Tag: Saudi Arabia
No more holiday gifts for repressive regimes
The U.S. is selling weapons to a country that's killing a child every 10 minutes. That has to stop.
Starving Yemeni children, bloated U.S. weaponsmakers
It’s clear why U.S. weaponsmakers want to keep selling weapons to the Saudi regime. For them, it is all about profits.
Shrugging Off Concerns of Saudi Atrocities, U.S. Joins In Yemeni Bombing...
The US has been offering Saudi Arabia direct intelligence and logistics support for its campaign in Yemen since March 2015.
Do Western Nations Care about Yemeni Lives or Saudi Blood Money?
The time for review and mild statements of condemnation is over.
Are U.S.-Saudi Relations Finally Souring?
Pressure from human rights organizations like Oxfam to victims of the 9/11 attacks are helping erode the bond between these old political allies, but the results of this election season could squander our chance at change.
Whether Sauds, in Effect, Own the U.S. Government
“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.”
Hillary Clinton, the Podesta Group and the Saudi Regime: A Fatal...
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 Must Take Action to Block Weapon Sales to Saudi Arabia
Congress has thirty days to block the sale of these weapons. It is a moral imperative that they do so.
Islamic State’s Attacks on Saudi Arabia Are Aimed at Undermining the...
Daesh is facing its final year as a state. As it goes down it is lashing out like a fatally wounded crocodile.
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He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The...
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US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
Judge dismisses the last January 6 case, writing that absolving the Oath Keepers is...
The Justice Department told the court a retrial would harass eight men whose sentences Trump had already commuted. Two Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty and cooperated keep their convictions.
Welcome to Dawn’s Barbecue: the Epstein files in a time of war
A meditation, part essay and part poem, on what the files show about power, impunity and the ease with which the harm of innocents is absorbed.
A Gnarly Situation: High-Elevation Discovery Raises New Questions About Which California Trees Will Survive...
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