Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The Washington Post reports on the aftermath of the April 23 wedding massacre Alex Potter reported on last month:The 22 fatalities included 12 of the dancers, four musicians and six villagers, including one who played...
The US Enables Deliberate Saudi Attacks on Civilian Targets in Yemen
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.UNICEF reports on the latest Saudi coalition attack on a water system in Saada. This is the third time that the same site has been bombed:UNICEF deplores in the strongest terms yet another attack on vital and lifesaving...
New START and the Helsinki Summit
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Jon Wolfsthal makes the case that the Helsinki summit is the right time to begin talks with Russia on extending New START:The July 16 summit in Helsinki between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin presents a...
‘America Is the Whole Thing’: US Complicity in the Destruction of Yemen
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.PBS NewsHour aired the second of Jane Ferguson’s three reports on the war on Yemen earlier this week. Her first report can be found here. The second report focuses on U.S. support for the Saudi coalition:Here is...
Another Saudi Coalition Wedding Massacre in Yemen
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The Saudi coalition slaughtered more Yemeni wedding-goers in another massacre today:First photos of aftermath of #Saudi-led Coalition airstrike on a wedding party today in #Saada north #Yemen. New update of the...
The War on Yemen and Pompeo’s Pathetic Propaganda
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The Trump administration keeps desperately trying to shift the blame for the catastrophe in Yemen away from the Saudi coalition and the U.S.:#Iran’s support for Houthis in Yemen not only enables attacks on Saudi Arabia...
A ‘Peace Plan’ That Has Nothing to Do With Peace
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Philip Gordon and Prem Kumar explain why Kushner’s worthless “peace plan” has no chance of winning Palestinian support:His administration has offered unconstrained support for settlements, with an...
A Worthless ‘Peace Plan’ for Israel and Palestine
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The Trump administration is pressing ahead with its worthless “peace plan” for Israel and Palestine:Asked by the newspaper’s editor, Walid Abu-Zalaf, about an Abbas spokesman’s dismissal of Mr....
‘Relief Plan’ Issued By Saudi Arabia Is a Gimmick
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The International Rescue Committee dismissed Saudi coalition “relief” plan for Yemen as a public relations gimmick:The “relief” plan announced by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to...
The US Doesn’t Need a ‘Space Force’
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Trump announced that he is ordering the creation of a “Space Force” as a new branch of the military. Among other problems with this proposal is that creating a new branch is entirely unnecessary:But the idea...


