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Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia (CDHR)

Founded in Washington, DC, in 2004, the Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia (CDHR) is an independent, nonsectarian, non-profit educational 501 (c) 3 organization. CDHR promotes reform based on gender equality, religious freedom, freedom of expression, accountability, and transparency under a pluralistic rule of law.
CDHR was established to provide authentic current and historical information and analysis about the Saudi dynasty’s fanatical doctrine, domestic and external policies, and its relations with regional and global states, specifically the U. S.

Trump/MBS: Oval Office Economic Bargaining

The Saudi Crown Prince’s (MbS) and President Trump’s economic bargaining and the toadyism praise session during their press conference in the Oval Office today (11/18/2025) will not polish either’s tarnished domestic, regional or global image or isolation. Globally isolated since the slaughter and dismemberment of Saudi Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, MbS, whom American intelligence, prominent Saudi human rights critics and global agencies concluded gave the order to have his insider critic Khashoggi slaughtered, has been relentlessly striving to transform his stained image. MbS’s transgressions meant nothing to President Trump, who defended the prince during the disjointed press conference in the Oval Office. The only item on Mr. Trump’s agenda was focused on pushing MbS to commit to investing  a trillion dollars in major U.S. companies, like Boeing and Silicon Valley’s modern technologies companies. None of this should come as a surprise since Mr. Trump’s America (and his

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Trump’s Trillion Dollar Bait

                                                                            CDHR Analysis: President Trump will be heading for Saudi Arabia this week after the Saudis agreed to invest one trillion dollars in the U.S. economy during Mr. Trump’s 4 year Presidency. This is more than twice the amount he was awarded for making Saudi Arabia his first foreign country to visit in May 2017, where he was received with unprecedented enthusiasm by the Saudi king and his designated successor, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, MbS. In 2017, the Saudis were reeling from domestic economic collapse and from 8 years of being bypassed by the Obama Administration, which shaped and implemented U.S. policies in the Middle East as it saw fit. Case in point, the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal, which the Saudi monocracy considered a direct threat to them and to the security of their vast kingdom. Given the current consequential challenges the Saudis and Mr. Trump are facing internally and

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Attacking liberal institutions in America is a poisoned arrow aimed at the heart of our liberal democracy

Historically, Jews have been an easy target for religious, political, and economic turmoil, not only in America but globally. As correctly stated in this article, the goal of attacking liberal institutions in America is a poisoned arrow aimed at the heart of our liberal democracy and its second-to-none values, which made America the most scientifically, economically and militarily advanced and successful country in human history. No group, especially Arabs and Muslims in general, should take solace in Trump’s intended objective, one man’s supremacy, as amply demonstrated by his actions since he assumed power two months ago.

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