Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
Feature photo | A Yemeni man cleans in front of his house during a national cleanup campaign in Sanaa, Yemen, Dec. 12, 2018. Hani Mohammed | AP by Ahmed AbdulKareem , published on MintPress News, May 7, 2019 Note: A perspective on Yemen that you probably haven’t seen before. While MBS and MBZ focus on bombing infrastructure and taking territory[…]
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President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump join King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, and the President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, Sunday, May 21, 2017, to participate in the inaugural opening of the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead) By Daniel Lazare, Special to Consortium News, December[…]
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by Finian Cunningham, published on Strategic Culture, November 10, 2018 The Western media coverage devoted to the murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi proves the cynical adage that one person’s death is a tragedy, while millions of deaths are a mere statistic. During the past four weeks since Khashoggi went missing at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, the case has been[…]
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Header and photos all from Voices for Creative Nonviolence by Kathy Kelly, published on Voices for Creative Nonviolence, November 8, 2018 Over these past three days, Voices and a coalition of justice-minded organizations have been at and around the United Nations in New York City protesting the ongoing U.S.-Saudi attack on famine- imperiled Yemen. Details are available at www.vcnv.org along[…]
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by David William Pear, from CounterCurrents Blog, October 15, 2018 “Only God can save our children”, say Yemeni fathers and mothers as they can do nothing but watch their children die, try to comfort them in their final agonizing hours, and pray for God to spare them from death. The fathers and mothers watch and pray, as one by another their children[…]
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A Yemeni man walks amid the rubble of a food storage warehouse after it was targeted by Saudi airstrikes in the capital, Sana’a, on October 26, 2015. (AFP photo) 1,200+ Days of War & Bloodshed in Yemen Imperialists and Saudi Arabia Hands Off Yemen! by Azza Rojbi, originally published on Fire This Time After a Saudi airstrike hit a water[…]
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by Jack Dresser, originally published on CounterPunch Far too few Americans seem to be asking an obvious question, why is the United States supporting the genocidal Saudi war upon Yemen? Considering that Yemen’s humanitarian crisis now exceeds every other disaster in the world, this vital question deserves an informed and serious answer incorporating the geography and history that Americans learn[…]
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I am merely publishing this to make the point that neither CNN or the Washington Post have condemned these crimes. Responding to the murder of 50 children on a bus in northern Yemen, it is worthy of comment that US activists and ‘barbaric’ enemy states are the only ones offended. by Mazen, originally published in SANA and republished[…]
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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,[…]
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Editor’s note: This article describes an emerging crisis within a long term catastrophe for the people of Yemen. Ex President Abd Mansur Rabbuh Hadi and the nephew of Ali Abdullah Saleh, referred to in teh mainstream press as representing the ‘Government of Yemen’ are competing for a puppet throne, but have no legitimacy on the ground in Yemen. by Bill[…]
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