Yemen Is Being Bombed And Genocided And No One Seems To Care

Bottom Line

No one really gives a shit about Ukraine. Hell, 90% of the Sheeple couldn't find it on a map.

Like the "we are all gonna die" COVID Plandemic, the public "outrage" over Ukraine is manufactured by the multi-national corporate media machine.

The talking flat screen tells us what we must care about.

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Kill Coronavirus Victims Says Islamists

Well, That's One Way

(WND)  -  Authorities in some jurisdictions across the United States have threatened arrest and jail for various violations by people infected with the coronavirus.

But that's nothing compared to what members of the militant Houthi faction in Yemen want to do to the infected.

Shoot them.

At an English-language site for the Middle East broadcast organization al-Arabiya, a video shows members of the Iranian-backed fighting force making plain their intent.

"Our best method is to kill in the interest of the rest," one member of the organization said. "There is no treatment, no quarantine, and no procedures that will do, only bullets."

Yemen reported its first coronavirus case only days ago.

Islam expert Robert Spencer wrote at Jihad Watch, "When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail."

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Idiots in Congress Figure Out a Constitution Exists

Idiots, Liars & Whores Oh My

• After funding Comrade Obama's unconstitutional war in Yemen for years and years the morons in both parties now want the war to end.
• The so-called "War Powers Act" is a fraud. If Congress had to go on record and actually vote for a real war we would have few to no wars. Instead the Act gives Congress a fig leaf of allowing the President to do whatever the Hell he wants and Congress will hold committee meetings about it later or not at all.

Congress passed a historic War Powers resolution Thursday, calling for the end of America’s involvement in Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen. This bill represents the first time Congress has ever passed a War Powers Resolution.

The House passed S.J. Res. 7 Thursday, 247-175, featuring strong bipartisan support for the measure. Republicans and Democrats on both sides have pushed for less involvement in the war in Yemen.

S. J. Res. 7 would require that President Donald Trump remove American armed forces from hostilities in or affecting Yemen within 30 days. S.J. Resolution passed through the Senate in March, and now that the legislation passed, the bill will go to President Trump’s desk to sign.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), a progressive and anti-war Democrat, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview this week that he hopes to forge a bipartisan coalition to end a number of wars and U.S. military conflict worldwide.

To illustrate the increased congressional interest in ending America’s long-standing involvement in the Middle East, lawmakers ranging from Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Mike Lee (R-UT) to Reps. Justin Amash (R-MI), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) wrote a bipartisan letter to the president backing his planned withdrawal from Syria.

The United States has aided Saudi Arabia in its war with Yemen since former President Barack Obama’s administration. Obama never sought congressional approval from Congress to involve America in the Middle East conflict, even though he had the U.S. military help the Saudis refuel their bombing runs.

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Why are we helping Saudi Arabia destroy Yemen?

Yemen

Another project of the Military-Industrial Complex

By Dr. Ron Paul;

It’s remarkable that whenever you read an article about Yemen in the mainstream media, the central role of Saudi Arabia and the United States in the tragedy is glossed over or completely ignored. A recent Washington Post article purporting to tell us “how things got so bad” explains to us that, “it’s a complicated story” involving “warring regional superpowers, terrorism, oil, and an impending climate catastrophe.”

No, Washington Post, it’s simpler than that. The tragedy in Yemen is the result of foreign military intervention in the internal affairs of that country. It started with the “Arab Spring” which had all the fingerprints of State Department meddling, and it escalated with 2015’s unprovoked Saudi attack on the country to re-install Riyadh’s preferred leader. Thousands of innocent civilians have been killed and millions more are at risk as starvation and cholera rage.

We are told that US foreign policy should reflect American values. So how can Washington support Saudi Arabia – a tyrannical state with one of the worst human rights record on earth – as it commits by what any measure is a genocide against the Yemeni people? The UN undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs warned just last week that Yemen faces “the largest famine the world has seen for many decades with millions of victims.” The Red Cross has just estimated that a million people are vulnerable in the cholera epidemic that rages through Yemen.

And why is there a cholera epidemic? Because the Saudi government – with US support – has blocked every port of entry to prevent critical medicine from reaching suffering Yemenis. This is not a war. It is cruel murder.

The United States is backing Saudi aggression against Yemen by cooperating in every way with the Saudi military. Targeting, intelligence, weapons sales, and more. The US is a partner in Saudi Arabia’s Yemen crimes.

Does holding hands with Saudi Arabia as it slaughters Yemeni children really reflect American values? Is anyone even paying attention?

The claim that we are fighting al-Qaeda in Yemen and thus our involvement is covered under the post-9/11 authorization for the use of force is without merit. In fact it has been reported numerous times in the mainstream media that US intervention on behalf of the Saudis in Yemen is actually a boost to al-Qaeda in the country. Al-Qaeda is at war with the Houthis who had taken control of much of the country because the Houthis practice a form of Shi’a Islam they claim is tied to Iran. We are fighting on the same side as al-Qaeda in Yemen.

Adding insult to injury, the US Congress can’t be bothered to even question how we got so involved in a war that has nothing to do with us. A few conscientious Members of Congress got together recently to introduce a special motion under the 1973 War Powers Act that would have required a vote on our continued military involvement in the Yemen genocide. The leadership of both parties joined together to destroy this attempt to at least get a vote on US aggression against Yemen. As it turns out, the only Members to vote against this shamefully gutted resolution were the original Members who introduced it. This is bipartisanship at its worst.

US involvement in Saudi Arabia’s crimes against Yemen is a national disgrace. That the mainstream media fails to accurately cover this genocide is shameful. Let us join our voices now to demand that our US Representatives end US involvement in Yemen immediately!

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Yemen never even existed
The Oligarchs tell us we are supposed to be paralyzed with horror that the country of Yemen might fall apart.  So the Elites pump weapons into Yemen and Saudi Arabia in yet another an unconstitutional war.

The fact of the matter is Yemen didn't even exist until 1990.  For centuries the area was part of the Ottoman Empire (above map). So the "horror" of a poverty stricken Yemen collapsing, vanishing and/or engaging in war means less than nothing.

A map that explain the new Middle East

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The new map above illustrates that the so-called "borders" in the Middle East were artificially created after World War I by Imperialist Europeans.

Naturally our hack politicians scream that we must send in troops to defend the artificial borders that have no relationship to reality on the ground.

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The Artificially Created Nations of the Middle East May Vanish at Last

CIA torture chambers in Yemen

Looks Like CIA Torture is Back

• But what I don't understand is my "small government" GOP friends cheering on a big faceless government secret police system torturing prisoners.

(AP) -- Hundreds of men swept up in the hunt for al-Qaida militants have disappeared into a secret network of prisons in southern Yemen where abuse is routine and torture extreme - including the "grill," in which the victim is tied to a spit like a roast and spun in a circle of fire, an Associated Press investigation has found.

Senior American defense officials acknowledged Wednesday that U.S. forces have been involved in interrogations of detainees in Yemen but denied any participation in or knowledge of human rights abuses. Interrogating detainees who have been abused could violate international law, which prohibits complicity in torture.

The AP documented at least 18 clandestine lockups across southern Yemen run by the United Arab Emirates or by Yemeni forces created and trained by the Gulf nation, drawing on accounts from former detainees, families of prisoners, civil rights lawyers and Yemeni military officials. All are either hidden or off limits to Yemen's government, which has been getting Emirati help in its civil war with rebels over the last two years.

The secret prisons are inside military bases, ports, an airport, private villas and even a nightclub. Some detainees have been flown to an Emirati base across the Red Sea in Eritrea, according to Yemen Interior Minister Hussein Arab and others.

Several U.S. defense officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the topic, told AP that American forces do participate in interrogations of detainees at locations in Yemen, provide questions for others to ask, and receive transcripts of interrogations from Emirati allies. They said U.S. senior military leaders were aware of allegations of torture at the prisons in Yemen, looked into them, but were satisfied that there had not been any abuse when U.S. forces were present.

In a statement to the AP, the UAE's government denied the allegations.

"There are no secret detention centers and no torture of prisoners is done during interrogations."  

(Editor - a careful PR statement honoring Bill Clinton's "definition of what is is.")  

Inside war-torn Yemen, however, lawyers and families say nearly 2,000 men have disappeared into the clandestine prisons, a number so high that it has triggered near-weekly protests among families seeking information about missing sons, brothers and fathers.

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CIA "Accidentally" Destroys 6,700 Page Report on Torture

Trump’s Generals Want a Wider War in Yemen

Trump Adopts

Obama's Unconstitutional War

• No obscure third world shit hole is too remote not to be a "threat" to American security.

(The Nation)  -  The Trump administration is sending signals that it is interested in getting more involved in the Yemen war. Those American voters who saw Trump as an isolationist or antiwar candidate appear to be in for a set of big disappointments. 

The Yemen conflict is a civil war, with Saudi Arabia and its allies giving air support to the rump government of Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi in the south, which is seeking to dislodge from northern Yemen the rival government run by the Houthi militia. The war has created a humanitarian crisis in the country, pushing millions to the brink of hunger, and there is no universe in which further American involvement will redound to Washington’s credit. Trump’s interest is driven in part by Saudi propaganda that the Houthis are Iran-backed.

Last week, General Joseph Votel testified for the Pentagon before Congress, insisting that Yemen is key to US security. He pointed out that it sits astride the Bab al-Mandeb strait at the mouth of the Red Sea, and could be used by a hostile power to interrupt sea traffic in that key body of water, through which about 10 percent of world trade flows.

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Oh The Horror - Yemen Might Fall Apart

Votel also pointed to the danger emanating from the Yemen-based Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The Yemeni press reports that the United States is regularly bombing and droning AQAP there. The murky Yemen civil war, however, is treacherous ground for a superpower. The first significant US military operation in Yemen under Trump was a January 29 raid on an alleged AQAP camp in al-Gheel in southern Bayda Province, in the course of which as many as 30 civilian noncombatants, including children, and one Navy Seal were killed. 

The main target, Abd al-Rauf al-Dhahab, however, has switched back and forth between allying with Al Qaeda and with the government of Mansour Hadi. He had recently been enlisted by the latter to fight the Houthis. That is, the raid may have been based on old intelligence from before Dhahab’s recent change of allegiance. 

Iran may have sent the Houthis small sums of money, but most of the movement’s arms are American, from Saleh-controlled depots, and most of its support is rooted in north Yemeni resentment of growing Saudi and Wahhabi hegemony, not only among Zaydis but also among some Sunni tribes (most Yemeni Sunnis dislike Wahhabism). 

The Saudi air campaign, which has often indiscriminately targeted schools, hospitals, cultural institutions, and key civilian infrastructure such as bridges and ports, has made Riyadh thoroughly hated in the north. In late March, Sana residents held a massive demonstration of hundreds of thousands against the Saudi bombing. It is, however, entirely possible that were the United States to take on a more visible role in support of the Saudis in Yemen, the Houthis and their allies may feel they have no choice but to ally more closely with Iran.

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Yemen: A Failed State

Now its Trump's unconstitutional war in Yemen

Oh The "Horror"

Yemen Might Collapse

• There were the endless unconstitutional wars of Comrade Obama in Yemen, Libya and other spots. Now Trump is taking us to war.
• In the early 1990s the Clinton Administration thumped their chests and declared to the world:  "We must protect the territorial integrity of Bosnia-Herzegovina."
• Well, I didn't give a crap then, and I certainly don't give a crap now about who "controls" Bosnia-Herzegovina or the 3rd world shit-hole called Yemen.

(Washington Examiner)  -  The U.S. military has opened a new front in the war against terrorists after President Trump granted new authorities for U.S. commanders to carry out air and ground attacks against al Qaeda's most dangerous affiliate in Yemen.

The U.S. has conducted two days of airstrikes aimed at Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP. The new, more aggressive posture comes after Trump gave U.S. Central Commander Gen. Joseph Votel expanded authority to order military action in Yemen, without prior approval from the White House.

Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. Jeff Davis said the president granted the new authority at the same time he approved the Jan 29 special operations raid that resulted in the death of U.S. Navy SEAL Ryan Owens.

"This was an authority that was delegated by the president, through the secretary of defense to the Central Command commander to carry out," Davis said.

The U.S was able to carry out more than 30 airstrikes against targets in Yemen over the past two days in a major ramp-up of operations against al Qaeda fighters, attacking targets that the U.S. military has been developing for months.

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A Note To President Trump
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"The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure."
George Washington
(1793)

Yemen in Collapse.
Truly a blow to the 21st Century.

Yemen never even existed
We are supposed to be paralyzed in horror that the country of Yemen might fall apart.  But the fact of the matter is the nation didn't even exist until 1990.  For centuries the area was part of the Ottoman Empire (above map).
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This is Saudi Arabia's back yard and their problem.

Heavy Russian & Syrian Airstrikes on ISIS

Today's War Porn

Russia Bombs Islamic State

With YouTube censorship in full swing let's see if these videos below last long.

The GOP and Dems are in full warmonger mode.  Only by bombing EVERYONE and everything can we ever be safe.

I am not an isolationist and am certainly not a pacifist, but who controls the third world shit-holes of Yemen, Somalia or Libya has no meaning to me. As for Syria, there would be no civil war if the CIA had not shipped in mountains of weapons for years on end.

Call a "Crazy Blogger", which I am, but as a Trump Nationalist I would rather secure our borders at home than try to secure the borders of Yemen.

Russian & Syrian Jets Attack ISIS

Syrian Army Fights Back Against ISIS And Pushing Them Back - Close Combat Footage

Yemen War 2017

Houthi Fighters Attack & Heavily Damage Saudi Arabian Warship

YouTube Censorship
YouTube censorship is going on with site after site.
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This screenshot is from the War Leaks YouTube page. Big Brother at YouTube wants you to only view news images that they approve of.  Unauthorized news might cause you to actually start thinking for yourself.

Death from Above - Anonymous People Killed

The Unconstitutional Yemen War

• It is too yearly to call this a Trump drone attack. It may be left over from Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama.
• More important is both parties fully fund these unconstitutional wars around the world. We are not even sure who we are killing. We "suspect" they are terrorists.
• Simply, do we really need to be taking sides in religious civil wars?

Aden (AFP) - Seven suspected Al-Qaeda members have been killed in drone strikes in central Yemen that were probably carried out by US forces, security sources said on Sunday.

A security official, asking not to be identified, said three "armed fighters of Al-Qaeda" died when their vehicle was struck on Saturday in the Sawmaa region of Al-Bayda province.

Another drone strike on Saturday in the same region killed three suspected jihadists who were riding a motorcycle, and on Friday a drone strike killed a local military instructor for Al-Qaeda in the same province, another security source said.

The United States, which considers the extremist group's Yemen-based franchise, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), to be its most dangerous, is the only force operating drones over Yemen.

But it only sporadically reports on a long-running bombing campaign against AQAP.

Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State jihadist group have exploited a power vacuum created by the two-year-old conflict in Yemen between the government and Shiite Huthi rebels, especially in the country's south and southeast.

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GOP silent (as usual) while King Obama wages wars

King Obama's Unconstitutional Wars

• Democrats and Republicans have joined arm-in-arm to support King Obama's unconstitutional wars and arms shipments in Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Syria and Iraq.

King Obama has taken sides in Yemen's civil war and has bombed the country for years on end. But when the Yemeni rebels dare to fire back we spin our air strikes as "defensive" in nature. Pure 100% propaganda bullshit.


(The Guardian)  The Pentagon announced late on Wednesday that it struck and destroyed three radar sites controlled by the Iranian-backed Houthi movement in Yemen. The sites were described as being involved in two missile attacks over the past four days on the destroyer USS Mason, operating out of the Bab al-Mandeb waterway between Yemen and east Africa.

US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said US Navy destroyer USS Nitze launched the Tomahawk cruise missiles around 4am local time (0100 GMT).

These limited self-defense strikes were conducted to protect our personnel, our ships, and our freedom of navigation,” Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said.

A Houthi military official denied the fighters had fired at US vessels. “Those claims are baseless,” the official said, according to rebel-controlled Saba news agency.

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Yemen War Houthi infantry in close 

combat with Saudi tanks

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Yemen: A Failed State That Never Existed

Muslim Rebels Sink U.S. Navy Ship

Shhh . . . It's a Secret

The Controlled Media Machine largely 

kept the lid on this story. 

• The military-industrial complex and a Pentagon still living their glory days of World War II battle fleets have not addressed Islamist rebels sinking a U.S. ship with a missile. 
• Technology has ended the surface navy. Ships are little more than floating multi-billion dollar targets. 
• Ship building contracts are big, big money. The last thing Washington wants to get out is surface ships are obsolete.

(Business Insider)  -  On Saturday, a guided missile struck the United Arab Emirates' HSV Swift, a high-speed ferry formerly operated by the US Navy off the coast of Yemen, prompting the US to respond with two guided-missile destroyers and an amphibious transport dock ship from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier strike group, Fox News reports.

"Rockets targeted an Emirati warship as it approached the coast of Mokha" on Yemen's western coast, Yemen's Iran-supported Houthi fighters said in a statement, reported by Al Jazeera.

"It was completely destroyed," the Houthis said.

The UAE has fought against the Houthi militants since last year as part of a Saudi-led coalition.

A video released online shows the Swift, a catamaran-style transport ship of US design, a rocket launching, and the rocket hitting the ship and causing a sustained fire on the water as those near the camera cheer.

The Emirati military confirmed that an incident occurred at sea while the ship was on a routine trip from Aden, Yemen, but it did not mention any injuries or deaths.

The US ships USS Nitze, USS Mason, and USS Ponce have headed to the Bab el-Mandeb strait that links the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.

(The Yemeni government controls the majority of the country, but the Houthis control almost all of the western coast, where the incident took place.Reuters) 

According to the US Naval Institute, "reports indicate the weapons used could have been Chinese-built C-802 anti-ship missiles ... or guided anti-tank weapons."

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Say Goodbye to the Surface Navy

Yemeni forces have targeted and destroyed an Emirati military vessel in a rocket attack near the Red Sea port city of Mokha, al-Masirah TV says. The C-802 is the export upgraded version of the Chinese anti-ship missile YJ-8.

Before and After
Surface ships have become nothing more than floating target
practice for modern weapons..
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Boom After

The wam.ae website has released photos of HSV-2 Swift hybrid catamaran it was attacked by C-802 missile near Bab-el-Mandeb in Yemen.

The HSV-2 Swift is a hybrid catamaran formerly belonged to the United States Navy but then was leased to the the United Arab Emirates Navy.  Read More . . . .

"General" Obama does 3 new airstrikes in Yemen

Another Secret War

• Obama conducts another unconstitutional secret war in Yemen. Why? To "save" us from a nation where indoor plumbing hardly exists.  And the GOP goes along with the madness.

(Long War Journal)  -  The US military announced three previously undisclosed airstrikes that targeted al al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in southern Yemen over the past four months and killed 11 AQAP operatives.

US Central Command, or CENTCOM, issued a statement announcing four “counterterrorism strikes” in the Yemeni provinces of Hadramout and Shabwa between Feb. 3 and May 19.

The Feb. 3 strike killed six AQAP operatives in Shabwa, CENTCOM noted. This strike was previously recorded by The Long War Journal. Jihadists on social media claimed that Jalal Bala’idi, who is also known as Hamza al Zinjibari, was killed in the attack. Six AQAP fighters were initially reported killed in the strike, which CENTCOM confirmed. [See LWJ report, Senior AQAP commander reportedly killed in US drone strike in Yemen.

The second strike, in Hadramawt on Feb. 29, killed three al Qaeda operatives. The third strike, on March 30 in Azzan in Shabwa, killed three more AQAP fighters. The fourth strike, on May 19 again in Shabwa, killed four more AQAP operatives.

CENTCOM indicated that strikes against AQAP would continue as the group “remains a significant threat to the region, the United States and beyond” and is using Yemen as a base of operations for local and global attacks.

“Al Qaeda’s presence has a destabilizing effect on Yemen, and it is using the unrest in Yemen to provide a haven from which to plan future attacks against our allies as well as the US and its interests.”

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Yemen: A Failed State

Yemen Could Collapse
But Would Anyone Notice?
Islamists could take over Yemen from the Islamists currently ruling Yemen.  No doubt this could be a major blow to the 21st century.

Obama sends troops to Yemen's civil war

Yet Another Unconstitutional War

I could care less who "controls" the stone 

age shit hole of Yemen.

(Al Jazeera)  -  The Pentagon has acknowledged for the first time it has deployed its troops to Yemen more than a year after pulling out following military intervention by the Arab-led coalition.

The security void created in the wake of the more than a year of war between loyalists of exiled government of Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and the Shia Houthi rebels has been exploited by the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).

Pentagon spokesperson Jeff Davis said on Friday the US military had also stepped up air strikes against AQAP fighters in the war-torn country.

A "very small number" of American military personnel has been working from a "fixed location" with Yemeni and Arab coalition forces - especially the Emiratis - in recent weeks around Mukalla, a port city seized by AQAP a year ago, Davis said.

"This is of great interest to us. It does not serve our interests to have a terrorist organisation in charge of a port city, and so we are assisting in that," the spokesman added.

He said the troops were helping the Emiratis with "intelligence support," but declined to say if they are special operations forces.

AQAP fighters have now fled Mukalla and other coastal areas, due to the government offensive.    

The United States is also offering an array of assistance to partners in Yemen, including air-to-air refueling capabilities, surveillance, planning, maritime security and medical help.

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