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The US-Backed Assault on Yemeni Port Has Started
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.ABC News reports on the start of the Saudi coalition’s attack on the port of Hodeidah:As many as 22 million people – three-quarters of Yemen’s population – could be at risk of losing access to...
Trump’s Giving Diplomacy a Chance. His Critics Should, Too.
Some critics have knocked President Trump for making “too many concessions” to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the historic Singapore Summit – the first-ever meeting between a U.S. president and North Korean leader.Trump’s foreign policy...
Bipartisan Letter Calling on Pentagon to Withhold US Support for Disastrous Assault on Yemen’s Major Port
WASHINGTON, DC (June 13, 2018) – US Representatives Mark Pocan (D-WI), Justin Amash (R-MI), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Thomas Massie (R-KY), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Walter Jones (R-NC), and Ted Lieu (D-CA) this week led a bipartisan letter calling on Secretary of Defense James...
Ron Paul asks: Who Won at the Summit? Trump or Kim?
Yesterday's meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was history in the making. By all accounts the meeting went well. Trump looks like a peacemaker and Kim looks to have delivered security to his people while continuing the...
The Saudi Coalition Bombed a Cholera Treatment Center in Yemen
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Yemen reported that the Saudi coalition bombed one of the cholera treatment centers earlier today:The Yemen War is spiraling out of control. The Saudi/UAE/U.S. coalition bombed a Doctors...
The Trump Administration Is Backing the Saudi Coalition Attack on Hodeidah
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The UAE-led attack on the port of Hodeidah in Yemen appears to going ahead, and the U.S. isn’t trying to prevent it and is going to support it:The Trump administration is now reluctantly getting behind the...
CALL TO ACTION: Congress Must Take Action Now To Prevent a Disaster in Hudaydah
From The Yemen Peace ProjectWe urge you to contact your senators and representatives and tell them the time is now to introduce legislation curtailing assistance to the Saudi- and United Arab Emirates-led coalition’s military campaign in Yemen, the one message that...
Nike to Withhold Iranian Soccer Team’s Shoes for World Cup Over US Sanctions
In a last minute move that threatens to severely handicap the Iranian team at the 2018 World Cup, Nike has announced that they are taking away their shoes, saying no Iranian players can be allowed to wear the shoes of a US company because of sanctions. Iran's coach is...
Law Prof. Jonathan Turley Tells Senators Proposed AUMF Would ‘Put Our Endless War on Autopilot’
George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley, at a Wednesday hearing of Sen. Rand Paul's Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management, presented written testimony arguing that...
