Two Years After Khashoggi’s Murder, Why is America Still An Accomplice to MBS’s Crimes?

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies

So long as U.S. leaders continue to coddle the Saudis, it’s difficult not to ask who is more evil—the maniacal Saudi crown prince or the mendacious Western governments and businesspeople who support him? Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered on October 2, 2018 by agents of Saudi Arabia’s despotic government, and the CIA […]

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How Ecuador’s Democracy Is Being Suffocated

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Vijay Prashad and Pilar Troya

A recent poll showed that if Andrés Arauz Galarza were allowed to run in Ecuador’s presidential election of 2021, he would win in the first round with 45.9 percent of the vote. The pollsters found that Arauz—who was the minister of knowledge and human talent from 2015 to 2017—wins across “all the social strata and regions of […]

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