Western Complicity in Yemen Genocide Met With Media Silence
By Finian Cunningham
Despite the horror and complicity of Western governments in that horror, the Western news media avoid providing informative reports on the carnage in Yemen. When the media do give occasional brief reports, they routinely distort the nature of the violence as if it is being perpetrated by two warring sides: on the one hand, Saudi coalition forces; and on the other, Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.
Lets quickly dispense with that self-serving distortion. The Houthi rebels are not Iranian-backed. How could they be when Yemen is blockaded by Saudi and American forces? The Houthis are in alliance with the Yemeni national army and other rebel groups, called Popular Committees. Earlier this year, the revolutionary front kicked out the US and Saudi-backed puppet-president Abded Rabbo Mansour Hadi, taking over much of the countrys territory, including the capital Sanaa.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42712.htm
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)So obviously he'll argue that this whole thing is entirely our fault and not the fault of the Saudis, AQAP, or IS... Because one thing AQAP and IS have never, EVER done is kill civilians
Mr_Jefferson_24
(8,559 posts)FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)if Russia led by Putin was doing this. The hypocricy is just so damn severe.
Mr_Jefferson_24
(8,559 posts)... so loud as to be deafening and sustained 24/7. And yes, the US does set the bar for hypocrisy awfully high.
Time For Peace
(22 posts)I pointed this out in an earlier thread. The Libyan crisis lays at the feet of the EU and US-NATO bombings. Yet the media won't mention that fact, nor the support for jihadists who are the reason behind the massive refugee crisis in the Mediterranean and even the terrorist attack in neighboring Tunisia. That attack led to 38 tourist deaths.
The mainstream media has taken to referring to the refugees as migrants when in actuality they are people seeking refuge from war that NATO instigated.
Mr_Jefferson_24
(8,559 posts)... the instigator as the attack dog controlled by the international cartel of banking/high finance criminals who OWN the West.
And what they did in Libya amounts to war crimes of the most serious nature. Have a look at the massive irrigation project they targeted for destruction in a country at war with NOBODY. What possible legitimate reason could there have been for targeting this vital life sustaining irrigation network?
Time For Peace
(22 posts)I knew Ghaddafi had done some amazing things for Libyan society, but I never realized he did that. Truly remarkable. And truly sad that it is all now in horrible chaos there.
Mr_Jefferson_24
(8,559 posts)...thank you for your contributions to this thread.
Yes, it's terribly sad and maddening at the same time.
Humanity is in real trouble.
Catherina
(35,568 posts)My aren't we proud. Congratulations America. Another war and under a Democratic administration
Related: World, United Nations, Yemen
Millions in Yemen on brink of starvation, Oxfam warns
By Emma Batha
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 6 million people in Yemen are on the verge of starvation, Oxfam warned on Tuesday, adding that months of war and a blockade on imports were pushing an additional 25,000 people into hunger every day.
One in two of Yemen's people - nearly 13 million - are now struggling to find enough to eat, the aid agency said.
"As the warring parties continue to ignore calls for a ceasefire, the average family in Yemen is left wondering when their next meal will be," Oxfam's Yemen country director Philippe Clerc said.
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U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Yemen Johannes van der Klaauw said more than 6 million people were in an emergency food situation - the phase before famine on the internationally used food security scale.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/28/us-yemen-security-hunger-idUSKCN0Q226B20150728
Time For Peace
(22 posts)I too notice that the war refugees are not being covered and if anything are being covered up. Look at the size of the bombs Saudi Arabia is using, that we are supplying. There is no way those massive bombs are going after a few people. This looks like they are trying to exterminate a lot of people.
Mr_Jefferson_24
(8,559 posts)Those are quite clearly indiscriminate and meant to be high casualty bombing attacks.
Two words: WAR CRIMES.
Time For Peace
(22 posts)and believe it or not there are people here who seem to see nothing wrong with Saudi Arabia using those massive bombs, even when I pointed out how many innocent civilians are being killed by them. It is a human tragedy on a massive scale. And as you noted earlier, our media is completely silent and covering it up. We have truly gone down the rabbit hole when war crimes of this scale are completely covered up.
I also want to point out that the person that sent these videos links to me was working for Doctors Without Borders and said he'd never seen anything like it in all his life.
Mr_Jefferson_24
(8,559 posts)...support indiscriminate bombing of any kind in densely populated areas. They should do a couple tours of duty assisting the Doctors Without Borders medical teams, seeing up close and personal what they see, and then come back and tell us if they still see nothing wrong with it. I'd bet their tune would change.
The Doctors Without Borders people are true heroes.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)I looked it up on Al Jazeera. Our cable is too busy with Trump to carry this. Thanks again.