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Former U.S. Diplomats Decry U.S.-Backed Saudi War In Yemen

May 9, 2016 Alex Emmons and Zaid Jilani, www.theintercept.com , , , ,
By Alex Emmons and Zaid Jilani for The Intercept - SAUDI ARABIA AND the other Arab states that form the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have been brutally bombing Yemen for more than a year, hoping to drive Houthi rebels out of the capital they overran in 2014 and restore Saudi-backed President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi. The United States has forcefully backed the Saudi-led war. In addition to sharing intelligence, the U.S. has sold tens of billions of dollars in munitions to the Saudis since the war began.

Protests Call For Release Of 28 Pages That Implicate Saudi Arabia

April 22, 2016 Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org , ,
By Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance. Graham believes that if people understood the role the Saudis played in 9/11 -- essentially as co-conspirators -- it would change the relationship with Saudi Arabia. In a 2015 press conference Graham said “The 28 pages primarily relate to who financed 9/11 and they point a very strong finger at Saudi Arabia as being the principal financier.” The 28 pages can be declassified. The most direct means is for the president to declassify them himself. There is, however, a little-known alternative method by which either the House or Senate can declassify the 28 pages—even over the president’s objection. Some in Congress are pushing to have the pages declassified through H.Res.14 which urges the President to declassify the report. In the Senate, Senate Bill 1471, introduced by Senator Rand Paul and cosponsored by Ron Wyden and Kirsten Gillibrand directs the president to release the pages, rather than urging him to.

President Obama Can Help Save Saudi Youth Facing Beheading

April 22, 2016 Medea Benjamin, www.codepink.org , ,
By Medea Benjamin for CODEPINK - One concrete outcome that President Obama could pursue on his visit to Saudi Arabia is saving the lives of three Shia youth sentenced to be executed, most likely by beheading, for participating in nonviolent protests. Sparing their lives could also help ease the Shia/Sunni tensions that have engulfed the region. Ali al-Nimr, Dawood al-Marhoon, and Abdullah al-Zaher are members of the minority Shia community that has, for decades, been demanding equality and full civil rights.

Saudi Arabia Supports Right To Torture And Kill LGBT People

April 13, 2016 Kit O'Connell, www.mintpressnews.com , , ,
By Kit O'Connell for Mint Press News - GENEVA — At the most recent session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, Saudi Arabia objected to a resolution that condemns the use of torture by law enforcement and reaffirms the human rights of LGBT people. The resolution, passed during the council’s 31st session, which closed on March 24, condemns the use of torture “and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,” and urges nations to prevent torture by police or during pre-trial detention.

International Movement Seeks Arms Embargo On Saudi Arabia

March 30, 2016 Murtaza Hussain, www.theintercept.com , ,
By Murtaza Hussain for The Intercept - A LAWSUIT FILED last week in Canada is seeking to halt a major $15 billion sale of light-armored vehicles to the government of Saudi Arabia, part of a growing international movement to stop arms sales to the Saudi government over its alleged war crimes in Yemen. The suit, filed by University of Montreal constitutional law professor Daniel Turp, argues the vehicle sales to Saudi Arabia violate a number of Canadian laws, including regulations on the export of military equipment...

US-Saudi Terror In Yemen Dwarfs ISIS Attacks In Europe

March 27, 2016 William Boardman, www.readersupportednews.org , , ,
By William Boardman in Reader Supported News. The US-Saudi-led war on Yemen started on March 26, 2015, with the Saudi coalition’s aerial blitz, using both high-explosive and outlawed cluster bombs, against a population with no air force or other effective air defense. US-supported year of carnage has killed more than 6,000 people (no one knows for sure), most of them civilians. The US-Saudi criminal intervention in the Yemeni civil war was supposed to be quick and efficient. From the start, the US has helped plan the attacks, provided intelligence, re-fueled attacking planes, and participated in the naval blockade (an act of war) that has pushed Yemen’s 26 million people to the brink of mass starvation. The American-Saudi genocidal war has continued without significant protest around the world – no “Yemeni Lives Matter” movement – and with almost no attention from any of those who will likely inherit this illegal war as the next commander in chief.

What Saudi Leaks Tell Us: An Interview With Julian Assange

March 24, 2016 Julian Assange, www.newint.org ,
By Julian Assange for New Internationalist - Since June 2015 WikiLeaks has been releasing details of leaked cables and other documents that come from within the Saudi Foreign Office. They provide an insight into the internal workings of the secretive regime, its fears, and its strategies for spreading its influence abroad. More than 230,000 leaked Saudi documents have been published by WikiLeaks; a batch of 60,000 more cables and 50,000 pager messages was released last November.

End Suicidal Death Pact Between U.S. And Saudi Arabia

March 11, 2016 Ben Norton, www.salon.com ,
By Ben Norton for Slate - Since Present Franklin Delano Roosevelt met with King Ibn Saud on Valentine’s Day 1945, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia have maintained a close relationship. For decades, however, critics have warned that this relationship is a fundamentally dysfunctional — and destructive — one. Although a brutally repressive theocratic absolute monarchy that imprisons, tortures and beheads peaceful pro-democracy activists, Saudi Arabia provides its Western allies with a stable, cheap and plentiful oil source and is one of the biggest purchaser of Western weapons.

EU Parliament Adopts Call for an Arms Embargo Against Saudi Arabia

February 29, 2016 Sharmini Peries, www.therealnews.com , ,
By Sharmini Peries for The Real News - On Thursday the European parliament called on the European Union to impose an arms embargo against Saudi Arabia, saying that Britain, France, and the EU government should no longer sell weapons to a country accused of targeting civilians in Yemen. EU lawmakers voted 359 in favor, 212 against, with 31 abstentions from the formal call for an EU embargo. Although the vote is not legally binding, lawmakers hope it will pressure the European Union to act.

US Ties To Saudi Kingdom Are Beheading Democracy

February 28, 2016 Paul Gottinger, www.readersupportednews.org , , ,
By Paul Gottinger for Reader Supported News. Saudi Arabia opened 2016 with a tragic, yet increasingly common event for the Kingdom, a mass execution. In the words of Amnesty International, “Saudi Arabia’s authorities demonstrated their utter disregard for human rights and life by executing 47 people in a single day.” According to the British rights organization Reprieve, Saudi Arabia has had one of the world’s highest rates of execution for over ten years. Many of these executions occur after unfair trails and may be carried out by the barbaric means of beheading, public crucifixion, stoning, or firing squad. All 47 individuals executed on January 1 were accused of being terrorists. However, four of those executed were involved in Saudi Arabia’s Arab Spring protests. These four remained strictly nonviolent in their calls for greater democracy and rights in the Kingdom.

Carnage In Syria Product Of US Empowerment Of Saudi Arabia

February 19, 2016 Vijay Prashad and Paul Jay, www.therealnews.com , ,
By Vijay Prashad and Paul Jay for The Real News - Vijay Prashad and Paul Jay discuss the demands Americans can make of the US government to create a cessation of hostilities

Saudi Arabia Sparks International Protests With Execution

January 3, 2016 Melissa Cronin, www.gawker.com ,
By Melissa Cronin for The Gawker. A total of 47 prisoners were executed in Saudi Arabia, including a well-known Shiite cleric who had criticized the government and sparked protests in the past. A government statement released Saturday claimed that the executions of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr and the other prisoners were aligned with Islamic law and considered a “mercy to the prisoners” because they would no longer commit bad acts, according to the Associated Press. The move has already sparked tensions within the country’s Shiite minority, a demonstrations in several countries. Human Rights groups condemned the executions, according to the Guardian, describing them as “the most serious crime imaginable.”

Endless War Crimes In Yemen Slowed By Ceasefire

December 20, 2015 William Boardman, www.readersupportednews.org , , ,
By William Boardman for Reader Supported News. The first lie about Yemen’s dirty war in the world of official journalism is that the fighting there has been a “nine-month conflict” and that “the conflict started in March,” as the New York Times put it on December 17. This is simply not true in any meaningful sense. What started in March was a savage, one-sided air war backed by the US, all too similar to the Nazi-backed one-sided air war in Spain in the thirties that gave the world “Guernica” (back when the Nazis and the Saudis were chummy). Yemen’s civil war has already lasted decades, on and off. And Yemen has an even longer history of conflict (all of which the Times knows, without letting perspective clarify its reporting).

Activist Facing 1000 Lashes & 10 Years In Prison Wins Human Rights Prize

October 30, 2015 Staff, www.europarl.europa.eu , ,
By Staff of European Parliament News - “The conference of Presidents decided that the Sakharov Prize will go to Saudi blogger Raif Badawi,” said Schulz announcing the 2015 laureate in plenary. “This man, who is an extremely good man and an exemplary good man, has had imposed on him one of the most gruesome penalties that exist in this country which can only be described as brutal torture." The EP President added: “I call on King of Saudi Arabia to stop the execution of this sentence, to release Mr Badawi, to allow him to back to his wife and to allow him to travel here for the December session to receive this prize."

Inside Saudi Arabia: Butchery, Slavery & History of Revolt

October 4, 2015 AbMartin, www.therealnews.com
By Abby Martin for teleSUR and The Real News - Abby Martin's Empire Files series looks at Saudi Arabia, one the closest allies of the United States in the Middle East. The Saudi's, the wealthiest nation in the Middle East, are currently brutally attacking the poorest nation in the region, Yemen. They are also involved in military action in Syria. Meet the new head of the United Nations panel on Human Rights: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Abby Martin takes us inside the brutal reality of this police-state monarchy, and tells the untold people's history of resistance to it. With a major, catastrophic war in Yemen and looming high-profile executions of activists, The Empire Files exposes true nature of the U.S.-Saudi love affair.
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