Saudi Arabia

Meltdown in the Desert

Jamal Dajani | Posted 10.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Crisis, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Economy, Oil, Business, Kuwait, Recession, Al Qaeda, Dubai, Meltdown, Business News
Jamal Dajani

The demise of Wall Street has reached the Arabian Sahara and is threatening to put an end to its construction boom, which has flourished from several years of petro-bonanza.

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Karzai Reveals Saudi Relationship: A Two-Year Effort To Help Curb Taliban

NY Times | JOHN F. BURNS and ABDUL WAHEED WAFA | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia, War Wire, Taliban, Afghan Taliban, Politics News

KABUL, Afghanistan --President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday that he had sought help from the Saudi royal family for the last two years to bring the resur...

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Ramadan Reveals Importance of Community Versus Individual

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 09.29.2008 | Living

Read More: Islam, Saudi Arabian Supreme Judiciary Council, Jordan, Five Pillars of Islam, Radio Al Balad, Individual Values, Sheikh Salih a-Lahidan, Noor, Cultural Values, Ramadan, Family Values, Gatif, Shara'a Simsim, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Collective Values, Amman Jordan, Living News
Daoud Kuttab

Since our family returned from the US, I have been repeatedly asked to compare life in America to life in the Middle East.

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A Lot of Israelis and a Lot of Saudis for Barack Obama?

Steve Clemons | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Israel, John McCain, Jeff Bingaman, Bandar Raffah, Saudi Arabia, Bloggers, Barack Obama, Politics News
Steve Clemons

I have stumbled across "A Lot of Saudis and Israelis for Barack Obama." They aren't a single group -- but it's clear Obama is popular across the Middle East.

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What Bush Won't Tell You

Jamal Dajani | Posted 09.24.2008 | Business

Read More: US Economy, Bailout, Wall Street, Middle East, Economy, Saudi Arabia, George W. Bush, Uae, Business News
Jamal Dajani

$700 billion is not going to be enough according to many experts. Tonight Bush will not tell the U.S. taxpayer that America is also drowning in debt to countries such as China.

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MEMO TO BUSH: Declare War on Stockbrokerism

Steven Denlinger | Posted 09.20.2008 | Home

Read More: Laissez Faire, Christians, Bill Clinton, Republican Congress, Wmd, Ronald Reagan, War on Terror, Stock Market, Wells Fargo, George W. Bush, Christopher Cox, Obama, Iraq, Chrysler, Saddam Hussein, Wall Street, Muslims, Night Terrors, Saudi Arabia, Persecute, Ruling Republican Elite, Poland, Russia, Afghanistan, War Bonds, Herbert Hoover, Home News
Steven Denlinger

Imagine this situation: Russia attacks America, and in order to teach the world what happens when you try attacking America's Mighty Might, we attack...

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As It Meets, Time to Make OPEC Understand Access To Our Market Can No Longer Be Taken For Granted

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 09.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Oil, King Abdullah, Chavez, Hezbollah, Opec, Nytimes, Crude Oil Prices, Crude Oil, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

The US market for oil should no longer be available to all suppliers irrespective of their adversarial policies and their pricing strategies.

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Top Saudi Cleric Declares War On Birthdays

AP | DONNA ABU-NASR | Posted 09.05.2008 | Home

Read More: Saudi Arabia, Birthdays, Saudi Arabia Birthday Ban, Islamic Fundamentalism, Islamic Radicalism, Home News

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — When Hala al-Masaad invited her girlfriends over to celebrate her 18th birthday with cake and juice, the high school stud...

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My Interview With Deborah Campbell: How Hezbollah's Triumph is Blowback for U.S. Policy

Omid Memarian | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jordan, Syria, The Middle East, John McCain, Terrorism, Deborah Campbell, Terrorist Organization, Olmert, Prisoner Exchange, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Shiite, Barack Obama, u.s. Foreign Policy, The United States, Iran, 2006 War, Saudi Arabia, Doha Agreement, Saudi Money, Israel, Hassan Nasrallah, Sunni, Politics News
Omid Memarian

Why after the Israel-Lebanon 34-day war two years ago, and particularly after the Doha accord in May, which restored Hezbollah to the Lebanese governm...

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Court: Saudi Arabia Not Liable In September 11 Attacks

Posted 08.14.2008 | Home

Read More: Terrorism, September 11th, Saudi Arabia, 9/11 Victims, Home News

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Citizen Journalism Becoming the Rage in Arab World

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 08.03.2008 | Media

Read More: LBC Satellite, Ibrahim Arab, Journalism Training Program, Mohammad Najm, Al Riyadh, Model Iraqi Youth, United States, Iraq, Lebanon, Voice of Beirut Radio, Nufooz.com, Brazil, Facebook, American University of Beirut, Tariq Saleh, Heinrich Boll Foundation, Jessica Dheere, Saudi Arabia, Al Sumariya TV, Asharq Al-Awsat, Youtube, Al Amal, Al Mustaqbal, E-Sahafa, BBCBrasil.Com, Arab Bloggers, Media News
Magda Abu-Fadil

Web 2.0, audio and video editing, converged content and online media ethics were a few of the topics tackled in a workshop that drew Arab bloggers seeking to hone their skills in cyber publishing.

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The "Have-Oil" and the "Have-Nots"

Jamal Dajani | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oil, Oil Prices, Iran, Qatar, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Lamborghini, Dubai, Exxon Mobil, Politics News
Jamal Dajani

Skyrocketing oil and natural gas prices in the second quarter of this year led ExxonMobil to report the highest profit ever by an American company. I...

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Should Saudi Arabia be Banned from the Olympics?

David Wallechinsky | Posted 07.29.2008 | Living

Read More: Women, Ioc, Beijing Olympics, Olympics, International Olympic Committee, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Living News
David Wallechinsky

There are two countries, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which have consistently prevented women from competing in the Olympics.

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Unitarian Church Shooting is Terrorism

Joe Lauria | Posted 07.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: UN General Assembly, Khobar Towers, Al-Qaeda, Church, Shooting, Saudi Arabia, Uss Cole, Terrorism, Politics News
Joe Lauria

Adkisson must be tried on terrorism charges and our leaders must speak out against this form of domestic terrorism too, not just the inflated threat from Islamic extremists.

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Oil Prices in Steep Decline: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid!

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 07.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Energy, Tom Freidman, OPEC President Khelil, Cftc, Saudi Arabia, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, King Abdullah, Treasury Sec.Paulson, Energy Sec.Bodman, President Bush, Gordon Brown, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Something sinister is afoot in the steep decline of oil prices: Our sense of outrage at the oil industry risks being mollified; just when we become serious about alternative fuels, suddenly, magically, the price of oil retreats.

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My Talk with the Saudis, and What I Learned from Them

Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Spiritual Progressives, Interfaith Dialogue, Judaism, Media Bias, Barack Obama, Modernizing Islam, Saudi Arabia, Islam, Politics News
Rabbi Michael Lerner

This didn't sound like the Saudi King I had come to expect from Western media. I can't remember hearing either Bush or Carter speaking like this or, for that matter, any Israeli Prime Minister including Rabin.

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The Saudi Oil Summit: Pipeline to Nowhere

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 06.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Speculation, Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi, Saudi Arabia, Oil Prices, King Abdullah, Jeddah Summit, Opec, President Bush, Gordon Brown, Saudi Oil, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Given the unwillingness of the Saudis and their assembled OPEC brethren to propose anything meaningful that would alter current price or supply trends, the Jeddah oil "summit" was a dud.

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Gas Prices Unlikely To Change After Modest Saudi Increase

Huffington Post | Posted 06.23.2008 | Business

Read More: High Gas Prices, Gas Prices, Oil Prices, Saudi Arabia Oil Production, High Oil Prices, Saudi Arabia, Business News

Saudi Arabia announced a modest increase in oil production this week. However, gas prices are unlikely to change much as a result. Indeed the price o...

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Saudi Arabia: We Have Increased Oil Production

CNN | Wilf Dinnick | Posted 06.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Saudi Arabia Oil Production, Oil Prices, Gas Prices, Oil Production, Saudi Arabia, Business News

Saudi Arabia has increased its daily oil production to 9.7 million from 9 million barrels in a move to counter the sharp rise in international oil pri...

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"Beyond Politics": Quick-Fix Bush Gives Us Short-Term Hope and Long Term Disaster

Ray Hanania | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oil Prices, British Petroleum, President Bush, Halliburton, Saudi Arabia, Reserves, Dick Cheney, Crude Oil Prices, Big Oil, Oil Companies, Politics News
Ray Hanania

What we need and is what Bush is incapable of offering the American people: a long-term strategy that will shift us from oil-based energy to solar energy and alternative fuels.

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Prince Bandar in $2 Billion PIckle

Michael Conniff | Posted 06.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Jimmy Carter, Bae, Business, Prince Bandar, Weapons, Saudi Arabia, Bush Saudi Arabia, Corruption, Business News
Michael Conniff

What does the little town of Harper Woods, Michigan, unremarkable in so many ways, have to do with the Prince Bandarof Saudi Arabia, monarch of Aspen with the $135 million manse?

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The New York Times Pipes The Saudi Production Polka

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 06.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Prices, New York Times, Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi, OPEC Production Quotas, Saudi Arabia, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

What a gracious gesture from the Saudis to raise production, after having brought the world's economy to the brink of ruin and causing untold damage to the lives of people across the globe.

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Saudis Agree To Boost Oil Production

AP | Posted 06.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Prices, Gas Prices, High Gas Prices, Gas, Oil, Saudi Arabia, Business News

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia plans to increase its oil production by 200,000 barrels a day next month, the kingdom's oil minister told U....

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Saudi Arabia Plans To Increase Its Oil Output

New York Times | JAD MOUAWAD | Posted 06.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Prices, Oil, Oil Production, Saudi Arabia, Business News

Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, is planning to increase its output next month by about a half-million barrels a day, according to anal...

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The Truth "Gagged" and Treason Hidden

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Treason, Saudi Arabia, Dennis Kucinich, Halliburton, Articles of Impeachment, War Profiteering, No-Bid Contracts, 9/11 Attacks, Corruption, Politics News
Larisa Alexandrovna

My God, we have lost our country completely. Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) stood ALONE on the House floor last night for nearly five hours readin...

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