Yemen

Posted by: John Phoenix US striking Houthi positions in Yemen. Image Source: U.S. Air Force – Public Domain On March 24, the country learned that a group of senior Trump administration officials (including the Vice President, Secretary of Defense, and the Director of National Intelligence, among others) accidentally sent classified details of military strikes against Yemen to Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic. Since Goldberg broke the story, there has been a steady stream of commentary about “Signalgate,” most adding little but sound and fury. The public discourse about Signalgate reveals something important about American politics—far more important than the incompetence at the center of the scandal. What has rarely been mentioned during the national conversation is...

Posted by: John Phoenix For seven years, the United States has been flooding powerful Gulf states with advanced weapons worth tens of billions of dollars, a British online newspaper reported, but it claims that it has little idea whether its helicopters, missiles, and bombs are exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. A report by the Government Accounting Office, which monitors US spending, says neither the Pentagon nor the State Department could show if they had properly investigated allegations that any of the nearly $55 billion in weapons it has sold to allies Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates between 2015 and 2021 had been improperly used to harm civilians in Yemen, the Independent reported. “The conflict in Yemen is a pressing humanitarian concern, and the ...