Covid Massachusetts halts all elective procedures. [Link] The USS Milwaukee will remain in Cuba after several sailors tested positive for Covid. [Link] USAID is running out of money to distribute covid vaccinations. [Link] The US donates 1.5 million vaccine doses to Egypt through Covax. [Link] Biden will lift the travel restriction from eight African countries on January 1st. [Link] US News LAPD officers killed a 14-year-old girl. [Link] The Pentagon cuts the cost of living stipend it gives to tens of thousands of soldiers living in high-cost areas in the US. [Link] Stu Scheller - who...
Yemenis
In a first, Yemenis seek redress for U.S. drone strikes at Inter-American rights body
“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 at The Washington Post...
The Antiwar Comic: Some Problems With Trump
Interesting comments with this one. For a long time, I was accused of defending Trump, now that I'm critical of him, those who yelled at me before praise me and vice versa. More comics at the Webcomic Factory.
Daniel Larison on Yemen
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 after another, none of the governments in the coalition pays the slightest price for involvement in this war. Because they are shielded by the U.S. and their other Western patrons, they are free to slaughter innocent Yemenis with impunity, and they know they can."...
FPF #232 – Yemeni Children Massacred guest Will Porter
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 myths of the Yemen Civil War. Links SHS - Nasser Arrabyee SHS - Iona...
1/16/17 Nasser Arrabyee gives an update on the US-backed Saudi war in Yemen
Yemeni Journalist Nasser Arrabyee discusses the human suffering caused by Saudi's war on Yemen: 60-70 thousand dead Yemenis; 3 million displaced from their homes; and 20 million facing starvation.
12/16/16 Scott Paul on the latest bad news in Yemen
Scott Paul, Senior Humanitarian Policy Advisor for Oxfam America, discusses how the Saudi coalition blockade and Yemen's central bank failure have created a dangerous shortage of food and money for Yemenis.