When MBz and MBS were gangstering American ally, Qatar with Trump's blessing, they were obsessed with getting their hands on dissidents and silencing al Jazeera. This obsessive goal has not stopped. aljazeera.com/news/2017/7/12…
Israeli security forces like to harass al Jazeera employees as well. aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/5/…
Much of this enmity comes from who historically owns the Arab (or is it Persian?) "lake" along with control of passage via the tiny islands of Abu Musa, Lesser Tunb, and Greater Tunb. And the gas that springs from beneath tiny islands that lights Europe files.ethz.ch/isn/194095/GRM…
The history of all the Gulf nations is worth a read. Barely three generations of wealth, literacy and influence after World War Two due to oil and now desperately seeking to use that money and supply to secure familial control into the future. businessinsider.com/how-qatar-got-…
The UAE's Sheikh Shakbut is one of my favorite reads. A man who lived in squalor trying to deal with sudden wealth and the impact it would have on his tribe. Fratricide was a more common way of succession back then. whynationsfail.com/blog/2012/9/25…
The ease and paucity which which the Gulf tribals bought their way into the Trump government is embarrassing. As long as politicians need money to get elected there will be corruption. The middlemen need to burn. cnbc.com/2021/07/20/tru…
The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) was created in 1938 to unmask spies. It puts onerous reporting and legal demands foriegn agents who lobby the U.S. government. Nothing much has changed. justice.gov/nsd-fara/recen…
Trump and his family do business internationally. Yet his accountants and lawyers are not quite good enough to hide the grift. The arrest of his top financial adviser shows laughable greed for someone who says he is a billionaire. Did Don take Gulf money? opensecrets.org/news/2019/06/t…
Trump is "transactional". Not just for the nation but for his own personal circle which keeps him alive. Transactional leadership"depends on a system of reward and punishment, while the latter (transformational) takes advantage of internal motivation." sopheconference.com/Drake_Lectures…
The early political decisions by Trump were driven by special interest donations. Tit for tat. Quid pro quo. Industry triumphed. Trade wars started. Weapons were sold. A wall will be built. America was going to be great again. politico.com/agenda/story/2…
Trump's foreign policy plans were also his business deals. Not good ones for America. Adelson paid Trump to move the embassy. The Gulfies and Israel demanded their agenda supersede ours. The Ukraine extortion, North Korea reach around and China war failed. foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/14/tru…
The Abraham Accords was ultimately about profits, real estate, changing borders, and excluding Palestine, Jordan, Qatar, Iran and anyone who disagreed with Israeli and Gulf dreams of regional domination. And making Jared solvent. nytimes.com/2019/02/26/us/…
The early grift was clear: Strong arm rich people to keeping Jared out of bankruptcy. Then later when Trump was feeling is oats it expanded to strong arming dictators and other nations to make the minions rich. The list of criminals is long. businessinsider.com/trump-threaten…
But let's start with Jared. How does a broke ass billionaire rent out an aging broke ass office building for 99 years with a cash payment up front and retain full ownership. Ever in the history of anything? washingtonpost.com/politics/jared…
Kushner, Barrack, Broidy, Prince, Nader, Rudy and many other MAGA dingleberries soon found themselves flush with cash from projects that began to blow up when Daddy suddenly couldn't keep it for a second round. A forensic examination of off shore funds is in order.
Barrack gets an ankle bracelet and puts up 250m to prevent him from dashing to Abu Dhabi which has no extradition. We have more flight risks. #LockThemUp. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
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