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The Saudi leadership and Donald Trump? Two sides of the same coin
Madawi Al-Rasheed
visiting professor at the Middle East Centre at LSE.
Donald Trump’s first overseas tour starts this week in Riyadh, followed by Israel and the Vatican. This is not an inter-faith pilgrimage to three holy sites,…
Why Saudi Arabia would rather pay a ransom to Trump than support its own people
The price tag of an audience with Donald Trump is high, and rising. Saudi Arabia has already pledged an estimated $300bn in defence contracts over the next decade and $40bn in infrastructure investment. The final figure, according to…
US politicians grow sceptical of Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen
Alex Kane
Alex Kane is a New York-based freelance journalist whose work focuses on the American Jewish community, Israel/Palestine and the US “war on terror.” A former editor at Mondoweiss and AlterNet, his work has also appeared in the…
Saudi bashing ends as Trump visit signals growing ties with Gulf
Mona Alami
Donald Trump once claimed a Saudi prince wanted to "control the US", said Saudi Arabia "blew up the World Trade Centre" and insisted that the country "wouldn’t exist" without American help.
Later this…
The Madder Trump Gets, The More Seriously The World Takes Him
YemenExtra
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The Independent
Robert Fisk
The more dangerous America’s crackpot President becomes, the saner the world believes him to be. Just look back at the initial half of his first 100 days: the crazed tweeting, the…
Does Donald Trump Know He’s Helping Saudi Arabia Ruin Yemen?
The euphoria over reinvigorating the Riyadh-Washington alliance has reached dizzying diplomatic heights. Both capitals are rejoicing over rejuvenating the decades-old alliance, which had become abrasive during the Obama…
The War on Yemen and the ‘Self-Defense’ Lie
Daniel Larison
Western officials never seem to get tired of repeating transparent lies on behalf of Saudi Arabia:
Britain’s defence secretary said that Saudi Arabia was “simply defending itself” by bombing Yemen in a military…
How diplomacy failed in Yemen and why it will again ?
Nadwa Al-Dawsari
a nonresident senior fellow at the Project on Middle East Democracy
On May 11, key southern political leaders in Yemen declared a Transitional Political Council to represent the south in a step toward independence from…
Trump and Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman are the most dangerous men in the world – and they’re…
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Patrick Cockburn
Patrick Cockburn is an award-winning writer on The Independent who specialises in analysis of Iraq, Syria and wars in the Middle East.
Many people view Donald Trump as the most dangerous man on the…
Yemen’s honey vendors stung by war
Mohammed Hamoud
He is a freelance Photo/Video journalist, who has covered the uprising in Yemen in 2011 and its repercussions. His work has been published in many media outlets including AP, Reuters and EPA, as well as UNHCR.…