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Senior Resident Scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington - , weekly columnist for & , etc.

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  1. 9 minutes ago

    What an insane statistic. And what an incentive to blow off medical bills as a predatory scam.

    65% of all bankruptcies in the US are due to medical bills.
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    5 hours ago

    The view from my office in Jerusalem (which is ironically and literally ON the Green Line, and on the correct side of it) early this morning.

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  3. 2 hours ago

    So, obviously there’s a vast difference between explaining and excusing. And this ISN’T it. It’s closer to excusing than explaining. MUCH closer, Saso, I mean Ron.

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  4. 2 hours ago

    OMG!!!! Disc 4 NYC: Exposure Master Loops and Lost in the Bush of Ghosts The master loops for Exposure plus loops recorded for the David Byrne/Brian Eno album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Disc 4 – Previously unreleased, except. Bush of Ghosts loop

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  5. 2 hours ago

    The Blinken call was enough to shift Riyadh and before that Israel but a bit more was possibly needed with Abu Dhabi

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  6. 2 hours ago

    Another INCREDIBLE ⁦⁩ panel: Following Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, Can Gulf Countries Stabilize Energy Markets?

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  7. 2 hours ago

    Makes TOTAL sense: Israeli government lobbied the UAE to vote for a UN resolution condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine, after UAE abstained in a previous vote, US and Israeli officials tell ⁦⁩ They’re in the same exact pickle so… yes.

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  8. 3 hours ago

    So… this is NOT OPTIONAL: 32-disc boxed set of Robert Fripp in the studio and in concert 1977 - 1983 will be released on 27th May 2022. The set will feature many previously unreleased tracks, outtakes and rarities. That’s a MUST. Imperative, no question!

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    5 hours ago

    Russia's second largest oil company, Lukoil, has become the first major Russian firm to call for an end to the war. Its stock price has collapsed and its chairman has lost billions in personal net worth since the start of the war.

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  10. 9 hours ago

    Terrific and sophisticated profile of Mohammed bin Salman by ⁦⁩ with some input I think from ⁦⁩ in ⁦⁩, which is by miles the best US periodical today.

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  11. 10 hours ago

    What could be more agreeable? (Other than Russia not having invaded Ukraine in the first place, of course.)

    Another bad day for the bloody invaders: Andrey Sukhovetskiy general of Spetznaz killed and Ukraine planes hitting that long column north of Kiev, out of food, fuel, tyres, and reasons to be there.
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  12. 10 hours ago

    This is significant, but it's absolutely consistent with Gulf Arab messaging on Iran for the past two years. It's very blunt, but it's nothing new.

    Significant remark by Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. A message to Teheran. "Iran is a neighbour forever, we cannot get rid of them and they cannot get rid of us". As simple as that.
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  13. 10 hours ago

    This colonial plan is not going to work at the UN or on the ground in Ukraine.

    A few hours ago, Putin submitted draft legislation to the State Duma that would amend the CSTO’s peacekeeping language, introducing something called a “coordinating state” that can lead peacekeeping under UN auspices. This appears to be Moscow’s plan to control occupied Ukraine.
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  14. 10 hours ago

    Florida has the reputation for being the most insane state, but it's really not. The prize goes, pretty much hands down, to Tennessee. I really want to know what's in the water down there. Whatever it is, it's BAD.

    Joe Biden and Kamala Harris weaponized COVID. They refused to take a vaccine developed by President Trump.
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  15. 11 hours ago

    GREAT

    Reports that Yacht of Rosneft CEO and Putin ally Igor Sechin has been seized in France as part of EU sanctions
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    14 hours ago

    My latest: The seems to have given Iran the idea that it has the upper hand in negotiations. But Tehran is misreading the moment.

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    Mar 2

    Video of an amazing panel: and -- LOTS of great stuff here on the Middle East & Ukraine and then the whole issue of de-escalation or confrontation in the context of a changing security order. Big picture thinking by big brains.

    VIDEO: "Do Houthi Missile Attacks Outline the Limits of De-escalation in the Gulf Region?" with , , , , and
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    12 hours ago

    Saudi history is getting in the way of economic modernization, so Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is just revising it. explains via

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  19. 12 hours ago

    This is just a fact: “One of our issues this past fall was we were treating legislation like a Christmas tree, and everyone's favorite bauble got to get on the tree,'” said ⁦⁩ , Democrat of Michigan

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  20. 17 hours ago

    Interesting thread

    This is a thread that will explain the implied poor Russian Army truck maintenance practices based on this photo of a Pantsir-S1 wheeled gun-missile system's right rear pair of tires below & the operational implications during the Ukrainian mud season.🧵 1/
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