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US businesses sour on Saudi Arabia in blow to crown prince’s growth plans
Jan 19, 2022 11:59Saudi Arabia courted the world’s top companies to supposedly modernize its economy. Instead, the business environment has grown more hostile and investors are souring on the oil-rich kingdom.
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UN envoy warns 'threat to civilian lives is increasing' in Yemen
Jan 01, 2022 06:41A United Nations special envoy raised alarm about the safety of civilians in war-torn Yemen given escalating violence, including airstrikes by the US- backed Saudi-led coalition.
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Saudi Arabia arms sale is one of Biden’s many militaristic actions in first year
Dec 15, 2021 07:16The U.S. is selling Saudi Arabia $650 million worth of missiles and providing $500 million worth of maintenance for U.S.-made aircraft, training and other support for its military operations.
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Senate rejects Sanders’s resolution to block $650m weapons sale to Saudi Arabia
Dec 12, 2021 07:31The Senate voted against a bipartisan resolution to block a $650 million weapons sale to Saudi Arabia recently, rejecting a bid by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and progressive and Republican lawmakers to stop the sale.
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Biden to Pentagon: Keep the war machine running
Dec 08, 2021 07:06The Biden administration released its first Global Posture Review, with the continuation of a Cold War stance toward China and Russia.
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New report urges Biden to stop arms sales fueling Saudi 'devastation' of Yemen
Dec 06, 2021 12:24As the ongoing Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen's war continues to kill, maim, and displace civilians—over 300,000 of whom have died during more than seven years of fighting—a report published recently urges the Biden administration to end critical U.S. support for the atrocity-laden campaign by blocking pending arms sales and stopping future weapons transfers.
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Emmanuel Macron accused of trying to ‘rehabilitate’ Mohammed bin Salman
Dec 05, 2021 07:12Human rights groups have criticized French President, Emmanuel Macron’s meeting with Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia on Saturday (Dec. 04), which marked the first one-on-one public meeting of a major western leader with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia since the state-sponsored assassination of the dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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The Biden administration’s missile sale to Saudi Arabia is offensive, and must be stopped
Dec 02, 2021 16:23The Biden administration should halt all U.S. arms and maintenance to the Saudi regime as leverage to get it to end the air and sea blockades.
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Steep fall of Saudi stock market as Yemen retaliates
Nov 25, 2021 15:32According to worried western wire agencies, on Sunday, November 21st, Saudi Arabia’s stock market posted its biggest one-day drop in more than a year, after the retaliatory attacks from Yemen. Saudi Arabia’s benchmark index dropped 1.6%, with Al-Rajhi Bank retreating 2.2% and Aramco losing 1.6%. The fall could have been worse and might decline further once the damage to the other industrial and military sites, is leaked in spite of tight Saudi censorship.
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Despite pledge, Biden leaves tap open, approving billions in arms deals to Saudi Arabia (2)
Nov 25, 2021 15:26A new MintPress News study based on Dept. of Defense documents can reveal that U.S. weapons manufacturers have sold well in excess of $28.3 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia since the Yemen War began, including 20 separate deals inked during Biden’s presidency.