Yemen: Zio-Wahhabi War Archives

12Dec

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USA, Yemen

Nominee for US Ambassador to Yemen is No Friend of the Yemeni People

NOVANEWS Confirming Christopher Henzel as the US Ambassador to Yemen will continue the US role in the starvation and deaths of millions of Yemenis by: Ann Wright Codepink's women for Peace at the Nomination Hearing for new US Ambassador to Yemen. (Photo by Ann Wright While the press has closely followed the Senate efforts to stop US support for the Saudi war in Yemen in the wake of journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, a December 4 Senate Foreign Affairs Committee meeting introducing Donald Trump’s nominee for Ambassador to Yemen slipped under the radar. Christopher Henzel is presently the Charge d’Affairs, or acting Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. A career Foreign Service officer, he has been the acting Ambassador since the departure of the Obama administration’s ap...

5Dec

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Saudi Arabia, USA, Yemen

Seeing Yemen from Jeju Island

NOVANEWS As wars rage on, every voice crying out in affliction should be heard. by: Kathy Kelly People digging through rubble in war-torn Yemen. "Killing people, through war or starvation, never solves problems," write Kathy Kelly. "I strongly believe this." (Photo: Almigdad Mojalli / Wikimedia Commons) Several days ago, I joined an unusual skype call originated by young South Korean founders of “The Hope School.” Located on Jeju Island, the school aims to build a supportive community between island residents and newly arrived Yemenis who seekasylum in South Korea. Jeju, a visa-free port, has been an entry point for close to 500 Yemenis who have traveled nearly 5000 miles in search of safety. Traumatized by consistent bombing, threats of imprisonment and torture...

20Nov

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Saudi Arabia, Yemen

With Saudis’ Global Backers Backing Away, Yemeni Factions Prepare for Peace Talks

NOVANEWS Following the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, much of the West has started turning its back on Saudi Arabia, and on Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in particular. By Randi Nord Peace in Yemen could not come at a more crucial time. Yemeni factions are preparing for peace talks in Sweden at the end of November while Saudi Arabia faces intense scrutiny and pressure from its Western allies, as well as possible action from the United Nations Security Council, for leaving nearly 22 million Yemenis requiring urgent humanitarian aid at the mercy of the famine and disease that the Saudi-led coalition has leveraged as weapons of war. As of July, the coalition’s war against Yemen had killed or injured 37,896 civilians, according to Yemen’s Legal Cente...

12Nov

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Saudi Arabia, Yemen

Yemen: Eyewitness Describes Terrifying Scenes as Explosions Rock Hospital in Central Hodeidah

NOVANEWS WASHINGTON - Hundreds of medical workers and patients, including a malnourished woman carrying her daughter in a surgical robe and a man still hooked up to a catheter, fled in terror as a series of large explosions rocked a hospital in central Hodeidah yesterday, according to an eyewitness who spoke to Amnesty International. Just before noon on November 11, an attack reportedly carried out by the Saudi Arabia and UAE-led coalition hit very close to al-Thawra hospital – Hodeidah’s largest public medical facility. The pro-Saudi Arabian media outlet Al Arabiya reported that Coalition warplanes and attack helicopters targeted Huthi positions on November 11, including in areas around the university, al-Thawra hospital and 22 May hospital. A medical worker who was inside al-Thawra ...

1Nov

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Saudi Arabia, Yemen

Congress Must End U.S. Military Aid to Saudi War in Yemen

NOVANEWS Today’s leaders owe it to all those who have sacrificed for a fairer world to bring an end to the worst humanitarian crisis on Earth by: Ro Khanna The United Nations childrens agency said Friday, Oct. 19, 2018, that Yemen’s economic crisis and the relentless violence at a key Red Sea port city risks leaving millions of children and families without food, clean water and sanitation.(Photo: Hani Mohammed / Associated Press August 2018) Every ghastly new detail we learn about the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi suggests that this was a premeditated murder, carried out at the direction of the highest level of the Saudi dictatorship. The cascading revelations rival the gore of horror films, from the 15 Saudis who flew into Turkey, lying in wait f...

7Oct

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How Saudi Money Keeps Washington at War in Yemen

NOVANEWS A boy walks by a house destroyed in an airstrike carried out by a Saudi-led coalition warplane in 2018 in Sana'a, Yemen.MOHAMMED HAMOUD / GETTY IMAGES BY: Ben Freeman It was May 2017. The Saudis were growing increasingly nervous. For more than two years they had been relying heavily on US military support and bombs to defeat Houthi rebels in Yemen. Now, the Senate was considering a bipartisan resolution to cut off military aid and halt a big sale of American-made bombs to Saudi Arabia. Fortunately for them, despite mounting evidence that the US-backed, supplied, and fueled air campaign in Yemen was targeting civilians, the Saudi government turned out to have just the weapon needed to keep those bombs and other kinds of aid coming their way: an army of lobbyist...

25Nov

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Saudi Arabia, Yemen

A Less than Modest Proposal to End the War in Yemen. “I am Writing This on Thanksgiving Eve”

NOVANEWS By George Capaccio Global Research “I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled …” —Jonathan Swift, 1729 (from “A Modest Proposal”) I am writing this on Thanksgiving eve. Tomorrow, like so many other fellow Americans, I will be passing the mashed potatoes and gravy, calling for more cranberry sauce, and once again feeling pangs of conscience as the turkey platter comes my way and I imagine industrial-scale factories where millions of farm-raised turkeys are slaughtered and otherwise prepared for consumption.In Plymouth, hundreds will gather for a Day of Mourning in recognition of the suffering ...