Tag: Saudi Arabia

“A dollar paid by a member of the Saudi royal family (or any other foreigner) smells just as sweet to a U.S. Government official as does a dollar paid by an American, especially in the current era of untraceable offshore accounts.”

The Clintons have said that if Hillary Clinton gets elected, the foundation will stop taking foreign donations. But what about no longer taking campaign contributions from people who are paid by the Saudi government to whitewash its image?

Congress has thirty days to block the sale of these weapons. It is a moral imperative that they do so.

Daesh is facing its final year as a state. As it goes down it is lashing out like a fatally wounded crocodile.

If the Saudi government beheads these young men, it will further ignite sectarian hatred.

As Obama prepares to visit the Gulf Kingdom, controversy surrounding the 28 pages has been renewed.

In as little as fifteen to twenty years, petroleum may be illegal in some places; and will be in retreat everywhere.

In the end, the oil attrition wars may lead us not into a future of North American triumphalism, nor even to a more modest Saudi version of the same, but into a strange new world in which an unlimited capacity to produce oil meets an increasingly crippled capitalist system without the capacity to absorb it.

U.S. activists must follow the example of our European allies and demand that our government stop supplying the Saudi rulers with weapons to bomb civilians in Yemen and repress its own citizens.

The killing of Sheikh Al-Nimr should serve as a prime moment for the U.S. to reconsider its alliance with the Saudi regime, a regime that not only denies human rights to its own people but exports death and destruction abroad.