Ms. C.M. found this article, and it's a stunner, for more reasons than one. But first a bit of context: I've recently blogged about…
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(ANTIMEDIA) — The American empire is decaying and facing inevitable demise. The latest evidence of this trend can be found in recent developments in the Middle East.
You've probably all heard by now that the (out)House of Saud recently took a gigantic leap forward into the sixteenth century by allowing women…
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(MEE) — In a decree issued on Tuesday, Saudi King Salman ruled that women will be allowed to drive cars next year, a move which will end the kingdom’s status as the only country in the world where it is forbidden.
Social media users reacted to the news, pointing out the kingdom’s ‘regressive’ guardianship rules, which women in Saudi are still battling.
Back on 20th May 2017 I wrote how Saudi Arabia’s manic overspending on Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s runaway industrialisation programme, its over-the-top arms purchases, and the huge sums it is spending on its wildly over-ambitious foreign policy, are setting the scene for Saudi Arabia’s eventual bankruptcy.
I also said that the degree to which all sense of reality has been lost is shown by the extraordinary $68 million Saudi Arabia spent on welcoming US President Trump.
(MPN) – While his health and even sanity have been in doubt for years, fresh rumors are spreading that King Salman of Saudi Arabia’s physical condition has further deteriorated.
Saudi King Salman, left, speaks with his son Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (AP/Hassan Ammar)
A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress aircraft from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, arrive at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, April 9, 2016. (U.S. Air Force via AP)
The latest in a series of moves by President Trump that appeared to throw a wrench into State Department efforts to calm the Qatar blockade situation saw him telling the Saudi King today that the US could well just abandon their largest military base in the Middle East, the al-Udeid Airbase in Qatar.
As my colleague Adam Garrie has written, Qatar has rebuffed the insanely worded ultimatum served on it 2 weeks ago by the Saudi led coalition. A meeting that coalition held thereafter in Cairo however failed to come up with any new measures. Instead it announced – weakly – that the current ineffective blockade of Qatar would be continued indefinitely.
