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Medea Benjamin - Why Is Saudi Arabia A Key US Ally? (Original Post)
thomhartmann
Sep 2016
OP
They flew the planes on 9/11, made a fortune in 2008, what Americans are allies with them?
orpupilofnature57
Sep 2016
#3
cheapdate
(3,811 posts)1. Could it be the estimated 90 billion barrels of petroleum reserves?
TDale313
(7,820 posts)2. Oil and $$$.
But fascinating interview and some really great information. I'm gonna need to get her book.
Thanks for posting this.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)3. They flew the planes on 9/11, made a fortune in 2008, what Americans are allies with them?
Our American Enemies who pluck the feather of Democracy to feather their nest, the people Thomas Jefferson Warned us against 200 hundred years ago .
oberliner
(58,724 posts)4. Great Minds and Medea Benjamin don't belong on the same screen
She sure does like going on pro-Russia propaganda stations.
Arby
(60 posts)5. Appears a Fox (US propaganda) News troll
has wandered in from the mist.
- So in your opinion is the only suitable propaganda US propaganda (as broadcast on corporate US news)?
- What exactly did she say that you consider to be propaganda?
Fox News is right-wing, pro-Trump garbage.
Russia Today is right-wing, pro-Putin garbage.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)7. Crude OIL!