{"id":4147,"date":"2015-01-06T12:17:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T17:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4147"},"modified":"2015-01-06T12:17:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T17:17:30","slug":"new-questions-raised-about-u-s-saudi-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4147","title":{"rendered":"New questions raised about U.S.-Saudi relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"story-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/new-questions-raised-about-u-s-saudi-relationship-1.2890528\" target=\"_blank\">New questions raised about U.S.-Saudi relationship<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Just before the holidays, Barack Obama signed a new law punishing Venezuela&#8217;s leaders for human rights violations\u00a0\u2014\u00a0for persecution and imprisonment of union leaders, journalists and protesters, and for a general disregard for the law.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The United States,&#8221; proclaimed the sanctions, &#8220;supports the people of Venezuela in their efforts to \u2026 advance representative democracy, human rights and the rule of law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also, the State Department says, Venezuela is far too cozy with terrorists, maintaining a &#8220;permissive environment&#8221; for, among other villains, agents of Iran and Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p>Nasty, nasty Venezuela. How could Obama allow such sins to go unpunished?<\/p>\n<p>Now, at about the same time as Obama was sanctioning Venezuela&#8217;s terrorist-coddling human rights violators, Loujain al Hathloul and Maysa al Hathmoudi were arrested at the border of Saudi Arabia, a close and loyal ally of the U.S. in its struggle against global terror.<\/p>\n<p>Their crime was an act that&#8217;s actually encouraged in Venezuela; more on that in a minute.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New questions raised about U.S.-Saudi relationship Just before the holidays, Barack Obama signed a new law punishing Venezuela&#8217;s leaders for human rights violations\u00a0\u2014\u00a0for persecution and imprisonment of union leaders, journalists and protesters, and for a general disregard for the law. &#8220;The United States,&#8221; proclaimed the sanctions, &#8220;supports the people of Venezuela in their efforts to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[355,441,584,701,834,851],"class_list":["post-4147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-geopolitics-2","tag-iran","tag-obama","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-us","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4148,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions\/4148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}