October 19, 2018
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Political Violence Escalates in Brazil as Historic Presidential Race Enters Final Phase
Supporters of far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro have attacked dozens of his opponents, killing two, while social media campaign spins out of control with lies about Workers Party candidate Fernando Haddad. Michael Fox reports from Brazil Continue reading
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Trump scrambles to cover for Saudi regime as crisis over Khashoggi murder mounts By Barry Grey
Following US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s emergency talks in Riyadh and Ankara, and amid mounting reports implicating Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the Trump administration is scrambling to shield Washington’s closest ally in the Arab World. Continue reading
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Syria’s UN Rep. Jaafari Puts Saudi Arabia in Its Place
Imagine a country where a royal family spends billions of dollars on US and UK weaponry in order to increase their domestic and regional hegemony, engaging in a brutal regime change wars by force by bombing its neighbors, as well as funding and arming radical Wahhabi terrorists throughout the Middle East, particularly in Syria, along… Continue reading
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Bellingcat linked to Western special services, says Russian foreign minister
Bellingcat, a UK-based open source and social media investigation site, is linked to special services, which use it to “dump” information aimed to sway public opinion, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated in an interview with the Euronews channel. Continue reading
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Jamal Khashoggi Newslinks 19 October 2018
19 October 2018 — The New Dark Age ‘Mohammad bin Salman Must Go”, but US-Saudi Ties Are Here to Stay https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/10/19/mohammad-bin-salman-must-go-but-us-saudi-ties-here-stay.html Continue reading
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Selected Articles: The Khashoggi Affair
18 October 2018 — Global Research Breaking: Seven of Bin Salman’s Bodyguards Among Khashoggi Suspects By David Hearst, October 18, 2018 Seven of the 15 men suspected of being involved in an operation to kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi belong to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s personal security and protection detail, Middle East Eye can reveal. Continue reading