Genocide is occurring in plain sight. Media scoundrels ignore what demands screaming headlines of condemnation.

Obama bears full responsibility. Saudis and other involved despotic regimes share it. So do Western leaders supporting an atrocity they should make every effort to stop.

The World Food Program (WFP) said half of Yemen’s 25 million people go hungry for lack of food. Starvation may claim many thousands.

Untreated wounds for lack of available medicines and treatment may take thousands more. Young children and the elderly are most vulnerable.

On Friday, UN authorities launched an urgent appeal. They need to raise $274 million quickly to provide desperately needed aid. A UN statement said:

“The devastating conflict in Yemen takes place against the backdrop of an existing humanitarian crisis that was already one of the largest and most complex in the world.”

Saudi-led terror-bombing and ground fighting so far displaced over 150,000 Yemenis – thousands more daily.

UN Humanitarian Coordinator Johannes Van Der Klaauw said “(o)rdinary families are struggling to access healthcare, water, food and fuel – basic requirements for their survival.”

Millions are affected in 18 of 22 Yemeni governorates – perhaps all of them as conflict deepens.

Virtually no safe havens exist. Civilian neighborhoods, hospitals, schools, mosques and other non-military related sites are being struck.

Some estimates indicate over 2,500 killed – many more thousands wounded.

“I urge donors to act now to support the people of Yemen at this time of greatest need,” Van Der Klaauw urged.

After three weeks of devastating Saudi-led terror bombing (naked aggression by any standard), UN Secretary General noticed.

He’s a longtime imperial tool. He disgraces the office he holds. Instead of condemning US-orchestrated/Saudi-led mass murder, he pathetically urged all sides to halt hostilities.

“…I am calling for an immediate ceasefire in Yemen by all parties,” he said.

Why now? Why not immediately after Saudi-led terror-bombing began? Why hasn’t he clearly condemned the conflict’s perpetrators?

Why has he largely ignored Yemenis suffering this long? Why does he support US direct and proxy wars while pretending otherwise?

Why is he a reliable US imperial tool instead of fulfilling his UN mandate?

Yemen is being systematically raped. Millions of Yemeni lives are threatened.

During a Friday Solidarity Rally with Yemen, Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah condemned Saudi aggression.

“This rally is aimed at voicing our condemnation and rejection of the Saudi-American aggression against Yemen and its people and at expressing our support for this noble people,” he said.

He urged all Yemenis to unite against what’s ongoing.

“It is our human, jihadist and religious duty to take this stance and all the sons of this nation must reassess their responsibilities and take the appropriate stance,” he urged.

“Intimidation or threats will not prevent us from continuing to declare our condemnation of the aggression against Yemen.”

“This major historic period is affecting the entire region, not only Yemen…This is a war against an Arab people.”

Its “real objective is restoring the Saudi-American hegemony over Yemen” Millions of Yemenis are without food, water and medical aid,” he added.

He called on all Yemenis to “defeat the aggression.” He urged a political solution and end to fighting.

Iran’s Defense Minister General Hossein Dehqan blamed Washington and Israel for waging aggression on Yemen. He believes efforts to defeat Houthi resistance will fail.

Vladimir Putin called for “an immediate cessation of military activities” in Yemen within 24 hours after Saudi terror-bombing began.

Obama wants escalated war. He’s supplying Saudis with munitions, intelligence, logistical help and targets to strike – including civilian ones.

He’s mindless of human suffering. US imperial objectives alone matter.

19 Comments on "Yemeni Crisis Deepens"

Perk Earl on Fri, 17th Apr 2015 7:05 pm 



The ME never surprises, just same old deadly violent clashing opposing sects.

Mark Ziegler on Fri, 17th Apr 2015 9:00 pm 



So why don’t they show it on the local television networks. Some kind of permanent blackout. The only time I see anything is from old YouTube videos.

viewcrafters

Speculawyer on Fri, 17th Apr 2015 9:09 pm 



Yemen has been a borderline failed state for a couple decades. Now it is officially a failed state. And no one should be surprised in the least. They are running out of oil, they are running out water, they are whacked out on khat, and they are overflowing with religious nuttery.

It was always just a matter of time before that place imploded.

Speculawyer on Fri, 17th Apr 2015 9:10 pm 



Infowars? What do you bother providing us with that COMPLETE GARBAGE. The place that thinks EVERYTHING is a ‘false flag’ attack.

SilentRunning on Fri, 17th Apr 2015 10:22 pm 



Conservatives are appalled by the immorality of birth control and abortion.

As the human population overshoots their replacement for the evils of birth control are: war and famine. So much more humane!

Conservatives are fucked up in the head.

ffkling on Fri, 17th Apr 2015 11:01 pm 



So true SilentRunning!!!!

The best that can be said is the Republican mentality is dim whited and complete nonsense.

Kenjamkov on Sat, 18th Apr 2015 2:03 am 



Please correct me if I am wrong, Obama is a Democrat right? What is with the bitching about Conservatives and Republicans? I’m genuinely interested in the answer as I do not understand the points made by SilentRunning or ffkling with regards to this article.

Newfie on Sat, 18th Apr 2015 6:43 am 



Speculawyer nailed it. Yemen is running out of oil, running out water, stoned on khat, overflowing with religious nut cakes, and awash with weapons. It is a now a failed state. A fertile incubator for various jihadi groups. Iraq, Syria, Yemen. The dominos fall around the worlds oil supplies.

eugene on Sat, 18th Apr 2015 8:33 am 



And here I thought we were delivering democracy, freedom and wonderfulness by proxy. As far as religious nut cakes, I seem to see them everywhere even right in here in the land of enlightenment. My read is as the global “community” disintegrates the chaos will start at the fringes but eventually wind up in a neighborhood near you. The typical response is if you’re mine, you’re good but if you’re not, then you’re bad. One final thought is how many of you have any idea of US involvement in Yemen? I’ll bet plenty of those weapons have “made in the usa”. If there’s a mess most of the time the “religious” good guys have/are there.

Allan on Sat, 18th Apr 2015 9:22 am 



25 million people living in semi-desert, not able to make and sell anything of value to outside world…

JuanP on Sat, 18th Apr 2015 9:38 am 



I agree with Newfie. Speculawyer nailed it at 9:09. It was only a matter of when.

theedrich on Sun, 19th Apr 2015 12:11 am 



True, Mohammedanism is and always has been a sociopathic cult.  True, George W. “We’re-trying-to-change-the-world” Bush was the initiator of the most recent madcap pursuit of “American interests” in Iraq back in 2003.  Also true that the U.S. exchanged a promise of eternal support for those Saud fun people in return for their oil back around 1975.  But the “Drone-’em-all” creature now in the White House has taken all of this to an entirely new level.  His only concern is keeping the masses mushroomed.

That famous liberal, Stalin, is reputed to have said, “Where there is no person, there is no problem.”  It seems that “our” government has taken Uncle Joe’s words to heart.  If a genocide happens in a desert wasteland and the state-controlled American media do not report it, is it really a genocide?

ralph on Sun, 19th Apr 2015 12:52 am 



They may be stoned on khat, and on the brink of collapse, but the Yeminis have been one of the more tolerant ME societies up until now. It has now being driven into religious hatred as a proxy war between Saudi/US led Sunni nations and Shia Iran. For forty years the US has been formenting division in the ME as a divide and rule strategy, until ISIS came along and out-brutalised even US policy, forcing cooperation with Iran backed militias in Iraq.

Davy on Sun, 19th Apr 2015 6:44 am 



We should quit caring about Yeminis and return home to start caring about our own shit storm brewing. Our large cities will make Sanaa look like a cake walk. When complexity unravels and dependent sheeples stampede that will be chaos. At least the Yeminis are already primitive and dying. Normal is easier to handle than unexpected change. Of course the NeoCon men will continue their end game of who knows what as our cities fall into dysfunction. What a sick joke the American dream will be soon.

daddio7 on Sun, 19th Apr 2015 6:20 pm 



And the Iranian back Houthi rebels have nothing to do with this?

theedrich on Mon, 20th Apr 2015 1:54 am 



Except that Houthis are NOT backed by Iran. That idea is another US-government lie designed to cover up its real purpose: to accede to Saudi obsessions (because the Empire needs Araby’s oil). It reminds one of American false-flag operations in Syria after our masters had clandestinely but lethally armed “peaceful protesters” to start a revolution against Syria’s government at the behest of KSA.

BobInget on Mon, 20th Apr 2015 3:03 pm 



“Yemeni Crisis Deepens”
I’ll say….

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/20/us-warship-iran-weapons_n_7102168.html

Mano a Mano an actual maritime showdown,
just like in the olden days.

Here’s the piece. Remember, you read it on PO.com
first.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Navy officials say the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt is steaming toward the waters off Yemen and will join other American ships prepared to intercept any Iranian vessels carrying weapons to the Houthi (HOO’-thee) rebels fighting in Yemen.

The U.S. Navy has been beefing up its presence in the Gulf of Aden and the southern Arabian Sea amid reports that a convoy of Iranian ships may be headed toward Yemen to arm the Houthis.

The Houthis are battling government-backed fighters in an effort to take control of the country.

There are about nine U.S. ships in the region, including cruisers and destroyers carrying teams that can board and search other vessels.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss ship movement on the record.

BobInget on Mon, 20th Apr 2015 3:16 pm 



Whoopee!

What the US Navy is planning, high seas piracy,
by a foreign power, is cause for war. (casus belli)

Will Iran ring that bell, challenge US supremacy, is anyone’s guess.

My guess, Iran will not directly engage US warships.
Rather, they will simply destroy Saudi oil export
capability with supersonic missiles, if attacked.

Folks like the Saudis shouldn’t live is glass houses if they intend to get nasty with neighbors.

By Tuesday, as this news breaks, oil will go higher.

BobInget on Mon, 20th Apr 2015 3:50 pm 



There are at least one hundred Americans stuck in Yemen waiting for a US ship to get them out.

Most other foreign nationals have already been evacuated. Our people will be used as a ready excuse to land military in Yemen… To protect
Americans.

I figure we need to occupy Yemen after we ‘neutralize’ all the Houthis (kill) who were fighting
al Qaeda and IS before KSA started bombing.

Egypt won’t put ‘boots on the ground, neither will Pakistan, sudanese don’t have shoes, much less boots. If the US doesn’t properly call this an ‘oil war’, what will we call it?

Oh, I know. A humanitarian mission to ‘save Americans’ held captive in Yemen.

My point, can we add all the extra expense of this latest expeditionary force to each barrel of oil the Saudis have been shorting on US stock markets?