The
establishment war against so-called fake news launched after the
Democrats lost the election has moved to the next level. Activists on
social media tweeting about the situation in Syria are being
denounced as either Russian trolls or bots. The latter insinuation
claims these critics of government policy in regard to Syria and
Russia are not even human, they’re algorithms sent out by agents of
Vladimir Putin. In the past, the US and the UK governments more or
less ignored criticism of their illegal wars. Even though Bush
minimized the influence of antiwar groups at the time, the FBI and
the Department of Homeland Security shared an interest and monitored
and infiltrated their operations.
BreakThrough News Saudi Arabia has $142 billion in American weapons. Yemen is the poorest country in the Arab world. So why can't Riyadh win? Last month, Ansar Allah seized Mokha and Perim Island, and with them the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, cutting off Saudi Arabia's alternative oil route around the closed Strait of Hormuz. Mohammed bin Salman begged Trump for US airstrikes, then backed "Dawn of Yemen," a 100-warplane offensive aimed at Sanaa, as crude oil again tops $100 a barrel. Veteran war correspondent and analyst Elijah Magnier joins Rania Khalek and Zoe Alexandra on the Red Sea front, as nearly 1,000 Yemenis have been killed and 184,000 displaced since fighting resumed. But Magnier argues Ansar Allah – often referred to in US media as the Houthis – hasn't lost much ground. He explains why Saudi warplanes are largely powerless in Yemen's mountainous terrain, and why he sees the movement advancing on Taiz and Marib. And Magnier breaks down how Hormuz and Bab ...
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