War and Famine visited on Yemen

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[…]

Solidarity with Evaluating Biden’s Yemen policy: Bait and switch

February 10, 2021 UNAC Editor Middle East Wars, Saudi Arabia, U.S. Aggression, Yemen

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, February 8, 2021 Feb. 7 — President Joe Biden seemed to announce an end to Washington’s complete support for Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen last week, reversing Trump’s and even the Obama/Biden administration’s public policy. He called the war a “humanitarian and strategic catastrophe.” In his first presidential foreign policy speech on Feb.[…]