...and Yemen!

[DotCommunist]

thanks both.

 

[teqniq]

A good background read for anyone interested

On Saleh’s death and the worsening humanitarian crisis in Yemen

A conversation with Yemeni journalist Afrah Nasser...

...Afrah Nasser is a Yemeni independent reporter and blogger who reports from Sweden on human rights violations, women’s issues, and press freedom in Yemen. She was awarded the 2017 International Press Freedom Award.

 

[teqniq]

War crimes, plain and simple. As if we didn't know already.

Bombed into famine: how Saudi air campaign targets Yemen’s food supplies

 

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War crimes, plain and simple. As if we didn't know already.

Bombed into famine: how Saudi air campaign targets Yemen’s food supplies

Even the UK government are growing nervous about this. At least nervous enough to 'say the right thing' publicly and be seen to be a top donor to Yemen aid. I'm not exactly convinced that the UK would go beyond this arse covering exercise but I suppose the language is still worth reporting.

Saudi Arabia told by UK minister to stop blocking Yemen aid

Mordaunt told the Telegraph that the UK “fully appreciates” the security concerns of the Saudi-led coalition and supported the right to screen shipping to prevent military equipment reaching the rebels, but said there was no excuse for blocking ships that had been screened. “It is very clear that if you are using starvation as a weapon you are in breach of international humanitarian law,” she said. “And what I have seen on my visit is that what is being held up is aid.

“I very much understand the importance of our relationship with Saudi Arabia. But we do not help that relationship by not speaking about the facts of the matter.” If there were to be a breach of humanitarian law “that would put that relationship into difficulty”, she said.

 

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Unfortunately that sounds a little hollow. Stop blocking aid and oh, how many guns and planes would you like this week....sorry, just can't help being cynical.

 

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Anyone see the house of saud stuff on BBC last (or catch up). For anyone with an interest, no really shockingly new revelations but it was good to see it being aired to a wider audience. Telling, the last part covered Yemen, so hopefully many will take that last bit of the programme with them.

 

[teqniq]

While Theresa May will roll out the red carpet for the Saudi Arabian Crown Prince. The British public won't be so welcoming

Yemen PR wars: Saudi Arabia employs UK/US firms to push multi-billion dollar aid plan

 

[teqniq]

Not that I imagine it will make the slightest difference but at least May's been called out over it.

Bin Salman visit: Emily Thornberry says UK should stop ‘bowing and scraping'

 

[teqniq]

Wtf is this? Any of the military types who post on here care to hazard a guess?

 

[teqniq]

A bit of good news

 

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Wtf is this? Any of the military types who post on here care to hazard a guess?

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I'm not a military hardware guy, nor much of a drone guy either (apart from droning on, boom boom).

But it looks like a standard consumer drone to me, from the quick glance and search I did it certainly resembles the DJI Mavic Pro in a number of regards.

 

[teqniq]

and again....

Three more protesters cleared as DSEI arms fair trials collapse

Court cases against three activists arrested for demonstrating a major international arms fair at the ExCeL have collapsed, following 13 acquittals last week...

 

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Protest against a Saudi

 

[teqniq]

Pass the sick bag

 

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Tell Boris enough is enough: Stop Arming Saudi Arabia - Act Now - Campaign Against Arms Trade

 

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This was an informed insight on the radio earlier this morning BBC World Service - The Real Story, What is Fuelling War in Yemen?

 

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[teqniq]

Government says UK's 'heart goes out' to wedding guests killed by Saudi bombs - but it won't stop selling country arms

 

[teqniq]

UK arms campaigners win right to appeal hearing over weapons to Saudi ruling

 

[klang]

spare a thought for the people of Hodeida

Opinion | Assault on Yemen’s Al Hudaydah Would Be Catastrophic

 

[DotCommunist]

this was on twitter yesterday, he's right about the silence thing. Wall to wall brexit and nobody wants to look over at yemen except briefly
The War Nerd: Anglo-American Media Complicity in Yemen’s Genocide - By Gary Brecher - The eXiled

 

[teqniq]

Not quite but he still has a point

Yemen: Saudi-led coalition begins battle for vital port

 

[teqniq]

8 million teeter on the brink of famine. America is complicit.

and, it has to be added so is the UK.

 

[klang]

https://www.criticalthreats.org/ana...ce=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tu

 

[Humberto]

Saudi money. British and American establishments seemingly desperate for it to the exclusion of all other concerns? Then divide, conquer and subvert all working class democratic interests. I suppose that's something like my idea of 'where to begin' in terms of understanding this as the world tuns to shit because a few get rich off it.

 

[teqniq]

Hundreds dead as Arab coalition takes Hodeidah international airport from Houthi rebels

 

[klang]

Eerie scenes in war-torn Aden, Yemen – in pictures

 

[klang]

might not be the worst thing, a UN controlled port:

Yemen's Houthis indicate willingness to hand over port to U.N.:...

 

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Why We Know So Little About the U.S.-Backed War in Yemen
July 27, 2018
What the U.N. calls the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis” is an unhappy confluence of American media taboos

Thursday, from Al Jazeera: “Yemen ‘on Brink of New Cholera Epidemic,’ Charity Warns.” The piece details how recent developments in the Yemeni civil war — specifically, the possible siege of the port city of Hodeidah — may cause a surge in cholera cases. There were over a million reported cases of cholera between the fall of 2016 and spring of 2018, the largest documented outbreak in modern times. The rate of infection had slowed, but observers now fear resurgence.

Since the conflict began, medical services have been devastated across the war-torn country, and children in particular have been affected, with as many as 400,000 at imminent risk of starvation. In April, U.N. General Secretary Antonio Guterres said that 8 million people in Yemen didn’t know where they were getting their next meal.

If you want to be saddened to the point of nausea, look at these images, in which weeping mothers can be seen holding their malnourished babies and saying things like, “I’m losing my son and there’s nothing I can do about it!”

Yemen is a catastrophe on a scale similar to Syria, but coverage in the United States has been sporadic at best. PBS News Hour did a thorough three-part series, but MSNBC, for instance, has barely mentioned the crisis in a year, during a period when it has done 455 segments on Stormy Daniels (this according to media reporter Adam Johnson).

The reason for inattention is obvious: The United States bears real responsibility for the crisis. A quote from a Yemeni doctor found in PBS reporter Jane Ferguson’s piece sums it up:

“The missiles that kill us, American-made. The planes that kill us, American-made. The tanks … American-made. You are saying to me, where is America? America is the whole thing.”