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...