Saudi Aggression

Silent Killer: The Seige of Yemen

December 29, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Global Trade, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Richard Medhurst, published on Richard’s Substack, May 11, 2022 This article gives a useful elaboration of the way that sanctions work to undermine the economy of a targeted country and the welfare of the people who live there. Denial of fuel undermines all social services, not just personal consumption. This issue affects numerous other countries in the region,[…]

Yemen could be the Arab hub of the Maritime Silk Road

November 24, 2021 UNAC Editor Belt and Road, Yemen

By Pepe Escobar, published on The Cradle, November 21, 2021 First, coercing it into ‘structural reform.’ When that didn’t work, they instrumentalized takfiri mercenaries. They infiltrated and manipulated the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), ISIS. They used US drones and occasional marines. And then, in 2015, they went Total Warfare: a UN-backed rogue coalition started bombing and[…]

Killing Yemen

April 21, 2021 UNAC Editor Economic Blockade, Imperial Wars, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Yemen

by Yanis Iqbal, April 16, 2021 The Yemeni city of Marib is in the thick of fighting between Houthi rebels and loyalists of Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi’s government. Marib is the capital of Marib Governorate, lying roughly 100 miles northeast of the country’s capital in Sana’a. It was established after the 1984 discovery of oil deposits in the region and contains[…]

Following US Pressure, Aid to Yemen Falls to Just 25 Cents Per Day

October 9, 2020 UNAC Editor Middle East Wars, Saudi Arabia, War and Weapons, War on the Poor, Yemen

by Alan MacLeod, Published on MintPress News, October 7, 2020 Home to what the United Nations has described as “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis,” Yemen is on the brink of total disaster after five years of protracted war. Yet crucial international aid to the country has been cut this year to just 25 cents per person, per day, around half of what[…]

Yemen: The War That Isn’t Happening Even As It’s Happening

July 17, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Yemen

by Luciana Bohne, originally published on CounterPunch The manipulation of news and the distortion of reality are the most powerful weapons in the hands of power. They can make a whole reality disappear. Yemen’s, for example. A child dies in Yemen every ten minutes from preventable causes, UNICEF reported in June. These deaths are only part of a humanitarian catastrophe,[…]