Yemen

Yemen: ‘Mission Accomplished’… For Now?

February 12, 2021 Charles Pierson, Counterpunch. Educate! Drones, Joe Biden, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

Beneath a banner proclaiming “Mission Accomplished” President George W. Bush announced that “[m]ajor combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.” Bush’s May 1, 2003 announcement on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln would turn out to be wildly overoptimistic. The US invaded Iraq in March 2003. US troops would remain in Iraq for the next eight years, until 2011. In 2014, US forces were back, this time to fight the Islamic State. In 2020, US troops left Iraq under pressure from the Iraqi government. US forces were in Afghanistan for nearly two decades after invading in 2001, the longest war in US history. (President Donald Trump withdrew the US from Afghanistan in 2020.)

Evaluating Biden’s Yemen Policy: Bait And Switch

February 11, 2021 Sara Flounders, Workers.org. Educate! Joe Biden, Saudi Arabia, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

President Joe Biden seemed to announce an end to Washington’s complete support for Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen last week, reversing Trump’s and even the Obama/Biden administration’s public policy. He called the war a “humanitarian and strategic catastrophe.” In his first presidential foreign policy speech on Feb. 4, Biden said, “We are ending all [U.S.] support for offensive operations in the war in Yemen, including relevant arms sales.” (whitehouse.gov) But he quickly added that Washington will continue to help Saudi Arabia to “defend its sovereignty and territory,” including selling the Saudis massive new high-tech weapons, for “defensive” purposes.

Why A War In Yemen?

February 10, 2021 Yoav Elinevsky and Mary L. Wentworth, Popular Resistance. Educate! Reparation, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

The Saudis decided to enter an ongoing civil war in Yemen in 2015 for several reasons. The two countries share a long border at the southern end of their peninsula. This length of this border is matched by Yemen’s coastline on the Arabian Sea, an access to ocean waters that Saudi Arabia does not have. Even more important is that the southeast corner of Yemen sits at the point where the Red Sea flows into the Arabian Sea through a very narrow passageway. This would enable the Saudis to control shipping through the Red Sea. Furthermore, Yemen has oil that generates revenue from contracts with private producers. Yemen also has natural gas as well as fish, rock salt, marble and small deposits of coal, gold, lead, nickel, and copper.

How Rational Can The US Be In Dealing With Yemen And Iran?

February 9, 2021 William Boardman, Reader Supported News. Educate! Iran, Saudi Arabia, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

This announcement does not augur peace in Yemen any time soon. Rather it looks a bit like political mystification that some have chosen to celebrate now, regardless of what it actually means, apparently in hope of making it a meaningful, self-fulfilling prophecy some time in the future. This does not seem likely, given what Biden actually said, but we shall see. For the foreseeable future, Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East, will remain the victim of a Saudi war of aggression and Saudi war crimes. Since March 2015, with the full support of the Obama administration, Saudi Arabia and its allies have turned Yemen into the world’s worst humanitarian disaster, as assessed by the United Nations.

Biden Says He’s Ending The Yemen War

February 6, 2021 Shireen Al-Adeimi and Sarah Lazare, In These Times. Educate! Joe Biden, Saudi Arabia, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

The February 4 announcement by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan that President Biden would end U.S. support for “offensive operations” in Yemen was understandably met with celebration by those opposed to the war. Almost six years of the U.S.-Saudi‑U.A.E. war on Yemen have left the country devastated by humanitarian disaster and famine. Anti-war activists have spent these years — first during the Obama-Biden administration, then the Trump-Pence administration, and now the Biden-Harris administration — agitating to end U.S. participation in the onslaught. It has been an organizing effort that often seemed like shouting into the wind, as the bombings of hospitals, factories and weddings piled up.

Anti-War Groups Call On UK To End Support For Saudi Assault On Yemen

February 6, 2021 Brett Wilkins, Commondreams. Resist! Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom (UK), Wars and Militarism, Yemen

Buoyed by President Joe Biden's announced decision to limit U.S. involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen, U.K. peace activists on Friday renewed calls for the British government to stop selling weapons to Saudi Arabia. The Stop the War Coalition called Biden's move "a welcome change to U.S. foreign policy," and the group's convener, Lindsey German, said that Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab should now follow his lead. German accused both Johnson and Raab of having "blood on their hands" in what the United Nations has called the world's worst humanitarian crisis. "Their support for the carnage in Yemen," said German, "must end immediately."

Snipers, Landmines, Death: Life On Yemen’s Frontline

January 30, 2021 Middle East Eye. Educate! Violence, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

Almost every building is damaged. Dogs bark at anyone walking down the empty streets, and in the distance the sound of children playing in alleyways is interrupted by occasional gunfire. Carpets are hung between buildings - not to dry, but to protect passersby from snipers. These are the frontlines of Taiz, a war-wracked city in southern Yemen where terror follows its long-suffering residents. Most Yemenis have fled the homes that now lie between the pro-government forces and Houthi fighters. But some remain - either refusing to abandon their houses and live in displacement, or simply lacking any alternative shelter. Middle East Eye meets the Yemenis living and suffering on the frontline.

Will Biden End America’s Global War On Children?

January 29, 2021 Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, Popular Resistance. Organize! Children, Joe Biden, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

Most people regard Trump’s treatment of immigrant children as among his most shocking crimes as president. Images of hundreds of children stolen from their families and imprisoned in chain-link cages are an unforgettable disgrace that President Biden must move quickly to remedy with humane immigration policies and a program to quickly find the children’s families and reunite them, wherever they may be. A less publicized Trump policy that actually killed children was the fulfilment of his campaign promises to “bomb the shit out of” America’s enemies and “take out their families.” Trump escalated Obama’s bombing campaigns against the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and loosened U.S. rules of engagement regarding airstrikes that were predictably going to kill civilians.

Renewed Appeal To Stop The War On Yemen

January 27, 2021 Rene Wadlow, Popular Resistance. Resist! International Law, Saudi Arabia, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

Today, the choice between an end to the armed conflict with negotiations for a renewal of a Yemeni State on the basis of the con-federal system proposed and continued fighting in the hope that one faction become a "winner-take-all" is relatively clear. The Association of World Citizens is resolutely for an end to the armed conflict with serious negotiations on the structure of a future State. We do not underestimate the difficulties. Creating a national society of individuals willing to cooperate will not be easy. Regional divisions will not be easy to bridge. However a start on structuring a future society should begin now. Yemen needs peace and support from the world society.

Activists Block Trucks Of Company Transporting Weapons To Saudi Arabia

January 27, 2021 World Beyond War and Labour Against the Arms Trade, Popular Resistance. Resist! Canada, Saudi Arabia, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

Hamilton, Ontario - Members and allies of anti-war organizations World BEYOND War and Labour Against the Arms Trade are blocking trucks at Paddock Transport International, a Hamilton-area transportation company involved in shipping Canadian-made, light armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia. The activists are calling on Paddock to end its complicity in the brutal Saudi-led war in Yemen, which has killed almost a quarter of a million people, and calling on the Canadian government to end arms exports to Saudi Arabia. "The demonstration is part of a global day of action against the war on Yemen featuring more than 300 organizations in 17 countries," says Rachel Small of World BEYOND War.

US Backs Al-Qaeda In Yemen

January 25, 2021 Ben Norton, The Grayzone. Educate! Al-Qaeda, Joe Biden, Terrorism, Yemen

The United States government has designated the main enemy of al-Qaeda in Yemen, the Houthi movement, as a terrorist organization, after spending years backing al-Qaeda in the country. Like the US-led wars on Syria, Libya, former Yugoslavia, and 1980s Afghanistan, Yemen represents an example of an armed conflict where Washington has supported al-Qaeda and similar Salafi-jihadist extremists in order to foment regime change and extend its hegemony. Since March 2015, the United States has helped oversee a catastrophic war on Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East, aiding Saudi Arabia as it launched tens of thousands of air strikes on its southern neighbor, bombing the impoverished nation into rubble — and unleashing the largest humanitarian crisis on Earth.

Shocking New Figures Show How Much US Is Fueling Violence In Yemen

November 21, 2020 Alan Macleod, Mintpress News. Educate! Saudi Arabia, United States, Weapons Sales, Yemen

Despite presenting itself as a force for good and peace in the Middle East, the United States sells at least five times as much weaponry to Saudi Arabia than aid it donates to Yemen. The State Department constantly portrays itself as a humanitarian superpower with the welfare of the Yemeni people as its highest priority, yet figures released from the United Nations and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) show that since the war in Yemen began, the U.S. government has given $2.56 billion in aid to the country, but sold over $13 billion in high-tech weapons to Saudi Arabia, the leader of the coalition prosecuting a relentless onslaught against the country.

Canada Has A War Crimes Problem

September 30, 2020 Matthew Behrens, Rabble.ca. Educate! Canada, War crimes, Weapons makers, Yemen

Two new reports on Canadian weapons exports reveal that Canadian-based corporate entities (and, by extension, government agencies that support and encourage their exports) are complicit in the commission of war crimes in Yemen, Turkey, Libya, Syria and Iraq. These findings build on previously raised concerns that the Canadian military was complicit in war crimes during the occupation of Afghanistan (including when current Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan operated there as a soldier). Earlier this month, the United Nations criticized Canada, among other nations, for continuing to export weapons to all parties that fuel the commission of war crimes in Yemen.

Hunger Will Kill Us Before Coronavirus

September 26, 2020 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! COVID-19, DR Congo, Hunger, Yemen

In April 2020, a month after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the pandemic, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) warned that the numbers of people who lived with acute hunger around the world would double due to COVID-19 by the end of 2020 ‘unless swift action is taken’. A report from the Global Network Against Food Crises – which is comprised by the WFP, the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), and the European Union – said that the pandemic would ensure the highest level of food insecurity since 2017.

British Soldier Arrested For Opposing UK Arming Saudi Arabia

August 28, 2020 Alan Macleod, Mintpress News. Resist! Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom (UK), Wars and Militarism, Yemen

A British soldier has been arrested for opposing the United Kingdom’s role in the Saudi-led war against Yemen. Video shows Lance Corporal Ahmed Al-Babati of the Royal Signals being led away by military police from his protest outside Britain’s Ministry of Defense in London. Al-Babati earlier released a video explaining his decision to risk his freedom rather than participate in what he feels is a grossly immoral war. “Our government continues to arm and support Saudi Arabia,” he said. “We tried to make our voices heard by protesting in London, Manchester, Liverpool and many other cities.

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