Tomorrow, the Saudi Public Investment Fund begins its conference with global business leaders.

It's known as 'Davos in the Desert.'

But the Fund has a bloody history. IT OWNS THE PLANES that whisked Khashoggi's killers to & from Istanbul. Learn more👇

Excellent on #Iran

How political groups are using the uprising for their own agendas
middleeasteye.net/opinion/iran-p…

Farnush Ghadery Danny Postel Reza Aslan Sarah Leah Whitson

“MBS is persistently acting against the Biden administration, using oil as a lever to influence midterm elections to bring in more compliant Republicans, trying to show us who’s boss even in our own democracy.” @Sarahleah1 Ken Klippenstein The Intercept theintercept.com/2022/10/20/sau…

Cooler heads won’t prevail in current U.S. - Saudi tensions because there aren’t any cool heads left in Riyadh.

MBS is an immature hothead who “mocks President Biden in private,” and “much preferred former President Donald Trump”.

wsj.com/articles/u-s-s…

Zelensky urging apartheid Israel allied with Gulf dictators to 'choose side' of democracy lol
haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Court decision in the next weeks would likely turn on whether the Biden admin will tip the scales of justice in favour of Khashoggi or with MbS, which one critic has said would give him “a license to kill” — latest on legal immunity for MbS by Stephanie Kirchgaessner
theguardian.com/world/2022/oct…

“Bringing the truce back without ensuring there is a clear roadmap to a resolution of the conflict is just one more band-aid to the Yemen crisis,” Sherine El Taraboulsi-McCarthy PhD شيرين الطرابلسي tells Giorgio Cafiero & Emily Milliken (Przyborowski) in Democracy in Exile. “Yemenis want and need sustainable peace.” dawnmena.org/yemenis-want-a…

A segment from the dystopian video. The governor & the famous pro-Sisi presenter:
-'I received delegations from 60 embassies ... all asking about protests,'
-Oh, really.. 'loudly laughing'
- Yes. human rights.
-We talk about climate & they talk about..? youtu.be/izmO_GJDSsU?t=…

The cameras used were imported through Arab International Optronics, a military-owned company in which the French defense Thales owns 49% of shares. They claim these cameras are needed to ensure 'right behavior' by drivers.

A welcome development to see resumption of Saudi support for UNRWA and the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugee children it serves.

Federal officials working on the government response to Covid-19 made well-timed financial trades when the pandemic began—both as the markets plunged and as they rallied—a Wall Street Journal investigation found.

“As authors, we reject this censorship law that will plunge #Turkey into deep darkness. [May] the truth of the people and the world [win] against the lie of the tyrants.” Amen.

Read more: al-monitor.com/originals/2022… al-monitor.com/originals/2022… via Al-Monitor

One year ago today the Israeli government labeled 6 prominent Palestinian rights groups 'terrorists,' effectively banning them. They have yet to provide credible evidence justifying the designations.

The U.S. response has been to say as little as possible about it.

MBS probably has Coupitis.

A condition in which a dictator fears a coup if he leaves the country. Risk factors include a lifetime history of psychopathic repression.
reuters.com/world/middle-e…

The UN -or some of its members in the absence of UNSC vote- should negotiate/send a neutral protective presence in the occupied Pal. territory. The number of those killed or arbitrary arrested this year confirms that the Occ. Power lacks capacity/will to protect the occupied ppl.

🚨The UN has designated Saudi aid worker Abdulrahman Al-Sadhan - sentenced to 20 years in prison for anonymous tweets - as 'arbitrarily detained.'

His sister, Areej Al Sadhan أريج السدحان #FreeSadhan, describes her brother's ordeal. #FreeSadhan 🕊️

.Dr Andreas Krieg: “…the appeal of what America stands for would be strengthened if it were as passionately for the rights of Palestinians as it is for the rights of Ukrainians.” middleeasteye.net/opinion/us-sau…

UAE's minister of tolerance and coexistence when sees a woman having fun during her graduation.

Man, F* #UAE