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Key Arab countries' status as low-cost oil producers would afford them a 'last hurrah' as the global economy permanently shifts away from oil as it once did from coal. Opinion | Omar Al-Ubaydli @omareconomics via @TheNationalNews thenationalnews.com/opinion/…
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The Trump administration is highlighting the fact that it has cut legal immigration from Muslim countries by 96 percent. In my latest for @NationalComment, I argue that this disdainful attitude cannot be separated from the strength of U.S. alliances in the Middle East: thenationalnews.com/opinion/…
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The most important exhibits in Bahrain this week may not be the products already carrying a national 'Made in' label. They are the products that do not yet exist. The ones that will eventually say: Made across the GCC. Opinion | Yasar Jarrar @yasar_jarrar via @TheNationalNews thenationalnews.com/opinion/…
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What people fail to appreciate about Iran’s infiltration of the US and its western allies is that Tehran has developed a template that works – and has put it into practice. Opinion | Damien McElroy @ddamned via @TheNationalNews thenationalnews.com/opinion/…
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