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Ok, I need to make a new thread for the Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy war. I didn’t realize there is an overarching theme here.
Iran, like Russia, is a close ally of Syria, so there’s a Wiki page on Iranian involvement in the Syrian Civil War. 🇮🇷 🇸🇾 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_i…
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia has been funneling weapons & ammunition to various rebel factions in the same Syrian Civil War. 🇸🇦 🇸🇾 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Ara…
I mentioned the Saudi Arabian “intervention” in the Yemeni Civil War in the previous thread. 🇸🇦 🇾🇪 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Ara…
Iran has been part of the effort to counter ISIS in Iraq. 🇮🇷 🇮🇶 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_i…
The Conflict in Najran, Jizan and Asir is an armed conflict between troops of Saudi Arabia and Houthi insurgents in the border region with Yemen. 🇸🇦 🇾🇪 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_…
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Reading "The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have The Money" by J. Bradford DeLong. Great analysis of the problems created by neoliberalism. My only complaint is that we didn't "[use our] economic dominance exclusively for global good." a.co/1hJrwak
Other than that suspicious claim on page 1 (was the author intentionally ignoring all of the social democracies that the CIA worked so diligently to subvert during the Cold War, to benefit American companies at the expense of the people of the targeted countries?), good analysis.
The book was published in 2010, so the stress of the then-recent recession led the author to be more clear sighted about the dangers of America's excesses back when we "had the money." We don't "have the money" any more. China, Japan, sovereign wealth funds, and billionaires do.
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So I've been watching more Alex Jones nonsense to see how he's holding up now that people really are out to get him. I noticed two things:

He has a new talking point that the Internet was invented by "a psychiatrist." David Knight, who reports "news" on Infowars, says the same.
I honestly don't know what psychiatrist they could possibly be thinking of. All of the early Internet pioneers were electrical engineers or scientists, AFAIK. Mark Zuckerberg's mother's a psychiatrist and Mark took psychology classes before dropping out of Harvard.
The other thing that's going to get Infowars and Jones in trouble is that, while he's cut down on the LGBT hate, he had a long routine about seeing a kid with autism while shopping and how awful it was that the child's "cerebral cortex" had been destroyed by glyphosate, etc..
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Reading about Henry Kissinger is challenging because it's clear that he had a generational effect on American self-conception as an imperial power (dominating for power's sake) that afflicts us today. Clinton would've continued this. Trump seems oblivious, but he's weakening us.
There was a brief window in the 1990s when we could have used our unipolar power to promote equality and human rights, e.g. in the former Soviet Union, but instead we continued in a Kissingerian vein, assuming that neoliberal capitalism would take over the world. Then came 9/11.
Kissinger was all about using power to create new realities. He was hoping that Kennedy would bring about an idealistic new world order. The quote about "we're an empire and we create our own reality", attributed to Karl Rove, actually reflects Kissingerian "Realpolitik."
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WEDNESDAY MORNING: Once again. Too much to explain, so best to sum up.

First off, #OPEC and its rapidly disintegrating deal, and Trump's part in that as well. #OOTT #Iran
As is known, #Trump went out again on oil prices this morning - a week before the #OPEC deal that ratchets up, again, the tensions on whether #OPEC will do anything (which they're likely to do).
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