Nightslantern Suppressed News - December 5, 2018 // #Yemen

9.12.18

Nightslantern Suppressed News 2018 --  //  Yemen: see previous. Concerning U.S. support for what appears to be Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen, the U.S. Senate has voted for U.S. Bill SJR 54 which requires the U.S. President to withdraw U.S. military forces in or affecting Yemen. The bill specifically leaves out "United States Armed Forces engaged in operations directed at al Qaeda or associated forces," which The Mint Press picks up as a loophole for leaving allocated U.S. forces exactly where they are. The Bill also risks not being passed by the House, or signed by the U.S. President. The Bill shows some effort to hide U.S. involvement in what history may consider a genocide. "The Strategies of the Coalition in the Yemen War: Aerial bombardment and food war," a report by Professor Martha Mundy (Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, London School of Economics) reveals Saudi Coalition intentions and efforts to destroy Yemen's nourishment infrastructure, in other words the country's ability to feed its people. Bombed are agricultural fields, animal flocks, irrigation systems, fishing boats and ports, with the combined effect of widespread starvation. Amid bombings of civilians and other crimes against the people of Yemen this contributes to understanding of a genocide in progress, currently supported by U.S., British, Canadian and French arm sales to Saudia Arabia, and it's a genocide supported not only by corporate weapons sales but the middle classes investing in arm sales and a way of life sustained by war profits. U.S. bombing and missiling of Iraq in the 1990's included the targeting of water facilities, and lack of effective prosecution has resulted in overlooking this war crime when it's committed in other countries. Because prosecution of a U.S. Coalition's genocide against Iraq remained out of reach under NATO country legal systems, the U.S. Coalition wars against Iraq have become a cover for subsequent genocidal wars and actions against Muslim and Christian communities. Starvation as a factor contributing to genocide is not discussed by genocide prevention organizations which avoid aspects of genocide rising from any conflicts between the rich and the poor. Starvation may have been a factor if not tactic of genocide in the Ukraine's Holodomor (a result of Stalin's assignment of Ukrainian food collective production to other collectives), Cambodia's genocide (partly a result of U.S. bombing the agricultural infrastructure), or Myanmar's attempt to destroy the Rohingya (which may be partly a result of the military takeover of and the flooding of agricultural regions).     Partial sources online: "Media Advisory: New Report Documents 'Strategies of the Coalition in the Yemen War'," Report by Martha Mundy distributed by the World Peace Foundation documents patterns of Coalition targeting of civilian, agricultural and fishing sites, Oct. 9, 2018, World Peace Foundation; "America and Britain Complicit in Saudi Acts of Genocide in Yemen: 85,000 Children Dead, 14 Million at 'Risk of Starvation'," Dr. Leon Tressell, Dec. 4, 2018, Global Research; "The Forgotten War: Loophole in Bernie Sanders' Yemen Bill Actually Allows Continued US Involvement in Yemen," Whitney Webb, Dec. 3, 2018, The Mint Press; " S.J.Res.54 - A joint resolution to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities in the Republic of Yemen that have not been authorized by Congress," Sponsored (Feb. 28, 2018) by Sen. Bernard Sanders, 2nd version Nov. 28, 2018, Calendar No.682, 115th Congress 2d Session.
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