Canada’s Hypocrisy: The Blood on Trudeau’s Hands in Palestine, Yemen and Beyond

Karl Fluri Fellow comrades of the revolutionary struggle. It is with great outrage and indignation that I report to you the treacherous and criminal actions of the Canadian government. Once again, we find ourselves facing the grim reality of Canadian imperialism and its destructive impact on the world’s oppressed peoples. From Palestine and Yemen to…

The Story of Seven Countries: A Review of US Aggression in West Asia and North Africa

Ali Karbalaei In the 21st century, the U.S. learnt the hard way of its catastrophic foreign military policy in West Asia: From boots on the ground to so-called precision strikes. Washington’s success in destabilizing a continent with terror and destruction over two decades came at the expense of mass civilian casualties?, dead U.S. soldiers, expensive…

China’s Example of Leadership Injects Hope into a World of Uncertainty

Danny Haiphong Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, presides over the closing meeting of the talks between a Saudi delegation and an Iranian delegation in Beijing, capital of China,…

Saudi-Iran Deal: A Possible US ‘Suez Moment’

As`ad AbuKhalil Smoke rises from oil tanks beside the Suez Canal hit during the initial Anglo-French assault on Port Said, Nov. 5, 1956. (Fleet Air Arm, Imperial War Museums, Wikimedia Commons) The U.S. does not want to experience what Britain experienced in Suez in 1956: a watershed moment signaling its global decline. The announcement in China…

ISIS-K Strikes Pakistan: ISIS Join with Nazis in Ukraine

Mourners offer funeral prayers for bomb blast victims a day after a suicide attack at a Shiite mosque in Peshawar on March 5, 2022, as the death toll rose to 62 overnight as police said they would try to identify the bomber from two severed feet found at the scene. (Photo by Abdul MAJEED /…

Tears for Ukraine, Sanctions for Russia, Yawns for Yemen, Arms for Saudis: The West’s Grotesque Double Standard

Ahmed Abdulkareem HAJJAH, YEMEN –“We’re brutally bombed every day. So why doesn’t the Western world care like it does about Ukraine?!!… Is it because we don’t have blonde hair and blue eyes like Ukrainians?”  Ahmed Tamri, a Yemeni father of four, asked with furrowed brows about the outpouring of international support and media coverage of…

Yemen: The War the World Forgot

PHIL MILLER Aftermath of a Saudi-led air strike on Yemen’s capital Sanaa, 18 January 2022. (Photo: Mohammed Huwais / AFP via Getty) While the world watches Vladimir Putin’s harrowing invasion of Ukraine, our new film shows how other despots are also getting away with wanton aggression – with British support. Gross violations of international law….

The Global Links of the Recent Escalation in Yemen Conflict

Abdul Rahman The UN resident coordinator for humanitarian affairs in Yemen, William David Grisley, visited the site of the Saudi-led coaltion’s bombing in the reserve prison in Sa’ada province on Thursday. (Photo: Saba) The failure of the UN to play its primary role of a peacemaker in Yemen affects its humanitarian interventions and provides opportunities…

General Soleimani’s Assassination: Between Failed Imperialist Obsession and Deterrence

Yoselina Guevara Two years ago, on January 3, 2020, in Baghdad, the Americans perpetrated the assassination of the legendary general of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Qassem Soleimani, also losing his life Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, former deputy chief of the Iraqi Hashd Shaabi. The reasons that led Washington to commit this…

New Film Exposes English Village Key to Bombing Yemen

Matt Kennard and Phil Miller Village airport: A cargo plane taxis down Warton’s runway, bound for Saudi Arabia (Photo: Phil Miller / Declassified UK) Harry Kane has just scored a late goal, confirming England’s win over Germany in this summer’s Euros. We are sat under a marquee outside a pub near a main road in…

UN Human Rights Council Abandons Yemen

Charles Pierson The UN Human Rights Council has quashed an ongoing investigation into possible war crimes in Yemen.  The HRC rejected a draft resolution on October 7 which would have continued the mandate of the UN Group of Eminent Independent and Regional Experts on Yemen (GEE) to investigate war crimes and human rights violations in…

The Yemeni September 21st Revolution

Rune Agerhus Yemenis were punished for claiming their right to self-determination, punished for demanding to live in a free, prosperous, and democratic nation. On July 30th, 2014, the Yemeni government at the time introduced several austerity measures as a prerequisite for obtaining a loan from IMF. One of these measures was to increase the fuel…

Can Saudis/US Use Water Crisis to Bring Yemenis to Their Knees?

Ahmed Abdulkareem SANA`A, YEMEN — When the well ran dry, Abu Yahya al-Hamdani, who provides water to many residents of the Saruf neighborhood in northeastern Sana`a, had no warning. Last week, the water table dipped lower in his water well and the pump began to suck air. For the families in the neighborhood, to whom…

As US Pivots from Afghanistan to Yemen, Al-Mahrah Copes with Increasing Military Presence

Ahmed Abdulkareem AL-MAHRAH, YEMEN —Eastern Yemen has been largely spared the country’s grueling six-year war, with U.S. military personnel in the region, once a rare sight, garnering little more than a curious stare from the passing onlooker. But a new sense of anxiety has settled over the residents of the eastern Al-Mahrah Province amid stories…

US, Israeli Policies Drive Houthi – Hezbollah Defense Pact as Yemen Feels Palestine’s Pain

Ahmed Abdulkareem SANA’A, YEMEN — A young groom in his early twenties, Zaid Abdullah al-Shareif, took to the stage adorned in traditional Yemeni wedding attire. He wasn’t just announcing his marriage though. Zaid, holding a replica of the famous sword of Ali Ibn Abi Talib, a historical figure revered for his character and battlefield prowess,…

What Will Israel Do to Counter Hezbollah’s Missiles?

Elijah J. Magnier Ayyash 250k missile (Photo: Mohammed Abed / AFP) Jerusalem, the West Bank and other cities where Palestinians and Israelis have lived side by side since 1948 rose up to join the Palestinian resistance with their fist raised and rockets and missiles launched against Israeli settler forces in the occupied Palestinian territories. Although…

Trained by Years of Guerilla War, Yemen’s Houthis Want to Export Their Revolution to Palestine

Ahmed Abdulkareem HODEIDA, YEMEN — Ayesh Atta arranges rings of long, light yellow Jasmine flowers into necklaces to give to the protesters and passers-by of his Mina Street flower shop in the coastal city of Hodeida. In the past, the 34-year-old Ayesh preserved the flowers in an icebox to sell in distant markets for Eid…

With the Battle for Marib, Yemen Is at a Crossroads

Abdul Rahman A displaced family in Marib: Photo: Xinhua A battle is going on for control of the vital city of Marib in Yemen. The nature of the engagement has also led to proposals of a ceasefire and behind-the-scenes talks. However, it is essential that the US not play a disruptive role The last major…