One Year After the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi: Business as Usual?

Who is more evil—the maniacal Saudi crown prince responsible for Khashoggi’s murder and the murder of tens of thousands of  Yemenis, or the mendacious world leaders and businesspeople who continue to embrace what should be a pariah state?  

Medea Benjamin
By Medea Benjamin
Mohammed bin Salman | Khashoggi

Heinous. Savage. Ghastly. It’s hard to find the words to describe the act of luring journalist Jamal Khashoggi into a Saudi consulate in Istanbul, suffocating him, chopping him up and dissolving his bones. Yet a year later, governments and business people around the world are eager to forgive and forget--or already have. So far, not a single Saudi

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Did the Saudi Hackers who Trapped Khashoggi Target Jeff Bezos for Nude Photos?

Juan Cole breaks down the sordid web of ties between Saudi hackers, Jamal Khashoggi and Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post.

Juan Cole
By Juan Cole
Mohammed bin Salman | Khashoggi

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ security team has alleged in The Daily Beast that Saudi Arabian intelligence hacked his phone and passed to the National Enquirer intimate photos that the married Bezos had sent to his lover, Lauren Sanchez. Although the Enquirer’s parent company, AMI, has alleged that it received the material from Sanchez’s brother, this

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Houthis to Demand Body of Slain Journalist Jamal Khashoggi as Part of Saudi Prisoner Exchange

”If [slain journalist Jamal] Khashoggi’s sons ask or if they want us to demand their father’s body [as part of the Saudi-Yemeni prisoner swap] then we will do it.” — Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, President of Ansar Allah’s Supreme Revolutionary Committee

Ahmed Abdulkareem
By Ahmed Abdulkareem
Saudi Arabia | Khashoggi

SANAA, YEMEN --  A high-ranking Houthi official told MintPress that the group will demand Saudi Arabia return the body of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi to his family as part of a mass prisoner exchange with the Saudi-led coalition. The official added that the demand will be made if Khashoggi's sons request that it be part of the

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Saudi Crown Prince Loses Support of Key Republican Senators with CIA Briefing

“If Bin Salman went before a jury, he would be convicted in 30 minutes.”

Juan Cole
By Juan Cole
Mohammed bin Salman Protest G20

Among the things Saudi Arabia wants from the United States is support for its war on Yemen and permission to buy from US arms corporations state-of-the-art military weaponry. Both things are now in peril, as key Republican senators reacted to a secret briefing by Gina Haspel, director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Haspel gave her

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Argentina Mulls War Crimes Charges Against Saudi Prince Over Yemen War

Prosecutors are examining bin Salman’s involvement in the myriad ‘war crimes’ committed by Saudi Arabia during its brutal war in Yemen.

ZeroHedge.com
By ZeroHedge.com
Mohammed bin Salman | Saudi Arabia

Turkish authorities are still hunting for the remains of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the threat of what's said to be a harrowing audio recording depicting his agonizing final moments as he was assassinated by a 15-man Saudi hit squad may materialize at any moment, but largely thanks to President Trump's willingness to countenance

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Trump Doesn’t “Condone” Saudi State-Sponsored Murder, He Hugs It

While our presidents, from F.D.R. through G.W. Bush and Obama, held their noses while making deals with the world’s devils, Donald Trump breathes deep and seems to revel in such affinities.

Jonathan D. Simon
By Jonathan D. Simon
Donald Trump | Mohammed bin Salman

WASHINGTON -- (Opinion) You’ve got to hand it to Donald Trump: when the U.S. president kisses up to murderers, he lays his reasons right out there for us. The rulers of Saudi Arabia, most notably Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, shall go without so much as a wrist slap from the world’s most powerful and influential country because oil prices might

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