Tag: Yemen
U.S. Troops Back in Saudi Arabia: What Could Go Wrong?
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.
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The Obama Wars
Obama’s legacy of warmaking has largely been maintained, advanced, and imitated by bipartisan consensus and by Donald Trump.
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Congress Finds its War Powers and Weaknesses
While Congress may be moving to the US war in Yemen, it’s also working to ensure the continuance of war and hostilities elsewhere.
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The Triumph of Evil
Evil has achieved dominance over good so that avarice and lawlessness will escalate their destruction of truth, peoples, and life on earth.
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Why Haven’t Dead Yemenis Sparked US Outrage? Max Fisher Won’t Say.
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.
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Where Does Our Attention Belong: Kavanaugh or Yemen?
The real question before the American people is why they are stone silent while Washington enables Saudi Arabia to murder the Yemeni people.
Read MoreYemeni Children Matter
People will care if you show them what to care about and make clear that their political party identification need not conflict with caring.
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Should Al Qaeda Be Made the 51st State?
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.
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Altruism and Sadism in Public Policy
There are three things that are almost always underestimated: the U.S. military budget, altruism, and sadism.
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New War Opponents
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.
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Qatar-Iran Economic Relations Will Improve, Contrary to Saudi Arabia’s Intent
Saudi Arabia’s attempt to isolate Qatar will backfire and lead to Qatar improving economic relations with Iran.
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Saudi Arabia Has Handed the Emir of Qatar an Opportunity to Redirect History
What if the Emir of Qatar expelled US military forces from his country’s soil?
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The Uncomfortable Truth: Are We Hating Donald Trump for the Wrong Reasons?
The hypocrisy of criticizing Trump on the axiomatic assumption that that the warmakers who preceded him were peacemakers is simply too much to bear.
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The War Horror Has Begun
This new war horror show has passed without notice, as though it were somehow just a continuation of acceptable norms.
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Will the Gulf of Tonkin Fit into the Red Sea?
Why it doesn’t matter whether the USS Mason was actually fired upon by Yemenis.
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Damned Nations, Cursed Arms Trade
Samantha Nutt in her book Damned Nations describes a root cause of war that the wealthy of the world could easily eliminate.
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The European Migrants Crisis: The West Has Lost the Moral High Ground
Migrants wait as the self-important leaders of Europe decide whether political expediency has a higher value than that of human life.
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To American drones, do African lives matter?
How much longer can Washington’s self-defeating foreign policies endure?
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On the Saudi “Terrorist” Designation for Hezbollah
The true reasons why the Saud regime has designated Hezbollah as a “terrorist organization”.
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Middle East : The Way Ahead
A unified Middle East will prove to be the first step towards actual world peace.
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