The Saudification of America is under way - Karen Attiah

"In death, Jamal’s faith would prove to be misplaced. The Washington Post’s erasure of Jamal’s memory and the freedom he stood for has been brewing in the background.

The global opinion section that Jamal wrote for was dismantled. The Jamal Khashoggi fellowship – which was offered to writers speaking out against authoritarian regimes – was left to fade away."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#USpol #Politics #JamalKhashoggi #MBS #SaudiArabia #Trump #WashingtonPost @karenattiah.bsky.social

The Saudification of America is under way

Jamal Khashoggi’s plight and murder was a warning sign for the US, of the impending loss of freedom and censorship that would sweep the country

^{Karen Attiah (The Guardian)}

USA now has world’s third worst climate policy, says German NGO.

Its badness ranks after Saudi Arabia and Iran, and before Russia, in the Climate Change Performance Index ranking.

english.elpais.com/climate/202…

#Climate #COP30 #USA #USPol #FossilFuels #Russia #Iran #SaudiArabia #Trump #Energy

US joins Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Russia in the group of countries doing the least to combat climate change

A report ranking the international response to global warming warns of a ‘large-scale rollback of climate policies’ under Trump

^{Manuel Planelles (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)}

#GiftArticle

‘Things happen’

#WashingtonPost Editorial Board

Setting the record straight about our murdered colleague.

The #US govt often advances its interests by working with nasty people, & #SaudiArabia Crown Prince #MBS is one of the nastiest. It’s one thing…to reluctantly deal with him…[but] #Trump’s performance at the White House Tuesday was something else entirely: #weak, #crass & of no strategic benefit to US.

#criminal #law #murder #Khashoggi #FreePress
wapo.st/4a02JnI

#Trump said the #US would sell #F35 stealth fighter jets to #SaudiArabia in a similar arrangement it has with #Israel.

"As far as I'm concerned, I think they are both at a level where they should get top of the line (F-35s)," Trump said, referring to Saudi & Israel as great allies.

#WarCrimes

"A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen, but he [#MBS] knew nothing about it. And we can leave it at that. You don't have to embarrass our guest by asking a question like that,” #Trump said as if likability excuses #murder.

#law #criminals #US #SaudiArabia #JamalKhashoggi #Khashoggi

[Helsinki flashback] #Trump contradicts #US #intelligence, says #MBS 'knew nothing' about #Khashoggi death.

Then in classic Trump fashion, Trump dismisses a reporter’s question on the #murder of #journalist #JamalKhashoggi as an attempt to "embarrass" the #SaudiArabia leader, horrifically adding:
🚨 "things happen" [um… dismemberment doesn’t just “happen”] 🚨

Trump asked the reporter where she was from, then called her "fake news."

#criminal #law #FreePress

This is MBS's first visit to the US since the 2018 killing of #journalist & Saudi critic #JamalKhashoggi in the kingdom's Istanbul consulate.

#Khashoggi was killed & dismembered in Oct 2018 by Saudi agents in an operation US intelligence believed was ordered by #MBS.

Khashoggi had criticized the crown prince's policies in his #WashingtonPost columns.
He had traveled to the #SaudiArabia consulate to obtain papers to marry his fiancée, a Turkish citizen.

#law #murder #Trump #criminal

#Trump is rolling out the red carpet for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman [#MBS] Tuesday, with the #SaudiArabia de facto ruler seeking to further rehabilitate his global image after the 2018 killing of US based journalist #JamalKhashoggi & deepen ties with Washington.

#murder #WarCrimes
reuters.com/world/us/us-politi…

Its now pretty clear that Saudi Arabia is a major block to global efforts to act on climate change... don't get me wrong the global political class is weak & unwilling to act decisively anyway, but the Saudi's are doing their bit to make that inaction even easier....

If the human race makes it to the end of C21st, you can be sure the survivors will look at out generation(s) & see the betrayal of the future pretty starkly!

#Climate #SaudiArabia #politics

theguardian.com/world/2025/nov…

$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action

Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?

^{Damian Carrington (The Guardian)}