Qatar is enslaving thousands of foreign workers to build the architectural wonders it plans to display at the World Cup. The wealthy Gulf kingdom has spared no expense, even if the cost is thousands of lives — the lives, that is, of poor foreign laborers from across the developing world. Toiling long hours in scorching desert heat, and housed in squalid, overcrowded labor … Continue reading
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What exactly has the Pentagon sold to Qatar? Will Hamas soon have its own ‘Iron Dome’?
The Obama White House is providing Qatar with the means to develop highly sophisticated defensive capabilities — a counterpart, in fact, to Israel’s Iron Dome. Are some of these new weapons systems headed for Gaza and Judea and Samaria? It seems likely, when one considers that much of the weapons looted from Gaddafi’s military by U.S.-Qatari backed Islamist insurgents … Continue reading
The Perils of Reporting The Obscene Business Of Tanking the Global Economy (Part 8)
Just as Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK) was forced to resign as head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) following his spectacular arrest for allegedly raping a Muslim hotel maid in New York City, the IMF, under his leadership, was engaged in aggressively probing the tawdry exploits of certain energy rich nations, exposing, as it happens, a … Continue reading
Michel Chossudovsky and Imam Rauf, co-supporters of Iran and Hamas. Providing cover and enlisting support for US foreign policy (Part 12)
How is it possible that both Feisal Rauf, a U.S. establishment operative, and Michel Chossudosky, a Leftist academic and anti- U.S. establishment activist, share this same Pro – Hamas cause? It’s a remarkably curious convergence. Continue reading
Part 1 – “crude oil envy” | How IRAN and SAUDI ARABIA profited from the NATO bombing of Libya
Within a week of the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami striking Japan on Friday March 11, 2011, the United States was flying bombing missions over Libya because, so the story goes, Qaddafi might massacre his own people in Benghazi. Seemingly inspired by the Tom Cruise movie “Minority Report,” the American President appeared to be acting on … Continue reading