This blog has largely migrated to Twitter. You may catch me there @asadabukhalil ..read more

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My article for Consortium News: "The Strange Disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi ..read more

I spoke about the Khasshoggi affair with Dennis Bernstein at KPFA yesterday.  (Minute 19:00 ..read more

My weekly article in Al-Akhbar: "From the history of the American "peace process": On Preventing Palestine", Part I ..read more

My article for Consortium News on McCain and the Middle East ..read more

My weekly article for Al-Akhbar: "The Mystique of Marxism in the 21st century ..read more

In 2005, a few months after the assassination of Rafiq Hariri, I met with one of the closest advisers of Hariri wanting to know more about the political orientations of the family.  He told me that after Rafiq`s assassination, the Saudi King appointed then Prince Salman in charge of the political management of the Hariri family.  Bahaa at the time wanted to succeed his father as prime minister of Lebanon and leader of the family.  But Salman overruled him and chose his brother, Sa`d: he argued that Bahaa is less kind and less amicable than his brother and that he left a negative impression amo ..read more

I wrote this article several months ago about how Bahaa Hariri is entering Lebanese politics through the Zionist gates of DC ..read more

The influence of Saudi/UAE money over the DC think tank, government, and media scene is such that you find people denying the obvious.  There are people who are still saying: but Hariri was seen greeting the King, which means he is free. But did they forget that Muhammad bin Nayif was made to bless the appointment of MbS as Crown Prince while the former was under house arrest ..read more