Yemen

US Criminal Hypocrisy At Work In Syria And Yemen

December 28, 2016 William Boardman, www.readersupportednews.org Educate! Syria, US Foreign Policy, Yemen

By William Boardman for Reader Supported News - On December 13, US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power offered up yet another stark exercise in imperial deceit, shedding crocodile tears for those suffering in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo, while continuing her strategically amoral silence about much greater suffering in the country of Yemen. The basis for this unconscionable choice is simple. Russia, Syria, and Iran are attacking Aleppo. The carnage in Yemen is led by Saudi Arabia, allied with eight other Sunni Muslim states (supported by another seven countries including Canada, UK, France, and Turkey) – but this 16-state war of aggression would be impossible without the exceptional 17th enemy of Yemen, the US...

Western-Backed Coalition Under Pressure Over Yemen Raid

October 11, 2016 William Maclean, www.reuters.com Resist! United Kingdom (UK), US Foreign Policy, Yemen

By William Maclean for Reuters - An air strike on a funeral gathering, widely blamed on Saudi-led warplanes, poses more trouble for a Western-backed Arab campaign against Yemen's Houthis that has long been criticized for civilian losses. The White House announced an immediate review of Washington's support for the 18-month-old military push after planes hit mourners at a community hall in the capital, Sanaa, on Saturday, killing 140 people, according to one U.N. estimate and 82 according to the Houthis.

‘If US Can’t Stop War, It Can At Least Stop Selling Weapons To Saudis’

September 26, 2016 Staff, www.rt.com Educate! Saudi Arabia, US Foreign Policy, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

By Staff of RT - The conflict in Yara’s homeland has been raging for over a year and a half and has been worsened by often indiscriminate airstrikes conducted by the Saudi-led coalition against Houthi rebel forces. The Saudis and their allies are trying to restore the Riyadh-backed government of the exiled Yemen president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.

Millions Of Yemenis Rally To Support Supreme Political Council

August 24, 2016 Staff, www.presstv.com Resist! Yemen

By Staff of Press TV - Millions of people have rallied in Yemen to voice their strong support for a political body recently formed to run the country in the face of a Saudi military campaign to reinstate a former president. People took to the streets in the capital in their millions before converging on a main square to support the Supreme Political Council, formed after peace talks with the Saudi side broke down recently. They waved national Yemeni flags and chanted slogans like “We will sacrifice our souls and blood for the sake of Yemen,” as patriotic songs played.

UN Blacklists Saudi Arabia-Led Coalition

June 4, 2016 Lizzie Dearden, www.independent.co.uk Educate! Saudi Arabia, Yemen

By Lizzie Dearden for The Independent - The United Nations has blacklisted the Saudi-Arabia led coalition for killing and maiming thousands of children in Yemen. Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General, said intensive bombardment had taken a “devastating toll” on the civilian population as a civil war continues to rage between the Yemeni government, Houthi rebels, al-Qaeda and Isis.

Pentagon Confirms US Ground Troops In Yemen

May 9, 2016 Jason Ditz, www.news.antiwar.com Educate! Pentagon, US military, Yemen

By Jason Ditz for Anti War - Hot on the heels of yesterday‘s admission that the US has become militarily involved in a second war inside Yemen, this time between the pro-Saudi faction and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Pentagon officials are also admitting that US ground troops have been deployed inside Yemen, and have been operating there for the past two weeks. The US had previously withdrawn all of its ground troops from Yemen after the ouster of President Hadi by the Shi’ite Houthis in early 2015...

Former U.S. Diplomats Decry U.S.-Backed Saudi War In Yemen

May 9, 2016 Alex Emmons and Zaid Jilani, www.theintercept.com Resist! Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Saudi Arabia, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

By Alex Emmons and Zaid Jilani for The Intercept - SAUDI ARABIA AND the other Arab states that form the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have been brutally bombing Yemen for more than a year, hoping to drive Houthi rebels out of the capital they overran in 2014 and restore Saudi-backed President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi. The United States has forcefully backed the Saudi-led war. In addition to sharing intelligence, the U.S. has sold tens of billions of dollars in munitions to the Saudis since the war began.

Does The US Have A Plan In Syria, Iraq, Or Yemen?

March 30, 2016 Dan Wright, www.shadowproof.com Educate! Foreign Policy, Iraq, Syria, United States, Yemen

By Dan Wright for Shadow Proof - The literal DC turf war in Syria continues to rage between the CIA and the Department of Defense. The Los Angeles Times reported the fighting between a CIA-backed Syrian rebel group, Fursan al Haq, and the Pentagon-backed Kurds has intensified in the last two months. The CIA operates part of its Syria program out of Turkey, where it provides Fursan Al Haq and others Saudi anti-tank missiles and other arms. The Kurds receive support from the Department of Defense to fight ISIS.

US-Saudi Terror In Yemen Dwarfs ISIS Attacks In Europe

March 27, 2016 William Boardman, www.readersupportednews.org Educate! Genocide, Saudi Arabia, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

By William Boardman in Reader Supported News. The US-Saudi-led war on Yemen started on March 26, 2015, with the Saudi coalition’s aerial blitz, using both high-explosive and outlawed cluster bombs, against a population with no air force or other effective air defense. US-supported year of carnage has killed more than 6,000 people (no one knows for sure), most of them civilians. The US-Saudi criminal intervention in the Yemeni civil war was supposed to be quick and efficient. From the start, the US has helped plan the attacks, provided intelligence, re-fueled attacking planes, and participated in the naval blockade (an act of war) that has pushed Yemen’s 26 million people to the brink of mass starvation. The American-Saudi genocidal war has continued without significant protest around the world – no “Yemeni Lives Matter” movement – and with almost no attention from any of those who will likely inherit this illegal war as the next commander in chief.

Endless War Crimes In Yemen Slowed By Ceasefire

December 20, 2015 William Boardman, www.readersupportednews.org Educate! Saudi Arabia, United Nations, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

By William Boardman for Reader Supported News. The first lie about Yemen’s dirty war in the world of official journalism is that the fighting there has been a “nine-month conflict” and that “the conflict started in March,” as the New York Times put it on December 17. This is simply not true in any meaningful sense. What started in March was a savage, one-sided air war backed by the US, all too similar to the Nazi-backed one-sided air war in Spain in the thirties that gave the world “Guernica” (back when the Nazis and the Saudis were chummy). Yemen’s civil war has already lasted decades, on and off. And Yemen has an even longer history of conflict (all of which the Times knows, without letting perspective clarify its reporting).

The Yemen Tragedy & The Ongoing Crisis Of The Left In The US

September 17, 2015 Ajamu Baraka, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Imperialism, United States, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

By Ajamu Baraka in Counterpunch - In Yemen, six months of relentless and seemingly indiscriminate bombing by the repressive Wahhabaist dictatorship of Saudi Arabia has cost the lives of over four thousands human beings, who according to the United Nations and major human rights organizations have been primarily civilians. Along with this wanton murder, the Saudi government and its allies from the contemptuous gang of corrupt Arab monarchies known as the Gulf Cooperation Council benefit from the diplomatic cover and military support from the equally contemptuous U.S. state. Together, they have created a humanitarian catastrophe in one of the poorest nations on the planet. Yet, for the majority of the people in the U.S., the carnage in Yemen simply does not exist because it has not been in the interests of the rulers to draw the attention of the American people to it.

Newsletter: Peace Defeats War

September 13, 2015 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Peace, Refugees, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers - This week we learned that there is enough opposition to war in the United States that diplomacy can defeat war. When the Senate voted to derail a deal to stop war with Iran over nuclear weapons, it was a major victory for the peace movement, but it is an opportunity for much more. To achieve the potential we now know we have begins with facing the reality of current US foreign policy. The truth is shrouded by politicians of both parties who believe in “American exceptionalism. The United States has a deep and broad war culture. Every town has a war memorial. There are multiple holidays that honor war and soldiers. The media puts forward the war culture view interviewing former military leaders, most of who are now in the weapons industry. It is the job of the peace movement to challenge the war culture.

How The US & Britain Help Slaughter Of Civilians In Yemen’s War

September 8, 2015 Iona Craig, www.stopwar.org.uk Educate! Imperialism, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

By Iona Craig in Stop War - In March, the Saudis — aided by US and British weapons and intelligence — began a bombing campaign in an attempt to push back the Houthis, who they see as a proxy for Iran. Since then, from the northern province of Saada to the capital Sanaa, from the central cities of Taiz and Ibb to the narrow streets at the heart of Aden, scores of airstrikes have hit densely populated areas, factories, schools, civilian infrastructure and even a camp for displaced people. From visiting some 20 sites of airstrikes and interviews with more than a dozen witnesses, survivors and relatives of those killed in eight of these strikes in southern Yemen, this reporter discovered evidence of a pattern of Saudi-coalition airstrikes that show indiscriminate bombing of civilians and rescuers, adding further weight to claims made by human rights organizations that some Saudi-led strikes may amount to war crimes and raising vital questions over the US and Britain’s role in Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen.

Rights Groups: 80% Of Yemenis Need Humanitarian Aid

September 5, 2015 Ben Norton, www.mondoweiss.net Educate! Human Rights, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

By Ben Norton in Mondoweiss - 21 million people in Yemen are in need of humanitarian aid, but the world is largely ignoring it, an officer for international human rights organization Save the Children warns in an op-ed in the Guardian. There are around 26.7 million people in Yemen, according to the World Factbook. This means approximately four-fifths of Yemenis are in need of humanitarian aid. The Saudi-led, US-backed “war has left Yemen, already the poorest country in the region, mired in a humanitarian crisis,” writes Mark Kaye, humanitarian advocacy and communications manager for the NGO. Violence has spread to 20 of Yemen’s 22 provinces, creating what the UN and human rights organizations call a “humanitarian catastrophe.”

US & Saudi Arabia War Crimes Keep Killing Yemenis

September 4, 2015 William Boardman, www.readersupportednews.org Educate! Government, Human Rights, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

By William Boardman in Reader Supported News - Saudi ground forces invaded Yemen for the first time in this war on August 27. Officially, the Saudi government characterizes the invasion as an incursion that will be limited and temporary. The Saudi government made similar representations about their terror-bombing of Yemen that began March 26 and has continued on a near-daily basis to the present. Other foreign troops have invaded southern Yemen in support of the ousted Yemeni government. At the same time as the Saudi invasion, the ousted Yemeni government, now talking tough from the safety of Riyadh, the Saudi capital, says it won’t enter into any peace talks until the other side, which has no air force and no navy, surrenders its weapons and withdraws from disputed territory. This “demand” is consistent with the corrupt UN Security Council resolution that passed in April, with the support of the US and other countries then waging war on Yemen.

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