by Ghassan Kadi Love him or hate him, Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman (MBS) is like no other prince that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has seen since its inception under the rule of his founding grandfather King Abdul Aziz ...

Princes, ministers and a billionaire are ‘imprisoned’ in the Riyadh Ritz-Carlton while the Saudi Arabian Army is said to be in an uproar by Pepe Escobar for the Asia Times (posted by special  arrangement) The House of Saud’s King Salman devises an high-powered ...

by Ghassan Kadi The sudden resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri raises a number of questions. To fast track the main relevant events of the last decade or so, Hariri was Saudi Arabia’s favourite kid on the Lebanese block. ...

Richest Saudi Prince Says Bitcoin Will Collapse Like Enron. In the land of countless princes and billionaires, prince Alwaleed bin Talal may be the richest of them. He’s the grandson of the founder of Saudi Arabia, King Abdulaziz Alsaud. Based ...

by Pepe Escobar for the Asia Times China’s Belt and Road Initiative – the New Silk Road – will spark the country’s development and turn the dream into reality. Now that President Xi Jinping has been duly elevated to the Chinese ...

      Òdómobìnrin odún mókàndínlógún tí ó tún jé ò n lò èro ayárabíàsá (Twitter) ti gba àwon òdóbìnrin ní ìmòràn wípé kí won múra sísé kí won sì gbàgbó nípa èróngbà olórun sí won nígbà tí ó n ...

by Ghassan Kadi Much has been said about the Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman (aka MBS), and most of it, has been in the form of criticism from different analysts and individuals including some members of the Saudi royal family ...

Saudi Arabia pivots to Russia, the new sheriff in town by Pepe Escobar for the Asia Times What a difference a year – an eternity in geopolitics – makes. No one could see this coming; the ideological matrix of all strands of Salafi-jihadi ...

Ooni condemns proscription of IPOB The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has condemned the proscription of the Indigenous People of Biafra. The monarch said this ‘on Friday in Abia State when he paid a courtesy visit to the Gov ...

Starting this October the Japanese government and the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) have put virtual currency exchanges operating in the country under government surveillance. So far they have authorised the work of 11 exchange markets, including BitFlyer — the ...