Tag: Saudi Arabia

Was there even a thoughts and prayers tweet this time or just the conveyance of the Saudi’s distress over the shooting? When a Saudi Air Force officer opened fire on his classmates at a naval base in Pensacola, Fla., on Friday, he killed three, wounded eight and exposed anew the…

which brings with it a string of rhetorical or not so rhetorical questions: Why are we training Saudi pilots at bases in the United States? Why wasn’t this pilot vetted by the Saudis before being sent to the US? Why wasn’t this pilot vetted by the US before being allowed…

In the wake of the aerial attacks on Saudi Arabian oil fields on September 14, 2019, President Trump has decided to deploy 200 American troops along with Patriot missiles and the THAAD missile defense system in the Saudi kingdom. The rationale is the Saudi’s have these same systems that they…

Last Saturday a series of drone attacks severely damaged Saudi Arabian oil facilities. Reports say that these facilities provide 5% of the world’s oil. The Houthi rebels in Yemen who have been in open war with the Saudis since at least 2015 took immediate credit for the attacks. They even…

P.S. after some assurances that the US would be immune from oil price fluctuations…gasoline was up a nickel already yesterday afternoon.

Am I creating a new conspiracy theory or did these two events occur too amazingly concurrently to be mere coincidence? News popped (and disappeared incredibly fast) that the Trump regime was working to enable Saudi Arabia to build a number of nuclear reactors. And along with the reactors, the ability…

yeah, I know that President Donald signed an agreement to sell $110 billion in weapons and war materials to the Saudis during his visit to Riyadh. And that will provide American jobs and profits…yada…yada…yada. But then the America First thingy sorta petered out: A forum bringing together American and Saudi…

In an act of civil disobedience, two women in Saudi Arabia defied an archaic cultural ban that prohibits females from driving a car and were arrested a month ago. They have been detained since and are about to get their day in court…but not in traffic court…or municipal court…but Saudi…

This is absolutely crazy… Raif Badawi, a blogger in Saudi Arabia who has been imprisoned for violating the nation’s anti-cybercrime law, has been given the death penalty for apostasy by a higher court, his wife told CNN on Wednesday. Badawi founded the Free Saudi Liberals website and was originally given…

It is time to let the rest of the world get involved if they must…but it is time for the United States to stop thinking that we need to be involved in every local conflict in the world. But now, bowing to pressure from critics, advisers and purportedly former President…