According to Spanish journalist Francisco Cayardo, Mohammed bin Salman is preparing an offer of up to €10 billion to acquire FC Barcelona—one of the largest proposed takeovers in football history. The timing is not accidental. It comes as the...
The decision to award Saudi Arabia the right to host the 2034 FIFA World Cup is no longer a sporting matter, nor a technical organisational achievement. It has become an open moral test—one that places global football institutions in front of an...
Saudi Arabia’s reliance on Western consulting firms is no longer a matter of “importing expertise,” as regime propaganda insists. It has become a state of full dependency—one that began with the drafting of Vision 2030 and has expanded relentlessly...
Saudi Arabia today presents a paradox so glaring that it has become an international spectacle: a state drowning in financial warnings, announcing structural deficits until at least 2028, selling off pieces of Aramco, watching its banks pile up...
Saudi Arabia today stands at a moment when the regime exposes itself without even realising it—a moment in which the words of scholars close to the Crown Prince collide with an escalating wave of arrests, revealing a political landscape stripped of...
The global oil market no longer looks at OPEC+ as a coalition responsibly managing production. Instead, it increasingly views the group as a machine of manipulation—an entity capable of flipping realities, massaging numbers, and issuing reports that...
What is happening in Saudi Arabia today cannot be described as “social openness” or “modernisation,” no matter how aggressively the regime tries to sell those labels. The country is not liberalising; it is shedding its skin entirely—tearing away the...
The Saudi media’s reaction to Mohammed bin Salman’s meeting with Donald Trump was swift and unusually coordinated. Not because the encounter produced a diplomatic breakthrough, but because an Axios report laid bare a truth the Saudi leadership has...
While the Saudi regime proudly showcases glossy images of sleek trains and luxurious stations at international conferences—branding the Riyadh Metro as a “civilizational achievement”—Amnesty International exposes the real scene behind the façade...
When Mohammed bin Salman emerged from the Oval Office declaring that Saudi Arabia would invest one trillion dollars in the United States, the scene was crafted as a moment of spectacle — a headline designed to dazzle Washington, reassure Trump, and...