Tag: Yemen
Qatar-Iran Economic Relations Will Improve, Contra...
Posted by Jordan Abu-Sirriya | Oct 27, 2017 | Economy, Essays, Middle East | 0 |
Ministry Declares Health Emergency in Yemen: Malaria and Dengue Fever on the Rise
by Jakob Reimann | Nov 15, 2019 | Middle East, News & Analysis, Politics
The Saudi-led coalition is deliberately using cholera, malaria, and famine as weapons of war in order to break the Yemeni resistance.
U.S. Troops Back in Saudi Arabia: What Could Go Wrong?
by David Swanson | Jul 22, 2019 | Middle East, Politics, US, Viewpoints
I’m not aware of a foreign terrorist threat against the US in which the stated motivation was anything other than opposition to US military imperialism.
The Obama Wars
by David Swanson | Jul 11, 2019 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
Obama’s legacy of warmaking has largely been maintained, advanced, and imitated by bipartisan consensus and by Donald Trump.
Congress Finds its War Powers and Weaknesses
by David Swanson | Feb 1, 2019 | Middle East, Politics, US, Viewpoints
While Congress may be moving to the US war in Yemen, it’s also working to ensure the continuance of war and hostilities elsewhere.
The Triumph of Evil
by Paul Craig Roberts | Oct 25, 2018 | Asia Pacific, Middle East, Politics, US, Viewpoints
Evil has achieved dominance over good so that avarice and lawlessness will escalate their destruction of truth, peoples, and life on earth.
Why Haven’t Dead Yemenis Sparked US Outrage? Max Fisher Won’t Say.
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Oct 22, 2018 | Middle East, News & Analysis, Politics, US
Max Fisher in the New York Times purports to explain why thousands of dead Yemenis haven’t sparked US outrage. Instead, he goes out of his way not to.
Where Does Our Attention Belong: Kavanaugh or Yemen?
by Paul Craig Roberts | Sep 29, 2018 | Middle East, Politics, US, Viewpoints
The real question before the American people is why they are stone silent while Washington enables Saudi Arabia to murder the Yemeni people.
Yemeni Children Matter
by David Swanson | Aug 14, 2018 | Middle East, Politics, US, Viewpoints
People will care if you show them what to care about and make clear that their political party identification need not conflict with caring.
Should Al Qaeda Be Made the 51st State?
by David Swanson | Aug 9, 2018 | Middle East, Politics, US, Viewpoints
Bringing back the Russian menace is not working. Al Qaeda is the answer. If there were no Al Qaeda, the US government would have to invent one.
Altruism and Sadism in Public Policy
by David Swanson | Jun 25, 2018 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
There are three things that are almost always underestimated: the U.S. military budget, altruism, and sadism.
New War Opponents
by David Swanson | May 21, 2018 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
While the left’s anti-war activism evaporated upon Obama’s election and remains disappointingly absent under Trump, on the brighter side, there are large, well-funded organizations beginning to edge toward opposition at least to certain wars.
Qatar-Iran Economic Relations Will Improve, Contrary to Saudi Arabia’s Intent
by Jordan Abu-Sirriya | Oct 27, 2017 | Economy, Essays, Middle East
Saudi Arabia’s attempt to isolate Qatar will backfire and lead to Qatar improving economic relations with Iran.
Saudi Arabia Has Handed the Emir of Qatar an Opportunity to Redirect History
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jun 30, 2017 | Middle East, Politics, Viewpoints
What if the Emir of Qatar expelled US military forces from his country’s soil?
The Uncomfortable Truth: Are We Hating Donald Trump for the Wrong Reasons?
by Ramzy Baroud | Feb 10, 2017 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
The hypocrisy of criticizing Trump on the axiomatic assumption that that the warmakers who preceded him were peacemakers is simply too much to bear.
The War Horror Has Begun
by David Swanson | Jan 25, 2017 | Middle East, Politics, US, Viewpoints
This new war horror show has passed without notice, as though it were somehow just a continuation of acceptable norms.
Will the Gulf of Tonkin Fit into the Red Sea?
by David Swanson | Oct 18, 2016 | Africa, Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Politics, US
Why it doesn’t matter whether the USS Mason was actually fired upon by Yemenis.
Damned Nations, Cursed Arms Trade
by David Swanson | Oct 4, 2016 | Africa, Middle East, Reviews, Viewpoints
Samantha Nutt in her book Damned Nations describes a root cause of war that the wealthy of the world could easily eliminate.
The European Migrants Crisis: The West Has Lost the Moral High Ground
by Amanda Clarkson | Jul 8, 2016 | Europe, Viewpoints
Migrants wait as the self-important leaders of Europe decide whether political expediency has a higher value than that of human life.
To American drones, do African lives matter?
by Stanley Opeyemi | Apr 1, 2016 | Africa, News & Analysis, US
How much longer can Washington’s self-defeating foreign policies endure?
On the Saudi “Terrorist” Designation for Hezbollah
by Mohammad I. Aslam | Mar 22, 2016 | Middle East, News & Analysis
The true reasons why the Saud regime has designated Hezbollah as a “terrorist organization”.