Michael G. Roskin (2023-01-26). Mike Pompeo, seeking White House, runs interference for the Saudis, Trashing murdered Journalist Khashoggi. juancole.com Nashville (Special to Informed Comment) Mike Pompeo asserts that murdered Washington Post columnist Jamal Kashoggi was no mild critic of the Saudi regime but a dangerous radical trying to subvert it. This, I suspect, has been the Saudi line fed to Washington since Kashoggi's 2018 dismemberment at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Trump …

Jason Ditz (2023-01-25). Media Fault Pompeo for Defending Saudi Assassination of Journalist. news.antiwar.com Released this week as part of an effort to kickstart his presidential campaign, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo caused considerable controversy in The Trump Administration did little in response to the killing, and Pompeo's State Department led efforts to argue that Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Saleh (MBS) likely orchestrated the matter,…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-01-25). Saudi Arabia-led coalition carries out fresh airstrikes in Yemen, killing five including three children. peoplesdispatch.org The airstrikes carried out this week constitute a break in the larger pattern of relative peace in Yemen, months after the collapse of a formal UN-led ceasefire in October last year…

_____ (2023-01-24). Iran's Unrest Triggers Explosion of Fake News. strategic-culture.org Some of the most incendiary accusations made against Iran's government by corporate media, celebrity influencers and Western leaders in the past months are little more than fabrications. And most remain uncorrected. | By Setareh SADEQI and Christopher WEAVER | Protests in Iran that ostensibly began as a reaction to the death of a woman in police custody in September 2022 have prompted unprecedented international opposition to its government, not only from the usual Western, Israeli and Saudi suspects, but from celebrity social media influencers with no previous record of commenting on Iranian affairs. | Iran is n…

infobrics (2023-01-24). Saudi Arabia Joining BRICS: A Strategic Game Changer. infobrics.org In the book, BRICS and Global Governance, emerging markets and developing countries are increasingly playing a defining role in those trends, particularly in the growing cooperation among emerging markets and developing countries in the form of south—south cooperation…