Yemen

Britain has sold Saudi Arabia £6bn in weapons since Yemen war began

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– Britain has sold Saudi Arabia £6bn in weapons since Yemen war began:

British arms companies have earned £6 billion ($8bn) from selling weapons to Saudi Arabia during the ongoing war in Yemen, it has emerged. The fighting has killed more than 10,000 people, destroyed vital infrastructure, and fomented a cholera epidemic.

War Child UK claims the true revenues from dealings with the Gulf kingdom are almost double previous estimates of £3.2 billion.

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AND NOW: Saudi Arabia is just ‘defending itself’ when it bombs Yemen, claims UK defense secretary

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– Saudi Arabia is just ‘defending itself’ when it bombs Yemen, claims UK defense secretary:

UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon has claimed Saudi Arabia is just defending itself by bombing famine-threatened Yemen, arguing the Gulf state is entitled to ask its allies for help.

Fallon had been asked if the Conservatives would consider suspending arms sales to the Saudis, given the serious concerns raised by international observers about the war in Yemen.

UK military personnel have been providing Saudi forces with airstrike and artillery training and Britain has sold billions of pounds’ worth of arms to the Gulf theocracy.

Read moreAND NOW: Saudi Arabia is just ‘defending itself’ when it bombs Yemen, claims UK defense secretary

Global Collapse: Children Are Literally Starving To Death In Venezuela And Yemen

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Financial/economic collapse, hyperinflation, civil war and hunger will come to the U.S. and Europe.

I would stock up on food for loooonger periods of time.

– Global Collapse: Children Are Literally Starving To Death In Venezuela And Yemen:

Venezuela and Yemen were both once very prosperous nations, but now parents are literally watching their children starve to death as the economies of both nations continue to utterly collapse.  Just like so many here in the United States, most of those living in Venezuela and Yemen would have called you completely crazy if you would have warned them that this was going to happen five years ago.  In particular, Venezuela has more proven oil reserves than almost anyone else on the planet, and so to most of their citizens it was unimaginable that things could ever get this bad.  But it has happened, and the collapse that has already begun in parts of South America, Africa and the Middle East will soon spread elsewhere.

When I said that children are literally starving to death in Venezuela, I was not exaggerating one bit.  The following comes from the Wall Street Journal…

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U.S. Launched Over 20 Airstrikes Against Yemen This Past Weekend

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Make America great again!

– U.S. Launched Over 20 Airstrikes Against Yemen This Past Weekend:

(ANTIWAR) The Pentagon carried out over 70 airstrikes in March against targets inside Yemen, which was more than US forces carried out in all of 2016. That trend of escalation appears to be continuing into early April, with officials saying over 20 strikes were launched just in the first two days of April.

Officials say that the strikes, which were mostly launched by drones, targeted al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) targets around the Shabwa Province, focusing on “infrastructure” and “fighting positions.” They provided no indication on death tolls.

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The Global Famine Begins: UN Announces That The Worst Food Crisis Since World War II Is Happening Right Now

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– The Global Famine Begins: UN Announces That The Worst Food Crisis Since World War II Is Happening Right Now:

We always knew that this would start happening.  Earlier this month, I wrote about the severe economic problems that are plaguing South America, but up to this point I have neglected to discuss the horrific famines that are breaking out all over Africa.  Right now there is a desperate need for food in South Sudan, Somalia, northeast Nigeria, Eritrea and Kenya.  And Yemen, even though it is not technically part of Africa, is being affected by many of the same factors that are crippling nations all over eastern Africa.  The United Nations says that more than 20 million people could die from starvation and disease if nothing is done.  When I write about economic collapse, this is the kind of thing that I am talking about, and we are starting to see alarming conditions spread across the globe.  Many believe that we could never possibly face this kind of food crisis in the western world, but unfortunately wishful thinking will only get you so far.

Read moreThe Global Famine Begins: UN Announces That The Worst Food Crisis Since World War II Is Happening Right Now

U.S. Blaming Iran for Attack on American Navy That Never Actually Happened

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– U.S. Blaming Iran for Attack on American Navy That Never Actually Happened:

At a press briefing on Thursday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer asserted that Iran had attacked a U.S. naval vessel. This statement was taken as part and parcel of his argument defending the Trump administration’s decision to put Iran “on notice.”

However, as the Intercept confirmed directly with Pentagon spokesperson Christopher Sherwood, the attack in question actually took place on a Saudi warship, and the suspected perpetrators of the attack are the Houthi rebels currently leading an insurrection in Yemen, not Iran.

But Iran is allegedly backing the Houthi rebels in Yemen. So surely, any attack committed by those rebels against the U.S. or its allies can be deemed and Iranian assault by way of proxy, right?

Not according to the U.N. experts, who presented a report to the U.N. Security Council just this past weekend. It stated:

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US Sends Navy Destroyer Off Yemen Coast As Tensions With Iran Rise

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FYI.

– US Sends Navy Destroyer Off Yemen Coast As Tensions With Iran Rise:

The US has moved a Navy destroyer, the infamous USS Cole, to off the coast of Yemen to protect waterways from Houthi militia aligned with Iran, as tensions between Washington and Tehran are once again soaring.

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Leaked Military Official Comments Claim Trump’s First Counter-Terror Op Was “Undertaken Without Sufficient Intel… Backup Prep”

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Related info:

– Al-Qaeda Fighters in Yemen Seemed Ready for Navy SEAL Raid

– Leaked Military Official Comments Claim Trump’s First Counter-Terror Op Was “Undertaken Without Sufficient Intel… Backup Prep”:

President Trump’s first counter-terrorism operation, that ended in the death of U.S. Navy SEAL William “Ryan” Owens, was, Reuters reports according to military officials, undertaken without sufficient intelligence, ground support or adequate backup preparations.

U.S. Navy SEAL William “Ryan” Owens was killed in the raid on a branch of al Qaeda, also known as AQAP, in al Bayda province, which the Pentagon said also killed 14 militants. However, medics at the scene said about 30 people, including 10 women and children, were killed.

Read moreLeaked Military Official Comments Claim Trump’s First Counter-Terror Op Was “Undertaken Without Sufficient Intel… Backup Prep”

Strange Bedfellows: US, Saudi, Al-Qaida & ISIS Interests Align In War On Yemen

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Making a joint statement on Yemen, with left – right, US Secretary of State John Kerry, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and UN Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, at Lancaster House in London

– Strange Bedfellows: US, Saudi, Al-Qaida & ISIS Interests Align In War On Yemen:

LONDON —(Analysis) As Yemen remains entrenched in the protracted, multi-fronted military conflict led by Saudi Arabia and funded by the United States, socio-political dynamics and economic realities have evolved according to the needs of competing factions — often to the detriment of civilian populations.Since the Saudi-led coalition began dropping bombs on Yemen on March 25, 2015, 3.2 million Yemenis have been displaced and more than half of the country is suffering from food insecurity and malnutrition.

As of August, at least 10,000 civilians have been killed — that’s 13 civilians a day.

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UK Government admits it has sold banned cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia

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– UK Government admits it has sold banned cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia:

Due to their extraordinary risk to civilians, cluster bombs, which release small bomblets over a wider area, were banned in 2010 in an international treaty signed by Britain

Michael Fallon has confirmed British-made cluster bombs have been used by Saudi Arabian forces in the current Yemen conflict.

The admission by the Defence Secretary in the Commons came after a Government analysis indicated that cluster bombs manufactured in the UK in 1980s had been used by the Saudi-led coalition in the on-going civil war in Yemen.

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A man who’s suing the U.S. government for killing his family in a drone strike just made history

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– A man who’s suing the U.S. government for killing his family in a drone strike just made history:

On August 29, 2012, a military drone flying in the skies high above Yemen allegedly launched an aerial attack that resulted in the deaths of Ahmed Salem Bin Ali Jaber and Waleed Bin Ali Jaber—two men, family members claim, who were not the intended targets of the drone strike at all.

Now, more than four years after his nephew and brother-in-law were killed by missile fire, Yemeni engineer Faisal bin Ali Jaber made history this week, appearing at a U.S. appellate court hearing on Tuesday to demand an apology from the American government for his family members’ deaths. It was another milestone in a groundbreaking lawsuit filed by Jaber in 2015 against the Obama administration over the incident.

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Leaked Files Show U.S. Armed And Trained Both Sides of War in Yemen

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– Leaked Files Show U.S. Armed And Trained Both Sides of War in Yemen:

Promptly after the release of more than 500 documents from the U.S. embassy in Sana’a, Yemen, WikiLeaks explained why this particular leak matters.“The war in Yemen has produced 3.15 million internally displaced persons,” a statement said. “Although the United States government has provided most of the bombs and is deeply involved in the conduct of the war itself,” the organization argues, western news organizations are failing to do their job by seldom informing the public of America’s involvement.

The documents were produced and exchanged during Hillary Clinton’s term as Secretary of State, as well as during the first two years of John Kerry’s tenure, ending just as the Yemen war broke out.

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Snow in Yemen and Across Middle East – Central Asia | Mini Ice Age 2015-2035 (Video)

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17.11.2016
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Snows across the middle east from Algeria, to Yemen, Iran and Azerbaijan and central Asia. Not only are these snow areas rare but it only the 2nd week of November 2016. COP22 is being held at the same time, and its about time we start discussing Global Cooling on the agenda as it seems the grand solar minimum is intensifying.

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US Condemnation Of Yemen Slaughter Backfires As World Blames US

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– US Condemnation Of Yemen Slaughter Backfires As World Blames US:

Once called the world’s greatest purveyor of violence by Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., the US government has made a habit of issuing vapid self-serving and hypocritical statements about humanitarian crises all over the world.

In some cases, a flack standing behind a government podium will give a boilerplate condemnation of the violence and horrors, while in many cases a simple press release will do.

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Cholera infections in Yemen climb to more than 1,400 within weeks: WHO

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H/t reader squodgy:

“Who are they trying to kid? The US have armed & trained the puppets of the sick hypocritical bin Saud family under Bush’s & Clinton.

Anyway, thankyou America for this latest bit of news…”

– Cholera infections in Yemen climb to more than 1,400 within weeks: WHO:

The World Health Organization (WHO) says the number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen has soared to 1,410 ever since the outbreak of the infectious disease was declared in the conflict-plagued impoverished Arab country three weeks ago.

Tarik Jasarevic, a spokesperson for the United Nations health agency, told a news briefing in the Swiss city of Geneva on Friday that 1,410 people have been identified with cholera-like symptoms in ten provinces of Yemen, and the epidemic is concentrated in Ta’izz, Aden, Lahij, Hudaydah and Sana’a.

Cholera is an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. It is a fast-developing infection that causes diarrhea, which can quickly lead to severe dehydration and death if treatment is not promptly provided.

Yemen’s water and sewerage systems besides much of its health infrastructure have been destroyed in the wake of Saudi Arabia’s 18-month-long aerial bombardment campaign against the country.

Read moreCholera infections in Yemen climb to more than 1,400 within weeks: WHO