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UN policies expand theatre of Yemen war into UAE
Jan 20, 2022 23:05The United Nations Organization is supposed to be strictly neutral and to spare no efforts in brokering peace between or among its member states without taking sides with any party. This appears fine on paper, especially on the UN Charter, but in practice the so-called World Body has long deviated from its goals and allowed itself to be used as a tool for serving the vested interests of some of its founding members, especially the US.
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US businesses sour on Saudi Arabia in blow to crown prince’s growth plans
Jan 19, 2022 15:29Saudi Arabia courted the world’s top companies to supposedly modernize its economy. Instead, the business environment has grown more hostile and investors are souring on the oil-rich kingdom.
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Public health professionals must demand an end to the use of weaponized drones by USA
Jan 17, 2022 16:01The U.S. government has been steadily increasing lethal covert drone operations since 2008, and almost everything we know about the program comes from whistleblowers and leakers.
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UN envoy warns 'threat to civilian lives is increasing' in Yemen
Jan 01, 2022 10:11A United Nations special envoy raised alarm about the safety of civilians in war-torn Yemen given escalating violence, including airstrikes by the US- backed Saudi-led coalition.
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Senate rejects Sanders’s resolution to block $650m weapons sale to Saudi Arabia
Dec 12, 2021 11:01The Senate voted against a bipartisan resolution to block a $650 million weapons sale to Saudi Arabia recently, rejecting a bid by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and progressive and Republican lawmakers to stop the sale.
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New report urges Biden to stop arms sales fueling Saudi 'devastation' of Yemen
Dec 06, 2021 15:54As the ongoing Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen's war continues to kill, maim, and displace civilians—over 300,000 of whom have died during more than seven years of fighting—a report published recently urges the Biden administration to end critical U.S. support for the atrocity-laden campaign by blocking pending arms sales and stopping future weapons transfers.
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Human rights groups call on Pentagon to reinvestigate civilian deaths in Yemen
Dec 05, 2021 17:52Activists want US War Secretary Lloyd Austin to open new investigations of past airstrikes, apologize for civilian deaths, and compensate relatives.
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How many wars does Washington want? And for what?
Dec 03, 2021 19:05Over the last two decades US policymakers have blundered through Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Yemen, frivolously sacrificing thousands of lives, wasting trillions of dollars, diverting essential resources, misusing patriotic personnel, and damaging national credibility – as well as killing hundreds of thousands and displacing millions of people in foreign lands.
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The Biden administration’s missile sale to Saudi Arabia is offensive, and must be stopped
Dec 02, 2021 19:53The Biden administration should halt all U.S. arms and maintenance to the Saudi regime as leverage to get it to end the air and sea blockades.
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Crimes without punishment – ever
Dec 01, 2021 10:42An estimated 300 children under five dying every day in Yemen from malnutrition, Palestinians shot dead in their occupied country every day, Lebanon and Syria slowly strangled by US sanctions, and the revelation of yet another massacre by the US, in Syria, where “about” 70 women and children were killed at Baghuz by bombs dropped one after the other to make sure that no-one escaped.