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The Tragedy of Saudi Arabia’s Yemen War (Gut wrenching article on Yemen’s starving children, The New York Times)
Saudis’ Image Makers: A Troll Army and a Twitter Insider (Very good article. Saudi government trolls are rampant on Twitter, The New York Times)
Some Researchers Think Putting Lithium in Our Water Could Save Lives (Doesn’t get much creepier than this, Vox, of course)
How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’ (The New York Times)
Tech Talent Balks at Government Work (The Hill)
European Court Upholds Prosecution Of Woman For Comparing Muhammad’s Marriage To A Six-Year-Old Girl To Pedophilia (Total insanity, Jonathan Turley)
CIA Director Briefs President on Audio Purportedly Capturing the Killing of Jamal Khashoggi (The Washington Post)
Britain Has Sold Its Soul to the House of Saud. Shame on Us (Good links and stats in here, The Guardian)
The Thucydides Trap: Are the U.S. and China Headed for War? (Must read piece from 2015, The Atlantic)
U.S. News/Politics
Trump’s Job Approval up 6 Points Since September: Gallup (The Hill)
Facebook Exodus: Nearly Half of Young Users Have Deleted the App from Their Phone in the Last Year (Interesting article from last month, Business Insider)
Apple CEO Backs Privacy Laws, Warns Data Being ‘Weaponized’ (AP)
Facebook Removes Fake Accounts That Originated in Iran (Facebook is just an appendage of NATO at this point, Bloomberg)
MSNBC and Daily Beast Feature UAE Lobbyist David Rothkopf With No Disclosure: a Scandalous Media-Wide Practice (In case you missed it, The Intercept)
Paul Volcker, at 91, Sees ‘a Hell of a Mess in Every Direction’ (The New York Times)
Professors Who Want Tenure at UCLA Have to Pledge in Writing a Commitment to Diversity (RealClear Investigations)
Foreign Affairs/WW3
The Taiwan Strait Getting Hot, Hot, Hot…(Global Macro Monitor)
U.S. Poised to Pull out of Nuclear Arms Treaty with Moscow (Fox News)
Sen. Rand Paul: INF Pullout ‘Big Mistake’ (Newsmax)
Responding to U.S. Unleashing Unfettered Arms Race: Russia’s Options (Strategic Culture Foundation)
Germany Halts Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia (The Hill)
Turkey’s Erdogan to Saudis: Who Gave Order to Kill Khashoggi? (Erdogan really has it out for MBS, Reuters)
Turkey’s Erdoğan ‘Determined’ to Not Allow a Cover-Up in Khashoggi’s Death (The Hill)
Saudi Prince Has ‘Blood on His Hands’ over Khashoggi: Erdogan Adviser (Reuters)
Trump Says Saudi Prince ‘Running Things,’ Could Be Behind Khashoggi Death (Haaretz)
Khashoggi’s Son Arrives in U.S. from Saudi Arabia (Middle East Eye)
Saudi Investment Conference Website Hacked, Then Taken Down (Haaretz)
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Still thrilled to see pressure being applied to the House of Saud and more attention being given to Yemen in the MSM. Even if the intentions of doing so are less than pure, the vast majority of the world would benefit from Wahhabism being knocked down a few pegs, particularly the Islamic world.