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Four years of hell: to crush Yemen’s independence, US-Saudi war created world’s worst humanitarian crisis

On the fourth anniversary of the US-Saudi war on Yemen, the Middle East’s poorest nation suffers from the worst humanitarian catastrophe on Earth. But the Houthi movement — and Yemeni people — remain unbroken. by Ben Norton Part 4 - Failed attempt to crush Yemeni uprising Beyond the stomach churning statistics, there is a key question: Why have the US, UK, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE spent the past four years waging such a cruel war on the poorest country in the Middle East? This question is almost never asked, yet alone answered, in corporate media. When they have rarely reported on Yemen, corporate media have endlessly repeated the myth that war is an “Iran-Saudi proxy war” or a “Sunni-Shia conflict.” This is a false narrative designed to obscure the real motives behind the assault. To understand the war on Yemen, historical and political context is crucial. This war was conceived to prevent Yemen from ever enjoying the capacity to rebel, wage a revolution, or

A message to the neoliberal fascists: Hands off Julian Assange - we are watching you

A message to the neoliberal #fascists : we are watching you - if you dare to harm #JulianAssange , get ready for a non-linear, all-out war by millions of free thinkers around the world — failedevolution (@failedevolution) April 5, 2019

A message for the worst liberal establishment ever: don't you dare harm Julian Assange

by system failure The neoliberal clowns of the Western mainstream media increasingly shed crocodile tears about what they consider 'fake news' and the rise of the far right. The hypocrisy and absurdity of the whole thing will make you laugh loud. Because these are the PR agents of the corporations behind the mainstream media who brought us Trump and the far right. These are the cheerleaders of endless wars, and in fact, the only time they supported Trump was when he bombed Syria. This is the ugly face of the establishment that pretends to be the gatekeeper of 'real news', while everyone else is 'fake news'. It doesn't matter if they work 24 hours a day to brainwash you with BS neoliberal and pro-war propaganda. You know, just to maintain this awful status in favor of their super-wealthy bosses. It's not new. They did it for decades and it worked. People back then were like blind rats whose sole information

Οι Βρετανοί προτιμούν Brexit χωρίς συμφωνία παρά παραμονή στην Ε.Ε.

Νέα δημοσκόπηση, που δημοσιεύει το Metro.co.uk , δείχνει ότι οι περισσότεροι Βρετανοί θα προτιμούσαν ένα no-deal Brexit παρά την παραμονή της χώρας στην Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση. Η δημοσκόπηση της YouGov δείχνει ότι σε όλες τις άλλες περιοχές εκτός του Λονδίνου οι πολίτες θα προτιμούσαν ένα «σκληρό» Brexit, αν έπρεπε να επιλέξουν ανάμεσα σε αυτό και την παραμονή της χώρας τους στην Ε.Ε. Οι περισσότερο θερμοί υποστηρικτές του σεναρίου εξόδου από την Ε.Ε. χωρίς συμφωνία ήταν οι κάτοικοι των Μίντλαντς, με ένα ποσοστό 49%. Αντίθετα το 38% προτίμησε την επιλογή της παραμονής. Επίσης οι κάτοικοι του νότιου τμήματος της χώρας, με εξαίρεση το Λονδίνο, θεωρούν την έξοδο χωρίς συμφωνία καλύτερη λύση, ανάμεσα στα δύο δεινά, με το 50% αυτών να επιλέγει ένα «σκληρό» Brexit. Στον αντίποδα, το 40% των κατοίκων επέλεξε την εναλλακτική της παραμονής. Η δημοσκόπηση στο βόρειο τμήμα της χώρας έφερε πιο μοιρασμένα αποτελέσματα με ένα ποσοστό 45% επί του συνόλου να επιλέγουν το no-deal

ALERT: traitor Moreno one step closer on delivering Julian Assange to the US empire

BREAKING: A high level source within the Ecuadorian state has told @WikiLeaks that Julian Assange will be expelled within "hours to days" using the #INAPapers offshore scandal as a pretext--and that it already has an agreement with the UK for his arrest. https://t.co/adnJph79wq — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 4, 2019 WikiLeaks reports that Julian Assange is on the verge of being expelled from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. Please fill the street outside the embassy and protect him, and show solidarity with a courageous man, whose struggle ought to touch us all. https://t.co/xzZKroYJL9 — John Pilger (@johnpilger) April 4, 2019 A message to the neoliberal #fascists : we are watching you - if you dare to harm #JulianAssange , get ready for a non-linear, all-out war by millions of free thinkers around the world — failedevolution (@failedevolution) April 5, 2019 Ecuador and Julian Assange in great danger as traitor Moreno is about to throw them into the hands

If NATO wouldn't have produced so much chaos and destruction around the world, one of its most characteristic propaganda ads would make you laugh

globinfo freexchange NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s 70th anniversary, was met with anti-NATO protests across the world, including Washington D.C. On April 4th 1949, the alliance’s treaty was signed by twelve organizations and today it has grown to 29 members. Sharmini Peries of the Real News Network , spoke with Yves Engler on this occasion. As Engler pointed out: After World War II, the Soviet Union was not a threat to Western Europe, but indigenous, socialist, and Communist parties in Italy, in Greece, in France, had a lot of support. And they would have won an election in Italy, almost won 30 percent of the vote in France, and would have took power in Greece if it wasn’t for US intervention. What NATO was designed to do was to blunt the European Left - and in the words of Canada’s Foreign Minister, “ a conquest from within. ” That was the objective of NATO, to stop a conquest within (i.e. a Socialist or Communist taking p

Blatant bias against ‘crazy hair’ Bernie Sanders at Washington Post goes unnoticed by rest of media

The Washington Post has a problem with Bernie Sanders. Since March 18, the newspaper has run no less than 10 anti-Sanders op-eds — and its agenda approaching the 2020 election has become glaringly obvious. The recent spate of anti-Sanders screeds was highlighted on Twitter by columnist and Sanders campaign advisor David Sirota, who posted screenshot images showing a selection of the headlines in question. "The press can't let Sanders duck the hard questions," demands one. "Bernie Sanders has emerged as the Donald Trump of the left," declares another.“Electability' and 'Bernie' don't belong in the same sentence,” argues another. Of the 10 pieces, five of them were written by conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin who seems to have developed a laser-focused hatred of the Vermont senator. The remaining five were posted by a selection of other writers. The column labelling Sanders the “Trump of the left” was wi

Venezuela: Defending the Revolution

redfish While Trump is threatening Venezuela with military intervention, Venezuelans are not waiting to organise themselves to be ready to confront any threats that they may face, both from inside and outside the country. Redfish was in the country’s capital Caracas to hear from those ready to defend their revolution.

Σε επιφυλακή ο στρατός της Βενεζουέλας

Σε επιφυλακή βρίσκεται ο στρατός της Βενεζουέλας με σκοπό να προλάβει πιθανές «αντισυμβατικές» πολεμικές τακτικές από την πλευρά των ΗΠΑ, που θα μπορούσαν να στοχεύουν στην ανατροπή της κυβέρνησης με επιθέσεις σε εγκαταστάσεις δημόσιων υπηρεσιών, σύμφωνα με ανακοίνωση του Νικολάς Μαδούρο. « Αποδεικνύεται ότι η Βενεζουέλα αποτελεί ένα πεδίο δοκιμών για νέα κυβερνοόπλα, ηλεκτρομαγνητικά όπλα, αλλά και μια νέα πολεμική στρατηγική. Η στρατηγική αυτή δεν περιλαμβάνει άμεση εισβολή ή βομβαρδισμό με πυραύλους, αλλά βομβαρδισμό δημόσιων υπηρεσιών ζωτικής σημασίας για τη χώρα », σχολίασε ο Μαδούρο. Πρόσθεσε επίσης ότι με τα απανωτά μπλακ άουτ, η κατάσταση της χώρας παραμένει σοβαρή. Σκοπός αυτής της τακτικής που περιγράφει ο Μαδούρο είναι η αποσταθεροποίηση την κατάσταση στο εσωτερικό της Βενεζουέλας, σε τέτοιο βαθμό που θα πυροδοτήσει εσωτερικές συγκρούσεις, όπως εκτιμά. Κατηγόρησε επίσης την αντιπολίτευση ότι εμπλέκεται σε « εγκληματικά σχέδια », για να εκμετ

Solidarity, survival and sabotage: reconstructing the history of the blackouts tormenting Venezuela

While Venezuela’s government and the Chavista movement proclaimed victory over the worst blackouts to plague the country, Washington’s coup masters have promised more darkness until their goals are complete. by Misión Verdad Part 2 - Threats of intervention and the failure of “Plan Guaidó” On January 23 of this year, the United States and its allies recognized Juan Guaidó as “President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela”, completely ignoring the Venezuelan Constitution and the more than 6 million Venezuelans who voted for Nicolas Maduro in the elections of May 20, 2018. During the last two months, all mechanisms of economic suffocation against the country have been deployed. Everything from bank accounts to the assets of the Republic have been frozen by the U.S. government. Most glaring among these cases was the blockage of $1.2 billion in gold owned by Venezuela, located in the Bank of England, and the confiscation of CITGO, a subsidiary of PDVSA on US soil.