Obama’s Gulf meeting protocol: shake hands, smile, ignore repression, repeat Washington, D.C. is presently the converging point for some of the world’s most oppressive regimes. On May 13th and 14th, President Obama is hosting a billionaire conglomerate known as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which consists of the Middle Eastern countries of Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE and Oman. The cozy U.S.-GCC relationship exemplifies […]