Saudis

The very consequential Tax Scam that McConnell, Ryan and congressional Republicans got through Congress and onto Señor Trumpanzee’s for his paw print was the biggest legislative upward redistribution of wealth in American history.

My pal Roland teaches all day in an intense inner-city school. He's very focused on his kids and his work. When his day is done and he's getting ready to drive home, he often texts me something to the effect of "Did Trump have a bad day?" or "Did he blow up the world yet?" We travel a lot-- often to off the beaten track places like Timbuktu, Yangon, Tirane, Sidi Ifni, Abu Simbel. These days, I'd rather go to Paris, Bali or Florence again. He's always suggesting Ulan Bator, Mandalay or Calcutta. Lately he's been lobbying for Korea.

Robert Naiman, Policy Director at Just Foreign Policy, recently described NY Times proud neo-liberal columnist Thomas Friedman as "the U.S.-affiliated atrocity apologist columnist of last resort. In case of emergency, break glass. Can't get anyone else to be an apologist for this U.S.-affiliated atrocity?

Bin Salman & Kushner-in-law-- the bad kind of millennialsAll Middle East societies are built on a foundation of corruption. It's part of a way of life. When I got the the Middle East for the first time (1969), I was shocked how corruption permeated every level of society. I remember being on line at a post office and having to haggle with the clerk over the cost of sending a post card.

(ANTIMEDIA) — Saudi Arabia’s king, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, recently met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in what amounts to more than just a symbolic blow to the United States. While the two discussed a number of issues, including Syria and Iran, according to CNN it was oil that dominated most of the discourse.

(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.

The Anti-Trump movement is failingEditor’s Note: we are not as giddy about Donald Trump as Prof. Victor Davis Hanson (see his essay below), mainly due to our anxiety over the president’s grave blunders in foreign affairs, beginning with his Jared Kushner-engineered partnership with the terrorist-enabling kingdom of Saudi Arabia, whose only lightly-veiled alliance with the Israelis has markedly improved the Saudis’ status in Jerusalem, New York and Washington D.C. One can’t fight ISIS effectively while empowering the Saudi dictatorship.

Yesterday, the House unanimously passed Ted Lieu's amendment to the Department of Defense appropriations bill that requires the Departments of Defense and State to report to Congress on whether the Saudi Arabia and its Gulf State allies are abiding by their commitments in Yemen.You may recall that Lieu started working on this in lat

(GPA) Qatif – For the past 60 days, Saudi Arabia imposed a devastating siege on the Shiite town of Awamiya. And of course, mainstream western media remains silent.

There is trouble in oil paradise. It seems that all the elements of an already explosive geopolitical concoction are getting vigorously stirred.