Arabia Deserta 
Middle East Focus: Category Archive for corruption

Qumquat of Qatar is Homeless in Manhattan: Too Many Al-Thanis, Sources of Money, Reichsführer Himmler of Bahrain………

Another Cruel Joke in Bahrain: Titled Bandits Running Out of Time………..

A Small Gulf GCC Oligarchy Buys Big Washington Influence…..

Baghdad: A Sleepy Arab Summit in an Explosive City……………..

Buying the Soul of Britain, Raping the History of Islam, Sacking Mecca……………

Watermelon Country: Kings and Princes and Stolen Lands on the Gulf………

Impoverished People’s Kingdom of Arabia, Freedom in Prison…………

Extreme Poverty in a Democratic People’s Kingdom of Arabia…………..

A Crime in Manhattan: Plaza Hotel, Saudi Oger, and Lebanese Rumors……..

A Bahrain Think Tank and the Joys of Tribal Wahhabi Liberalism…………

Ugh: More on Tony Blair………..

The Tony Blair Israeli-Palestinian Barbershop Quartet……….

Nuclear Kingdom: Scientists, Scholars, Princes to Redefine Halal and Kosher………

Watermelon Country: Saudi King Gifts Lebanon’s Hariri $ 2 Billion for Valentine………..

Destroying Islamic History in Mecca: Marble and Glass but no Class……..

Arabian Peninsula: the Condemned Sorcerer and the Free Prince……….

Saudi High: Spelling Hypocrisy in Arabic (and in Latin)………….

Blood Diamonds of the Gulf: from Bahrain to Britain…………..

ANHRI: Saudi Religious Police Celebrate New Year's, Santa Claus at Large…….

A Brother Opines: Mahmoud Bin Ahmadinejad Al………

Arms Deals: New Saudi Defense Minister Starts his Piggy Bank.........

A Tale of Two Cities: Nepotism in Tehran and Riyadh……….

Holy Kims of North Korea: about the Three Magi and the Star of Bethlehem and Mount Paektu……

Kim Jong Al Saud of Arabia: HRH Abdulaziz Bin Fahd: Father’s Favorite, Mother’s Cutest, Yacht in Barcelona……

Arab Monarchies and Illusory Legitimacy: Oil and Opium, Mars or Uranus.........

The Unique Humor of His Royal Majesty the King of Bahrain...........

Economics of Labor and Limb Atrophy in the GCC: a Racket, n'est-ce pas?.......

Tony Blair going Madoff: Investment Banker to Potentates, when Firerush and Windrush mean Oil Rush………..

Humor in Bahrain: Integrity in a Den of Thieves………….

Breathtaking Hypocrisy: the UN and Human Rights Violations, the Prince and Kardashian……….

UAE and Trotsky and Shakhboot: A Simple Sensible Emirati Solution for Arab and World Unrest………….

Women of Saudi Arabia, Men of North Korea, ‘Broken Mares’ Syndrome………

Fatwa: Saudi Mufti Shaikh Al, Court Clerics Blast ‘Dishonest’ Contractors, Ignore Princes…….

Why the US will Sell Weapons of Repression to Bahrain, Bon Bon Vivant………..

Indispensable King, Princes Flipping Falafel in Riyadh, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett as Arabian Caddies………

Russia's Wars and Deficits, Chinese Awards, Arab Woody Allen Awards, Prince Yin bin Yang……….

Bahrain Sports: Mixing Soccer, Football, and Torture…………..

Prince Salman to “Modernize” Saudi Military, Generate more Commissions for Princes………

Saudi Rivalry: Adios Prince of Plenty, Shalom Prince of Loyalty, Prince of al-Yamama.......

Saudi Reshuffling of Bins: Danny Kaye Gone, Custodian of the Pearly Gates…………

Goldman Sachs America: Bipartisanship in Corruption, Political Cannabis .........

Lara of Palestine and Paris, Zhivago of Palestine………..

Secret Sources of Saudi Wealth: Why Reform is a PR Mirage, Arabian Omerta......

Corruption and Transparency: Look Who the World Bank is Quoting Now……..

Defining an Arab Kleptocracy: “Sultan’s Fortune is Estimated at $270 Billion”………

Tony Blair Bin Bandar Meets Borat: the Great Money Machine Moves to Kazakhstan…….

Oh, Ambassador of Georgetown!.............

Another Huge Saudi-British Bribery Scandal, Missing Tony Blair..........

Republicans in U.S. Congress Plagiarizing Salafi and UAE Laws? Amsterdam.............

Republicans in U.S. Congress Plagiarizing Salafi and UAE Laws? Amsterdam.............

Saudi Invasion, Saudi Unrest: No Yellow Star of David?………….

A Very Curious Case of Corruption on the Gulf, Oh Watermelon…………

Middle East Mu Sheng: Peanuts in Tehran and Riyadh and Abu Dhabi and…….

Gulf Confusion: Hired Jordanian Torturers Ordered Expelled...........

Al Khlifa vs. Al Khalifa: Fight Over a Small Looted Island…………..

Iran’s Biggest Bank Embezzlement, Oh Oh Ahmadinejad………….

Tony Blair as Scarlett O’Hara: Blair-Gate and the never Ending Saga of International Corruption………..

They Are Losing their Heads: another Sorcerer Beheaded in Saudi………

Delusional Bahrain: Despots and Miscreants and a Precocious Schmuck Minister………….

Arab Absolute Monarchs Funding Democracy in Egypt? Democratic People's Republic of (Saudi) Arabia...……

Corruption in the French Political Class, or ‘what bears do in the forest’……

Politics as a Joke: Arab Parliament, WTF Parliament, on Electing Dog-catchers……..

Arabian Peninsula: between Salafi Wahhabi Dogma and the Greed of Potentates…………..

Tony Blair’s Never Ending Lobbying Act: Living on Uranus……..

Sex Trafficking by the “International Community”: the United Nations, International Monetary "Fun", IBRD………..

The Orwellian Glory of Bahrain? Khalifa and Winston Smith and O’Brien...................

Gulf Arms Race: the Best Armed Foreign Mercenaries, it is the Commission, Stupid!………

Saudi Arabia: Where God is Great but Greed is at least Good………………

Economics of Repression and Sticky Fingers on the Gulf: It’s the Aggregate Demand Stupid!………

In Libya: “New” Labor and the Fog of Deceit, about Ahmadinejad…..

Qaddafi and his Friends, the Rendition of Tony Blair…….

Middle East Executions: Twenty Three Maids Waiting in a Row……….

Common Arab Epitaph: Brother Leader, Very Rich but Very Cheap…………

King Gets Award from his Nephew, about Kindergarten.………

Gulf: a Box of Doughnuts that Unhinged Potentates, Krispy Kreme and Anti-Semitism ………..

Miliband and Blair Straddling the Atlantic: Greedy, Selfish, and Immoral……….

FIFA On My Gulf: a Blood Sport of Royals and Potentates……..

Street Children of Cairo: a Legacy of Mubarak and his Allies……………

Sectarianism and Terrorism: Pakistan and Two Distant Neighbors………

Naked Libyan Factions: Onward and Forward to the Past………….

Bahrain: Leader for Democracy, a U.S. Diplomat with Semitic Roots……….

On My Gulf: The King Giveth and the King Taketh Away……….

Photoshop of Facts in Bahrain: Where the Buck Does not Stop…………

The Lehman Precedent and Goldman’s Catharsis: WTF Rates Standard & Poor ?.............

GCC: Two Sweet Princes Exchange Notes……………

Bahrain King Receives Letter from Crown Prince that he is a Great Dad………

Bahrain King Receives Letter from Unsavory Uncle Saying he is a Great Guy………

UAE: Lawyers Pledge for Sweet Rulers, Blast Activists, Ignore Mercenaries………

America’s New Gold Rush: from Iraq to Afghanistan to the Gulf and Beyond……..

Would They Block God and Jesus and Mohammed and Omar and Ali? You Betcha.............

Princes Tighten the Screws: Saudi Arabia Finally Responds to the Obama Middle East Speech…….

Sword of Saddam, Golden Sword of Manama……………..

A Suspect Inquiry: Political & Diplomatic Masturbation on the Gulf……..

World Bank to Tackle Corruption in Poorer Developing Countries only……….

Welfare Economics of the Bahrain Potentates: Shaikh Welfare………

On the Gulf: Welfare for the Potentates of UAE…………

A Small Purge in Iran: Ahmadinejad Allies Arrested…………

West Wing of Arabia……..

On the Gulf : Robbers of Land, Thieves of Freedom…………

A Saudi Voice of His Masters on Arab Uprisings: Sweet Anarchy………

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