"We're just happy!" State Department spokesperson Heather Naurt said with a huge grin on her face.
The AP journalist immediately rains on her parade, "Would you still say they [Saudi Arabia] need to do... a lot more with women's rights?"
"I think we're just happy today..." she said, this time with a frown, trying to hold back her angry scowl.
In an unprecedented step for a country where a sprawling monarchy has managed to cling to power in part because of its concessions to hardline conservative clerics, Saudi Arabia announced today that its King Salman has issued a historic royal decree granting driving licenses for women in the kingdom, meaning that women will soon be allow to drive – overturning a longstanding symbol of oppression in the Muslim world just days after President Donald Trump slammed the US ally’s human rights record during remarks at the UN.
Via TheAntiMedia.org,
According to Bernie Sanders, Saudi Arabia has “funded terrorism” around the world and is “not an ally of the United States.”
Bernie Sanders broke with the bipartisan consensus on Capitol Hill in an exclusive interview with The Intercept.
The United States has long considered Saudi Arabia to be a loyal friend, supporter, and partner in the so-called war on terror.
Authored by Darius Shatahmasebi via TheAntiMedia.org,
Once upon a time, the U.S. dollar was backed by the gold standard in a framework that established what was known as the Bretton-Woods agreement, made in 1944. The dollar was fixed to gold at a price of $35 an ounce, though the dollar could earn interest, marking one notable difference from gold.
Background here.
By Kristen Breitweiser, one of the four 9/11 widows – known as the “Jersey Girls” – instrumental in forcing the government to form the 9/11 Commission to investigate the 2001 attacks. Follow Kristen Breitweiser on Twitter: www.twitter.com/kdbreitweiser.
Everyone knows about the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s connections to the September 11th attacks. In fact, most Americans can easily recite that 15 of the 19 September 11th hijackers were Saudi.