Saudi Arabia's Massive Futuristic Vanity Projects Falter Amid Gaza War
by Zero Hedge
Zero Hedge— Saudi Arabia's Massive Futuristic Vanity Projects Falter Amid Gaza War Authored by Giorgio Cafiero via The Cradle Launched in 2017, Saudi Arabia’s NEOM, a sprawling high-tech development on the northwestern Red Sea coast, was introduced as the crown jewel of Vision 2030. This futuristic desert megaproject, extending over some Jordanian and Egyptian territory, was cast as a bold leap toward economic diversification under the leadership of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman...
Raw Story—The scaling back of Saudi Arabia’s proposed urban mega-project sends a clear warning. There is a long history of planned city building by both governments and the private sector from Brasilia to Islamabad. More recently, two trends have come together in a new wave of visionary urban planning. On the one hand, there are the neoliberal “special economic zone” policies that accelerated in the 1980s and which have become an almost unquestioned global economic article of faith. On the other, there is the “smart city” in which ubiquitous sensing and surveillance generate big data,...
www.theyeshivaworld.com—Israel Considering Post-War Plan To Share Power In Gaza With Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE. Senior officials in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office are considering a comprehensive plan for Gaza’s post-war future. The plan, which has not been publicly announced, proposes shared oversight of the territory with an alliance of Arab countries, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, as well as the United States. According to […]
Washington Examiner—Obviously, Saudi Arabia’s enlightened despotism is not as depraved as Hamas’s genocidal totalitarianism. One of the dumber attempts to deflect away from the uniquely depraved fundamentalism of Hamas and Hezbollah came from New York Times columnist Zeynep Tufekci, who decided to conflate the terrorist organizations with Saudi Arabia. Tufekci is responding to Hezbollah’s leader reminding “Queers for Palestine” that under the Sharia law shared by both terrorist organizations, […]