A shift, globally, as Saudis try to secure access routes and a market for oil that should not be extracted or burned, by anybody. One more reason to stop selling weapons to the Saudis. Recall Mitchell: chokepoints, vulnerabilities, and the instrumentalization of conservative Islam in the service of oil capitalism and modernity.
Saudis make Maldives land grab to secure oil routes to China
By Karl Mathiesen in London and Megan Darby in Malé (Climate Home)
http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/03/05/saudis-make-maldives-land-grab-secure-oil-routes-china/
"In February, the Saudi embassy in Malé was criticised for handing out sealed envelopes filled with cash to local Maldivian journalists at an event. The embassy described them as “gifts”.Foreign land ownership was illegal in the Maldives until 2015, when the Yameen government passed an amendment to the constitution. Nasheed compared Saudi acquisition of Faafu to China’s building of military facilities on islands in the South China sea.“This is far more devious, because they hide inside you and they come out when they want to,” he said."
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| Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdulaziz (Photo: Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo) http://sumo.ly/wEz9 via @ClimateHome |
