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Yemen’s Socialist Experiment Was a Political Landmark for the Arab World
In mid-2022, the war in Ukraine has dramatically worsened a humanitarian crisis around the world. Although there may be an easing of the blockade preventing Ukrainian and Russian wheat traveling...
View ArticleFood Sovereignty vs. Food Aid: Why Smallscale Farming Suffers
Traditional farming in al-Ahjur, Central Highlands (photography by Daniel Martin Varisco) The early major civilizations in the Middle East and Asia with their head start several millennia ago had one...
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Surviving the Killing Fields, a Worldwide Challenge
Awaiting discharge from a hospital in Cairo, Adel Al Manthari, a Yemeni civilian, faces months of physical therapy and mounting medical bills following three surgeries since 2018, when a U.S....
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Women Must Lead the Way Out Yemen’s Climate and Conflict Crises
Organizations serving Yemeni women attended workshops in 2021 to assess their work in addressing the country’s twin climate and conflict crises. When the U.S.-backed Saudi-led coalition entered Yemen...
View ArticleWe Need to Break the Wall of Indifference Around the War in Yemen
Review of Helen Lackner, Yemen: Poverty and Conflict (London: Routledge, 2022) Interest in the war that has been ongoing in Yemen since 2015 has been persistently limited, whether among diplomats, the...
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Bernie Sanders’s Yemen War Powers Resolution Could Help End the Monstrous War
In the two months since a United Nations–brokered ceasefire expired in Yemen, a tenuous peace has held. Yet with every passing day, that peace looks more and more precarious. The Saudi-backed Yemeni...
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War Is Over. If You Want It.
Last Thursday marked 42 years since John Lennon was killed. Many people, including me, lament his death and can recall where we were when we heard the heartbreaking news. This holiday season, we can...
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Yemen: Time to End American Complicity
Recall your attention to the response from the US establishment after Russia was found to be using Iranian drones in the war in Ukraine. The extent of the outrage was so intense that the issue was...
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Biden’s “Diplomacy” in Yemen Means Taking Saudi Arabia’s Side — And Could...
When Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., called for a vote on a war powers resolution that would block U.S. support for the Saudi-led war effort in Yemen, the Biden administration immediately pushed back. The...
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At Least 87 Yemenis Killed and 136 Injured in 14 Months With Arms Supplied by...
According to the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), the UK alone has sold weapons worth nearly USD 28 billion to Saudi Arabia since the beginning of the war in Yemen in 2015 According to an Oxfam...
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Congress, Do Your Job, End US Support for the War in Yemen
Having just observed the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, the United States Senate is currently considering S. 316, a bill sponsored by Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) to repeal the anachronistic...
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A Path to Peace in Yemen
A delegation from Saudi Arabia has arrived in Yemen’s capital Sana’a alongside Omani negotiators with the aim of reaching a resolution to the protracted war in Yemen. This marks a major turning point...
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The Yemen War Can Be Over — if Biden Wants It
I’ve always thought of the famous John Lennon refrain, “War is over, if you want it,” as mostly a thought experiment meant to shake us out of the learned helplessness that can lead to forever wars. But...
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The Countries That Helped Devastate Yemen Must Take Responsibility for Its...
Aden, a fast-growing city located in the south of Yemen, is nestled amid a jagged mountain range, expansive desert lands, a dormant volcano, and the Red Sea. The Romans called the region “Arabia...
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Humanitarian Calamities That Aren’t on the World’s Agenda
Various versions of the aphorism “War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography” have been making the rounds ever since the rise of U.S. imperialism in the late 1800s. The quip (which, despite...
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Yemen’s Socotra Archipelago: The UAE’s Occupation and Destruction of a World...
Environmental destruction entails two intertwined processes: climate change and the destruction of biodiversity, which mutually reinforce each other. Both are human-caused. Climate change is not the...
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How Yemen Changed Everything
Whether invented in northern India, eastern China or Central Asia – from Persia to Turkestan – chess is an Asian game. In chess, there always comes a time when a simple pawn is able to upset the whole...
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Blocking Israel’s Supply Chain
If demography is destiny, as Auguste Comte tells us, then economics must be current, pinching reality. The Israel-Gaza conflict is invigorating a global protest movement against the state of Israel...
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U.S. Officials Care More About Protecting Oil Tankers Than Palestinians
While Israel continues its military offensive in Gaza, the United States is directing a major military operation in the Red Sea, where U.S. warships are maintaining a persistent presence to protect...
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With Attack on Yemen, the U.S. Is Shameless: “We Make the Rules, We Break the...
Have you heard the one about the U.S. government wanting a “rules-based international order”? It’s grimly laughable, but the nation’s media outlets routinely take such claims seriously and credulously....
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