Author: Steven Sahiounie

US President Donald Trump has picked hostage negotiator Robert O’Brien as his new national security adviser. Trump on Wednesday announced he intends to name O’Brien as his next national security adviser. “I have worked long & hard with Robert. He will do a great job!” Trump tweeted. O’Brien who is replacing sacked John Bolton. O’Brien has served as Trump’s special envoy for hostage affairs at the State Department since May 2018. He has also served as foreign policy adviser to several Republican presidential campaigns. He once served as foreign affairs adviser to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. O’Brien is the…

Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have intercepted and targeted an unmanned aerial vehicle belonging to the Saudi-led military coalition in the skies over the country’s southwestern province of Ta’izz, in retaliation for the alliance’s military aggression against their conflict-stricken country. The media bureau of the Houthi Ansarullah movement announced in a statement that Yemeni forces and their allies shot down the drone as it was on a reconnaissance mission over al-Wazi’iyah district on Wednesday afternoon. Separately, dozens of Saudi-sponsored militiamen loyal to Yemen’s former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi were killed and injured when Yemeni army soldiers and their allies launched an…

By Sarah Abed The fifth Syria-focused Astana process summit took place in Turkey’s capital, Ankara on Monday. Since the summit’s inception in 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have engaged in trilateral discussions regarding resolving the Syrian conflict. The focus of this particular summit was on restoring peace and stability in Syria by forming a committee to draft a new Syrian constitution, as well as defeating terrorist factions in Idlib.  Immediately prior to the summit in Ankara, President Rouhani blamed Israel and the United States for tensions in the Middle East. He stated, “Today, what is taking place in this region and has…

By Miri Wood As NATO media are currently mourning the departure of  Neocon, John Bolton, and incited support for US bombing of Iran because Yemeni patriots engaged in a retaliatory bombing of an oil refinery in Saudi occupied Arabia, no attention is given to ongoing war crimes by the Trump and Erdogan regimes, against Syria, nor of the continuing terror attacks, including the bombing of a real hospital. On 15 September, illicit US forces brought a convoy of dozens of military vehicles from Iraq into Syria, turning them over to the SDF separatist terrorists to strengthen them in al-Jazira, northeast of the country near…

Saudi Arabia’s energy minister said that its oil supplies had resumed and that its oil market would be “fully back online” by the end of September following attacks which Washington blames on Iran while Riyadh is still probing. Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman told the media that oil production in October would reach 9.89 million barrels per day and 12 million bpd by the end of November. “We are asking the world to help us to help secure oil,” he said, adding that Riyadh expect no decline in oil exports and “no oil cargoes were canceled.” He also said Riyadh did not yet…

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and a senior Chinese military official have signed a set of documents on military-technical cooperation. Russia’s Defense Ministry says Shoigu and the Vice Chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, Zhang Youxia, signed the documents in Moscow. The ministry quoted Shoigu as saying China is Russia’s key strategic partner, and the two countries are entering a new stage of development. Zhang accused the United States of exerting strategic pressure on China and Russia. He said China has always put priority on Russia in its diplomacy, and it is ready to cooperate to achieve a new breakthrough.…

Almost 50,000 US auto workers went on strike on Monday in a pay dispute with General Motors, the largest industrial action to hit the car-maker in more than a decade. Workers from 31 plants opted to walk out after talks between the company and the United Auto Workers Union (UAW) hit an impasse as they tried to negotiate a replacement agreement when the manufacturer’s four-year contract with workers expired. How long the labor action might last was uncertain. “The strike can take a little while longer,” Brian Rothenberg, a spokesman for the powerful union, told AFP. He said that only…

By Pepe Escobar What’s going on deep down in Hong Kong? For a former resident with deep cultural and emotional ties to the Fragrant Harbor, it’s quite hard to take it all in just within the framework of cold geopolitical logic. Master filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai once said that when he came up with the idea for Happy Together, he decided to shoot the story of his characters in Buenos Aires because that was as far away from Hong Kong as possible. A few weeks ago I was walking the streets of far away Buenos Aires dreaming of Hong Kong. That Hong Kong that…

By: Mark Hunt The Muslim Brotherhood is a political group with offices around the world and throughout the USA. Their official website and platform states they believe the Koran to be the only global constitution, and Islamic Law (Shariah) to be the only law of the world. Their goal, as they have stated publically, is to abolish all secular government, and institute an Islamic State as the only global government. If we tell them this is absurd, and it is wrong, and can’t be anyone’s goal, we are in essence telling them that their religion is not good and should not…

By Abdus-Sattar Ghazali  With $295 billion 2019 defense budget, Saudi Arabia Saturday failed to stop a drone attack on its oil installations from the Yemeni rebel rag tag militia. Drones launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels attacked the world’s largest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia and another major oil field, sparking huge fires. The facilities are operated by Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil giant, and produce up to 70% of the country’s crude oil output. The Wall Street Journal, quoting “people familiar with the matter,” reported that Saudi Arabia is shutting down about half of its oil output following the…