Showing posts with label Jamal Kashoggi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jamal Kashoggi. Show all posts
Sunday, July 17, 2022
Biden's surreal "shared values" tour of middle east
Joe Biden is off to the ME, ostensibly to cement US alliances in the region, but mostly to suck up to the Saudis and beg for more oil. The double-funny on that is the Saudis are actually buying Russian oil these days, so selling it on to the idiots who started all this “sanctions from hell” shit is beyond rich.
Sleepy Joe likes to invoke “shared values” as he’s speechifying in Tel Aviv and Riyadh. You gotta wonder what those “shared values” might look like.
The way Biden frames it, it’s all about freedom and human rights and democracy.
Ya, right!
If you want to find shared values amongst Israel, KSA, USA, good luck finding it there!
Here’s a shared value that really exists in America and these two client states (although their loyalty to the Empire is in both cases highly dubious at this point); silencing dissent.
That’s why the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia silenced Jamal Kashoggi.
That’s why Israel silenced Shireen Abu Akleh.
That’s why America silenced Julian Assange.
Sunday, November 11, 2018
MBS gets mojo back
If Crown Prince MBS was chastened by the global stink over the Kashoggi affair, there's scant evidence of it in our major media. Just this morning, on page A10 of Canada's most liberal newspaper, there's a glowing puff-piece on the reformist Prince, "A Kingdom learns to laugh."
What? Barely five weeks since the gruesome demise of Jamal, and we're yukking it up with the Great Reformer, without so much as a nod to the Kashoggi affair? My first instinct was that such an oversight can only be the result of the Crown Prince's "Buckets 'o Baksheesh" tour back in the spring. After all, that visit included a sit-down with the editorial board of the LA Times, where The Star found this story.
Alas, there's a less nefarious explanation. Seems the interns charged with putting together the Sunday paper just changed the headline and did a little editing of this LA Times story from September, when Jamal yet walked among us.
Which speaks volumes about the level of geopolitical acuity at One Yonge Street.
What? Barely five weeks since the gruesome demise of Jamal, and we're yukking it up with the Great Reformer, without so much as a nod to the Kashoggi affair? My first instinct was that such an oversight can only be the result of the Crown Prince's "Buckets 'o Baksheesh" tour back in the spring. After all, that visit included a sit-down with the editorial board of the LA Times, where The Star found this story.
Alas, there's a less nefarious explanation. Seems the interns charged with putting together the Sunday paper just changed the headline and did a little editing of this LA Times story from September, when Jamal yet walked among us.
Which speaks volumes about the level of geopolitical acuity at One Yonge Street.
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