Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Jason Rezaian describes what renewed U.S. sanctions will do to the Iranian people:Although sanctions won’t target food and medicine directly, Iran will be cut from the international financial system, so imports...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Matt Taibbi comments on the widespread ignorance and lack of coverage of the war on Yemen and the world’s worst humanitarian crisis:Yemen features the wrong kinds of victims, lacks a useful partisan angle and,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
