25 Nov, 2018
Saudi Arabia (The Kingdom) – An American Stigma (#123)
Lately, Saudi Arabia has been in the news a lot, for all the wrong reasons. It is a totalitarian Kingdom, ruled by the founding family of Saud (the House of Saud) some 7,000 strong ‘princes - heirs’, that do not tolerate any (and we mean ANY) criticism, protests, opposition, or any form of dissension, of any kind, to their absolute ownership and rule of the Arabian Peninsula, which is the sixth largest country by geographical size, with the second largest oil reserves in the world.
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