Caitlin Johnstone

Caitlin Johnstone is more or less a Marxist but she is right about the Middle East. I think the West helps the poor world but certainly exploits its minerals.

"So basically they built an entire empire around extracting resources and labor from the global south to supply the citizenry of the imperial core with bread and circuses that are just barely cheap enough to keep them from guillotining the billionaires who own and run everything.