Sputnik | 9 Oct 2015 Saudi Arabia is ramping up its supplies of lethal weaponry to three different rebel groups in Syria in response to the Russian airstrikes on Syrian rebels, British media reported, citing a Saudi government official in Riyadh. The official, who was speaking on condition of anonymity, said supplies of modern, high-powered weaponry including guided…
RT | 30 Sept 2015 Two years after the controversial appointment of Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s leading human rights offenders, to the UN human rights council, Wikileaks cables have revealed a “secret deal” suggesting that the British government was a key player behind Riyadh’s nomination. Some of the 61,000 files from the Saudi…
Nafeez Ahmed | 28 Sept 2015 Deep-rooted structural realities means that Saudi Arabia is indeed on the brink of protracted state-failure, a process likely to take-off in the next few years On Tuesday 22 September, Middle East Eye broke the story of a senior member of the Saudi royal family calling for a “change” in…
Glenn Greenwald | 16 Sept 2015 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi5z4M5dm4o?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] The ongoing atrocities by Saudi Arabia and its “coalition partners” in Yemen reflect powerfully — and horribly — on both the U.S. and U.K. That’s true not only because those two countries in general are among the closest allies of the Saudi regime, but also because they…
F. William ENgdahl | NEO | 8 AUg 2015 Who would’ve thought it would come to this? Certainly not the Obama Administration, and their brilliant geo-political think-tank neo-conservative strategists. John Kerry’s brilliant “win-win” proposal of last September during his September 11 Jeddah meeting with ailing Saudi King Abdullah was simple: Do a rerun of the…
NEO | 27 July 2015 It’s hardly a secret for anyone that the United States and Saudi Arabia are longtime partners, hence Washington has historically been the guardian of Saudi interests in the Middle East. These special relations between the states were built back in the 1930s, when in exchange for security guarantees that were…
The Hindu | 17 July 2015 Thousands of Saudi documents shows how the government’s goal was not just to spread Sunni Islam but also to undermine its primary adversary: Shia Iran. For decades, Saudi Arabia has poured billions of its oil dollars into sympathetic Islamic organisations around the world, quietly practicing chequebook diplomacy to advance…
Telesur | 29 June 2015 Whistleblower Julian Assange implicated the United States – along with the Saudi Arabian government – in a plot to overthrow the Syrian government. Saudi Arabia, the United States, France, and Britain were involved in a secret 2012 deal to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Sunday.…
VT | 5 June 2015 Iraqi forces fire on Saudi jets Iraqi government sources report firing on Royal Saudi Air Force jets. The Saudi planes were engaged north and east of Baghdad and quickly withdrew to Saudi air space. Sources indicate there is no question, the Saudi planes were attacking Shiite militias and providing close…
NZ Herald | 30 May 2015 Auditor-General Lyn Provost must investigate Murray McCully’s secret Saudi deal, which is attracting far too much adverse comment on the international stage to be easily swept under the carpet. Cabinet documents do not shed sufficient light on why McCully spearheaded an initiative which at its kindest interpretation resulted in…