MintPress editor in chief Mnar Muhawesh was invited to the Anti-Media Radio with Nick Bernabe & DB Schwartz, to break down the conflict in Syria and discuss recent Wikileaks cables that reveal gas pipelines and competing energy needs as fueling western intervention in Syria.
In many ways, the current conflict in Yemen can be seen as a “proxy war” between two OPEC members, motivated by oil.
VIENNA --- Since its formation in Baghdad over 50 years ago, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, has used its influence not just to benefit members’ own profits from exporting crude, but also to affect global politics through the power of energy. OPEC formed at the “Baghdad Conference,” held from Sept. 10-14, 1960,
“Perceptions can be very deceiving when it comes to Saudi Arabia, especially since Western media have mostly acted as Al Saud’s personal publicists over the decades,” one analyst tells MintPress. “Reality is about to come crashing in, though.”
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia --- Space studies have established that at the very moment a star stands on the verge of its death, as its core becomes so unstable it starts to self-cannibalize, it begins to expand far beyond its regular size, appearing a giant when it is actually at its weakest and most vulnerable. Stephen Lendman, a veteran political
“There is a great identity of interests and threats and agendas … some would even like to join forces with Israel.”
HERZLIYA, Israel — An Israeli college has quietly conducted an opinion poll in Saudi Arabia, concluding that the Saudi public is far more concerned about the threats of Iran and the Islamic State group than Israel, and that the vast majority of Saudis support a decade-old peace offer to the Jewish state. The survey conducted by the
From Houthi leaders to Yemenis living through the Saudi-led bombings, MintPress is compiling a timeline of events starting from March 25, the day the bombings started.
Yemenis search for survivors in the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes in a village near Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, April 4, 2015. LONDON --- Since the Arab Spring lit up the streets of Yemen in 2011, the impoverished country on the tip of the Arabian Peninsula has crumbled under the weight of political instability, insecurity,
Oil.
Yemen's President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, left, walks with Saudi Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman as he arrives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, March 26, 2015. SANAA, Yemen --- On March 25, King Salman decided to engage the Saudi military against the Houthis of Yemen, after the latter marched on Aden, the capital of the former South
