Saudi Arabia

Saudi Royals Considering Replacement For Mohammad bin Salman

October 20, 2018 ZeroHedge, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Middle East, Ruling Class, Saudi Arabia

The major French daily Le Figaro on Thursday published a bombshell story which reports the Saudi royal family is actively considering a replacement to crown prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) as next in line to succeed his father King Salman as the kingdom finds itself under the greatest international pressure and scrutiny it’s faced in its modern history over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — widely believed to have been killed on orders of MbS himself. The Li Figaro report’s unnamed diplomatic source says the Allegiance Council, which is historically the body responsible for approving the order of succession to the throne, is currently meeting in secret...

Khashoggi Is Not The Only One Reason The US Should Cut Its Saudi Ties

October 17, 2018 By Medea Benjamin and Mary Miller Educate! Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia has made headlines recently for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. What happened to Khashoggi is certainly tragic, but it’s far from the only crime committed by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Despite its history of thuggery, the US has been cozy with the kingdom for decades. Here’s 10 reasons to sever this nefarious alliance with the Saudi kingdom.

Did Saudis, CIA Fear Khashoggi 9/11 Bombshell?

October 16, 2018 Finian Cunningham, Strategic-culture.org Educate! 9/11, CIA, Saudi Arabia

The macabre case of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi raises the question: did Saudi rulers fear him revealing highly damaging information on their secret dealings? In particular, possible involvement in the 9/11 terror attacks on New York in 2001. Even more intriguing are US media reports now emerging that American intelligence had snooped on and were aware of Saudi officials making plans to capture Khashoggi prior to his apparent disappearance at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last week. If the Americans knew the journalist’s life was in danger, why didn’t they tip him off to avoid his doom? Jamal Khashoggi (59) had gone rogue, from the Saudi elite’s point of view.

The Unpredictable Implications Of The Killing Of Khashoggi

October 14, 2018 Moon of Alabama Educate! Jamal Khashoggi, Middle East, Saudi Arabia

The negotiation over the Khashoggi case will be extremely difficult. The protagonists are headstrong and dangerous people. The issue could easily escalate. It could escalate into something much bigger that could be painful for many people. Unfortunately there seems to be no one who could talk sense to these people and get them to bury the case. While I earlier thought that the case would be settled rather sooner than later, I now expect the conflict to go on for weeks or months while collateral damage will accumulate around it.

The Royal Touch: How Saudi Money Keeps Washington At War In Yemen

October 5, 2018 By Ben Freeman, Tomdispatch.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Saudi Arabia, US Imperialism, Yemen

It was May 2017. The Saudis were growing increasingly nervous. For more than two years they had been relying heavily on U.S. military support and bombs to defeat Houthi rebels in Yemen. Now, the Senate was considering a bipartisan resolution to cut off military aid and halt a big sale of American-made bombs to Saudi Arabia. Fortunately for them, despite mounting evidence that the U.S.-backed, supplied, and fueled air campaign in Yemen was targeting civilians, the Saudi government turned out to have just the weapon needed to keep those bombs and other kinds of aid coming their way: an army of lobbyists. That year, their forces in Washington included members of more than two dozen lobbying and public relations firms.

Report: War Profiteers, US Arming Of Repressive Regimes

September 12, 2018 Staff, CODE PINK Educate! Israel, Saudi Arabia, Wars and Militarism, Weapons Sales

It is a rare moment when a mainstream US media outlet makes the connection between U.S. weapons manufacturers and the killing of civilians. But tragically, it is not rare at all that repressive regimes kill and maim civilians with American weapons. This report focuses on the five largest U.S. arms manufacturers—Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics—and their dealings with three repressive nations: Saudi Arabia, Israel and Egypt. The absolute monarchy of Saudi Arabia is using weapons to repress internal dissent and to bomb Yemen into a humanitarian crisis that has spread death, cholera and famine.

The Saudis And 9/11 — Confirmation Of The Larger Truth

September 11, 2018 Barry Kissin, www.opednews.com Educate! 9/11, Saudi Arabia

By Barry Kissin for Op Ed News - In 2016, Alex Gibney ("We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks," "Taxi to the Dark Side," "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," "Casino Jack and the United States of Money") released a documentary based on a 2006 New Yorker magazine article by Lawrence Wright that exposes the CIA's deliberate concealment from the FBI of the fact that two important members of al Qaeda were in the U.S. over a period of 18 months leading up to 9-11.

What You Need To Know About Yemen

September 3, 2018 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast Iran, Saudi Arabia, Trump, Yemen

We speak with Medea Benjamin, who has traveled to and written about US conflicts in the Middle East, about the war on Yemen, the origins, the extent of US involvement and how it connects to other conflicts. Yemen is a current center of failed US foreign policy. We also discuss what we can do about it, as well as Labor Day and current news. For an in-depth discussion on the tenth anniversary of the financial crisis of why the banks got bailed out and why we didn't, plus what we can do differently next time, subscribe to Clearing the FOG on Patreon and receive our bonus show, Thinking it Through. Visit Patreon.com/ClearingtheFOG.

UN Accuses Saudi-led Coalition Of Possible War Crimes In Yemen

August 29, 2018 Staff, Telesurtv.net Educate! Saudi Arabia, United Nations, War crimes, Yemen

Air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen's war have caused heavy civilian casualties at marketplaces, weddings and on fishing boats, some of which may amount to war crimes, United Nations human rights experts said Tuesday. Saudi Arabia is leading a Western-backed alliance of Sunni Muslim Arab states trying to restore the internationally recognized government of Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, ousted from the capital Sanaa by the Iran-aligned Houthis in 2015. Fighters of the Houthi movement have fired missiles into Saudi Arabia, blocked delivery of supplies to Taiz and shelled the strategic city from the highlands, the panel said. They have also committed torture, a war crime, it said. Coalition forces have imposed severe restrictions on Red Sea ports and Sanaa airport...

Saudi Leader To Keep Bombing Children So Yemen Fears Saudi Arabia For Generations

August 28, 2018 By Whitney Webb, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Children, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, US Imperialism, Yemen

NEW YORK — On Monday, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen, Lise Grande, called for an “independent and impartial investigation” into the Saudi Arabia-led coalition’s attacks on Yemeni civilians. Grande stated that “what is happening in Yemen is unimaginable” and added that “the time has come to wake up to the terrible reality of the war and its human cost and the need to work together to end hostilities.” Grande cited last week’s attacks on a family home and later on a civilian vehicle fleeing fighting near the city of Dreihimi. Those two airstrikes, separated by a matter of hours, killed over 30 civilians, at least 24 of whom were children, some as young as three years old. Despite the international outcry from UN officials and other public figures, the concern over the coalition’s extensive targeting of civilians is unlikely to influence Saudi Arabia’s actions.

Saudi Economic War Triggers Yemen Currency Collapse And Worsens Plight Of War-Torn Nation

August 25, 2018 By Ahmed Abdulkareem, Mintpressnews.com Resist! Currency, Saudi Arabia, Yemen

SANAA, YEMEN — More than three years of U.S.-Saudi-led coalition war against Yemen has already created the world’s largest food security emergency. With millions of people currently facing starvation, the UN has described Yemen as the world’s worst humanitarian disaster. Last week, panic entered Yemeni local markets and houses after a plunge in the value of the Yemeni Riyal (YR) accompanied by increasing prices for basic foodstuffs. Those who still have money rushed to convert their savings to USD or buy gold, but most Yemenis now face two grim prospects: either to die by U.S.-Saudi airstrikes or to die of hunger. The YR has lost more than half of its value relative to the U.S. dollar — the owners of exchange shops and citizens in Sana’a and Aden told MintPress that the exchange rate of the YR against one dollar amounted to about 550 YR compared to 250 YR at the beginning of the war in the country.

Saudi Arabia Threatens To Behead Female Human RIghts Activist

August 22, 2018 By Sondos Asem, Middleeasteye.net Resist! Activists, Human Rights, Repression, Saudi Arabia

Saudi human rights activists have warned against the possible beheading of detained female human rights activist Israa al-Ghomgham, who has been provisionally sentenced to death by a Riyadh court. On 6 August, in a first hearing before the Specialised Criminal Court in the capital, the public prosecutor recommended the death penalty for six defendants, including Ghomgham and her husband, Moussa al-Hashem, who have been jailed for nearly three years on charges of anti-government protests, incitement to disobedience of the ruler, and providing moral support to participants in anti-government protests in the Shia-majority eastern region of Qatif. Ghomgham, 29, and Hashem were arrested on 8 December 2015 in a house raid by Saudi security forces.

I Don’t Remember Voting For US Bombs To Kill Little Kids In Yemen

August 18, 2018 Will Bunch, Philly.com. Educate! Saudi Arabia, Wars and Militarism, Weapons Sales, Yemen

It must have been a moment of unspeakable shock, terror and pain. But it’s hard to know exactly what it was like at the moment last Thursday when a school bus packed with Yemeni schoolchildren — summer campers coming back from a picnic — was struck from the skies by a powerful bomb, because so few of these innocent kids survived to tell about it, and because those who did are mostly clinging to life, maimed or badly burned by the blast. Instead, we can only gape at pictures of a twisted metal frame that hardly resembles the bus that was once filled with happy, singing children...

Mourning And Anger At Funeral Of Yemeni Children Killed In US-Saudi School Bus Attack

August 15, 2018 By Ahmed Abdulkareem, Mintpressnews.com Resist! Airstrikes, Children, Protests, Saudi Arabia, US Imperialism, Yemen

SADAA, YEMEN — Tens of thousands of Yemenis took to the streets of Sadaa, northern Yemen, to hold a funeral procession for the children who were killed on August 10 by U.S.-backed Saudi airstrikes in Dhahian city next to a crowded market. The deadly attack came while they were on a picnic to Dhahian’s outskirts after graduating from summer school. The mourners, who came from across the country, walked in a long convoy next to vehicles that carried the bodies of more than 30 children, as participants carried pictures of the attack and chanted slogans against Saudi Arabia and the United States. “America Kills Yemeni Children,” read several banners. A source in Yemen’s Health Ministry, based in Sana`a, said in a statement that 51 people were killed in the raids, including 40 children.

U.S. Is Complicit In Child Slaughter In Yemen

August 13, 2018 By Kathy Kelly, Vcnv.org Educate! Airstrikes, Children, Saudi Arabia, US Imperialism, Yemen

On August 9, a U.S.-supported Saudi airstrike bombed a bus carrying schoolchildren in Sa’ada, a city in northern Yemen. The New York Times reported that the students were on a recreational trip. According to the Sa’ada health department, the attack killed at least forty-three people. According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, at least twenty-nine of those killed were children under the age of fifteen, and forty-eight people were wounded, including thirty children. CNN aired horrifying, heartbreaking footage of children who survived the attack being treated in an emergency room. One of the children, carrying his UNICEF issued blue backpack, is covered with blood and badly burned. Commenting on the tragedy, CNN’s senior correspondent Nima Elbagir emphasized that she had seen unaired video which was even worse than what the CNN segment showed.

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