By James M. Dorsey Silent about rising sectarian violence in Pakistan, Gulf states vying for religious soft power risk exposing the limitations of their concepts of an undefined ‘moderate’ Islam that is tolerant and endorses pluralism. Countries like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar have so far turned a blind eye to mounting sectarian sentiment in Karachi and Punjab province against Shiites and Ahmadis, sects […]
We all know or should know that when a celebrity threatens to leave the country if a particular candidate wins the election they don’t really mean it. They are just expressing their dissatisfaction with that candidate. The thing is that while there are plenty of articles about celebrities who would leave if tRump won, I can’t find any articles about celebrities who would leave if Biden won. […]
Fortunately Biden will never be our president. Too much fraud from the Democrats have come to light and the Supreme Court nor the electors will let Biden be our President due to fraud so relax we got President Trump who actually won by a landslide for 4 more years! Thank God! Let’s block ads! (Why?)
By John Bachtell Joe Biden and Kamala Harris assume office on January. 21, 2020, confronting the most significant overlapping set of crises since the Great Depression, beginning with the exploding Covid-19 pandemic, and economic, inequality, and ecological crises. Only large-scale solutions and government intervention can begin to solve these crises. Consolidating the election […]
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By James M. Dorsey Saudi Arabia has taken multiple steps to polish its tarnished image in advance of this weekend’s hosting of the virtual summit of the G20 that groups the world’s foremost economies and in anticipation of an incoming Biden administration in the United States that is expected to be critical of Riyadh and potentially more conciliatory towards Iran and non-violent Islamists. The initiatives target US and European […]
By James M. Dorsey and Alessandro Arduino Public debates about China’s Middle East policy are as much internal Chinese discussions as they are indications of where Beijing’s thinking is going and efforts to nudge countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to accommodate potential policy changes. Relying on scholars rather than officials, China is signalling to Gulf states adjustments they would have to make to […]
By James M. Dorsey Weakened by Joe Biden’s electoral defeat of US President Donald J. Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu risks being caught between a rock and a hard place as Jordan, the Palestine Authority and the United Arab Emirates manoeuvre for control of what is to Jews the Temple Mount and to Muslims the Haram ash-Sharif, the third most holy site in Islam. The rivalry […]
By Ole S. Hansen Since the U.S. election this Tuesday, nearly all assets including most commodities have enjoyed a strong surge. The everything up and U.S. dollar down narrative unfolded despite the prospect of at least two years of political gridlock in Washington preventing U.S. fiscal stimulus from flowing into a Covid-19 hit economy, while also putting the brakes on the reflation trade. Commodities nevertheless rallied hard […]
By Jonathan Zadikany Germany’s leader, Hitler, stated numerous times that his war against the Jews was, in essence, a war against morality. Here are a few quotes attesting to this from Hermann Rauschning’s book, Hitler Speaks: A Series Of Political Conversations With Adolf Hitler On His Real Aims: “The Ten Commandments have lost their validity.” “Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish, like circumcision” (223). “Providence […]
By Matein Khalid The brutal correction in NASDAQ last week did not spare such former tech sector darlings as cloud software, semiconductors and social media shares. The Big Daddy of social media is Facebook (symbol FB) and its shares were slammed by $19 on NASDAQ to $262 or $42 below its recent high. Even though Facebook beat the Street’s EPS whisper number, its CFO confessed that member […]
