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Geneva Conference and international community hypocrisy
Zeid Buwah
a Yemeni writer
UN Secretary-General Guterres gave a lengthy speech at the Geneva conference to discuss the humanitarian situation in Yemen as a result of the Saudi led coalition and siege imposed by…
As the world ignores Yemen, war tears apart the ancient country’s social fabric
Bethan McKernan
‘To help us is to end the war, not send shipments of guns, and hold a “sorry” conference every other year’, Yemenis say as diplomats gather for one-day aid summit in Geneva
More than 10,000 dead. Approximately 19 …
Awarding Saudi Arabia chair on Women’s Rights Commission makes UN complicit in crimes
Ms. Marwa Osman
PhD Candidate located in Beirut, Lebanon. University Lecturer at the Lebanese International University and Maaref University. Political writer/commentator on Middle East issues with many international and regional media…
Is Britain selling its soul to Saudi Arabia amid EU divorce?
Catherine Shakdam
political analyst, writer and commentator for the Middle East with a special focus on radical movements and Yemen.
Change is most definitely in the air this April. Britain’s very own unelected Prime Minister, Ms.…
Wrecking and Starving Yemen with Washington’s Blessing
By Daniel Larison
The Secretary of Defense is considering more support for the atrocious, indefensible war on Yemen:
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is considering a range of additional military support for Saudi Arabia’s fight…
US Moves Toward Major Intervention in Yemen
Thomas C. Mountain
attended Punahou School for six years some half a dozen years before “Barry O’Bombers” time there. He has been living and writing from Eritrea since 2006. He can be reached at thomascmountain at g_ mail_ dot _com…
The Disgusting U.S. Support for the War on Yemen
Daniel Larison
The Pentagon is pushing for increased U.S. support for an attack on the Yemeni port of Hodeidah, despite the fact that this would exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in the country and hasten the onset of famine:…
The Trump administration is lying about North Korea for Israel and the Neocons
Jonas E. Alexis
Sure, North Korea has been making a lot of noise, but does that give America a license to start a war? And, as Bruce Cumings of the University of Chicago has pointed out, don’t we all know by now that America has…
Yemen: Saudi Arabia’s Vietnam
Thomas C. Mountain
Thomas C. Mountain, author of “Storm Clouds Over South Sudan” in 2010 and “US Plan To Destabilize Sudan” in 2012 is a life long activist, educator and cultural historian, living and writing from Eritrea since 2006. He…
Trump dumps campaign pledges, goes ballistic in Syria & Afghanistan
Robert Bridge
an American writer
Today, many erstwhile Trump supporters are suffering shell-shock after the Republican leader, who pledged like a populist on the campaign trail to scale back the US military’s overseas…