A dispute that is taking place between Saudi Arabia and Egypt indirectly demonstrates the nature of U.S. foreign aid. After dumping a walloping $25 billion in foreign aid to help the Egyptian military dictatorship's economic woes, the Saudis are ho
You'd think that after three and a half decades' working in Pergamum-on-the-Potomac, not to mention over 17 years' service with the U.S. Senate, one's capacity to be scandalized would have been exhausted.
Hillary Clinton has known since at least 2014 the governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar provide "clandestine financial and logistic support" to the Islamic State and other radical Islamic groups -- but, rather than call for a halt of arms sales
A CNN report on Yemen included this incisive quote from Peter Salisbury:"Basically, policymakers in the West see the world as a giant game of Risk, and they see more value to maintaining their relationship with Saudi Arabia than getting rid of bad
A CNN report on Yemen included this incisive quote from Peter Salisbury:"Basically, policymakers in the West see the world as a giant game of Risk, and they see more value to maintaining their relationship with Saudi Arabia than getting rid of bad
A CNN report on Yemen included this incisive quote from Peter Salisbury:"Basically, policymakers in the West see the world as a giant game of Risk, and they see more value to maintaining their relationship with Saudi Arabia than getting rid of bad
Following Obama's 9/11 bill veto defeat yesterday, and despite a surge in oil prices after a 'deal' was struck by OPEC, Saudi Arabia's markets are signaling panic in The Kingdom. Currency forwards are collapsing, default risk is jumping, and bank sto
The price of oil went crazy on Monday morning as investors around the world reacted to confirmation that Saudi Arabia and Russia have held talks about the future direction of oil policy.
Just a few short years ago, Yemen was judged to be among the poorest countries in the world, ranking 154th out of the 187 nations on the U.N.'s Human Development Index. One in every five Yemenis went hungry. Almost one in three was unemployed. Ever
Day by day the life in Yemen becomes more difficult for the people on the ground. The Saudis have restarted bombing and seemingly hit everything in sight - schools, hospitals and food supply routes. Food is running out.
Sinking oil prices and a full blown liquidity crisis has brought the Saudi Arabian economy to screeching halt, a topic we've explored on various occasions.
In an effort to avoid a full-blown banking crisis, Bloomberg is reporting that the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, the Saudi central bank, has offered domestic lenders $4BN in discounted, 1-year loans to ease liquidity constraints.
News reports about the recently released 28 pages of the Joint Inquiry into the 9/11 attacks are typically dismissive: this is nothing new, it's just circumstantial evidence, and there's no "smoking gun." Yet given what the report actually sa
"I had to stop every couple pages and…try to rearrange my understanding of history. It challenges you to rethink everything." – Congressman Thomas Massie describing his experience reading the 28 pages in March 2014.
Unleash the revisionist history. Congress released on Friday a long-classified report exploring the alleged ties of the Saudi Arabian government to the 9/11 hijackers.
The long-classified pages detailing alleged ties of the Saudi Arabian government to the 9/11 hijackers will be released by Congress as early as Friday, sources told CNN Thursday.
A suicide bomber has killed four security officers and injured five others near one of Islam's holiest sites in the Saudi city of Medina, according to the interior ministry.
That 51 US diplomats reproached President Obama's Syria policy by calling for greater American military force deployed against the Damascus government was itself a remarkable sign of official dissent within Washington.