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Saudi Arabia: A Retrograde Rentier Dictatorship and Global Terrorism
01.10.2014 :: Middle EastIntroduction: Saudi Arabia has all the vices and none of the virtues of an oil rich state like Venezuela. The country is governed by a family dictatorship which tolerates no opposition and severely punishes human rights advocates and political dissidents. Hundreds of billions in oil revenues are controlled by the royal despotism and fuel speculative investments the world over.