SaudiArabia

Trump really wants Iran to do something stupid before he leaves office, whether it’s a terrorist strike by proxies or something, something Revolutionary Guard attack. x If killing Iranian general Qassem Soleimani didn’t change Iran’s behaviors or its strategic policies and objectives, I doubt that killing it’s top nuclear scientists...

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  • November 27, 2020

We are still carrying the raw wound of the brazen Saudi dismembering of Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post correspondent — and lawful permanent resident of the United States — who was lured to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and there cut up with a bone saw for being too persistent...

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  • July 9, 2020

More than a few folks probably made money because Trump hinted he was “going to do something” yesterday in his presser. Not the first timing, because it’s not really hinky, is it. Or are there suckers not keeping track of an upcoming meeting of Trump with oil CEOs tomorrow. Darn...

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  • April 2, 2020

Rep. Justin Amash — the former Republican who, by dint of the gram of integrity he has, was compelled to leave the party in July — has called out Donald Trump over, well, this egregious shite pile of a policy: x He sells troops. “We have a very good relationship with...

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  • January 12, 2020

I seem to remember a certain dyspeptic yam golem going Trump-shit every time there was a shooting by anyone with any ties whatsoever to the Middle East. This was back in 2015, when every such tragedy could be safely laid at the feet of Barack Obama for the dual crimes...

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  • December 9, 2019

Hey, I’d be tired, too. Wait, I am tired. The past two and a half years have felt like trying to harvest semen from a violently ill marlin on a Tilt-A-Whirl.  In other words, exhausting. But now, apparently, White House officials are so fucking tired they’re not even attempting to align...

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  • October 22, 2019

Wednesday’s anniversary memorial service for Jamal Khashoggi  reminds us that on the same day of the Ukraine call, Trump vetoed resolutions in Congress to block the sale of $8.1bn (£6.5bn) worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The Senate failed to overturn the veto, allowing precision-guided munitions technology to...

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  • October 3, 2019

The intelligence whistleblower states that White House lawyers moved the transcript of Trump’s phone call to Zelensky to a stand alone secret server in the White House.  This was done as part of the coverup.  But the whistleblower also states that this is NOT the only time this abuse of...

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  • September 27, 2019

The Washington Post had an op-ed this morning — Our new Saddam Hussein — that got me to thinking about our insistence on repeating the same mistake in the Middle East, a region notoriously unforgiving of mistakes. In brief: We backed Shah Reza Pahlevi in Iran, he was a ruthless...

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  • July 8, 2019

Maybe if Angela Merkel killed some journalists with bone saws or murdered a few of her top negotiators she’d get somewhere with Donald Trump. But no, Trump only has eyes for human rights abusers. In the latest gobsmackingly awful proof that our pr*sident has the moral acumen of a St....

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  • June 5, 2019

OversightHouse.gov “Washington, D.C. (Feb. 19, 2019)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued an interim staff report after multiple whistleblowers came forward to warn about efforts inside the White House to rush the transfer of highly sensitive U.S. nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia in potential...

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  • February 20, 2019

See, this is what happens when a pr*sident is more worried about his own pocketbook than the safety and security of the country. We don’t need a border wall. We need to throw Donald Trump in a closet and leave him there until 2021. From The Washington Post: Several current and...

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  • February 19, 2019

Seems Trump has another conflict of interest when it comes to MBS the Butcher. David Fahrenthold, who’s been a bee in Trump’s dainty hair weave for years now, has a story at The Washington Post (with Jonathan O’Connell) revealing that Trump personally profited from the decision of Saudi government-funded lobbyists to move...

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  • December 6, 2018

I only wish this were satire. Saudi crown prince and Putin greet each other at #G20 summit pic.twitter.com/INGKBd2EjF — Ahmed Al Omran (@ahmed) November 30, 2018 Ha ha ha ha ha! Oh, you’re eroding the dignity and moral standards of the world’s most powerful liberal democracy, too? Awesome! A brother...

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  • November 30, 2018

Take a step back and imagine this is a James Bond movie. Where does Donald Trump fit in? He’s clearly the corrupt government official in league with the diabolically evil Bond villain. There’s simply no way to make him look sympathetic in the wake of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. Now, Turkish newspaper...

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  • November 22, 2018

If you happened to read Bob Woodward’s recent Trump book, Fear: Holy Fuck, Holy Fuck, Holy Fuck, Oh Christ, Just Kill Me Now!, you know how obsessed our pr*sident is with shaking down other countries for protection money — so much so that he’s willing to upset world peace and...

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  • October 17, 2018

Wow, doesn’t this sound familiar? Guess all you need to do to get off scot-free — unless you’re an innocent black teenager, of course — is deny all accusations, and deny them strongly. What a gullible, amoral über-idiot. From The Hill: President Trump on Tuesday said blaming Saudi Arabia for the disappearance of...

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  • October 16, 2018

Well, maybe they were actually rogue cleaners. I mean, who uses Dixi cleaning solution? What is that, anyway? From Common Dreams: At around the same time Saudi King Salman insisted in a Monday morning phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump that his regime had nothing to do with the...

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  • October 15, 2018