News has surfaced that Saudi Arabia is now ready to admit to the brutal murder of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi after Turkey confirmed it had both footage and recordings of his death. Sources close ...
Demands for transparency from Saudi Arabia following the mysterious disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi are putting the Trump administration in an awkward situation. Khashoggi was a Washington Post columnist who strangely vanished in the kingdom’s consulate ...
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) recently signed a 10-year $450 million deal to host events within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The deal initially received tepid critique from those questioning the company doing business with a ...
Turkish officials say Saudi Arabia dismembered Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent critic of Saudi Arabia and the royal family. Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist who was a columnist for the Washington Post, walked ...
What happens when the King’s men disavow the regime? Well, in Saudi Arabia’s absolute monarchy they get kidnapped, imprisoned, most likely questioned, and should they have applied themselves to offending the king: they will be ...
A leaked memo reveals U.S. support of Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen was made to preserve a U.S.-Saudi weapons deal. America’s role in Yemen has more to do with war profiteering than any self-professed desire ...
Saudi Arabia has tried to change the public perception of women’s rights in the country, but some have accused the country of merely pushing a PR campaign and not instituting real change. A lower court ...
With so many dangerous unknowns revolving around the MKO/MEK and its proclivity to shed blood, Washington’s wholehearted support boggles the mind. Strong on the legitimacy his office grants him U.S. State Department Mike Pompeo was ...
Is the US continuing their support for Saudi Arabia in the Yemen War solely so that they can continue to sell them weapons? Leaked documents reveal Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s decision to certify continued ...
Justification for the Yemen War and U.S. support of Saudi Arabia’s assault on the Yemeni people is sold on many fronts, but what is the real truth? Barely a state, even before its sovereignty was ...
Estimates published Wednesday by the U.S. Energy Department show the U.S. is the world’s largest crude oil producer for the first time since 1973. American oil production has doubled over the past decade, with much ...
The Saudi Arabia-United Arab Emirates (UAE) stated that a bus bombing in Yemen last month that killed 51 (40 of whom were children) could not be justified. Both countries admit a mistake in the attack. ...
There is only so much time in a day, and only so many resources that news services can devote to the coverage of the pressing matters of the world. Still, the relative sparsity of mainstream ...
(AntiWar) Saudi warplanes attacked a school bus in northern Yemen on Thursday, hitting the bus just as it was passing through a crowded marketplace. At least 50 civilians were killed in the attack, mostly schoolchildren, and ...
Martin Griffiths, the United Nations Special Envoy to Yemen, is planning to invite Yemen’s conflicting parties to Geneva on September 6 in hopes of a peace negotiation. A Strive for Peace During the U.N. Security ...
“Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once individual and communitarian – a vision that brings out the unity of the ...
A new report from Amnesty International called “God only knows if he’s alive” confirmed and detailed prison abuses in Yemen carried out by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a U.S. backed alley. In 2017 the Associated ...
In 1974, a legendary bond trader from Salomon Brothers brokered a covert do-or-die deal that would reshape U.S. – Saudi relations for generations, and not become public knowledge until a report from Bloomberg in 2016. ...
The Arab Coalition, after the victory over Iran-backed Houthi militants in the city of Hodeidah, will hand the largest Yemeni port to the Yemeni government, Salem Ahmed Al-Kaabi, the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Ukraine, stated. ...
On Wednesday, the Saudi-led coalition launched an attack on Yemen’s port city of Hudaydah, a rebel stronghold with a population of roughly 600,000 in the area. Many humanitarian agencies strongly warned of a possible major ...
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to provide a $2.5 billion economic package to Jordan, aimed at solving the economic crisis that triggered anti-austerity protests across the country for the past ...
As I discussed in Part I of The Ultimate Inside Job, there are a multitude of discrepancies in the explanation that September 11th was solely a terrorist attack carried out by Islamic jihadists. Ample ...
56 people were killed in a three-day airstrike launched by a Saudi-backed coalition in Yemen. That number includes women, children and guests of a wedding party. The Hajja attack came several days after coalition air ...
A bride was among those killed at a wedding party, and at least 45 were wounded according to reports. (Common Dreams, by Julia Conley) Weeks after President Donald Trump thanked Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince for his ...
When it comes to oil producing countries in the Middle East and Gulf state, for most people Saudi Arabia and Qatar come to mind, not Bahrain. That is until Bahrain shocked the world by announcing ...
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman declared he recognizes Israel’s right to land ownership alongside the Palestinians. The 32-year-old influential prince stated that on Monday in an interview with the Atlantic. “I believe the Palestinians ...
The UK is using illicit export permits to sell billions of dollars worth of weapons to Middle East countries with poor human rights records, according to exclusive data obtained by Middle East Eye (MEE). MEE compared ...
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Salman, stated in an interview with CBS that Saudi Arabia will develop nuclear arsenals if Iran does the same. “Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb, but ...
With call-in action and letters, groups ramp up pressure on lawmakers to back Sanders-led resolution. (Common Dreams, Andrea Germanos) Anti-war groups on Friday are urging their supporters to pick up the phone to tell U.S. senators ...
Media watchdog group, FAIR, analyzed the MSNBC Yemen coverage and found little to zero coverage of one of the worst human crises of our time. One of the world’s largest human catastrophe’s is not worth ...
The Department of Defense on Wednesday confirmed that they have carried out “multiple ground operations,” as well as 120 airstrikes in Yemen. (AntiWar, Jason Ditz) While the Pentagon has been very secretive about what they’ve ...
In Yemen 8 million people face food shortages and someone just killed the former President. Many fear that the killing of Ali Abdullah Saleh will open the floodgates for ISIS affiliated militants. The tension in the ...
Saudi Arabia nuclear power? The overture follows an intense and secretive lobbying push involving Michael Flynn, Tom Barrack, Rick Gates and even Iran-Contra figure Robert McFarlane. (ProPublica, by Isaac Arnsdorf) The Trump administration is holding talks on ...
Doug McKenty of The Shift was kind enough to invite us on his show last week! We talk with Doug about the deceitful nature of corporate propaganda, waking up to it, and living in a ...
After a June 7th 2017 terrorist attack in Tehran Iran, the government of Iran came out to blame the United States and Saudi Arabia for supporting terrorism. President Trump expressed grief but immediately after said ...
Re-posted with permission from AntiWar.com, by Jason Ditz. The weekend finalization of a US arms deal with Saudi Arabia which officials say will be worth at least $350 billion over the next decade sent the ...
Reposted with permission from AntiWar.com by Jason Ditz. Reports from US officials familiar with the situation say that the Trump Administration is working to push through billions of dollars in arms sales to Saudi Arabia ...
1. Sunni/Shia/Wahhabi 2. Yom Kippur War 3. 1974 Nixon Deal 4. Iran/Iraq War 80’s 5. 9/11 & JASTA 6. Iran 2015 Nuclear Deal 7. S.A. – U.S. Arms Sales Sources: For our longer report and ...
Middle Eastern affairs often seem like an endless and confusing mess of wars, sanctions, peace treaties and changing governments. To help clear things up we introduce our “Understanding the Middle East” series. We spotlight individual ...
Reposted from Bloomberg.com by Andrea Wong, May 20, 2016 Failure was not an option. It was July 1974. A steady predawn drizzle had given way to overcast skies when William Simon, newly appointed U.S. Treasury ...
According to Reuters: “Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in charge of Saudi Arabia’s reforms, left on Monday for Washington to meet President Donald Trump on a visit expected to promote the world’s top oil ...