So It Turns Out That Saudi Arabia Isn’t Exactly an American Puppet After All

So It Turns Out That Saudi Arabia Isn’t Exactly an American Puppet After All

The US’ decision to revoke the visas of 21 Saudis who it claims are responsible for dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s killing and possibly impose Magnitsky Act sanctions against them proves that Saudi Arabia isn’t exactly the “American puppet” that many people had previously thought that it was if Washington is willing to punish its so-called…

The Middle East: What does Tomorrow have in Store for Us?

The Middle East: What does Tomorrow have in Store for Us?

The more time elapses after the sad day of October 2, when the Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, the more clearly one may see the details of his brutal murder. The smart Apple Watch recorded his interrogation, murder, dismemberment and removal from the consulate premises. The whole world…

Leak by Leak: Erdogan Exerts His Leverage Over the Saudis

Leak by Leak: Erdogan Exerts His Leverage Over the Saudis

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a skilful politician who knows how to maximise his advantages and this was very much on display in his speech to the Turkish parliament. He contemptuously dismissed the official Saudi story that the murder of Jamal Khashoggi was the accidental outcome of a botched interrogation by a “rogue” Saudi intelligence…

First Cut Won’t be the Deepest – Deeper Wounds Are Yet to Come in the Killing of Khashoggi

First Cut Won’t be the Deepest – Deeper Wounds Are Yet to Come in the Killing of Khashoggi

As Khashoggi’s “disfigured face and body parts” are reportedly found in the garden of the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, the party is over for the Western collaborators with Arabian tyranny. After Khashoggi himself, the main loser from the murder most foul in Istanbul is US President Donald Trump – as I predicted here weeks ago….

Why Do Yemen’s Dead Not Merit the Attention of Jamal Khashoggi?

Why Do Yemen’s Dead Not Merit the Attention of Jamal Khashoggi?

The apparent murder of Saudi Arabian dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi is a shocking crime that merits the international attention it has received, but nonetheless it is impossible not to wonder why the death of a single person receives vastly more coverage than ongoing Saudi atrocities in Yemen. Is it that a dramatic story involving a single…