US Actions in Yemen Helped Create Current Crisis admin, February 15, 2024June 13, 2024 The Progressive 02/06/2024: [source]. Plus Five Background Articles: Continue Reading
Russian Aggression, US Hypocrisy & Is UAE a Safe Haven for Oligarchs? admin, March 8, 2022August 14, 2024 There’s No Justification for Russia’s Aggression, But U.S. Double Standards on Illegal War Are Hard to Stomach: Nothing can excuse Putin’s invasion, but the hypocrisy could hardly be more striking. The Progressive March 1, 2022 Al Jazeera quotes Zunes March 7, 14 and 29 *The limits of Iran’s influence on… Continue Reading
How U.S. Contributed to Yemen Crisis admin, April 20, 2015August 15, 2024 Washington’s support for Yemen’s former dictatorship — and of Saudi efforts to sideline the country’s nonviolent pro-democracy movement — helped create the current crisis. Continue Reading
Powerful nonviolent resistance to armed conflict in Yemen admin, April 11, 2015August 15, 2024 While media coverage of the tragic situation unfolding in Yemen in recent months has focused on armed clashes and other violence, there has also been widespread and ongoing nonviolent civil resistance employed by a number of different actors. Continue Reading
Interview: The Impact of Drone Strikes on Yemen (audio) admin, August 12, 2013August 15, 2024 Uprising Radio August 12, 2013: Obama has escalated the U.S. unspoken war on the Gulf Arab state of Yemen with 9 drone bombing raids in 10 days killing about 3 dozens Yemenis… apparently in response to an Al Qaeda terrorist threat which both the U.S. and Yemeni governments have cited… Continue Reading
Interview: Yemen (audio) admin, February 28, 2013July 13, 2024 China International Radio Continue Reading
CrossTalk on Yemen: Rise of Al-Qaeda? (video) admin, February 25, 2012August 16, 2024 RT News Continue Reading
Yemen on the Edge admin, May 13, 2011September 1, 2024 Since Obama came to office in January 2009, U.S. security assistance to the Yemeni regime has gone up 20-fold. Despite such large-scale unconditional support, however, the 32-year reign of autocratic President Ali Abdullah Saleh may finally be coming to an end. Yet the Obama administration has been ambivalent in its support for a democratic transition in this impoverished but strategically important country. Continue Reading
60 Second Expert: The U.S. in Yemen admin, January 15, 2010July 16, 2024 Much attention has recently been focused on the poverty-stricken country of Yemen. The planning of the Christmas Day bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight by al-Qaeda members in Yemen and other incidents have revealed that al-Qaeda cells in Yemen represents a genuine threat. However, if the U.S. yet seeks a military solution to a complex political, social and economic situation, however, it could prove disastrous to both Yemen and U.S. security interest Continue Reading
Yemen: The Latest U.S. Battleground admin, January 8, 2010July 16, 2024 The United States may be on the verge of involvement in yet another counterinsurgency war which, as is the case in Iraq and Afghanistan, may make a bad situation even worse. The attempted Christmas Day bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight by a Nigerian man was apparently planned in Yemen. There were alleged ties between the perpetrator of the Ft. Hood massacre and a radical Yemeni cleric, and an ongoing U.S.-backed Yemeni military offensive against al-Qaeda have all focused U.S. attention on that country…. Continue Reading