Yemen

US, Lobbyists And Arm Dealers Rush To Reposition Amid Impending Saudi Defeat

March 27, 2021 Raul Diego, Mintpress News. Educate! Joe Biden, Saudia Arabia, Weapons makers, Yemen

Washington - In his last months in office, former President Donald Trump gave American defense contractors like Lockheed Martin and Reaper drone manufacturer General Atomics Aeronautical Systems billions in projected earnings through a controversial $23 billion arms deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a deal now “under review” by the Biden administration. President Joe Biden’s temporary halt to the U.S. arms deal and his decision to remove the Yemeni Houthi rebels from the state department’s list of global terrorist organizations have been touted as a harbinger of peace in Yemen...

‘This Is Hell’: UN Food Chief Visits Yemen

March 11, 2021 Dave DeCamp, AntiWar.com. Educate! Blockade, Children, Food and Agriculture, Yemen

The head of the UN’s World Food Program (WFP) visited Yemen and described the conditions he saw in the country to reporters as “hell.” His visit comes as the UN is warning 400,000 Yemeni children will starve to death in 2021 if conditions do not change. David Beasley described what he saw in a visit to a Yemeni hospital to The Associated Press. “In a children’s wing or ward of a hospital, you know you normally hear crying and laughter. There’s no crying, there’s no laughter, there’s dead silence,” he said. “This is hell. It’s the worst place on earth. And it’s entirely man-made.” The suffering in Yemen is a direct result of the US-backed Saudi-led war that has been raging since March 2015. Besides a vicious bombing campaign that frequently targets civilian infrastructure, including food supplies, the US and Saudi Arabia have been enforcing a blockade on Yemen.

World’s Worst Humanitarian Disaster Triggered By Weapons From US And UK

March 9, 2021 Thalif Deen, Inter Press News. Educate! Saudi Arabia, Wars and Militarism, Weapons Sales, Yemen

United Nations - The United Nations has rightly described the deaths and devastation in war-ravaged Yemen as the “world’s worst humanitarian disaster”— caused mostly by widespread air attacks on civilians by a coalition led Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). But rarely, if ever, has the world denounced the primary arms merchants, including the US and UK, for the more than 100,000 killings since 2015– despite accusations of “war crimes” by human rights organizations. The killings are due mostly to air strikes on weddings, funerals, private homes, villages and schools. Additionally, over 130,000 have died resulting largely from war-related shortages of food and medical care. Saudi Arabia, which had the dubious distinction of being the world’s largest arms importer during 2015–19, increased its imports by 130 percent, compared with the previous five-year period, and accounting for 12 percent of all global arms imports, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

Canadian Protestors Call For An End To Arms Sales To Saudi Arabia

March 9, 2021 Staff, Straight.com. Resist! Canada, Saudi Arabia, Weapons Sales, Yemen

Rachel Small, Canada organizer for World BEYOND War, says the use by Saudi troops of Light Armoured Vehicles (LAVs) manufactured by General Dynamics Land Systems in London, Ontario has been well-documented in the war in Yemen where a humanitarian crisis is unfolding. “It’s despicable,” says Small, who notes that the U.S. has signalled it will be freezing arms sales to Saudi Arabia over its involvement in Yemen. Germany and Italy have also halted arms sales to Saudi Arabia over its involvement in a conflict that has its roots in the Arab Spring uprising in 2011. “It’s long past time for Canada to do the same,” Small says. CN is one of 28 Canadian companies involved in arms sales to Saudi Arabia and named in an open letter delivered to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday urging an end to Canada’s weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries taking part in the war in Yemen.

Biden’s First Month Marked By Broken Promises

February 20, 2021 Alan Macleod, Mintpress News. Educate! Joe Biden, Minimum Wage, Student Debt, Yemen

One month into his presidential career and Joe Biden has already left a trail of broken promises on progressive legislation. Yesterday, it was reported that the president held a closed-door meeting with a group of mayors and governors. At the first sign of pushback from Republicans in the room, he immediately dropped his support for the $15 minimum wage on the basis that he needed bipartisan support to pass it. Given that Democrats control the House, Senate, and the White House, this position seems surprising. “I really want this in there but it just doesn’t look like we can do it because of reconciliation,” the 78-year-old Delawarean said, according to those present. “Right now, we have to prepare for this not making it,” he added. As Politico noted, there was no further negotiation on the minimum wage after that; the topic was simply dropped.

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.

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