THE ROVING EYE The fast and furious Sunni revenge By Pepe Escobar And the winner is … the Gulf Counter-revolution Club (GCC), also known as Gulf Cooperation Council. Their collective celebration party is this weekend’s Bahrain Formula 1 Grand Prix – complete with buckets of Moet and Ferraris oozing by. [...]
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If there is a difficulty with what Escobar is saying it goes to a fatal assumption that there is an Arab Spring as opposed to actions in separate countries being a struggle by those people in their own name and not as part [...]
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Tawakkul Karman, Yemeni Nobel peace laureate, has called on the UN to not grant Saleh impunity [Reuters] Ali Abdullah Saleh, president of Yemen, has agreed to sign a Gulf peace deal calling for a transfer of power, but only if the United States, Europe and Gulf Arab states gave him unspecified guarantees. “Now that the [...]
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