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Russia-Saudi revenge against shale oil threatens to crush entire US financial system, Professor Wolff tells Boom Bust
rt.com | 2020-03-12
Global stock markets hit bear territory this week, with oil prices experiencing their biggest plunge since the 1991 Gulf War. | Boom Bust is joined by Professor Richard Wolff of the Economic Update to discuss the ongoing oil crisis. He explains that the US, which wanted "energy independence," decided 10-20 years ago to go into the fracking business simply because it was profitable. | "Fracking is very expensive… but everything was premised on the notion that the price of oil would stay very high," Wolff says. "The Saudis and the Russians were hurt by the emergence of the American fracking industry; they've h…
rt.com/business/482947-russia-saudi-revenge-shale/

Saudi's Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS
Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-12
This week, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), Saudi Arabia's 34-year-old de facto ruler, was on a tear. He arrested members of his own royal family and initiated an oil price war with Russia that has sent the price of oil–and the world's stock markets–plummeting. Behind the headlines, however, another critical event will take place …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/03/saudis-brave-women-pull-back-the-curtain-on-crown-prince-mbs/

US Marines Arrive on Yemen's Socotra Island to Back UAE Troops: Reports
Tasnim News Agency | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-12
Sanaa Post reported that the American soldiers were received by the occupying UAE forces at their headquarters on the island. | There is speculation that the US intends to establish its own military base amid reports that America had sent military …
globalresearch.ca/us-marines-arrive-yemen-socotra-back-uae-troops-reports/5706170

US Marines Arrive on Yemen's Socotra Island to Back UAE Troops: Reports
Tasnim News Agency | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-12
Sanaa Post reported that the American soldiers were received by the occupying UAE forces at their headquarters on the island. | There is speculation that the US intends to establish its own military base amid reports that America had sent military …
globalresearch.ca/us-marines-arrive-yemen-socotra-back-uae-troops-reports/5706170

UN warns of new locust swarms forming in Africa
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-12
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said new locust swarms began to form in the Horn of Africa

Saudi Arabia's Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS
Medea Benjamin | mintpressnews.com | 2020-03-11
The case of Al-Hathloul and the other women's rights activists on trial in Saudi Arabia is a tremendous embarrassment for MBS, who has been putting an enormous effort into convincing his Western allies that he is a reformer and that the Kingdom is becoming more liberal.
mintpressnews.com/loujan-al-hathloul-trail-saudi-arabia-pull-back-curtain-mbs/265634/

Video: Saudi-initiated All-out Oil War Could Lead to Collapse of Kingdom Itself
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-11
Saudi Arabia launched an all-out oil war offering unprecedented discounts and flooding the market in an attempt to capture a larger share and defeat other oil producers. This "scorched earth" approach caused the biggest oil price fall since the war …
globalresearch.ca/video-saudi-initiated-all-out-oil-war-could-lead-collapse-kingdom-itself/5706066

Saudi's Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS
Medea Benjamin, Ariel Gold | commondreams.org | 2020-03-11
The fact that MBS lifted the driving ban and simultaneously put in prison those who had campaigned and suffered for such reforms makes clear his actual motive: to silence dissent and prevent these women's voices from being heard. (Photo: @noconversion/Twitter) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/letsdrive.png …
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Saudi's Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS
Medea Benjamin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-11
Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), Saudi Arabia's 34-year-old de facto ruler, was on a tear. He arrested members of his own royal family and initiated an oil price war with Russia that has sent the price …
globalresearch.ca/saudi-brave-women-pull-back-curtain-crown-prince-mbs/5706082

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2020-03-11: News Headlines

Medea Benjamin (2020-03-11). Saudi Arabia's Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS. mintpressnews.com The case of Al-Hathloul and the other women's rights activists on trial in Saudi Arabia is a tremendous embarrassment for MBS, who has been putting an enormous effort into convincing his Western allies that he is a reformer and that the Kingdom is becoming more liberal.

Medea Benjamin (2020-03-11). Saudi's Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS. globalresearch.ca Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), Saudi Arabia's 34-year-old de facto ruler, was on a tear. He

RT (2020-03-11). Tanker rates soar as Saudi Arabia & UAE get ready to open oil taps. rt.com Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have unveiled plans to ramp up both crude supplies and production capacity as soon as the oil deal with Russia expires. The move has sank oil prices and sent freight rates higher. | After Russia did not agree to new production cuts with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), the oil cartel's leader Saudi Arabia set the course for flooding the already oversupplied oil market. On Wednesday, state-owned oil giant Saudi Aramco revealed that it would boost production capacity for the first time in more than a decade to 13 million barrels per day (bpd)…

South Front (2020-03-11). Video: Saudi-initiated All-out Oil War Could Lead to Collapse of Kingdom Itself. globalresearch.ca Saudi Arabia launched an all-out oil war offering unprecedented discounts and flooding the market in an attempt to capture a larger share and defeat other oil producers. This "scorched earth" approach caused the biggest oil price fall since the war …

yenisafak (2020-03-11). Turkish businessman's honey attracts customers worldwide. yenisafak.com Honey sold by a Turkish businessman is flying off store shelves across five continents, and it counts top government officials in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia among its customers.Muhammed Kasim Mucedidi's success story began when he inherited the beekeeping and honey trade from his parents and earned a scholarship from a university in Kuwait.During his studies, Mucedidi decided to start investing in honey and opened a small store. His business gradually turned into a prominent company in the country, and years later he became one of the pioneers of the honey industry in Kuwait and the Gulf region.He opened a laborator…

sputniknews (2020-03-11). Russian Energy Minister Believes Saudi Arabia's Oil Production Increase 'Not Best Option'. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Wednesday he believes that Saudi Arabia's plans to boost the national oil production were not "the best option" in the existing market conditions.

Andrew Korybko (2020-03-10). Saudi Arabia's Oil Price War Could Very Easily Backfire. globalresearch.ca Russia's rejection of its OPEC+ partners' request to further reduce oil production in response to slumping demand prompted Saudi Arabia to unwisely initiate an oil price war over the weekend as revenge, one which the Gulf country is ill-equipped to …

RT (2020-03-09). Trump says crashing markets good for consumers, blames Russia, Saudi Arabia and Fake News. rt.com US President Donald Trump can't seem to decide whether a sudden, massive drop in oil prices is good or bad for the country, so he's hedged his bets on Twitter, suggesting it's "Good for the consumer" but bad for markets. | Blaming the "market drop" on "Saudi Arabia and Russia…arguing over the price and flow of oil" in a Monday morning tweet, the president whipsawed around and – within the same minute! – bragged that the resulting chaos was "good for the consumer," because gas prices would go down. | Saudi Arabia and Russia are arguing over the price and flow of oil. That, and the Fake News, is the reason for…

news.un (2020-03-07). Yemen: UN envoy calls for 'immediate and unconditional' freeze on military activities. news.un.org In a visit to northern Yemen on Saturday, UN Special Envoy Martin Griffiths repeated his call for an immediate freeze on military activities and for warring parties to work towards a de-escalation in fighting.

news.un (2020-03-06). Rights office concerned over death sentences against 35 Yemeni MPs. news.un.org The UN human rights office is calling on authorities in Yemen to revoke death sentences imposed against 35 parliamentarians allegedly for treason charges.

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