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The last thing Saudi Arabia and its Western allies want is a self-sustaining, economically viable, militarily strong, and anti-imperialist Yemen at the bottom of the Arabian Peninsula, controlling the Red Sea and its strategic waterways. Yemen’s geographic placement in regards to the flow of world capital cannot be stressed enough. by Randi Nord Part 3 - Yemen’s growing revolutionary anti-imperialist movement threatens U.S.-Saudi regional hegemony Despite Saudi Arabia’s receipt of heaping military and intelligence support from the United States and other Western allies such as the United Kingdom, France, Canada, and (previously) Germany, Yemen’s resistance movement has only grown stronger. Ansarullah now controls the capital Sana’a, most of Yemen’s northern provinces, as well as over 100 miles of territory beyond the Saudi border. Here, Yemeni Special Forces, with the Army and Popular Committees, expanded operations in retaliation for Saudi Arabia’s devastating ai

The last thing Saudi Arabia and its Western allies want is a self-sustaining, economically viable, militarily strong, and anti-imperialist Yemen at the bottom of the Arabian Peninsula, controlling the Red Sea and its strategic waterways. Yemen’s geographic placement in regards to the flow of world capital cannot be stressed enough. by Randi Nord Part 2 - Who and what stand in the way of peace So, why can’t Yemen achieve peace? Western media would have you believe that the grassroots resistance movement of Ansarullah is causing the turmoil, blaming the very victims of war to justify American support for what could arguably be described as a Saudi-led genocide against Yemen. This tactic is very useful for discrediting Ansarullah’s genuine grievances, pinning the blame for failed peace talks, and distracting the public from Western-backed Saudi and Emirati war crimes. It should come as no surprise that the same media remained silent when the president of Ansarulla

by Jason Hirthler Part 6 - Cracking the Shell The benign-sounding structural adjustments of the West have fairly predictable results: cultural and economic chaos, rapid impoverishment, resource extraction with its attendant ecological ruin, transfer of ownership from local hands to foreign entities, and death from a thousand causes. We are currently sanctioning around 30 nations in some fashion; dozens of countries have fallen into ‘protracted arrears’ with western creditors; and entire continents are witnessing huge outflows of capital–on the order of $100B annually–to the global north as debt service. The profiteering colonialists of the West make out like bandits. The usual suspects include Washington and its loyal lapdogs, the IMF, World Bank, EU, NATO, and other international institutions, and the energy and defense multinationals whose shareholders and executive class effectively run the show. So why aren’t Americans more aware of t

globinfo freexchange In his very interesting article Colonizing the Western Mind , Jason Hirthler refers to the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci, who pioneered the concept of cultural hegemony. Gramsci suggested that the ruling ideologies of the bourgeoisie were so deeply embedded in popular consciousness that the working classes often supported leaders and ideas that were antithetical to their own interests . Gramsci's suggestion is depicted in the famous scene of the cult Sci-Fi movie The Matrix , in which Morpheus explains the Matrix to Neo:            The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them a

globinfo freexchange Stephen Hawking's photo of 1968 anti-war rallies in London, along with Vanessa Redgrave and Tariq Ali, is being circulated around the Internet, following the announcement of the death of the great scientist. (For the record, the Rolling Stones wrote the Street Fighting Man song to honor those who participated in those rallies, and especially Tariq Ali).   One thing that many ignore (and some others deliberately want to hide), is that Stephen Hawking continued throughout his life to condemn authoritarian regimes that kill indiscriminately innocent people to perpetuate their sovereignty. His most important intervention in recent years was the condemnation of Israeli political Apartheid and the support he provided to the movement for Israel's artistic, academic and commercial blockade. He had canceled his planned participation in scientific conferences organized by Israeli operators. This attitude had provoked angry and vulgar reactions i