Six on Yemen: Yemen’s Crisis Belongs to All of Us; Bombed into famine; MSNBC Ignores Catastrophic US-Backed War in Yemen; Ign
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Six on Yemen: Yemen’s Crisis Belongs to All of Us; Bombed into famine; MSNBC Ignores Catastrophic US-Backed War in Yemen; Ignoring Washington’s Role in Yemen Carnage, 60 Minutes Paints US as Savior; How Did Bombs Made in Italy Kill A Family In Yemen?; battling a devastating food shortage depends on a key Red Sea port
"What’s a little cholera — excuse me, the worst outbreak of this preventable disease in modern history — compared to the needs of a smoothly functioning economy?
A week before he was kicked out of British Prime Minister Theresa May’s cabinet for allegedly having watched pornography on his government computer, former First Secretary of State Damian Green was quoted in the Guardian as saying that British weapons sales to Saudi Arabia were necessary because: “Our defense industry is an extremely important creator of jobs and prosperity.”
That statement is not the scandal — just business as usual. And of course Great Britain only supplies a quarter of the weaponry Saudi Arabia imports to wage its devastating war against the Houthi rebels in Yemen. The United States supplies more than half, with 17 other countries also cashing in on this market.
This amounts to a huge portion of the world at war, with a lot of winners and only a few, easily ignored losers. The losers include most of the population of Yemen, which has become an abyss of hopelessness, with famine and infectious disease intensifying the hell they are being forced to endure, as international players struggle for regional domination.
This sort of insanity has been going on since the dawn of civilization. But the voices crying out against war remain as marginalized and without political clout as ever. War is too useful politically and economically to be susceptible to a moral challenge."
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