A human rights monitoring group has released a new report finding at least 87 Yemeni civilians were killed with American or British weapons during a 14-month period. The Oxfam report reviewed 1,700 attacks on civilians and found Saudi Arabia used US or UK weapons in...
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Lawmakers Prepare for Vote on Yemen War Powers Resolution
by Dave DeCamp | Dec 12, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
A group of House Democrats on Thursday released a statement welcoming Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) plan to bring the Yemen War Powers Resolution to the floor of the Senate for a vote next week. The resolution would end U.S. support for the Saudi war and blockade on...
9/11/22 Scott Explains the War in Yemen, and the Effort to End It
by Scott Horton | Sep 12, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Yesterday, Scott did a solo show for Antiwar Radio in which he lays out the ongoing grassroots campaign to end U.S. support for Saudi Arabia’s brutal war on the people of Yemen. He gives a brief but thorough background on the war and then explains...
4/30/22 Nassar Arrabyee on Yemen’s Future
by Scott Horton | May 1, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Nassar Arrabyee joins Scott for Antiwar Radio this week to discuss the ongoing ceasefire in Yemen. Arrabyee explains why he still considers this ceasefire to be different and he gives Scott an update on the effects on the ground. They then discuss...
UN Says Two-Month Yemen Ceasefire Agreed Upon, Saudis Will Ease Blockade
by Jason Ditz | Apr 2, 2022 | News Roundup
As Ramadan gets started, the UN announced a surprise breakthrough on the ceasefire in Yemen, which appeared unlikely until today. They now say both sides have agreed to a full two-month ceasefire, beginning Saturday. This will be the first nationwide truce in Yemen in...
Joe Biden Approves $650 Million Missile Sale to Saudi Arabia
by Dave DeCamp | Nov 5, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Pentagon announced Thursday that the State Department approved a potential sale of missiles to Saudi Arabia worth about $650 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said Saudi Arabia requested a purchase of 280 AIM-120C air-to-air missiles, 596...
10/25/21 Nasser Arrabyee on the Yemen Atrocity and the Battle for Marib
by Scott Horton | Oct 30, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott is joined by Nasser Arrabyee who gives an update on the state of the war in Yemen. The battle for Marib is raging as the Houthis take control of more and more districts. The city is one of the last strongholds outside of Houthi control, and it looks like that...
6/4/21 Annelle Sheline on Washington’s Fatal Misunderstanding of the Situation in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Jun 6, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Annelle Sheline about her work on the war in Yemen. Sheline says that negotiating an end to the war has proven difficult, since both the UN framework and the U.S.-Saudi mentality is totally inconsistent with the situation on the ground. Neither will...
COI #113: A ‘Ceasefire’ Has Been Reached, But the Israeli Occupation Continues
by Kyle Anzalone | May 24, 2021 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #113, Kyle and Will cover the ceasefire deal reached between the Israeli government and armed groups in Gaza. The agreement has held over several days and appears to have brought the eruption of violence to an end. All said and done, at least 248 Palestinians...
U.S. Officials Have Met Yemen’s Houthis As Washington Seeks End To War
by Steven Woskow | Mar 3, 2021 | Blog
Another hopeful sign the Biden administration wants to end the war in Yemen. From Reuters
12/18/20 Nasser Arrabyee on Yemen’s Desperate Humanitarian Crisis
by Scott Horton | Dec 22, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Nasser Arrabyee is back with an update on the ongoing war in Yemen. Joe Biden, he says, has said some promising things about ending U.S. support for the Suadi war there, but both Arrabyee and Scott are skeptical that he will follow through at all. Supporters of the...
Trump Wanted to Bomb Natanz
by Scott Horton | Nov 16, 2020 | Blog
Last Thursday. Anonymous NYT sources, but disappointing enough to be accurate. Says Pompeo and Miller talked him out of it. And here, he wants to designate the Houthis as terrorists to make it harder for the Democrats to end the war in Yemen. #hope #change
7/17/20 Giorgio Cafiero on Yemen’s Unprecedented COVID-19 Calamity
by Scott Horton | Jul 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Giorgio Cafiero about the devastating catastrophe facing the people of Yemen in the form of the coronavirus pandemic. Cafiero describes the way that a virus—or indeed any natural disaster—has the potential to decimate a country like Yemen, where it's...
Saudi Airstrike Kills 13 Yemeni Civilians, Including Children
by Dave DeCamp | Jun 16, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
An airstrike from the U.S.-backed Saudi-led coalition hit a vehicle carrying civilians in north Yemen on Monday. The airstrike killed 13 people, including four children. The same day, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres removed the Saudi coalition from a global list...
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Reminder: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Almost Started a World War Based on a Lie
On November 15th, the Associated Press reported that "A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people". Since Poland is a member of the North American Treaty Organization, that would mean that America along...
Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
Empower the Working Class: Abolish Occupational Licensing
It's time to consistently apply the "my body my choice" principle. If consenting adults want to engage in economic activity, no third party should forcibly stop them. Democrats always say "voting once every two years between two politicians is how you express...
Death By Climate: Down 97% in Last 100 Years
Our schools provide many hours of lessons on climate change, but I wonder how many teachers, let alone pupils, are aware that climate-related deaths have decreased by as much as 97 per cent over the past 100 years, as the OFDA / CRED data show. - Why don’t we ever...
Black Youth Unemployment: Before and After Progressives Started “Helping”
A constant trend is progressivism is to use the state to coercively control others under the guise of "helping" them, make things worse, then ignore the problems you caused and never apologize. Sallie Mae loans didn't make college affordable. The Federal Reserve...
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