Riyadh has suffered significantly as a result of its renewed war on Yemen and Sanaa’s retaliatory strikes, widening the country’s budget deficit and pushing the Saudi economy to the brink of “contraction,” the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on 12 October. “The conflict is jeopardizing Saudi efforts to build travel and tourism into a pillar of the economy, including [the] international investment conference scheduled for the end of the month that is now increasingly in doubt. The costs of the war have already widened the budget deficit and threaten to push the economy into contraction,” WSJ writes.

The 21-year-old woman told police the assault happened during a party at the Alpha Epsilon Pi house, according to the report. Her account was backed up by two friends, who stated they intervened by ba...

An Ecuadorian judge ordered the immediate release of nearly 30 fishermen whose two boats were destroyed by the US military in the Pacific Ocean. The Ecuadorian prosecutor’s office had charged them with alleged illegal activities. The sequence of events is telling. In two separate instances between late August and early September, the fishing boats Conquista II and María Candelaria were boarded by US military forces while on the high seas. The US forces, after transferring the fishermen to other vessels, destroyed and sank their boats.

In 1947, the U.S. Congress passed the National Security Act, which created the National Security Council, the Department of Defense, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Central Intelligence Agency.  These institutions were often misused during the worst days of the Cold War and, more recently, in the Global War on Terror.  Nevertheless, there are historical records on the decision making that took place, and there were successes in such fields as arms control and disarmament as well as the building of national security alliances in Europe and Asia.

Each time Brittany Johnson presses play, her son is alive and running. He sprints down Ida B. Wells Street, a slight silhouette fleeing something that’s out of the frame. “Oh, that’s the National Guard right there!” shouts the girl who is recording as he makes a right on Union, then quickly darts left after a black SUV cuts him off. “Run! Run!” shout the young people filming, urging him on. And then there are gunshots. First one, then five or six in quick succession. The shouts are now screams. The phone tumbles to the ground. In the days since her son Tyrin Johnson was killed, Brittany Johnson has watched this 19-second clip over and over, until it has made her nauseated.

OK who the hell did this? So disrespectful to our dear leader.

Moscow is yet to receive money from Donald Trump’s diesel deal, but Putin is already enjoying a different kind of profit.