Whitney Webb believes that outrage over the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi may have less to do with fundamental human rights than with the health of the US military industrial complex, and the denial of windfall profits stemming from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman's backtracking on a privatization he proposed several months ago.
Whitney Webb is a staff writer with Mint Press News, and the author of two October articles on the Khashoggi affair: `The Real Reason the Knives are Out for MBS' (Oct. 26) and 'Angered By Saudi Plan to Purchase Russian S-400, Trump Admin Exploiting Khashoggi Disappearance to Force Saudis to “Buy American” ' (Oct. 15).
In this 20 minute conversation with GRTV, Whitney delves into how the Khashoggi assassination is being exploited to satisfy economic incentives of offshore elites, she considers the relevance of Khashoggi as a CIA asset and how that factors into the dynamics of this international rupture, and she looks into last summer`s exaggerated Saudi response to Canada`s public critique of the kingdom`s human rights record and its relation to oil politics. Footage was provided courtesy of the Wall Street Journal and TRT World, Ruptly, RT, and Mint Press News.
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