Headlines:
- Under pressure from Trump to Increase Oil, MBS pleads that Saudi has done enough
- As America continues to struggle in Afghanistan, Blackwater Founder is Active again
- Nobel Peace Prize Another Propaganda Move by the Disbelieving West
Under pressure from Trump to Increase Oil, MBS pleads that Saudi has done enough
US President Donald Trump has been continuously pressurising Saudi Arabia to increase oil production to offset the negative impact of American sanctions on Iranian oil. According to Reuters:
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman dismissed remarks by Donald Trump in which the U.S. president said he had warned the king he would not last in power “for two weeks” without U.S. military backing and demanded he pay up.
“I love working with him. You know, you have to accept that any friend will say good things and bad things,” Prince Mohammed said in a Bloomberg interview published on Friday.
“We believe that all the armaments we have from the United States of America are paid for, it’s not free armament. So ever since the relationship started between Saudi Arabia and the United States of America, we’ve bought everything with money,” Prince Mohammed added.
Trump made the comments at a rally in Mississippi on Tuesday. Despite the harsh words, the Trump administration has had a close relationship with Saudi Arabia, which it views as a bulwark against Iran’s ambitions in the region.
Trump is concerned that, with high oil prices, the Republican Congressional majorities will be in jeopardy in the upcoming midterm elections. The Saudi regime has been fully cooperating yet Trump continues to press on. According to another Reuters report:
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said the kingdom has met its promise to Washington to make up for Iranian crude oil supplies lost through U.S. sanctions.
“The request that America made to Saudi Arabia and other OPEC countries is to be sure that if there is any loss of supply from Iran, that we will supply that. And that happened,” Prince Mohammed told Bloomberg on Friday.
“Iran reduced their exports by 700,000 barrels a day, if I’m not mistaken. And Saudi Arabia and OPEC and non-OPEC countries, they’ve produced 1.5 million barrels a day. So we export as much as 2 barrels for any barrel that disappeared from Iran recently. So we did our job and more.”
Russia and Saudi Arabia struck a private deal in September to raise oil output to cool rising prices and informed the United States before a meeting in Algiers with other producers, Reuters reported this week. [nL8N1WJ5M6]
U.S. President Donald Trump has blamed the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) for high crude prices and called on it to boost output to bring down fuel costs before the U.S. congressional elections on Nov. 6.
Benchmark Brent oil LCOc1 rallied above $86 this week mainly stemming from a decline in oil exports from OPEC member Iran due to fresh U.S. sanctions. It settled at $84.16 a barrel on Friday.
The discomfort of Mohammad bin Salman is a lesson for all would be agents. Even serving the American master as diligently as he has done does not spare him from private rebuke and public pressure. Indeed, loyal agents suffer worse humiliation than others because these Western masters press them ever harder without the need for employing diplomatic skills.
It is the work of treacherous agents such as Mohammad bin Salman that has made the oil wealth that belongs to the entire Ummah the personal property of the West and its companies, to dictate as they please regarding its production and distribution. Oil remains the most vital resource in the world today, accounting for the great majority of trade flows and the cornerstone of Western economic power despite the fact that most centres for oil production lie in Muslim lands.
With Allah’s permission, Muslims will soon take charge of their own affairs, through sincere, indigenous, ideological leadership that will reject the hegemony of the disbelieving foreigner and place this wealth at the service of the Muslim Ummah and her State.
As America continues to struggle in Afghanistan, Blackwater founder is active again
According to the New York Times:
…More than a year after first laying out his plan to President Trump to privatize the American war in Afghanistan with a cadre of contractors — and a private air force — Mr. Prince, the founder of the Blackwater security firm that became infamous for killing civilians in Iraq, has seemingly been everywhere.
And as he has made his sales pitch directly to a host of influential Afghans, he has frequently been introduced as an adviser to Mr. Trump himself.
Mr. Prince is pushing his plan at a particularly vulnerable time for the country. Afghan security forces are dying at a record number of 30 to 40 a day largely in a defensive posture against a Taliban that has gained territory. The government is beset by repeated political crises as parliamentary elections, delayed for three years, are scheduled for this month. Presidential elections are set for April.
Interviews with a half-dozen political figures who have met Mr. Prince in recent months — as well as an interview with Mr. Prince by The New York Times during his trip to Kabul in September — reveal an executive determined to sell a vision of how his contractors could offer an official military withdrawal from Afghanistan to a war-weary American public and president.
Now, those officials say, he has increasingly found a receptive audience among Afghanistan’s power brokers, meeting everyone from lowly militia commanders, to former cabinet officials and entrenched regional strongmen, to several potential presidential candidates.
Despite the American military’s deep hostility to the ‘privatisation’ of war, Erik Prince is once again active in advocating a private army for Afghanistan as it is evident that America is completely failing to secure the country. America will not cease to use new means and styles to spread its corruption in the Earth. The West will only be stopped by the re-establishment of a truly ideological state, sincere to its thought and method and in agreement with human nature. With Allah’s permission, the re-established and reunified Islamic Khilafah (Caliphate) State on the method of the Prophet ﷺ will implement Islam, liberate all Muslims lands and carry the light of Islam to the world, finally ridding humanity of the evil hegemony of the disbelieving powers.
Nobel Peace Prize Another Propaganda Move by the Disbelieving West
The Nobel Committee, well known to directly follow an imperialist agenda, has once more chosen to highlight crimes in countries other than the West, as if the West is above those crimes. According to Vanity Fair:
Exactly a year after a New York Times exposé set off a global reckoning about sexual assault and harassment, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2018 Peace Prize to Nadia Murad and Dr. Denis Mukwege, two activists who have worked to spread awareness about sexual violence and rape during wartime.
An Iraqi from the Yazidi religious minority, Murad was abducted, raped, and tortured by ISIS when militants captured her small village, Kojo, near the Syrian border. When she was released in 2014, she went on to talk publicly about the systematic way ISIS used sexual violence with the goal of wiping out the Yazidi population in Iraq. In 2016, testimony from victims persuaded the State Department to formally recognize ISIS’s actions against the Yazidis as genocide.
Mukwege is a gynecologist from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who has spent decades treating the injuries of women who faced gang rape during wartime. He founded a hospital in Bukavu, Congo, that has a special focus on treating victims. In speeches to the U.N., Mukwege is also known for publicizing internationally the gravity of the wounds inflicted on victims during wartime. After performing surgery on a patient, cheering and crying co-workers informed Mukwege that he won the prize. “I could see in the faces of many women how they are happy to be recognized,” he said in an interview.
The boldfaced deceit of the Nobel Committee continues to astonish. Not only do they fail to contextualise such crimes against women as a direct consequence of Western imperialist involvement throughout the world in initiating wars, destabilising governments, and exploiting resources but they also fail to recognise the much greater prevalence of crimes against women within the West itself, where the mistreatment and abuse of women in public and private life has become quite routine, as the only year old ‘#MeToo’ movement with its near daily newly shocking revelations attests.
The present Western civilisation has brought only misery for humanity and, in particular for women. By destroying family life, the West has deprived women of their unique place of security, honour and dignity in society, throwing them into public life to compete with men for their rights, and corrupting generation upon generation brought up without the proper care and support of the family home. In rejecting the feminine element in human nature, the West seek to turn society into a mass replica of the Capitalist corporation, a masculine materialist monstrosity, with atomised individual citizens owing loyalty to the state alone, bereft of all permanent, meaningful relationships amongst themselves, so that political power can be concentrated fully in the hands of the elite.
With Allah’s permission, the re-established righteous Islamic Khilafah (Caliphate) State on the method of the Prophet ﷺ shall fully restore the Islamic social system, built on the family and the special relationship between man and woman, without which it is not possible for human society to enjoy stability and tranquillity in life.