Yemen

Human Rights Watch | – – Houthi-Saleh Obstruction also Heightens Crisis (Beirut) – The Saudi-led coalition’s restrictions on imports to Yemen have worsened the dire humanitarian situation of Yemeni civilians, Human Rights Watch said today. The restrictions, in violation of international humanitarian law, have delayed and diverted fuel tankers, closed a critical port, and stopped […]

Afghanistan

What if we Gave Seven Wars and No Americans Noticed?

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By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Consider, if you will, these two indisputable facts. First, the United States is today more or less permanently engaged in hostilities in not one faraway place, but at least seven. Second, the vast majority of the American people could not care less. Nor can it be […]

Displaced and Refugees

Yemen’s Children Are Being Shelled While the World Sits Back

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By Kristine Beckerle | ( Human Rights Watch) | – – Deadly Attack in Taizz Shows Need for International Inquiry Yemenis were again mourning their children this weekend – this time in Taizz, Yemen’s third largest city. Houthi-Saleh forces indiscriminately shelled a residential neighborhood killing three children – two of whom were playing football – […]

Displaced and Refugees

Saudi-led Airstrikes on Yemen Deadly for Children

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Human Rights Watch | – – UN Should Create International Inquiry, Return Coalition to ‘List of Shame’ (Beirut) – The Saudi-led coalition carried out five apparently unlawful airstrikes in Yemen since June 2017 that killed 26 children among 39 civilian deaths, Human Rights Watch said today. The attacks, which struck four family homes and a […]

Featured

Saudi Arabia wants to improve Image; Here’s How

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Saudi Arabia is alleged to be hiring a PR firm to improve its tattered image in the West . As usual, such a campaign confuses substance with fluff and the money will be wasted. I am sympathetic to Saudi feelings that they get an unfair rap. […]

Displaced and Refugees

Are Muslims allowed to be Sympathetic Victims in US Media, or only Perpetrators?

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Libyan activist Hend Amry makes an important point about the relative lack of interest of television news in stories such as the persecution of the Burmese (Myanmar) Muslims by the Buddhist establishment: When Muslims are the victims of terrorism, there isn't the fraction of western attention […]

Displaced and Refugees

International Community must Halt Yemen Bloodbath

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Hannah Porter | (Informed Comment) | – – A concerted effort by the international community to resolve Yemen’s war would see considerable benefits at a small cost, yet profits, alliances, and egos are getting in the way. On midnight, March 26, 2015, Saudi fighter jets took to the skies of Yemen, marking the beginning of […]

Epidemics

Under Saudi Bombs, Yemen hit by 500,000 Cholera Cases

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TeleSur | – – Each day there are more than 5,000 new cases of the waterborne disease. More than half a million people in Yemen have been infected with cholera since the epidemic began four months ago and 1,975 people have died, the World Health Organization, WHO, announced Monday. Each day there are more than […]

Displaced and Refugees

UN Says Yemen Is Now the Largest Global Humanitarian Crisis

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TeleSur | – – Arab nation is said to be on the brink of famine after almost 2 years of war and disease. In Yemen, the world’s worst cholera outbreak is unfolding amid the largest global humanitarian crisis, crippling health, water and sanitation facilities. Three United Nations agencies say the conditions are now ideal for […]