Kelley and Dan talk to the Quincy Institute's Middle East expert Annelle Sheline about Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's seeming efforts to "reform" the Kingdom's authoritarianism — and whether those efforts are real, or not. In the first segment, we reunite with our old Empire Has No Clothes comrade Matt Purple to discuss recent violence in our own hemisphere: the recent assassination in Haiti, protests in Cuba, and the U.S. role in both.
Read more from Annelle Sheline:
The Saudi blockade on Yemen is a war crime, and only civilians suffer from it
How the growing UAE-Saudi rivalry could pay off for the United States
Read more from Matt Purple:
Not A Cold War But An Ideological Argument
Crashing the War Party
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