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