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Yemen and the War Powers Act
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By ARN MENCONI
There are two things you never let your children see. One is sausage being made and the other is policy. The House & Senate War Powers Resolutions were complicated as hell so most journalists and…
Yemen Peace Talks Concluded: When Will Country’s Humanitarian Crisis End?
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By: Ahmed Abdulkareem
Although it was the first successful negotiation between Ansar Allah (Houthis) and Saudi-led Coalition, the peace talks held in Rimbo, near Stockholm in Sweden, which could not end three years…
The Pointless Cruelty of the Travel Ban
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By DANIEL LARISON
The San Francisco Chronicle reports on one of the many cases of needless hardship created by the Trump administration’s travel ban:
The Yemeni mother of a 2-year-old boy on life support in an…
Cease-Fire in Yemen’s Port Goes into Force after Fighting
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By: AHMED AL-HAJ
A cease-fire went into force early Tuesday in Yemen’s Red Sea port of Hodeida after intense fighting erupted shortly before the U.N.-brokered truce took hold in the contested city, Yemeni officials…
The Historic Antiwar Resolution on Yemen
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By DANIEL LARISON
The Wall Street Journal gets things backwards on Saudi Arabia and Yemen as usual:
But all 49 Democrats voted for it, as did seven Republicans. They had the political luxury of knowing the bill…
GOP Purse Strings Held by Saudi Lobbyist
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By: Eli Clifton
Last month, Republican members of the House blocked a vote on legislation introduced by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) to end the U.S. role in supporting the Saudi-led war in Yemen.
In doing so, House…
Putting an End to U.S. Involvement in the War on Yemen
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By: DANIEL LARISON
Nick Kristof has written another important column on the need to end the war on Yemen, and the most important part is not anything he writes:
I’m giving up most of my column space today to…
A figure six times higher than previous estimates of victims in Yemen
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By: Josie Ensor
More than 60,000 people have been killed in Yemen in the last two years - a figure six times higher than previous estimates - according to a new assessment.
The figure of…
Your Tax Dollars Help Starve Children
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By: Nicholas Kristof
He is an 8-year-old boy who is starving and has limbs like sticks, but Yaqoob Walid doesn’t cry or complain. He gazes stolidly ahead, tuning out everything, for in late stages of…
Yemen peace consultations: time for action
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By: David Miliband
“The Yemen peace consultations taking place in Stockholm, Sweden this week must result in meaningful steps to relieve human suffering in Yemen. After almost four years of war, the Yemeni people…