Saoedische aanklagers willen dat een sjiitische vrouw, die openlijk kritiek gaf op de reli-fascistische Saoedische dictatuur (deze woorden zou de vrouw niet eens hebben durven gebruiken) wordt onthoofd…… Daarmee zouden deze aanklagers meteen ‘een mooie primeur’ hebben, nooit eerder werd er een vrouw onthoofd in Saoedi-Arabië…… Niet dat de vrouw geweld heeft gebruikt, nee ze gaf alleen kritiek op de Saoedische onderdrukking van sjiieten in S-A…….
Naast de vrouw willen deze aanklagers de doodstraf voor nog eens 4 mensen die vreedzaam kritiek hebben geleverd op de Saoedische dictatuur (de hoogste tijd voor een staatsbezoek aan S-A van ons nationale waterhoofd W.A. en zijn pampakoningin Maxima, het koningshuis onderhoudt immers vriendelijke banden met de Saoedische reli-fascistische dictatuur….)
Om een golf van protest te voorkomen op Facebook, heeft het bedrijf van superschoft Zuckerberg een groot aantal accounts verwijderd van haar platform…… De namen van de accounts werden door privé veiligheidsorganisatie FireEye in de VS doorgegeven aan Facebook…….. FireEye is een bedrijf dat nauw samenwerkt met het Pentagon…….. Overigens ligt de sjiitische minderheid in Saoedi-Arabië al jaren onder vuur van de psychopathische top in dat land en dat maar al te vaak letterlijk………
Facebook verdedigt haar stappen door te stellen dat de de accounts zijn verbonden aan Iran, ofwel Facebook ‘bevecht de invloed van Iran….’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Uiteraard zijn daar totaal geen bewijzen voor, het gaat puur en alleen om kritiek op Saoedi-Arabië van het net te weren, iets dat Facebook ook doet met accounts waar kritiek wordt geleverd op de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël en accounts waar men het opneemt voor het zwaar verdrukte Palestijnse volk…….. Het is duidelijk dat deze censuur, die eerder werd ingesteld op sites die ‘pro-Russisch’ zijn, is ingegeven om de huidige inhumane neoliberale status quo te handhaven en mede de reguliere (massa-) media te beschermen als deze voor de zoveelste keer ‘fake news’ (nepnieuws) brengen, of op andere manieren de lezer dusdanig te beïnvloeden dat deze geen vragen meer stelt als bijvoorbeeld de VS of andere partijen die men steunt, hun zoveelste oorlogsmisdaad begaan Niet alleen Facebook maakt zich schuldig aan deze niet anders dan als censuur aan te duiden maatregelen, ook Twitter, Google en YouTube doen hier aan mee…….
Ongelofelijk dat men de leugens van de Saoedische slachter bin Salman, ofwel ‘MBS’ gelooft en denkt dat S-A onder zijn leiderschap tot een verlichte dictatuur zal worden omgevormd……
De VS en de rest van het westen, blijven ondanks alles de Saoedische beesten de hand boven het hoofd houden en laat deze barbaarse dictatuur begaan bij de vreselijkste terreur die je maar kan bedenken: het uitvoeren van een genocide in buurland Jemen, sterker nog de VS (en GB) helpt daar op veel manieren aan mee en zonder de VS zou S-A niet eens in Jemen zitten….. En maar kankeren op Iran als de grote terreur sponsor en verspreider, terwijl van alle grote terreuraanslagen bekend is dat zij werden voorbereid en gefinancierd door figuren in Saoedi-Arabië, waar de daders niet zelden zelfs Saoediërs zijn……… Erger: Saoedi Arabië heeft aan de wieg gestaan van IS en financierde de terreurgroepen in Syrië, groepen die ongelofelijke terreur uitoefenden op de bevolking daar en die door het westen liefkozend ‘gematigde rebellen’ worden genoemd……
Saudis Move to Behead Woman Activist as Facebook Censors Anti-Saudi Content
(Zuckerberg maakt plezier met de Saoedische psychopaat en slachter MBS)
(GPA) — Saudi prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a 29-year-old woman activist for crimes such as chanting slogans at a protest. Beheading a woman is unprecedented in the kingdom. Meanwhile, Facebook has sprung into action to protect Riyadh’s back by initiating a crackdown on hundreds of accounts posting anti-Saudi content.
Saudi prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for five activists with non-violent charges.
All of the activists belong to the kingdom’s historically oppressed Shia minority. One is a woman.
Facebook has coincidentally begun removing anti-Saudi accounts under the guise of fighting “Iranian interference.”
A private cybersecurity firm with ties to the US military tipped off Facebook to the accounts.
Saudis Seek First Death by the Sword for Woman Activist
One of these activists includes a woman named Israa al-Ghomgham who was arrested three years ago. Although Saudi Arabia has killed or injured several thousand women in neighboring Yemen, beheading a female is completely unprecedented inside the Kingdom thus far.
All of the activists reportedly took part in protests in Saudi Arabia’s town of Qatif — a heavily Shia Muslim region frequently under siege from Wahhabi Saudi forces.
Saudi rulers consider all citizens who do not adhere to their distorted and intolerant version of Islam, Wahhabism, as polytheists and non-believers. Saudi textbooks in schools contain content with the intention of inflaming hatred for Shia Muslims. This hatred overflows into their foreign policy and military strategies as well.
Ghomgham and the other four activists face charges such as chanting slogans, attempting to inflame public opinion, and providing moral support to protestors. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have reportedly both spoke out on Ghomgham’s behalf. Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland also took the opportunity to strike back at the Kingdom’s recent arrests.
These arrests are part of a broader trend under Mohammed bin Salman’s rule to arrest all activists, clerics, intellectuals, and journalists that speak out against the regime.
Although all of the recent arrests were Shia Muslim, Riyadh also cracked down on Sunni Muslim pro-democracy activists last month. In mid-July, Saudi authorities raided the home of Sheikh Safar Al-Hawali: a 68-year-old scholar who had just published a book critical of the Saudi regime’s policies. Hawali was arrested and his current fate is unclear.
Photos from Qatif after attacks from Saudi government forces in July 2017 | Facebook
Facebook has Riyadh’s Back in the Public Relations Department
Just as news broke about five activists, Facebook initiated a crackdown on anti-Saudi accounts — which also made headlines.
In fact, it appears that the Saudi regime and their Western counterparts in the United States have adopted the “Russian interference” hysteria as a strategy in their soft war against Iran. Facebook announced on Tuesday that it had removed 652 accounts which it claimed were promoting anti-Saudi, anti-Israel, and pro-Palestinian themes.
In addition to Facebook’s sweep, Twitter deleted nearly 300 accounts while Google and YouTube also deleted at least one. Facebook claims these accounts originated inside Iran from Tehran’s government itself — just like the hyper-inflated “Russian misinformation” campaign.
A private cybersecurity firm called FireEye tipped Facebook, Twitter, and Google off to the alleged accounts. The CEO of FireEye, Kevin Mandiant, is a former US Air Force officer with an extensive background in cyber espionage.
It’s very convenient for Riyadh that FireEye informed the tech companies about these alleged misinformation accounts on the very same day the news broke about Saudi plans to behead five new activists — and their first woman nonetheless.
And with FireEye’s ties to the US military, this is not surprising at all.
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Saudi Reforms: Trying Non-Violent Activists in a Secret Court
According to Human Rights Watch, the activists will face trial in a secret setting known as the Specialized Criminal Court (SCC): a tribunal designed seemingly specifically for activists speaking out against the regime. Of course, anyone who condemns the regime Riyadh considers a terrorist — both at home and abroad.
Meanwhile, Mohammed bin Salman is portrayed in the media as a poster child for liberal reforms. Although the neoliberals seem more focused on the privatization aspects and less on the oppressed populations in the Kingdom at abroad.
The continuation of arrests shows that Saudi Arabia will dole human rights out as gifts (like women driving) from the regime — rights will certainly not be earned through grassroots movements.
All the while, private security firms will partner with Facebook and other tech companies to crack down on these activists and others online.
In het hieronder opgenomen artikel van Caitlin Johnstone, o.a. gepubliceerd op Medium(.com) en Anti-Media, stelt zij dat de reguliere (massa-) media van de VS eindelijk wakker zijn geworden en aandacht besteden aan de vreselijke oorlog van de Saoedische coalitie (inclusief de steun en onmisbare hulp van de VS en GB) tegen de sjiitische bevolking van Jemen….. Een bevolking die ‘godzijdank’ worden gesteund door de de Houthi’s, een uiterst functionele strijdgroep, die ingreep nadat IS en Al Qaida de sjiitische bevolking aanvielen, zelfs in moskeeën……. Deze 2 extreme terreurgroepen kregen in Jemen van de opgestapte president (onder druk van Saoedi-Arabië weer president) al-Hadi onderdak aangeboden…….
Jammer dat Johnstone het woord ‘genocide’ uit de weg gaat, immers daar is op zeker sprake van, een genocide waar de wereld voor het overgrote deel alweer geen aandacht aan schenkt, althans totdat de Saoedische coalitie toegaf een bus met kinderen onder vuur te hebben genomen, om wraak te nemen voor een Saoedische man die omkwam bij een raketaanval van de Houthi’s……. Al spreken ook die media niet over een genocide, ondanks alle bombardementen, honger, cholera en difterie (allen oorzaak van de Saoedische terreur), die al aan duizenden het leven heeft gekost……
Nu is de verontwaardiging groot, zelfs bij MSNBC, die zoals Johnstone in haar vorig artikel stelde in 1 jaar tijd niet één keer aandacht schonk aan de smerige, door de VS gesteunde en gefaciliteerde oorlog tegen het Jemenitische volk, maar wel 455 keer aan Stormy Daniels……* Zonder steun van de VS en GB zou Saoedi-Arabië de oorlog tegen de Houthi’s niet kunnen voeren, zo doet de VS de coördinatie van de bombardementen, tankt het de straaljagers en bommenwerpers van de Saoedische terreurcoalitie (inclusief Marokko**) in de lucht af, zodat ze zo ‘efficiënt’ mogelijk kunnen bombarderen…..
Doelen van deze moorddadige coalitie: huizenblokken, ziekenhuizen, scholen, energiecentrales, waterbedrijven, huwelijks- en begrafenisceremonies en de infrastructuur inclusief de riolering….. Door het laatst genoemde is er zelfs de eerdere genoemde grote cholera uitbraak ontstaan in Jemen, die nog maandelijks honderden doden eist….. Zelfs een ziekenhuis van Artsen Zonder Grenzen (MSF) speciaal voor cholerapatiënten werd door de Saoedische coalitie plat gebombardeerd, voordat de eerste patiënten konden worden behandeld………. (hoeveel bewijs wil je nog hebben dat de Saoedische terreurcoalitie, inclusief de VS en GB, bezig is met een genocide??)
Intussen is er ook de al eerder genoemde difterie uitbraak in Jemen, dit nog naast de hongersnood die intussen al meer dan 2 jaar aanhoudt en waarvoor vorig jaar nog een actie werd gevoerd in Nederland…….. Over Nederland gesproken, ik moet zeggen dat de media hier wel behoorlijk lauw hebben gereageerd op de Saoedische aanval tegen een schoolbus en dat op een drukke markt……. Als Assad iets dergelijks had gedaan had het land op z’n kop gestaan en waren er al vragen gesteld in de Kamer……. Terwijl de keren dat de hysterie toeslaat over het gedrag ‘van Assad’, die opwinding keer op keer onterecht blijkt te zijn, zoals zelfs bevestigd door VN onderzoek, echter dit verandert niets aan de hysterie, men blijft ‘gewoon’ volhouden dat Assad zijn eigen volk afslacht, zonder ook maar een greintje aan bewijs te leveren……..
In de VS begint men wakker te worden nu nog Nederland en de EU!!
Mainstream Media Finally Concedes Defeat on Yemen, Ends Blackout Of Coverage
(CJ Opinion) — Last month, an article by Fair.org went viral in republications by popular alternative media outlets ranging from Salon to Zero Hedge to Alternet to Truthdig, among many others. The article was initially titled “ACTION ALERT: It’s Been Over a Year Since MSNBC Has Mentioned US War in Yemen”, but many subsequent republications went with variations on the more attention-grabbing headline, “MSNBC has done 455 Stormy Daniels segments in the last year — but none on U.S. war in Yemen”.
The centerpiece of the article was the following graphic, which I saw shared on its own many times in my social media feeds:
That’s about as in your face as it gets, isn’t it?
This is of course outrageous, but because of how media coverage works, mainstream attention was never drawn to the problem. It hasn’t been a total media blackout, but because it only turns up in mainstream media reports every once in a while with little if any emphasis being placed on who is behind the devastation, it occupies a very peripheral place in western consciousness. The average American would probably be able to tell you that some parts of their government appear to be concerned about Russia, Syria, Iran and North Korea, because those rival nations have been the subject of intense mass media coverage, but if you asked them about Yemen you’d likely be told something like “I think there’s some kind of humanitarian crisis there?”, if anything.
This has all changed in the last few days. Suddenly, the atrocities being inflicted upon the people of Yemen are being pushed into mainstream attention by the mass media outlets which have been ignoring them for more than three years. The Washington Post (WaPo) editorial board published an op-ed titled “End U.S. support for this misbegotten and unwinnable war”. CNN did some actual, real journalism for a change with a viral exclusive documenting which American war profiteers were behind some of the more devastating Saudi bombings. And yes, MSNBC finally did cover the violence in Yemen, breaking its year-long silence to report on a US-supplied bomb which killed 40 children with such urgent condemnation of those responsible you’d never know they’d been consistently ignoring such incidents which have been going on for years.
Now politicians and celebrities everywhere are shoving the horror of their government facilitating the slaughter of innocents into mainstream attention.
What’s interesting here is that nothing at all has changed except for the coverage. US-supplied bombs have been dropping on marketplaces, hospitals and funerals and slaughtering civilians in far more deadly incidents for years, and the US has also been providing extensive assistance to Saudi airstrikes, as well as attacking Yemeni targets directly. The only thing that has changed is that now it’s being reported with an urgency and volume that is appropriate for such a horrific incident instead of an occasional low-profile mention with little or no mention of responsibility.
Nobody with their eyes open believes that the mainstream media have just suddenly developed a conscience and now deeply care about the mass murder of Middle Eastern civilians. So why the change? If you ask some of the Trump supporters I’ve seen responding to the shift, it’s because their president can now be unfairly blamed for a military campaign which began long before he took office. But that doesn’t really hold water, does it? I mean, the aforementioned year in which MSNBC didn’t cover Yemen took place entirely during this administration, and every American with cable TV knows that MSNBC markets itself as the anti-Trump network. If they’d wanted to use Yemen as another angle from which to criticize this administration they would have done so, instead of not doing so at all. The entirety of mainstream media have been grossly neglecting this issue up until the last week despite having every opportunity to condemn Trump for it.
For the record, while we’re on the subject, I personally don’t much care if Trump gets all the blame for the Yemen catastrophe at this point. I’ve spent 2017 and 2018 fighting the insane corporate liberal notion that all American depravity began in January of last year, but at this point I’m happy with literally anything that just ends the death and devastation. A year into the war, the 30-year CIA veteran Bruce Riedel said that “if the United States of America and the United Kingdom tonight told King Salman that this war has to end, it would end tomorrow, because the Royal Saudi Air Force cannot operate without American and British support.” If using this as an opportunity to attack Trump creates the necessary political pressure to end the bombings, blockades, starvation and disease that is killing untold thousands of Yemeni civilians, then fine, whatever, I’m all for it.
But again, from what I’m seeing right now I don’t believe that this is about Trump. Not directly anyway. From what I can see right now, I think what we are witnessing is a clear instance in which alternative media successfully caused the establishment to lose control of the narrative on an important issue.
In the US, criticism of Saudi Arabia is nearly as taboo as criticism of Israel. As we saw explained in a leaked State Department memo last year, it is standard US policy to use human rights abuses as a bludgeon with which to attack rival governments, while sweeping the atrocities committed by allies under the rug. Because of its lucrative petrodollar deal with the US, and because its opaque and unaccountable monarchy makes it capable of nefarious maneuvers to advance geopolitical agendas that an ostensible democracy would have a hard time getting away with, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is one of America’s most important allies. And the plutocrat-owned media, whose controllers have a vested interest in protecting the establishment upon which their kingdoms are built, consistently fall right in line with that same State Department policy.
This, and the fact that the control of a key strategic region is at stake, is why we’ve been seeing the Saudi war crimes in Yemen and the US facilitation thereof downplayed for years by the mass media. And they would surely remain downplayed indefinitely were it possible.
But it wasn’t possible. The story kept getting pushed toward mainstream consciousness year after year, and eventually the fact that an outlet which upholds itself as the flag bearer of Trump’s opposition has been completely ignoring this administration’s facilitation of war crimes was made viral. At a certain point a Dem-voting audience which is being told day in and day out that Trump presents a unique and unprecedented level of danger to the world will lose trust in the outlets which market themselves to that demographic if they refuse to make a big deal about the fact that this administration is helping tyrants murder busloads of children.
For this reason, western mainstream media have been forced to finally report on the cruelty being inflicted upon the people of Yemen by Saudi Arabia and its allies in order to avoid losing credibility. The story got out, and the story about their lack of coverage of that story got out, and now they’re all reporting on it like they’ve been doing so this entire time. Which, if it continues, will make it very difficult for the US/UK/Saudi war machine to retain the consent of the governed for its mass slaughter.
In my opinion, we can safely call this a win for alternative media. The voices who aren’t beholden to the empire and its geopolitical agendas refused to let this story die, and eventually succeeded in overtaking the dominant narrative. Not because media-controlling oligarchs like Brian L Roberts and Jeff Bezos gave them permission to, but because unauthorized truth was spoken and carried by many ordinary people into mainstream consciousness via Facebook shares, Twitter retweets and speaking out loud and proud wherever possible. A people’s information battle was fought and won by the people.
If things go as I am hoping they will go, we will see more and more such populist hijackings of dominant narratives in the future, and ultimately a failure of the oligarchs to continue manufacturing consent for their omnicidal, ecocidal, Orwellian agendas. We will have to be aggressive, we will have to be creative, and we will have to be interesting enough to catch the eye of the casual citizenry, but the fact that trust in the mass media is at an all-time low and our ability to network and share information is at an all-time high combines with the fact that we have truth on our side to create some very exciting possibilities. I find this all very encouraging.
** Marokko zou deel uitmaken van de coalitie, ook volgens de alternatieve media, echter de laatste 6 maanden heb ik die bewering niet één keer teruggezien, tot Johnstone het weer noemde in haar artikel. Enig onderzoek toont aan dat dit inderdaad zo is. Verder bestaat de Saoedische terreurcoalitie uit de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten, Egypte en uiteraard S-A. ‘Leuk’ voor de Marokkanen die straks weer met dienstplicht te maken krijgen, waarna ze mee mogen doen aan de genocide die in Jemen plaatsvindt……. (deze smerige oorlog zal voorlopig nog doorgaan…..) Zie ook: ‘Pentagon: nieuwe geheime operatie voor steun aan Saoedische coalitie die genocide uitvoert in Jemen……‘
Uit nieuw onderzoek van Associated Press (AP) blijkt dat Al Qaida in veel gevallen samenwerkt met de Saoedische terreurcoalitie in hun strijd tegen de sjiitische bevolking van Jemen, een strijd die is uitgelopen op een zich voltrekkende genocide……
De VS werkt op grote schaal samen met de Saoedische coalitie, coördineert de bombardementen, voorziet de straaljagers en bommenwerpers in de lucht van brandstof en werkt al langere tijd met militairen af en aan op Jemenitische bodem, ook helpt de VS mee aan de zeeblokkade van Houthi gebieden zodat humanitaire goederen amper de geplaagde bevolking bereiken……. Anders gezegd: de VS is een volwaardig deelnemer aan de genocide die wordt uitgevoerd op de sjiitische bevolking van Jemen…..* Uit dat laatste kan je concluderen dat de VS ook in Jemen Al Qaida steunt (eerder was dit al het geval in Syrië, waar deze afdeling van Al Qaida zelfs van de zwarte terreurlijst werd gehaald, de terreurlijst die de VS hanteert….)….
De VS zou ‘juist’ de terreur bestrijden zo luidde de leugen tot nu toe (dat dit een leugen was, kon je al tussen de regels door lezen in rapportages over de acties van de VS in Jemen, waar niet Al Qaida of IS werden bestookt, maar de Houthi’s die de sjiitische bevolking zoveel mogelijk probeert te beschermen en waar deze rebellen eerder al met succes IS en Al Qaida bestreden in Jemen. Het voorgaande was zelfs de reden voor Saoedi-Arabië om de opgestapte president Al-Hadi onder druk te zetten, zijn presidentschap weer op te nemen, zodat hij S-A om militaire steun kon vragen……..
Mensen het lijkt er goddomme wel op of men steeds minder moeite doet om smerige zaken als deze te verbergen, immers ook zonder het rapport van AP was het al duidelijk dat de VS vooral met Jemen bezig is vanwege het grote aantal sjiieten in dat land en wegens de strategische ligging van Jemen…..
Andrea Germanos, de schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel, trapt zelf in het cliché als zij stelt dat de sjiieten in Jemen zijn gelieerd aan Iran… De enige link met Iran is het geloof, de sjiitische vorm van islam. Voorts heeft Iran als één van de weinigen humanitaire goederen naar de bevolking van Jemen gestuurd: wie kan daar tegen zijn? Ja wie kan daar tegen zijn, zeker als je ziet dat de rest van de wereld alweer wegkijkt bij een gaande zijnde genocide…… Ondanks de voorgaande feiten blijven de VS en S-A beweren dat Iran wapens en munitie levert aan de Houthi’s en dat dit land daadwerkelijk mee zou vechten in Jemen, echter voor deze beschuldigingen die al meer dan 2 jaar aanhouden, is nog steeds geen flinter bewijs geleverd…..
Bombshell AP Report: The US Is Now Allied With al-Qaeda in Yemen
New AP investigation reveals the Saudi coalition “cut deals” with al-Qaeda in Yemen.
(CD) — As the United States continues to fuel Yemen’s worsening humanitarian crisis, and boast that it’s targeting al Qaeda in the impoverished nation (AQAP) with airstrikes, new reporting reveals that the U.S.- and U.K-backed Saudi coalition waging a bombing campaign there is recruiting al Qaeda fighters to join its ranks, and paying off the extremists to leave areas.
Soon after the Saudi-led coalition, with the United Arab Emirates being a key partner, began its bombing campaign in Yemen against the Houthi rebels in 2015, it was reported that al Qaeda militants were fighting on the same side as the Saudi militia to defeat the Iran-linked Houthis.
The new Associated Press investigation, however, reveals that the coalition has made “secret deals with al-Qaeda fighters, paying some to leave key cities and towns and letting others retreat with weapons, equipment, and wads of looted cash.”
Beyond that, the “coalition-backed militias actively recruit al-Qaeda militants,” APfound, based on on-the-ground reporting including interviews with members of al Qaeda, tribal mediators, Yemeni security officers, and militia commanders.
The earliest such deal took place in the spring of 2016 when “thousands of al-Qaeda fighters … pull out[ed] of Mukalla,” a port city. From AP:
“The militants were guaranteed a safe route out and allowed to keep weapons and cash looted from the city—up to $100 million by some estimates—according to five sources, including military, security, and government officials. […]
“Coalition-backed forces moved in two days later, announcing that hundreds of militants were killed and hailing the capture as ‘part of joint international efforts to defeat the terrorist organizations in Yemen.’”
A similar deal took place soon after in the province of Abyan. Again, the fighters would not be targeted with drone strokes as part of the deal, which also included a provision for hundreds of al Qaeda fighters the join the ranks of the UAE-backed Yemeni force there.
“There is no evidence that American money went to AQAP militants,” AP reported, yet the U.S. does provide the coalition with key military assistance including air refueling and intelligence.
Responding to new investigation on Twitter, Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), said, “This is what the U.S. gets when its foreign policy is not based on its national interest, but driven by transactional deals with Arab allies who in turn have no problem allying with Al-Qaeda. Through Saudi & UAE, the U.S. is now allied with al-Qaeda in Yemen.”
Michael Horton, a fellow at the Jamestown Foundation, told AP, “It is now almost impossible to untangle who is AQAP and who is not since so many deals and alliances have been made,” and dubbed the coalition’s war on al Qaeda largely a “farce.”
The latest reporting sheds new light on the failed war on terror, as fighters in what’s called al Qaeda’s most dangerous branch are leaving areas unscathed and with greater money resources. It also follows Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) warning last year that, in the eyes of Yemenis, the coalition’s anti-Houthi bombing campaign “is seen as a U.S.-Saudi bombing campaign. And so the long-term effect of this is that we are radicalizing potentially millions of Yemenis against the United States.”
The plight of Yemenis suffering the catastrophic fallout of the proxy war, meanwhile, remains largely ignored by corporate media and most mainstream outlets.
=========================== AQAP staat voor Al Qaida Jemen, ofwel: Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
* Overigens, ook Groot-Brittannië werkt mee aan die genocide, dit door levering aan Saoedi-Arabië van wapens, munitie en militaire hardware, dus rollend, varend en vliegend oorlogstuig….. Daarnaast traint GB Saoedische militairen…….. Zie ook: ‘Saoedische aanval op schoolbus in Jemen: 43 kinderen vermoord……‘
CounterPunch bracht afgelopen vrijdag een door Paul Street geschreven artikel over Jemen en het verschil in verontwaardiging en ondernomen acties tegen het scheiden van vluchtelingen en hun kinderen door de VS overheid…. Kinderen die families meenamen op hun vlucht voor een in een groot aantal gevallen geweld dat op de één of andere manier is verbonden met de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde >> de VS…. Dit afgezet tegen de ontbrekende aandacht voor het grote aantal kinderen dat al is omgekomen bij de door de VS en GB gesteunde genocide van de Saoedische coalitie op de sjiitische bevolking van Jemen……..
Ongelofelijk dat men wel terecht flink pissig wordt over het afnemen van kinderen van hun ouders door de overheid van de VS, die deze kinderen heeft ontvoerd; terwijl men wegkijkt van een genocide aan de andere kant van de aarde, waar NB de VS meehelpt aan en de regie voert over een genocide, die volgens Save the Children alleen in 2017 al naar schatting aan zo’n 50.000 kinderen het leven moet hebben gekost…….. (ofwel vermoord door de Saoedische coalitie, de VS en Groot-Brittannië, de laatste heeft als de VS ook een fikse steen bijgedragen aan de massamoord in Jemen….)
Overigens schunnig ook dat de EU en Nederland nog steeds goede banden onderhouden met de (terroristische) reli-fascistische dictatuur van Saoedi-Arabië, om als Nederlander je ogen voor uit je hoofd te schamen……
Lees het volgende artikel en geeft het ajb door! (er moet onmiddellijk een eind gemaakt worden aan de genocide die de VS, Saoedi-Arabië en anderen uitvoeren in Jemen en de daders moeten worden vervolgd door het Internationaal Strafhof!!)
Hundreds of thousands of people showed up across the United States at more than 600 gatherings three weeks ago. They came out to protest Donald Trump‘s “zero tolerance” immigration policy in highly choreographed, Democratic Party-affiliated “Families Belong Together” rallies and marches. Liberal celebrities marched and spoke. Local, state, and federal Democratic Party politicians and office-holders gave passionate speeches denouncing Trump’s separation of Central American migrant children from their parents at the southern U.S. border.
Marchers carried signs expressing their concern for children and families. Here are some of the messages written on the posters displayed at these gatherings:
“We care”
“I Raise my Voice Not so I can Shout but So that Those Without a Voice Can be Heard”
“Do All Lives Still Matter?”
“What Would Mr. Rogers Say?”
“Compassion”
(The issue that sparked this remarkable outpouring has already been pushed off the front pages and the cable news headlines by the resurgent RussiaGate story, brought to new intensity by Trump’s “spectacular debacle” alongside Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland. It is a victim of the all-powerful “now we see you, now we don’t” U.S. news cycle – this even as nearly two-thirdsof the migrant children criminally separated have yet to be reunited with their parents and as evidence emerges that the Trump administration intended for the family separations to be permanent.)
“Emaciated Babies”: 50,000 Yemeni Children May Have Died in 2017
We have yet to learn of any large and widespread U.S. demonstrations on behalf of the children and families of Yemen, where the U.S. is deeply complicit in the creation of a situation that “looks,” in the words of the United Nations’ humanitarian chief, “like the Apocalypse.” UNICEF reported last year that a child dies from preventable causes on the average of once every 10 minutes in Yemen.
As the Associated Press (AP) reported last May, roughly 3 million Yemeni women and children are “acutely malnourished; another 400,000 children are fighting for their lives.” Further:
“Nearly a third of Yemen’s population — 8.4 million of its 29 million people — rely completely on food aid or else they would starve. That number grew by a quarter over the past year…Aid agencies warn that parts of Yemen could soon start to see widespread death from famine. More and more people are reliant on aid that is already failing to reach people. …It is unknown how many have died, since authorities are not able to track cases. Save the Children late last year estimated that 50,000 children may have died in 2017 of extreme hunger or disease (emphasis added), given that up to 30 percent of children with untreated cases of severe acute malnutrition die.”
The AP told the heartbreaking story of Umm Mizrah and her children, tragic drops in the bucket of what could become one of the biggest humanitarian catastrophes of the last half-century:
“The young mother stepped onto the scale for the doctor. Even with all her black robes on, she weighed only 84 pounds …The doctor’s office is covered with dozens of pictures of emaciated babies who have come through Al-Sadaqa Hospital in Aden …Mothers like Umm Mizrah…skip meals, sleep to escape the gnawing in their stomachs. They hide bony faces and emaciated bodies in voluminous black abaya robes and veils…The doctor asked the mother to get back on the scale holding her son, Mizrah. At 17 months, he was 5.8 kilograms (12.8 pounds) — around half the normal weight for his age. He showed all the signs of ‘severe acute malnutrition,’ the most dire stage of hunger. His legs and feet were swollen, he wasn’t getting enough protein. When the doctor pressed a finger into the skin of his feet, the indentation lingered.”
Things have gotten worse in the last two and half months. According to Lisa Grande, head of the UN humanitarian effort in Yemen, “8.5 million people that we describe as being pre-famine… when they wake up in the morning, they have no idea if they will eat that day…by the end of this year, another 10 million Yemenis will be in that situation.”
Two and a half weeks ago, special PBS correspondent Jane Ferguson related the plight of Maimona Shaghadar, who “suffers the agony of starvation in silence. No longer able to walk or talk, at 11 years old, little Maimona’s emaciated body weighs just 24 pounds…Every day,” a nurse told Ferguson in a remote Yemen hospital, medical personnel “see these sorts of cases.”
Cholera, a prominent 19th-century disease, has become epidemic there, thanks to the collapse of water sanitation. Cholera has already killed thousands of Yemeni civilians, children especially, and a million Yemenis are currently infected. Yemen is now home to what Ferguson calls “the worst cholera outbreak in modern history. Now every time the rains comes, people fall ill.”
“American Made”
The cause? In “mainstream” U.S. media, the Yemeni children and families suffering this near “apocalypse” are victims of a three-year-old war between Yemen’s Iran-backed Shiite Houthi rebels who hold the country’s north, and a Saudi Arabian-led coalition, armed and backed by the United States. But there is little evidence of significant Iranian involvement in Yemen. The desperately poor nation’s “civil war” is a remarkably one-sided affair in which the world’s only Superpower (the United States) has been providing critical support for what amounts to the crucifixion of millions of innocent children and families. Combined with a vicious economic blockade, the US-Saudi coalition’s relentless bombing campaign has collapsed Yemen’s economy, leaving two-thirds of the population to depend outside on food aid for survival. The air onslaughts have devastated much of Yemen’s basic infrastructure so that more than half the population lacks access to safe drinking water – the key cause of the cholera epidemic. In a recent trip deep into Yemen’s countryside, Ferguson found a Doctors Without Borders cholera treatment center that had been crushed into rubble by a U.S.-Saudi airstrike the day before – an obvious war crime. “It was just about to open its doors to patients,” Ferguson reports.
Ferguson spoke to Dr. Ali Al Motaa, a Yemeni college professor who did his doctorate in the US. “The missiles that kill us,” Motaa said, “American-made. The planes that kill us, American-made. The tanks, Abrams, American-made. You are saying to me, where is America? America is the whole thing.”
By Ferguson’s account, from deep inside rebel-controlled territory:
“The aerial bombing campaign has not managed to dislodge the rebels, but has hit weddings, hospitals and homes. The U.S. military supports the Saudi coalition with logistics and intelligence. The United States it also sells the Saudis and coalition partners many of the bombs they drop on Yemen. In the mountains outside the capital, we gained exclusive access to the site where the Houthis store unexploded American-made bombs, like this 2000-pound Mark 84 bomb made in Garland, Texas. It landed in the middle of the street in the capital, we are told.”
That was before he U.S.-Saudi forces, with the Trump administration’s approval, decided to launch an offensive against the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, through which almost all the food and medicine coming into Houthi-held Yemen passes. As Al Jazeera reported three days ago, the UN is warning that “the humanitarian crisis in Yemen is worsening as tens of thousands of families are displaced by the Saudi-UAE coalition offensive to retake the strategic port city….the relentless air raids and lack of aid are making an already dire humanitarian crisis even worse for the civilians who live in the region….tens of thousands of families have been displaced from Hodeidah as a result of the fierce fighting.
The U.S. is involved in direct as well as indirect assault on Yemen. Yemen was home to the first known U.S. drone attack outside Afghanistan in 2002. Hundreds of U.S. drone and other airstrikes have targeted Yemen since 2009.
Trump drew his first military blood in Yemen. U.S. Navy special forces carried out a raid—planned by the Obama administration and handed off to the incoming Trump team—that killed 25 civilians, including 10 children in the mountainous Yakla region of Yemen’s Al Bayda province. One of the children killed was an 8-year-old girl, Nawar al-Awlaki, daughter of the Islamist preacher Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed on Barack Obama’s orders in a September 2011 U.S. drone strike in Yemen. Nawar’s older brother, 16-year-old Abdulrahman, was killed in a second Obama-commanded drone strike soon afterward.
Trump’s continuation of the U.S. slaughter of al-Awlaki’s children was consistent with his campaign claim that he would kill the relatives of terrorist suspects—a war crime. “The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families; when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families,” Trump pronounced on Fox News in December 2015.
A PBS NewsHour report earlier this month describes the Yemen tragedy as a “man-made” catastrophe. A more historically specific characterization would be “Empire-made” or “Washington-made.” As Bill Van Auken accurately reported on the World Socialist Web Site five weeks ago:
“This total war against an entire population…would be impossible without the uninterrupted support—military and political—of US imperialism since its outset…The US, together with its main NATO allies the UK and France, has supplied the planes, warships, bombs, missiles and shells used to devastate Yemen and slaughter its people. In his eight years in office, President Barack Obama presided over some $115 billion in arms sales to the monarchical dictatorship in Riyadh. The Trump administration, which has sought to forge an anti-Iran axis with Saudi Arabia, the other reactionary Gulf oil sheikhdoms and Israel, has touted arms deals with Riyadh that potentially would amount to $110 billion.”
“The Pentagon has given direct and indispensable aid to the Saudi-led onslaught, providing midair refueling for the planes that bomb Yemeni civilians, staffing a joint command center in Riyadh with US intelligence and logistics officers and reinforcing the Saudi-UAE blockade of the country with American warships. Recently, US Green Berets have been deployed with Saudi ground forces to assist in their anti-Yemen operations. Under the banner of the ‘war on terror,’ the Pentagon is waging its own air war in Yemen, conducting at least 130 air and drone strikes in 2017, quadruple the number in 2016…The Trump administration gave the go-ahead for the current siege of Hodeidah Pentagon officials have reported that US officers are helping to select targets in the port city.”
Historical Continuities
The Trump administration’s funding and equipping of the savage war on Yemen shares three key characteristics with the “zero tolerance” immigration policy that Trump was recently forced to (partially and haltingly) rescind. First, it unconscionably uses innocent children and families as hostages and pawns in the advance of White House policy goals.
Second, it is richly consistent with U.S. policy stretching far back in history (see this on the long U.S. record of family separation and thison the long U.S. history of directly and indirectly attacking and killing children and other civilians in foreign nations).
Third, it is consistent with Barack Obama’s record. The Obama administration backed the Saudi-led Arab assault on Yemen. It also (as few marching against Trump’s border policy seem to know or care) responded to Central American migration and asylum-seeking with a policy of aggressive deterrence and detention – a policy that included the caging of children.
Why No Mass Marches for Yemeni Children?
Clearly the murder of tens of thousands of (Yemeni) children is a bigger crime than the undoubted transgression of traumatically if (hopefully temporarily) separating 2300 Central American children form their migrant parents. Why don’t hundreds of thousands of U.S.-Americans march on behalf of Yemeni children and families killed, maimed, starved, sickened, and otherwise placed at grave risk by Washington and its Arab allies?
Differences of geographical proximity and familiarity are part of the explanation. Equally if not more significant: the dominant U.S media’s systematic under-reporting of U.S, imperial aggression in the Middle East; that media’s portrayal of is the Yemen war as a regional Sunni-Shia and Saudi-Iranian conflict in which the U.S. is only peripherally involved; the Yemeni victims’ status as Muslim Others who are linked in the dominant U.S. media and politics culture with the officially U.S,- and Israel-demonized state of Iran (a nation that all too unmentionably looks like a model of democracy, social justice, and women’s rights in comparison to its regional arch-enemy and Washington’s “good friend” the absolutist and arch-reactionary state of Saudi Arabia). For these and other reasons, the Democratic Party establishment sees no political advantage in confronting Trump on U.S. Yemen policy, a policy in which both reigning U.S. political parties are deeply complicit.
Eric Zuesse heeft een artikel geplaatst op de Strategic Culture Foundation, waarin hij ten overvloede (maar volkomen terecht) stelt dat de VS, met hulp van NAVO lidstaten Groot-Brittannië en Frankrijk, dood en verderf zaait in landen waar het niets te zoeken heeft…… (landen in het Midden-Oosten, waar ik in dit geval ook Libië en Afghanistan toe reken) Door deze grootschalige terreur zijn enorme stromen vluchtelingen op gang gekomen, vluchtelingen die hun heil zoeken in Europa en dan m.n. in de EU, niet alleen omdat dit de meest dichtstbijzijnde plek is waar men de oorlog definitief achter zich kan laten, maar ook omdat de VS botweg weigert vluchtelingen uit het Midden-Oosten op te nemen….. Dit was overigens in iets mindere mate al zo onder de Obama regering…..
Zuesse wijst op de leugens die het westerse publiek (inclusief het Nederlandse) dagelijks op haar bord geserveerd krijgt, zoals de leugens dat landen als Afghanistan, Irak, Libië en Syrië, een gevaar vormen voor hun veiligheid…… Een leugen zo doortrapt, dat ze zelfs een volkomen omdraaiing van feiten is, immers de grootschalige westerse terreur in het Midden-Oosten zorgt juist voor terreur op de straten van vooral de EU…….
De hiervoor genoemde landen, vier landen kunnen zelfs amper worden gezien als een gevaar voor de hen omringende landen, waar alleen Irak als agressor kan worden aangewezen, dan wijs ik vooral op de oorlog van Irak tegen Iran in de 80er jaren, waar deze vooral de VS goed uitkwam, sterker nog: de VS heeft destijds Saddam Hoessein opgejut Iran aan te vallen….. Nederland onderhield ook goede banden met Saddam Hoessein, zo kon VVD plork Bolkestein een exportvergunning afgeven voor de levering van onderdelen tot het bereiden van gifgas, iets waarvoor hij destijds uit en te na werd gewaarschuwd door deskundigen, daarmee is deze Bolkestein een enorme oorlogsmisdadiger!
Lees dit uitstekende artikel waarin Zuesse gedetailleerd uitlegt hoe VS bemoeienissen hebben geleid tot de dood van alleen deze eeuw al ruim meer dan 2 miljoen slachtoffers, die in feite werden vermoord door de VS, met hulp van een aantal NAVO landen, waaronder Nederland….. (waar niet vergeten dient te worden dat de NAVO een speeltje is van de VS, zo liet het beest Trump de afgelopen dagen nog eens fijntjes zien tijdens de NAVO top in Brussel…..)
America Bombs, Europe Gets the Refugees. That’s Evil
The US Government (with France and a few other US allies) bombs Libya, Syria, etc.; and the US regime refuses to accept any of the resulting refugees — the burdens from which are now breaking the EU, and the EU is sinking in economic competition against America’s international corporations. America’s corporations remain blithely unscathed by not only the refugees that are breaking up the EU, but also by the EU’s economic sanctions against Russia, Iran, and other allies of governments that the US regime is trying to overthrow in its constant invasions and coups. The US Government makes proclamations such as “Assad must go!” — but by what right is the US Government involved, at all, in determining whom the leaders in Syria will be? Syria never invaded the US In fact, Syria never invaded anywhere (except, maybe, Israel, in order to respond against Israel’s invasions). Furthermore, all polling, even by Western pollsters, shows that Bashar al-Assad would easily win any free and fair election in Syria. The US Government claims to support democracy, but it does the exact opposite whenever they want to get rid of a Government that is determined to protect that nation’s sovereignty over its own national territory, instead of to yield it to the US regime, or to any other foreigners. The US regime has virtually destroyed the United Nations.
The US regime, and its allies, have used the Muslim Brotherhood, in order to recruit into Syria the 100,000+ jihadists from around the world to fight to overthrow Syria’s secular Government. Even the BBC’s 13 December 2013 detailed report, “Guide to the Syrian rebels”, made clear that the “Syrian Rebels” were, in fact, overwhelmingly jihadist and largely recruited from abroad. These were hardly democrats. Even a Tony-Blair-founded anti-Assad NGO’s study concluded that “Sixty per cent of major Syrian rebel groups are Islamist extremists” (not just “Islamists” but “Islamist extremists”) and yet the Blair outfit still supported the overthrow of the committed secularist Assad (just as Blair had earlier participated himself in the US regime’s destruction of Iraq).
America is no actual ally of Europe. The Marshall Plan is long-since finished, and America has been taken over by psychopaths who are Europe’s main enemies, not Europe’s friends, at all. (They’re friends of some European aristocracies, but not of any European public, not of even merely one public.)
Iran and Russia should be Europe’s allies — they didn’t cause any of Europe’s problems. America did. America’s intelligence agencies tapped (and probably still tap) the phones of Germany’s Chancellor and practically everybody else, and yet the US regime has the gall to blame Russia for interfering in the political affairs of European countries. If that isn’t the pot calling the kettle ‘black’, then what is? If anything, the EU’s sanctions should be against doing business with American firms — not against doing business with Russian firms, or with Iranian firms. European politicians who support the US support Europe’s top enemy.
Russia is, itself, a European country, which additionally traverses much of Asia, but America is no European country, at all, and yet now is so brazen as to demand that Europe must do America’s bidding — not only against Russia, but also against the Sauds’ main target, which is Iran (the same main target as Israel’s).
Why are Europeans not asking themselves: Who is Europe’s enemy in all of this — what causes this refugee-crisis? The refugees certainly didn’t.
It’s not Russia, and it’s not Iran, and it’s not China; it is America — which is the true enemy of them all, and of us all — including even of the American people ourselves, because the US Government no longer actually represents the American people. These invasions, and military occupations, and coups, do not serve America’s public; they serve America’s aristocracy. The US is no longer (if it ever was) a democracy. The US Government now is the US aristocracy — not the US public. It’s a dictatorship. And, it has the type of ‘news’media that any dictatorship has.
On June 30th, the US aristocracy’s New York Times headlined “Bavaria: Affluent, Picturesque — and Angry”, and reported “the new angry center of Europe, the latest battleground for populists eager to bring down both Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and the idea of a liberal Europe itself.” Their elitist (pro-US-aristocracy) ‘reporter’ (actually propagandist) interviewed ‘experts’ who condemn Europe’s politicians that are trying to assuage their own public’s anger against the EU’s open-door policy regarding this flood of refugees from what is actually, for the most part, the US regime’s (and its allies’) bombings — air-support of the boots-on-the-ground jihadist mercenaries. The combination of this air-support, and of the jihadists, has been the backbone of the US-Saudi-Israeli effort to overthrow and replace Syria’s Government.
Libya was a similar case, but was only friendly toward Russia, not allied with Russia, as both Syria and Iran are.
So: the Times was secretly (and they didn’t include any links to help online readers know who was actually funding their ‘experts’, at all) pumping NATO propaganda, as if it were authentic and neutral news-reporting, instead of craven service to the US aristocracy that controls the US Government and its NATO military alliance. This is the New York Times, itself, that is “rewriting recent history.” That’s how they do it — constantly (as ‘news’).
And here is some of that “recent history” the Times is “rewriting” (by simply omitting to so much as even just suggest, but which is essential backgound in order to understand the real history behind this important matter):
House of Commons, Research Paper 01/50, 2 May 2001
“European Security and Defence Policy: Nice and Beyond”
pp. 47-48:
On 7 February 2001 the Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, emphasised the ESDP’s [European Security and Defence Policy’s] tie to NATO during a press interview, following his meeting in Washington with US National Security Adviser, Condoleeza Rice. He said:
I have stressed that the European Security Initiative will strengthen the capacity of Europe to contribute to crisis management and therefore is welcome to a Washington that is interested in fairer burden sharing, and that Washington can be confident that Britain will insist that the European Security Initiative is firmly anchored on NATO. We are both determined to see that happen, we are both determined to make sure that the European Security Initiative carries out its promise to strengthen the North Atlantic Alliance.119
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Though the Sauds, and also Israel’s aristocracy, are mainly anti-Iran, the US aristocracy are obsessed with their goal of conquering Russia. Since Iran, and Syria, are both allied with Russia, the US regime is trying to overthrow those Russia-allied Governments, before going in for the kill, against Russia itself. That’s what all of these economic sanctions, and the bombings and the backing of Al Qaeda for overthrowing Syria’s Government, are really all about.
Is this what today’s Europeans want their Governments to be doing — and doing it for that reason, the US aristocracy’s reason? Despite the huge harms it is certainly causing to Europeans?
As the world’s greatest blogger, the former UK Ambassador (but too honest to stay in that business) Craig Murray, recently said under the headline, “No Trump, No Clinton, No NATO”: “The destruction of Libya’s government and infrastructure directly caused the Mediterranean boat migrant crisis, which has poisoned the politics of much of the European Union.” But, of course, the US regime and its allies have also destroyed other countries than that — and thus caused refugees to Europe from many nations. And, finally, even the US Government (though as quietly as possible) acknowledges that it has destroyed Afghanistan. Ironically, that’s the very nation where America and the Sauds, in 1979, had started their war against all Governments that won’t buckle to them.
Furthermore, the US regime intends to keep it up. In case a reader might happen to think that, surely, the US regime and its allies are going to quit this rousing of hornets’ nests; Sharmine Narwani, who is one of the very few non-“embedded” journalists who reports in The West about — and (which the mainstream ones don’t) from — the war in Syria, headlined, on June 25th, “Are al-Qaeda Affiliates Fighting Alongside US Rebels in Syria’s South?” and she found that the answer to this question is a resounding yes:
Despite its US and UN designation as a terrorist organization, Nusra [Al Qaeda’s main name in Syria] has been openly fighting alongside the “Southern Front,” a group of 54 opposition militias funded and commanded by a US-led war room based in Amman, Jordan called the Military Operations Center (MOC). …
Sources inside Syria — both opposition fighters and Syrian military brass (past and present) — suggest the command center consists of the US, UK, France, Jordan, Israel, and some Persian Gulf states. … In practice, the US doesn’t appear to mind the Nusra affiliation — regardless of the fact that the group is a terror organization — as long as the job gets done.
These wars, which pour Middle Eastern (and also Ukrainian*) refugees into the EU, are inter-aristocratic conflicts reflecting inter-aristocratic competitions; and the publics everywhere suffer enormously from them. The gainers from it are very few but very rich (and they hire very powerful agents in Europe and elsewhere). Those billionaire gainers, and their agents, should be Europe’s targets — not Russia and Iran. NATO must end now. Europe needs to be freed, at last, from America’s permanent-war-for permanent-‘peace’ grip. For Europeans, who are the indirect victims, to be blaming the refugees, who are the direct victims, won’t solve anything, but will simply please the victimizers, as is the public’s ancient habit (to please the powerful). A break must be made, away from that ugly past. European publics must lead the way, or no one will.
PS: Since this article asserts such a large number of things that contradict what the US Government and its agents assert, I have sought out and here linked to the highest-quality, least-contested and most highly authenticated, sources and also to sources that link to such sources; all of which, taken together, constitute a book-length proof of the title-case here, that “America Bombs, Europe Gets the Refugees. That’s Evil.” Furthermore, this online virtual “book” is tracking back to the most unimpeachable documents, all of them available merely by means of clicking, and thus without the reader’s needing to visit a huge scholarly library (which might be quite distant); so, the reader can here easily branch out to this entire, and otherwise largely hidden, world of reliable sources, which the US regime wants the public not to know, and certainly not to understand. It’s no longer necessary to be an intelligence-professional in order to come to understand what the regime wants the public not to understand.
* Kleine vergissing: de Oekraïners die Oost-Oekraïne ontvluchten vanwege de bombardementen van het Oekraïense leger (voor het grootste deel bevolkt met neonazi’s), vluchten niet naar de EU, maar naar Rusland. (ze zouden al worden vermoord, voordat ze de westgrens van Oekraïne bereikten…..)
Saoedi-Arabië geeft toe gruwelijke oorlogsmisdaden te hebben begaan in Jemen en nog onderneemt men geen stappen tegen deze bloederige dictatuur, die schunnig genoeg door de reguliere westerse media, het grootste deel van de westerse politici en zelfs door Wikipedia wordt aangeduid als ‘koninkrijk…..’ Bovendien wordt S-A door diezelfde media en politici regelmatig genoemd als bestrijder van terreur……
Nee, Saoedi-Arabië geeft haar gruwelijke oorlogsmisdaden natuurlijk niet letterlijk toe, oorlogsmisdaden waarvan verreweg de grootste wel het uitvoeren van een genocide is, een genocide op de sjiitische bevolking van Jemen…
Hele huizenblokken heeft de Saoedische coalitie onder regie en met hulp van de VS platgegooid, dit nog naast de vernieling van ziekenhuizen, scholen, energiecentrales, waterzuiveringsinstallaties en de infrastructuur in brede zin, zoals de riolering, waardoor een cholera uitbraak kon ontstaan…… (een cholera uitbraak die nog steeds een groot aantal slachtoffers maakt, een paar weken geleden bombardeerde Saoedi-Arabië nog een ziekenhuis dat net was opgeleverd, een ziekenhuis van Artsen zonder Grenzen en gespecialiseerd in cholera…..*)
Door de acties van de Saoediërs is er ook honger ontstaan in Jemen (weet je nog de landelijke actie eind maart vorig jaar?) en heeft het land sinds vorig jaar ook te kampen met een difterie uitbraak….. Ondanks dat blokkeert S-A met hulp van de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten (VAE) en de VS het door de Houthi’s beheerste gebied, waardoor humanitaire hulpgoederen niet of amper de zo onder terreur liggende bevolking bereiken…….
Terug naar de reden voor dit bericht: de reli-fascistische dictatuur van Saoedi-Arabië heeft besloten haar militairen niet te vervolgen voor de misdaden begaan tegen het sjiitische volk van Jemen, dit om de ‘heroïsche inzet’ van de militairen te vieren……. Hoe godvergeten cynisch wil je het hebben..???!!!! Jezus op een houtvlot!! Lullig genoeg heeft de Saoedische dictatuur het voor elkaar gekregen van de VN dat het zelf de wandaden van haar politie (ook in eigen land gaat S-A tekeer tegen sjiieten..) en het leger mag onderzoeken…… Terecht vraagt Jason Ditz zich in het hieronder opgenomen artikel af, wat de zin van zo’n onderzoek is, als je van tevoren al zegt niet te zullen vervolgen, sterker nog: deze militairen zelfs te zullen eren……. Wedden dat de VS en Israël, beiden als S-A terreurstaten, dit land hebben gesteund in haar eis aan de VN zelf onderzoek in te stellen? Als het Internationaal Strafhof (ICC) in Den Haag nu geen onderzoek instelt naar de genocide die S-A uitvoert op de sjiieten in Jemen, toont het voorgoed aan totaal overbodig en een lachertje te zijn!!
Saudi Arabia Issues Royal Pardon for Everything Soldiers Have Done in Yemen
The Saudi invasion of Yemen has been widely controversial internationally. Saudi airstrikes have killed massive numbers of Yemeni civilians, and the war has also caused a famine, and the largest cholera epidemic in human history.
Faced with UN criticism, Saudi officials heavily resisted allegations of wrongdoing, and ultimately got the UN to agree that Saudi Arabia would be allowed to investigate its own forces, and police themselves. This pardon shows none of that is going to matter.
It is unclear what prompted the pardon to be offered no, as the war shows no sign of ending, and there is no suggestion from official reports that the Saudis had punished any of their troops more than nominally for war crimes in the first place.
‘Zo ziet moderne oorlogspropaganda eruit’, luidt de kop boven een artikel van Caitlin Johnsone. Ze beschrijft hierin het grote aantal video’s, waarin heldhaftige jonge Iraanse moslim vrouwen ‘vechten’ voor hun vrijheid.
Johnstone wijst op het grote aantal malen dat deze video’s worden gedeeld door republikeinen en de pro-Israël lobby (plus: zionisten*), groepen die normaal gesproken totaal geen moeite hebben met de onderdrukking van vrouwen in islamitische landen, het gaat hier dan ook om Iraanse moslims (Iran is voor 89% sjiitisch) en niet om hun zwaar onderdrukte seksegenoten uit bijvoorbeeld Saoedi-Arabië (84% soennieten) of Egypte (93% soennieten)…….
Nee sterker nog: de reguliere westerse media en het grootste deel van de westerse politici roemen Mohammad bin Salman al-Saoed ofwel MBS, zoals men deze psychopathische moordenaar aanduidt, daar deze nieuwe machthebber in Saoedi-Arabië die vrouwen het recht heeft gegeven om auto te rijden, een wassen neus als je ziet hoe het er verder wat ‘vrouwenrechten’ voorstaat in S-A….. (die rechten zijn er niet.. Oh nee dom van mij: ze mogen nu autorijden, zodat ze mooi de boodschappen kunnen doen, als ‘manlief’ uit z’n neus zit te eten, of achter andere vrouwen aanzit….) Oh en voor ik het vergeet, deze MBS is tevens verantwoordelijk voor de genocide op de sjiitische bevolking van Jemen, waarin hij aan alle kanten wordt gesteund door de VS en GB, 2 NAVO lidstaten (al is de VS de feitelijke baas van de NAVO)……
In Iran mogen vrouwen al heel lang in auto’s rijden, echter dat schijnt niet van belang te zijn in het westen…. Ook het feit dat de huidige regering in Iran voorzichtig probeert de macht van de sjiitische leiders los te weken, hoeft amper of niet op westerse belangstelling te rekenen…..
Johnstone kan dan ook niet anders concluderen dan dat hier sprake is van oorlogspropaganda…… De voormalige staatssecretaris van BuZa in de VS, Rex Tillerson heeft een beleidsmedewerker, Brian Hook en deze stelde in een uitgelekt memorandum van de Trump administratie dat mensenrechten moeten worden gebruikt als knuppel om onwillige staten als Iran, Noord-Korea en China mee te slaan, terwijl de schending van mensenrechten moet worden toegestaan aan landen als Saoedi-Arabië, Egypte, de Filipijnen en Israël (al noemt Johnstone het laatste land niet in deze combinatie)………. In het memorandum is verder te lezen dat bondgenoten anders en beter moeten worden behandeld dan tegenstanders, daar je anders meer tegenstanders dan bondgenoten overhoudt……. (de VS was zelfs voor Saoedi-Arabië op de post van voorzitter van de VN Mensenrechtencommissie >> UNHRC)
Uit het voorgaande kan je ten overvloede nog eens destilleren dat men in de VS knettergek is en werkelijk denkt een wereldrijk te zijn, waar het naar goeddunken kan moorden en verder alles mag doen wat god verboden heeft (en dat voor een zwaar ‘christelijke’ natie…), zolang het maar in het belang is van dat rijk….
In feite is de VS werkelijk al lang het Vierde Rijk en heel wat succesvoller dan het Derde van Hitler in nazi-Duitsland….. Sinds WOII heeft de VS al meer dan 22 miljoen mensen vermoord**, dit feit zou toch een teken aan de wand moeten zijn voor zowel politici als de reguliere media in de rest van het westen……. Maar nee, de VS wordt afgeschilderd als de politieagent van de wereld, ook door de ten onrechte zo bejubelde rechtse zakkenwasser Henk Hofland…… Het maakt niet uit hoe de VS tekeergaat, de rest van het westen neemt gedwee de pet af en buigt eerbiedig het hoofd als de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde weer aan het moorden slaat in een volgend land……. Het artikel hierna komt van de site van Caitlin Johnstone (Rogue Journalist), lezen mensen en geeft het door, de wereld heeft allesbehalve een nieuwe oorlog nodig:
This Is What Modern War Propaganda Looks Like
ARTICLE JULY 5, 2018 AUTHOR: CAITLIN JOHNSTONE
I’ve been noticing videos going viral the last few days, some with millions of views, about Muslim women bravely fighting to free themselves from oppression in the Middle East. The videos, curiously, are being shared enthusiastically by many Republicans and pro-Israel hawks, who aren’t traditionally the sort of crowd you see rallying to support the civil rights of Muslims. What’s up with that?
Well, you may want to sit down for this shocker, but it turns out that they happen to be women from a nation that the US war machine is currently escalating operations against. They are Iranian.
Whenever you see the sudden emergence of an attractive media campaign that is sympathetic to the plight of civilians in a resource-rich nation unaligned with the western empire, you are seeing propaganda. When that nation is surrounded by other nations with similar human rights transgressions and yet those transgressions are ignored by that same media campaign, you are most certainly seeing propaganda. When that nation just so happens to already be the target of starvation sanctions and escalated covert CIA ops, you can bet the farm that you are seeing propaganda.
Back in December a memo was leaked from inside the Trump administration showing how then-Secretary of State, DC neophyte Rex Tillerson, was coached on how the US empire uses human rights as a pretense on which to attack and undermine noncompliant governments. Politico reports: The May 17 memo reads like a crash course for a businessman-turned-diplomat, and its conclusion offers a starkly realist vision: that the U.S. should use human rights as a club against its adversaries, like Iran, China and North Korea, while giving a pass to repressive allies like the Philippines, Egypt and Saudi Arabia”.
“Allies should be treated differently — and better — than adversaries. Otherwise, we end up with more adversaries, and fewer allies,” argued the memo, written by Tillerson’s influential policy aide, Brian Hook.
The propaganda machine doesn’t operate any differently from the State Department, since they serve the same establishment. US ally Saudi Arabia is celebrated by the mass media for “liberal reform” in allowing women to drive despite hard evidence that those “reforms” are barely surface-level cosmetics to present a pretty face to the western world, but Iranian women, who have been able to drive for years, are painted as uniquely oppressed. Iran is condemned by establishment war whores for the flaws in its democratic process, while Saudi Arabia, an actual monarchy, goes completely unscrutinized.
This is because the US-centralized power establishment, which has never at any point in its history cared about human rights, plans on effecting regime change in Iran by any means necessary. Should those means necessitate a potentially controversial degree of direct military engagement, the empire needs to make sure it retains control of the narrative.
Women in Iran are recording the abuse they suffer at the hands of men for not wearing religious clothing. May the good people of Iran free themselves from the shackles of the tyrannical mullah theocracy.
This is what war propaganda looks like in the era of social media. It will never look ugly. It will never directly show you its real intentions. If it did, it wouldn’t work. It can’t just come right out and say “Hey we need to do horrible, evil things to the people in this country on the other side of the world in your name using your resources, please play along without making a fuss.” It will necessarily look fresh and fun and rebellious. It will look appealing. It will look sexy.
And it’s working. I am currently getting tagged in these videos multiple times a day by Trump supporters who are eager to show me proof that I’m on the wrong side of the Iran issue; the psyop is so well-lubricated with a combination of sleek presentation and confirmation bias that it slides right past their skepticism and becomes accepted as fact, even the one with the Now This pussyhat propaganda logo in the corner.
Be less trusting of these monsters, please. The people of Afghanistan haven’t benefitted from the interminable military quagmire that has cost tens of thousands of their lives. The invaders of Iraq were never “greeted as liberators” by an oppressed population. The humanitarian intervention in Libya left a humanitarian catastrophe in its wake far more horrific than anything it claimed to be trying to prevent. Saving the children of Syria with western interventionism has left half a million Syrians dead.
If the Iranians do in fact wish to change their government, it should happen without crippling sanctions, collaboration with extremist terror cults, or the rapey tentacles of the CIA manipulating the situation. There has never been a US-led regime change in the Middle East that wasn’t disastrous. People should be screaming at the US and its allies to cease these interventions, not applauding propaganda that is clearly being manufactured by that same empire.
This is what war propaganda looks like in the era of social media. It will never look ugly. It will never directly show you its real intentions. If it did, it wouldn’t work. It can’t just come right out and say “Hey we need to do horrible, evil things to the people in this country on the other side of the world in your name using your resources, please play along without making a fuss.” It will necessarily look fresh and fun and rebellious. It will look appealing. It will look sexy.
And it’s working. I am currently getting tagged in these videos multiple times a day by Trump supporters who are eager to show me proof that I’m on the wrong side of the Iran issue; the psyop is so well-lubricated with a combination of sleek presentation and confirmation bias that it slides right past their skepticism and becomes accepted as fact, even the one with the Now This pussyhat propaganda logo in the corner.
Be less trusting of these monsters, please. The people of Afghanistan haven’t benefitted from the interminable military quagmire that has cost tens of thousands of their lives. The invaders of Iraq were never “greeted as liberators” by an oppressed population. The humanitarian intervention in Libya left a humanitarian catastrophe in its wake far more horrific than anything it claimed to be trying to prevent. Saving the children of Syria with western interventionism has left half a million Syrians dead.
If the Iranians do in fact wish to change their government, it should happen without crippling sanctions, collaboration with extremist terror cults, or the rapey tentacles of the CIA manipulating the situation. There has never been a US-led regime change in the Middle East that wasn’t disastrous. People should be screaming at the US and its allies to cease these interventions, not applauding propaganda that is clearly being manufactured by that same empire.
Het zal voor weinigen nog een verrassing zijn dat de gewelddadige psychopaat Pompeo een enorme schoft is die vaker liegt dan de waarheid spreekt. Het laatste ‘wapenfeit’ (althans voor zover ik weet) is zijn uiteenzetting over de gaande zijnde genocide in Jemen (een genocide die hij ‘als christen uiteraard’ niet zo noemt).
Ploert Pompeo durft de schuld voor de ellende van de bevolking in Jemen in de schoenen van Iran te schuiven, terwijl de enige bemoeienis van Iran met de dood voor ogen hebbende sjiitische bevolking in Jemen, het sturen van humanitaire hulpgoederen is……. Voor al de door de VS en Saoedi-Arabië gemaakte beschuldigingen aan het adres van Iran, dat het wapens, raketten en militaire training zou geven aan de Houthi rebellen, is tot op heden niet één bewijs geleverd, terwijl die beschuldigingen al een paar jaar lang worden gemaakt…….
De Saoedische coalitie die in feite een illegale oorlog voert tegen de Jemenitische sjiieten (onder regie en met hulp van de VS), heeft door haar bombardementen en blokkades gezorgd voor een gigantische cholera uitbraak waar, bovenop ook nog eens een grote difterie uitbraak plaatsvond en dat voor een bevolking die honger lijdt….. Ziekenhuizen, scholen, elektriciteitscentrales, waterzuiveringsinstallaties, en hele woonwijken werden door de Saoedische coalitie gebombardeerd, allen enorme oorlogsmisdaden!! Het laatste ziekenhuis dat door deze moorddadige coalitie werd gebombardeerd was een net afgebouwd ziekenhuis van Artsen zonder Grenzen, een ziekenhuis om de cholera uitbraak te bestrijden……
De VS tankt de straaljagers en bommenwerpers van deze Saoedische coalitie af in de lucht, zodat ze zo ‘efficiënt’ mogelijk hun moorddadig werk kunnen doen….. Voorts helpt de VS de Saoediërs mee met de blokkade op zee en vechten er met grote regelmaat VS speciale troepen op de grond in Jemen*, zogenaamd ingezet tegen IS, maar blijkbaar denkt de VS legerleiding dat de Houthi rebellen voor IS vechten, terwijl ze dondersgoed weten dat de Houthi’s juist erg succesvol waren in het bestrijden van IS en Al Qaida, die onderdak kregen in Jemen van de huidige ‘president’ Al-Hadi, voordat deze vrijwillig vertrok (S-A zette hem onder druk terug te keren zodat hij de Saoediërs te hulp kon roepen in de strijd tegen de Houthi rebellen en S-A met haar moorddadig werk tegen de sjiitische bevolking van Jemen en haar beschermers de Houthi rebellen kon beginnen….) Voorts levert de VS, als Groot-Brittannië, wapens, munitie (waaronder een tijdlang clusterbommen en sinds kort ook ‘slimme munitie’), training en militaire hardware als straaljagers en ander moorddadig wapentuig, aan de reli-fascistische dictatuur in Saoedi-Arabië……. (dit nog naast het adviseren van het Saoedische militaire apparaat, ofwel het regisseren en coördineren van bombardementen en gevechtsacties op de grond, door dezelfde VS…..)
Pompeo zou vervolgd moeten worden voor zijn enorme leugens (en oorlogshitserij), die voor velen zelfs een doodvonnis betekenden……. (waar men meteen even kan kijken voor welke moorden en andere smerige praktijken Pompeo als verantwoordelijk is aan te wijzen tijdens zijn functie als directeur van de CIA……..) Lees het volgende ontluisterend artikel van Daniel Larison (die overigens niet over een genocide spreekt, terwijl dat wel degelijk het geval is..), eerder gepubliceerd op The American Conservative:
#Iran’s support for Houthis in Yemen not only enables attacks on Saudi Arabia & UAE, but also risks increasing Yemen’s already massive humanitarian crisis. Ayatollah Khamenei must be held accountable for destabilizing Gulf’s security & prolonging suffering of the Yemeni people.
The administration has consistently focused on the small Iranian role in Yemen and exaggerated its importance while doing everything possible to cover for the Saudis and Emiratis at the same time that the U.S. has aided and abetted their bombing campaign and the many war crimes they have committed. Even now that the coalition is launching an offensive on the major port of Hodeidah that serves the vast majority of the population, the U.S. is not calling them out for their destabilizing and destructive activities. Instead of condemning the coalition for putting millions of Yemeni lives in jeopardy, the U.S. helps them to attack their impoverished neighbor. Instead of using its influence with these governments to rein in their abuses and alleviate the civilian population’s suffering, the U.S. gives them carte blanche, never criticizes them even when they massacre wedding-goers and refugees, and goes out of its way to fault one of the few governments in the region that isn’t attacking Yemen for the country’s miserable state. The humanitarian crisis in Yemen is the worst in the world, and the coalition blockade and bombing campaign are principal causes of that crisis. If the administration were even slightly concerned with addressing the suffering of Yemen’s people, it would not be providing weapons, intelligence, and refueling to the coalition, and it would be holding them accountable for their numerous and egregious war crimes and crimes against humanity. They aren’t concerned, and so they continue to support the war on Yemen no matter what the coalition does. Support for this war is indefensible, so it is no wonder that top U.S. officials have to try to distract the world from what our government is enabling in Yemen. It is the Saudi and Emirati governments along with ours and the coalition’s other Western patrons that need to be called out and held accountable for creating the disaster engulfing the people of Yemen. Daniel Larison is a senior editor at The American Conservative, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and is a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Dallas. Follow him on Twitter. This article is reprinted from The American Conservativewith permission. =================================== * Volgens zeggen zouden die troepen permanent in Jemen zijn, echter dat is moeilijk aan te tonen, daar men geen pottenkijkers wenst als het moorddadig werk, ofwel grootschalige terreur wordt uitgeoefend……… Zie ook: ‘Saoedische terreurcoalitie raakt alweer een bus met kinderen, dit keer tijdens een bombardement van een vluchtelingenkamp……..‘
Het zou niet meer moeten gebeuren dat ik m’n ogen niet geloof bij het lezen van een bericht, immers waar moet je heden ten dage nog van opkijken, zeker als het gaat over (illegale) oorlogsvoering en de tol in enorme aantallen doden die deze barbarij teweegbrengt……..
Gelukkig ben ik nog niet zo afgestompt en donder dan ook regelmatig van m’n stoel bij het lezen of horen van nieuws. Zoals gisteren toen ik het artikel van Jake Johnson op Anti-Media las: de VS heeft een grote deal gesloten met dictatuur Saoedi-Arabië (moet nog worden goedgekeurd in o.a. het Congres, maar dat zal zeker gebeuren) voor enorme leveringen van ‘slimme munitie’ waaronder een groot aantal ‘slimme bommen……’ Deels is deze munitie order ook voor de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten (VAE), die deel uitmaken van de Saoedische coalitie en die intussen ook delen van Jemen bezet houden…… Overigens is deze wapendeal één van meerdere deals die de VS (en Groot-Brittannië) jaarlijks uitleveren aan de reli-fascistische terreurstaat Saoedi-Arabië…….
Onlangs nog bombardeerde de Saoedische coalitie een bruiloft in Jemen >> 20 doden….. Geen reden voor de VS de samenwerking met Saoedi-Arabië op te zeggen, welnee er worden nog meer bommen geleverd zodat S-A de klus kan afmaken: het gebied van de Houthi rebellen totaal vernietigen…….. Dat zou tevens ‘de vervolmaking’ zijn van de genocide die S-A uitvoert op de sjiitische bevolking van Jemen………..
Waar blijven de hypocriete reguliere westerse media en westerse politici met commentaar op deze uiterst smerige zaak???? Nogmaals het gaat hier om een genocide die wordt uitgevoerd tegen de sjiitische bevolking van Jemen!! Dat zouden we na Rwanda toch nooit meer ‘over onze kant laten gaan??’ Blijkbaar tellen de Jemenieten niet als mensen, al helemaal niet als ze sjiitisch zijn…….
Walgelijk!
As Civilian Deaths in Yemen Mount, US to Sell Saudi Arabia Billions More in Bombs
(CD) — Further demonstrating the willingness of the U.S. to reward and perpetuate the war crimes of its allies, the Trump administration is reportedly moving ahead with a multi-billion-dollar sale of so-called “smart bombs” to Saudi Arabia just weeks after the U.S.-backed Saudi-led coalition bombed a wedding in Yemen, killing more than 20 people.
First reported by The Intercept‘s Alex Emmons on Friday, the precise details of the deal—which also includes weapons sales to the United Arab Emirates—are not entirely unclear as it is in the preliminary stages, “but it is said to include tens of thousands of precision-guided munitions from Raytheon,” the company that helped produce weaponry used in the deadly wedding airstrike last month.
“The sale in question is a direct commercial transaction between Raytheon and the Gulf countries, which does not require the government to publicly announce the sale at the time of congressional notification,” Emmons reported. “That means it will be up to senators to decide how many of the details to make public.”
The reported weapons deal—which could be sent to Congress as early as next week—comes as some American lawmakers are increasingly calling attention to U.S. complicity in Saudi Arabia’s vicious, years-long assault on Yemen.
In March, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), and Mike Lee (R-Utah) led a failed legislative effort to bring an end to U.S. military assistance to Saudi Arabia.
“The Saudi-led intervention in Yemen, with U.S. support, has been a humanitarian disaster,” Sanders said after his resolution was voted down with the help of 10 Democrats.
Responding to reports of the “smart bomb” sale on Friday, Win Without War policy director Kate Kizer called on Congress to intervene and prevent the sale from going through:
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According to the United Nations, “April was the deadliest month for civilians in Yemen so far this year, with a sharp increase in casualties.”
“At least 236 civilians were killed and 238 injured in Yemen in April—a total of 474 civilian casualties, well over double the 180 civilian casualties documented in March this year,” the office of the the U.N.
High Commissioner for Human Rights noted in a press briefing on Friday. “Between 26 March 2015 and 10 May 2018, our office has documented a total of 16,432 civilian casualties—6,385 dead and 10,047 injured. The vast majority of these—10,185 civilian casualties—were as a result of airstrikes carried out by the Saudi-led Coalition.”
PS: het dodental in Jemen moet veel hoger zijn, dan de UNHRC heeft berekend. Het is dan ook moeilijk te controleren, niet in de laatste plaats vanwege de ontoegankelijkheid van grote gebieden in Jemen, daarnaast moeten overledenen binnen 24 uur worden begraven. Het werkelijke dodental van de laatste jaren moet ver boven de 20.000 liggen……. Vergeet niet dat er nog steeds een hongersnood huishoudt in Jemen, daarnaast zijn de cholera en difterie uitbraak nog steeds niet onder de knie…..
Wie een beetje heeft bijgehouden wat er de laatste jaren in Jemen is gebeurd, zal niet verrast zijn bij het lezen van de kop horend bij het artikel op ANTIWAR, waarmee duidelijk wordt gemaakt dat speciale troepen van het VS terreurleger meevechten in Jemen.
Al langer wordt er gemeld dat deze speciale troepen zich ook op de grond in Jemen ophouden en daar meewerken aan de genocide die Saoedi-Arabië uitvoert op de sjiitische bevolking…. Al twee jaar geleden doken er berichten op van speciale VS troepen, die na te hebben gevochten in Jemen, terugkeerden naar Saoedi-Arabië, of naar één van de marineschepen waarmee de VS de Saoedische coalitie helpt de sjiieten te blokkeren zodat o.a. humanitaire goederen maar mondjesmaat de lijdende bevolking bereiken……. De sjiitische bevolking van Jemen die door de Saoedische-VS terreur te kampen hebben met honger, cholera en difterie, waar dezen samen met bombardementen op ziekenhuizen, scholen en huizenblokken aan minstens 20.000 mensen het leven moet hebben gekost…….. Het Pentagon heeft afgelopen maart het Congres voorgelogen over de werkelijke bemoeienis van de VS met de genocide die Saoedi-Arabië uitvoert in Jemen (waar ‘uiteraard’ het woord genocide niet werd genoemd…). Op grond van die informatie gaf het Congres het Pentagon verdere bevoegdheden voor de strijd in Jemen….*
Jason Ditz de schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel noemde deze blokkade niet, maar wel het door de VS bijtanken in de lucht van Saoedische jagers, zodat deze zo efficiënt mogelijk sjiitische (burger-) doelen kunnen treffen……
Goed dat het nu eindelijk ook het volk van de VS bereikt en men eindelijk kan zien waar de VS nog meer voor staat dan brenger van grootschalige terreur in de vorm van: -illegale oorlogen, -staatsgrepen, -standrechtelijke executies van verdachten middels drones, waarbij meer dan 90% van de slachtoffers niet eens verdacht zijn (vooral veel vrouwen en kinderen), -bemoeienis met verkiezingen in andere landen en -het bespioneren zelfs van bevriende naties, waarbij ook een premier als Merkel niet werd gespaard…….. (vreemd genoeg wordt hier nooit meer over gesproken in de reguliere media, terwijl men daar wel de leugen in de lucht houdt, dat Rusland de presidentsverkiezingen in de VS heeft gemanipuleerd en meer van die onzin, intussen ‘Russiagate’ genoemd, iets waar geen nanometer bewijs voor is geleverd……)
Nu kan daar voor het volk van de VS dus officieel de genocide in Jemen aan toe worden gevoegd……
US Army Special Forces Secretly Fighting Saudi Arabia’s War in Yemen
(ANTIWAR.COM) — The US military is more deeply involved in the Saudi War in Yemen than officials ever admitted. In fact, new evidence suggests the Pentagon lied to Congress during the March debate about US involvement, presenting the US role at present being limited to targeting and mid-air refueling of Saudi warplanes.
The New York Times is reporting on Thursday that there are actually a small number of US special forces on the ground at the Saudi border with Yemen. Those troops have not only been on the ground since late 2017, but are there on a mission to help the Saudi military fight Yemen’s Shi’ite Houthi movement.
No public debate took place with respect to this deployment. Indeed, the Pentagon appears to have gone to great lengths not to tell the American public or the Congress about the Green Berets they sent to the border. The Green Berets are intended to help the Saudis “locate and destroy” Houthi missile caches, and attack Houthi launch sites inside Yemen.
This has been going on despite the Trump Administration telling Congress that America’s involvement in Yemen was purely “non-combat,” and again, despite the Pentagon repeatedly saying that America’s sole involvement in Yemen was logistics and support for the air war.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) said the Pentagon was deliberately “blurring the lines between train and equip missions and combat.” It is unclear from the New York Times report if the US troops crossed into Yemen, but given that their mission was to target Houthi sites, it seems almost certain that they have.
Centcom Commander Gen. Joseph Votel, during the March debate, did say that he had authorization to “help the Saudis defend their border.” At that time, however, he told the Senate this was being done purely through intelligence sharing and “military advice.” Clearly, it also involved physical US troops on the border.
It remains to be seen what the consequences of the Pentagon’s deception will be domestically. At the very least it seems like this could provide a new pretext for a vote on ending US involvement in the Yemen War, as Congress lacked all the information they needed to have an informed vote in March.
