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In a first, Yemenis seek redress for U.S. drone strikes at Inter-American rights body
by Steven Woskow | Jan 27, 2021 | Blog
“How come they can target official military personnel who were on a military mission?” asked Ahmed al-Helou, another Yemeni colonel who worked with Abdullah al-Taisy. “They seem not to understand the difference between the local community and the militants.” Read More...
Sow->Reap
by Scott Horton | Aug 3, 2019 | Blog
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula attacks Yemeni "government" military base, kills 19 soldiers.
Saudi Jets Bomb Yemen Capitol Sanaa
by Steven Woskow | Jul 20, 2019 | Blog
The Saudi-led coalition said it started an operation to target military positions in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, according to state TV early on Saturday. Fatik Al-Rodaini from Mona Relief Yemen Charity is reporting on Twitter that bombs are going off and Saudi jets...
Yemeni Video Journalist Maad al-Zekri Denied US Visa to Attend Pulitzer Ceremony
by Steven Woskow | May 29, 2019 | Blog
Maad al-Zekri, Maggie Michael, and Nariman El-Mofty won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and the Atlantic Media's 16th Annual Michael Kelly award for their reporting on the war in Yemen. The reporters were honored for their heroic work covering the...
Yemen Warring Parties Talk the Talk and Never Walk the Walk
by Scott Horton | Feb 21, 2019 | Blog
The great Yemeni journalist Nasser Arrabyee: (h/t nvsteveo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuOSxFwAw9Q
Yemen the Forgotten Famine
by Scott Horton | Dec 22, 2018 | Blog
The great Nasser Arrabyee, Yemeni journalist and friend of the show, interviewed about the starvation of innocent humans at the hands of the United States of America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXkXTe5oQpc
Mercenary America
by Scott Horton | Dec 15, 2018 | Blog
Killing Yemeni humans for money. "But what frustrated him most was the shrapnel the doctors couldn’t remove from his head. He told me it changes the way his mind works; he’s angry all the time, and he thinks there’s a chemical reason for that, something in the metal....
It’s Genocide
by Scott Horton | Dec 8, 2018 | Blog
He died. Though his father rushed walking barefoot! To rescue him! Yemeni father Abdu Shuay, walked 2 hours with his son Akil (5 months) in his embrace When they arrived in this local hospital in Yaslem Hajja( north Yemen), Akil died of malnutrition...
The US-Saudi Genocide in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Oct 26, 2018 | Blog
The New York Times finally gets around to mentioning the "price" Yemeni civilians are paying in the war -- only to blame it all on Saudi, and the Houthis, of course.
Daniel Larison on Yemen
by Scott Horton | Aug 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
He's been consistently great on it day in and day out for the past three and a half years. Here's some more: The U.S. Is Complicit in Saudi Coalition Massacres in Yemen: "Even though everyone knows that the Saudi coalition is responsible for one massacre of civilians...
Saudi Airstrike Kills 31 in Key Yemeni Port, Mostly Children
by Jason Ditz | Aug 25, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Saudi warplanes carried out an airstrike against the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah on Thursday, hitting a camp for internally displaced people, and killed at least 31 civilians. The slain included 22 children. 79 civilians were wounded, again overwhelmingly children....
FPF #232 – Yemeni Children Massacred guest Will Porter
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 13, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
Will Porter returns to FPF to discuss a Saudi massacre of Yemeni children on a school bus. The US continues to back Saudi's slaughter of Yemen children. Will discuss his updated numbers of Yemenis killed in the civil war. Will and Kyle also debunk the most common...
US-Saudis Bomb Yemeni Wedding, Kill Bride, 32 Others
by Scott Horton | Apr 23, 2018 | Blog
The casualties are mostly women and children. We're number one. Yemen death toll rises to 88 civilians!Over and over again!Massacre against wedding!Yemeni ministry of health confirmed now 33 killed, 55 injured including 30 children, some seriously injured.By US-Saudi...
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Military Conscription is Slavery: Woodrow Wilson Edition
By the guidelines set down by the Selective Service Act, all males aged 21 to 30 were required to register to potentially be selected for military service. At the request of the War Department, Congress amended the law in August 1918 to expand the age range to include...
The Capitalist Competition Myth
Capitalism involves far more cooperation than competition—think of the number of mutually beneficial transactions you’ve had today compared to the number of competitions you’ve been in today - Chris Freiman, author of Why It's OK to Ignore Politics Democratic...
Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
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