Spy Drone Over Haiti

A controversial CIA contractor has found new work in Haiti, flying drones on disaster... more

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Science and the Scriptures

While scores of theological scholars have been studying the literal meaning of... more

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Kuwaiti Newspaper: “Keep Your Kids Away From Black Jewish Maids, They Practice Black Magic”

You know “moderate,” “modern” Kuwait–the country whose... more

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Kuwaiti Contractor May Have to Repay $130 Million to US Taxpayers

The extent of the massive waste and abuse surrounding the construction of the monstrous US embassy in Baghdad continues to expand. The State Department has just released another audit of the embassy’s construction and suggests that the Kuwaiti contractor hired by the Bush administration to do most of the construction work may have to repay more than $130 million to US taxpayers as a result of construction deﬁciencies, incomplete and undocumented design work, inadequate quality control and interest on unauthorized payments.

The Baghdad embassy—the largest of any nation on planet earth and ten times bigger than any other US embassy—is striking evidence indicating a continued US presence in the country for many years to come. The structure cost more than $700 million and is the size of 80 football fields. It is bigger than the Vatican, six times larger than the United Nations compound in New York and is about two thirds the size of the National Mall in Washington. It has space for 1,000 employees who are guarded by scores of paramilitary mercenary forces. In other words it is the perfect structure for a nation that claims to be leaving Iraq very soon.

Among the allegations against First Kuwaiti in the State Department audit are:

The company failed to follow contract specifications when it constructed “safe areas” in the embassy, which are “vital to protecting staff in emergency situations.”

Deficiencies at the embassy’s water treatment plant.

Using nonstandard wiring in the embassy’s power distribution system. The audit charges that First Kuwaiti “substituted a less reliable system.” The audit also says the company should repay $11 million because of the “additional operating costs” resulting from the installation of a “less efficient” system it installed.

Plumbing deficiencies at over 200 locations at the embassy.

The embassy’s fire protection systems are “not compliant with code,” while fire protection water mains were “improperly constructed.”

More @ linkThe extent of the massive waste and abuse surrounding the construction of the... more

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