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GCC-China Summit Statement

9 December 2022

"1. The leaders agreed to strengthen the existing strategic partnership between the GCC and China, and emphasized pushing it towards new horizons in various political, economic and cultural fields, and approved the joint action plan for the coming period (2023-2027) to achieve this.
"2. The (…)

Saudi Arabia, Bahreïn, the Emirates and Oman snub US invitation

11 May 2015

King Salman of Saudi Arabia announced that he will not participate in the meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council convened at Camp David by President Obama, on the 13th and 14th May 2015. His spokesman indicated that the king was not available on those dates, that he was dealing with the (…)

"The Art of War"

The Enlarged NATO partners

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 20 December 2014

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO has turned into a global tool of U.S imperialism. The Arab countries of the Persian Gulf (except Oman and Yemen) are already integrated into the Alliance, alongside Israel. Accordingly, Qatar provided a screen for the mercenaries used by NATO against (…)

United States and the Gulf Cooperation Council bomb unknown targets in Syria

25 September 2014

On September 23rd, the US and some members of the GCC (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Qatar) bombed terrorist targets in Syria.
The stated goal aim was to destroy the Islamist State’s centers of command.
The strikes were, for the most part, launched from the (…)

Towards an Arab NATO

17 April 2014

The Gulf Cooperation Council has invited Morocco and Jordan to form a military alliance.
In 2012, the GCC had presented the two monarchies with $ 5 billion to join the organization. It is now a matter of going one step further and placing the respective armies under a joint command, headed by (…)

Muslim Brotherhood divides Gulf Cooperation Council

9 March 2014

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates severed diplomatic relations with Qatar, March 5, 2014. They are also soon expected to ban Qatar Airways from overflying their territory, which will not fail to cause serious financial losses to the Emirate. In addition to closing the (…)

Humanitarian intervention, highest stage of capitalism

The “Friends of Syria” divvy up Syrian economy before conquest

by German Foreign Policy

Berlin (Germany) | 30 June 2012

Proving that the West’s Syrian preoccupations have nothing to do with expressed noble motives of democracy and civilian welfare, the Conference of Friends (sic) of the Syrian People is preparing a plan to pillage the economy upon occupation. In grand colonial tradition, a Working Group, (…)

US clings onto Gulf with tens of thousands of troops in region

21 June 2012

The latest US Senate Foreign Relations Committee report suggests the US will seek to maintain its position as the only superior military power in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf region for the time being.
Despite the troop withdrawal from Iraq, the American military presence in the area (…)

URGENT

NATO preparing vast disinformation campaign

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 11 June 2012

Member States of NATO and the GCC are preparing a coup d’état and a sectarian genocide in Syria. If you want to prevent these crimes, you should act now: circulate this article on the Internet and alert your elected officials.

Gulf State Gendarmes: West Backs Holy Alliance For Control Of Arab World And Persian Gulf

by Rick Rozoff

Chicago | 27 May 2011

While Barack Obama and David Cameron vow to support the "Arab Springs", their armies are bombarding Libya. But they needn’t have any qualms about it; most of the dirty work has been farmed out to the Gulf Cooperation Council, a new Holy Alliance of Arab monarchies which stands against (…)

The Middle East counter-revolution

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 26 May 2011

A Saudi clan, the Sudairi, is spearheading the counter-revolutionary tide unleashed by the United States and Israel in the Middle East. In a vast overview, published in serial form by the leading Russian language daily,
Thierry Meyssan from Damascus paints a general picture of the (…)