Yemen

The Empire Will Fall: From Yemen To Tijuana, (Im)Possible Change & Re-Meet NAFTA

November 29, 2018 Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com Resistance Report Mexico, NAFTA, USMCA, Yemen

Our addiction to militarism has to end. From millions-strong protests in Yemen to carte blanche for military force at the border, our violent empire has no dimmer switch – and no self restraint. Next up, the impossible always seems so till you invoke - Planck's constant? This and other news of “impossible change.” Finally, Margaret Flowers from Popular Resistance and Trade for People and Planet sits down with us to discuss the USMCA – what you might know as NAFTA.

War Powers Act Against Yemen War Moves Ahead In US Senate

November 28, 2018 Dan Beeton, Center for Economic and Policy Research Resist! War Powers Act, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

The US Senate’s floor vote of 63 to 37 to invoke the War Powers Resolution to end the US role in the Saudi and United Arab Emirates war in Yemen is “historic” and will likely be followed by House passage of a companion resolution. Now that the Senate has passed this resolution, the House is likely to follow suit. The companion resolution introduced by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), H.Con.Res. 138, has 93 cosponsors.

Yemeni War Deaths Underestimated By Five To One

November 12, 2018 Alisdare Hickson, Intrepidreport.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

In April, I made new estimates of the death toll in America’s post-2001 wars in a three-part Intrepid Report series I estimated that these wars have now killed several million people. I explained that widely reported but much lower estimates of the numbers of combatants and civilians killed were likely to be only one fifth to one twentieth of the true numbers of people killed in U.S. war zones. Now one of the NGOs responsible for understating war deaths in Yemen has acknowledged that it was underestimating them by at least five to one, as I suggested in my report. One of the sources I examined for my report was a U.K.-based NGO named ACLED (Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project), which has compiled counts of war deaths in Libya, Somalia and Yemen.

Cindy Sheehan Is On A Hunger Strike In Solidarity With The People Of Yemen

November 8, 2018 Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance. Resist! Hunger Strikes, Solidarity, US Imperialism, Yemen

Cindy Sheehan wrote on her Facebook page on November 3: “I am announcing my hunger strike in solidarity with the horrible humanitarian crisis in Yemen and to expose the US empire's role in it. I am accepting the baton from @pamelabennett who has been on hunger strike for 26 days for the same thing. #YemenRising “Sheehan wrote on November 5: 13,000,000 Million Yemeni are ON THE BRINK OF STARVATION. With the help of the US government in the Saudi genocide of the people of Yemen. “We CANNOT sit by and allow this to happen. “WMOP will be calling on solidarity hunger strikes over the #noTHANKSgiving weekend, or just on Thanksgiving. “If your family needs to be educated, EDUCATE THEM! You think it's hard to talk to your relatives? How are would it be to watch your children starve?

How Yemeni Immigrant Activists In NYC Are Changing A Whole Community’s Mindset

November 6, 2018 Michael Nigro, Lawatthemargins.com Create! Activism, Immigration, Yemen

Riyadh Alhirdi is trying not to cry. He’s sitting in the Yemeni American Merchants Association’s (YAMA) new offices in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, explaining the convoluted process of procuring asylum for his wife and five children. Alhirdi, who is 43-year-old and was born in Yemen, has been dealing with opaque immigration procedures regarding his family for over four years. They have been stuck in Egypt since 2015 because the American Consulate in war-torn Yemen is closed. Although he talks on video chats with them daily, over the past eight years, he has been with his family only once.

American Woman Turns To Hunger Strike To Break Media Blackout On Yemen

November 1, 2018 By Whitney Webb, Mintpressnews.com Resist! Hunger Strikes, Media, Women, Yemen

SAN FRANCISCO — In Yemen, 18 million civilians are now at the brink of starvation, including 5 million children. The situation in the country, widely considered to be the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, is entirely man-made – the sordid result of the Saudi Arabia/UAE coalition’s war to control the Middle East’s poorest nation, a war that deliberately targets civilian infrastructure and the civilian food and water supply. Despite the fact that these are clear war crimes, and despite the mass suffering it has inflicted on Yemen’s innocents, this effort continues to receive U.S. and U.K. support. In the face of the enormity of this completely preventable crisis, some international activists have taken matters into their own hands...

‘Brutally Honest’: Public Outcry Forces Facebook To Stop Banning Pics Of Starving Yemeni Girl

October 29, 2018 Staff, Rt.com Resist! Censorship, Children, Facebook, Social Media, Yemen

A backlash prompted Facebook to stop removing posts featuring a photo of an emaciated seven-year-old Yemeni girl, which accompanied a harrowing New York Times report from the war-torn country. The atrocities in Yemen don’t make poignant headlines in Western mainstream media as often as stories about chemical weapons in Syria or ‘Russian meddling,’ as the conflict usually gets sidelined in the press, but there are notable exceptions. ‘The Tragedy of Saudi Arabia’s War’ was the title of a grim report published by the NYT on Friday. An image of a starved child named Amal Hussain was chosen by the journalists to illustrate the horrible death toll and suffering inflicted on the small Arab nation of Yemen by the armed intervention of its Saudi neighbor.

The Royal Touch: How Saudi Money Keeps Washington At War In Yemen

October 5, 2018 By Ben Freeman, Tomdispatch.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Saudi Arabia, US Imperialism, Yemen

It was May 2017. The Saudis were growing increasingly nervous. For more than two years they had been relying heavily on U.S. military support and bombs to defeat Houthi rebels in Yemen. Now, the Senate was considering a bipartisan resolution to cut off military aid and halt a big sale of American-made bombs to Saudi Arabia. Fortunately for them, despite mounting evidence that the U.S.-backed, supplied, and fueled air campaign in Yemen was targeting civilians, the Saudi government turned out to have just the weapon needed to keep those bombs and other kinds of aid coming their way: an army of lobbyists. That year, their forces in Washington included members of more than two dozen lobbying and public relations firms.

In Yemen And Beyond, U.S. Arms Manufacturers Are Abetting Crimes Against Humanity

October 1, 2018 By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, Fpif.org Educate! Capitalism, Military Industrial Complex, US Imperialism, Weapons Sales, Yemen

Our leading weapons dealers have developed a business model that feeds on war, terrorism, chaos, political instability, and human rights violations. The Saudi bombing of a school bus in Yemen on August 9, 2018 killed 44 children and wounded many more. The attack struck a nerve in the U.S., confronting the American public with the wanton brutality of the Saudi-led war on Yemen. When CNN revealed that the bomb used in the airstrike was made by U.S. weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin, the horror of the atrocity hit even closer to home for many Americans. But the killing and maiming of civilians with U.S.-made weapons in war zones around the world is an all too regular occurrence. U.S. forces are directly responsible for largely uncounted civilian casualties in all America’s wars, and the United States is also the world’s leading arms exporter.

A School Bus Is Blocking A Boeing Entrance In St. Charles to Protest Yemen Airstrike

September 8, 2018 Danny Wicentowski, Riverfronttimes.com Resist! Airstrikes, Bombing, Protests, US Imperialism, Yemen

The use of U.S.-made bombs in the ongoing conflict in Yemen brought activists in a painted school bus to a Boeing facility just outside St. Louis this morning — and the protesters came not with demands, but with a message for the people of Yemen. "The action was done in solidarity with the people of Yemen as they are murdered by Saudi Arabia using weapons supplied by Boeing and other weapons manufacturers," the activists said in a statement posted to the Facebook page of the Earth Defense Coalition. According to a coalition representative on the scene, police have already arrested one activist, Phillip Flag, who had locked his arms to the rear axle of the bus. A second activist, Ashton Howell, is apparently still inside the bus. "Given the air strikes in Yemen against children on a school bus...

What You Need To Know About Yemen

September 3, 2018 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast Iran, Saudi Arabia, Trump, Yemen

We speak with Medea Benjamin, who has traveled to and written about US conflicts in the Middle East, about the war on Yemen, the origins, the extent of US involvement and how it connects to other conflicts. Yemen is a current center of failed US foreign policy. We also discuss what we can do about it, as well as Labor Day and current news. For an in-depth discussion on the tenth anniversary of the financial crisis of why the banks got bailed out and why we didn't, plus what we can do differently next time, subscribe to Clearing the FOG on Patreon and receive our bonus show, Thinking it Through. Visit Patreon.com/ClearingtheFOG.

Peace Activists Block Boeing Weapons Facility With Bus To Protest War On Yemen

August 29, 2018 By Ben Norton, Therealnews.com Resist! Protests, weapons, Yemen

Peace activists in St. Charles, Missouri blocked the entrance to a weapons facility run by the arms manufacturer Boeing on Monday, August 27, in protest of the joint US-Saudi war on Yemen. The anti-war demonstrators barricaded the street with a bus, on which they wrote “Boeing gains from Yemen’s pain.” They used a bus as a symbol of Saudi Arabia’s August 9 bombing of a school bus in Yemen, in which at least 40 children and 11 adults were killed and another 79 civilians were wounded with a US-made bomb. The Earth Defense Coalition said in a press release that the “action was done in solidarity with the people of Yemen as they are murdered by Saudi Arabia using weapons supplied by Boeing and other weapons manufacturers.”

UN Accuses Saudi-led Coalition Of Possible War Crimes In Yemen

August 29, 2018 Staff, Telesurtv.net Educate! Saudi Arabia, United Nations, War crimes, Yemen

Air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen's war have caused heavy civilian casualties at marketplaces, weddings and on fishing boats, some of which may amount to war crimes, United Nations human rights experts said Tuesday. Saudi Arabia is leading a Western-backed alliance of Sunni Muslim Arab states trying to restore the internationally recognized government of Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, ousted from the capital Sanaa by the Iran-aligned Houthis in 2015. Fighters of the Houthi movement have fired missiles into Saudi Arabia, blocked delivery of supplies to Taiz and shelled the strategic city from the highlands, the panel said. They have also committed torture, a war crime, it said. Coalition forces have imposed severe restrictions on Red Sea ports and Sanaa airport...

Saudi Leader To Keep Bombing Children So Yemen Fears Saudi Arabia For Generations

August 28, 2018 By Whitney Webb, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Children, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, US Imperialism, Yemen

NEW YORK — On Monday, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen, Lise Grande, called for an “independent and impartial investigation” into the Saudi Arabia-led coalition’s attacks on Yemeni civilians. Grande stated that “what is happening in Yemen is unimaginable” and added that “the time has come to wake up to the terrible reality of the war and its human cost and the need to work together to end hostilities.” Grande cited last week’s attacks on a family home and later on a civilian vehicle fleeing fighting near the city of Dreihimi. Those two airstrikes, separated by a matter of hours, killed over 30 civilians, at least 24 of whom were children, some as young as three years old. Despite the international outcry from UN officials and other public figures, the concern over the coalition’s extensive targeting of civilians is unlikely to influence Saudi Arabia’s actions.

Saudi Economic War Triggers Yemen Currency Collapse And Worsens Plight Of War-Torn Nation

August 25, 2018 By Ahmed Abdulkareem, Mintpressnews.com Resist! Currency, Saudi Arabia, Yemen

SANAA, YEMEN — More than three years of U.S.-Saudi-led coalition war against Yemen has already created the world’s largest food security emergency. With millions of people currently facing starvation, the UN has described Yemen as the world’s worst humanitarian disaster. Last week, panic entered Yemeni local markets and houses after a plunge in the value of the Yemeni Riyal (YR) accompanied by increasing prices for basic foodstuffs. Those who still have money rushed to convert their savings to USD or buy gold, but most Yemenis now face two grim prospects: either to die by U.S.-Saudi airstrikes or to die of hunger. The YR has lost more than half of its value relative to the U.S. dollar — the owners of exchange shops and citizens in Sana’a and Aden told MintPress that the exchange rate of the YR against one dollar amounted to about 550 YR compared to 250 YR at the beginning of the war in the country.

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