January 24, 2012
FILE – In this Friday, April 8, 2011 file photo, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh … Yemen president gives farewell speech, apologizes By AHMED AL-HAJ | Associated Press – Sun, Jan 22, 2012 SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Outgoing Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is getting ready to leave the country after delivering a farewell speech on Sunday, apologizing for mistakes and saying it is [...]
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January 21, 2012
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Yemeni Tawakul Karman flashes a victory sign outside her tent in Tagheer square in Sanaa October 7, 2011. (Reuters/Ahmed Jadallah) http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=454082 By Tom Finn SANAA (Reuters) — Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakul Karman has said President Ali Abdullah Saleh and his inner circle must be barred from power [...]
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January 9, 2012
Yemeni protestors chant slogans during the fifth day of a five-day march from Yemen‘s impoverished Red Sea city of Hudaydah to Sanaa demanding the prosecution of Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)Sunday’s decision came as a surprise to many in Yemen, who believed that [...]
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January 1, 2012
“The Arab People Have Woken Up”: Yemeni Activist Tawakkol Karman Accepts Nobel Peace Prize The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was presented this weekend to three women for “their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work.” Democracy Now! aired highlights on Monday of [...]
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December 26, 2011
Protests demanding the removal of the president have been ongoing in Yemen since February, [EPA] The administration of United States President Barack Obama is considering whether to allow Yemen’s president into the country for medical treatment, as fresh violence and political tensions flare in the outgoing leader’s home nation. A senior administration official said President Ali [...]
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December 8, 2011
PM Mohammad Basindwa is to head the new government, which will carry out its duties for three months [EPA] Yemen‘s vice-president has issued a decree approving the formation of a government of national unity as agreed under a Gulf-brokered deal to end months of bloody unrest. The decree on Wednesday by Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi establishes a cabinet [...]
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November 23, 2011
Marchers protest in Sana’a rejecting Ali Abdullah Saleh‘s immunity from prosecution. Photograph: Hani Mohammed/AP Yemen president quits after deal in Saudi Arabia Agreement for immediate transfer of power pledges immunity for Ali Abdullah Saleh and family reddit this Tom Finn in Sana’a guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 23 November 2011 16.51 GMT Article history After nine months of mass [...]
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November 21, 2011
Yemeni soldiers who joined sides with anti-regime protesters wave during a demonstration calling for the overthrow of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli, File) SANAA (AFP) — A United Nations Security Council meeting on Yemen scheduled for Monday has been postponed, the UN envoy to the country said on Sunday as he [...]
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October 26, 2011
In a Democracy Now! exclusive interview, we speak to Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Yemeni activist, Tawakkul Karman. The U.N. Security Council is set to vote on a resolution calling on Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to immediately step down after 33 years in power. All five permanent members of the Security Council back the [...]
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October 19, 2011
UN Security Council Chambers Yemeni Nobel Laureate Demands Saleh Be Prosecuted for War Crimes The UN Security Council is considering a resolution to support the Gulf States’ plan for Saleh to step down with immunity by John Glaser, October 18, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Yemeni Nobel peace laureate Tawakul Karman publicly pleaded with [...]
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October 9, 2011
AMY GOODMAN: This is a clip of her speaking just after her release from prison in January. TAWAKKUL KARMAN: We will continue our struggle until this regime goes from our happy country. We will defend our country. The Jasmine Revolution continues until this regime goes. AMY GOODMAN: Tawakkul Karman is the first Arab woman to win the Nobel [...]
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September 25, 2011
Saleh has ruled Yemen for 33 years despite CIA’s initial prediction he will not last more than six months [EPA] Profile: Ali Abdullah Saleh Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen’s president for three decades, has proved a wily political operator but a poor administrator. To protesters’ dismay, Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen’s president, returned to Yemen [...]
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July 18, 2011
The Horn of Africa smuggling trade could involve more than 70,000 people and be worth more than $20m each year, according to a 2010 report fom Chatam House think-tank [GALLO/GETTY] There were more than 30 people crammed on the back of the truck as the vehicle bumped through the desert in eastern Djibouti. The passengers were men, [...]
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July 16, 2011
Despite all the talk of the US debt there is never a shortage of money and lives that can be used or taken to support the unquenchable thirst for hegemony and the continuous blood lust of the military. australia as the true friend downunder gives all the help and bodies we can The madness of the political psychopaths [...]
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July 14, 2011
US to Yemeni Opposition: Saleh to Return Soon Officials Expect Sunday Return for Anniversary of His Seizing Power by Jason Ditz, July 13, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum US officials have informed the Yemeni opposition that President Ali Abdullah Saleh will soon return to the nation from neighboring Saudi Arabia. The [...]
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July 3, 2011
Asian markets search for a new model consumer after the American economy tanked, which has yet to recover [Getty] Asia needs a new model consumer. A post-crisis generation of “zombie consumers” in the United States is likely to hobble growth in global consumption for years to come. And that means that export-led developing Asia now [...]
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June 20, 2011
Al-Qa’ida scarecrow in Yemen 31 May 2011 Islamic extremists have seized Zanjibar, the capital of Abyan in southern Yemen, having expelled government forces. This can be seen as a highly significant development in the war between President Ali Abdallah Saleh and his opponents who are demanding his resignation and the establishment of a democratic infrastructure [...]
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June 7, 2011
Arabs see Yemen as turning point for uprisings * Party official says Saleh will return to duties * Tunisia, Egypt presidents already tossed out by protests Many ordinary Arabs claimed another scalp on Sunday in their quest to oust the region’s autocrats and dismissed the idea that Yemen’s president would ever return to power after [...]
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June 7, 2011
Al-Qa’ida scarecrow in Yemen 31 May 2011 Islamic extremists have seized Zanjibar, the capital of Abyan in southern Yemen, having expelled government forces. This can be seen as a highly significant development in the war between President Ali Abdallah Saleh and his opponents who are demanding his resignation and the establishment of a democratic [...]
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June 3, 2011
Yemen slides towards all-out war after President Saleh survives rocket attack Government claims attack on presidential compound was ‘attempted coup’ as fighting intensifies in Sana’a Share15 Ian Black, Middle East editor and Shatha al-Harazi in Sana’a guardian.co.uk, Friday 3 June 2011 19.53 BST Article history The latest violence in Yemen is likely to lead to [...]
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June 1, 2011
Misdiagnosing the Middle East |More F. Gregory Gause III | May 26, 2011 There is a dangerous consensus about the Middle East based on the assumption that authoritarian politics are the root of instability, violence and anti-Americanism. Thus the United States is obliged, for both its own security and the furtherance of its values, to [...]
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May 19, 2011
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Headlines from the Dustbin of History (Afghan Dept.) Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 10:03am, May 19, 2011. Bored to Death in Afghanistan (and Washington) Mating Déjà Vu with a Mobius Strip in the Graveyard of Empire By Tom Engelhardt One day in October 2001, a pilot for Northwest Airlines refused to let Arshad Chowdhury, a 25-year-old [...]
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May 16, 2011
JUAN GONZALEZ: Protests after Friday prayers are underway now in Yemen, Syria and Egypt. Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, where Al Jazeera reports the demonstration is a show of support for the Palestinian unity deal between Fatah and Hamas. It is also being held as a show of religious [...]
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May 12, 2011
Tomgram: William Astore, A New Age of “Enlightened” War Posted by William Astore at 10:00am, May 12, 2011. In case you hadn’t noticed, they are — no kidding around — absolutely the niftiest non-humans on Earth. I’m speaking about the special operations force of Navy SEALs that took out Osama bin Laden. They and their special ops [...]
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May 9, 2011
AMY GOODMAN: After the killing of Osama bin Laden and targeting of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the latest U.S. assassination attempt came in Yemen Thursday with a drone strike aimed at killing a U.S. citizen suspected of orchestrating terrorist attacks in the United States, including the 2009 Christmas Day underwear bomber plot. Anwar al-Awlaki, the [...]
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May 9, 2011
After bin Laden Hit, U.S. Aides Raise Dubious Hopes for Peace by Gareth Porter, May 09, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Barack Obama and top administration officials have taken advantage of the killing of Osama bin Laden to establish a new narrative suggesting the event will pave the way for negotiations [...]
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May 9, 2011
Nato units left 61 African migrants to die of hunger and thirst Exclusive: Boat trying to reach Lampedusa was left to drift in Mediterranean for 16 days, despite alarm being raised Share1587 Jack Shenker in Lampedusa guardian.co.uk, Sunday 8 May 2011 21.30 BST Article history Refugees from Libya reach Lampedusa. A Nato ship failed to [...]
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May 8, 2011
While the establishment media was busy parroting President Obama’s announcement of Osama bin Laden’s supposed assassination, reporting the unsubstantiated claims as if they were unquestionable facts, much of the so-called “alternative” press was far morecautious — and accurate, it turns out. But more importantly, with the new official storyline indicating that bin Laden was in fact unarmed, bigger and [...]
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May 4, 2011
After bin Laden: Business as Usual in Yemen By James Gundun – Washington, D.C. By authorizing the killing blow to Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama has gone from goat to hero overnight. Although he received months of updates rather than a “3 A.M.” phone call, many of his disgruntled supporters are hopping back on [...]
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May 1, 2011
Yemen president refuses to sign political reform deal Agreement with opposition to end months of protests looks in tatters as Ali Abdullah Saleh postpones signing ceremony Share12 Reuters guardian.co.uk, Sunday 1 May 2011 14.46 BST Article history A Yemeni protester shouts slogans during a demonstration in Sanaa demanding the ousting of President Ali Abdullah [...]
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April 29, 2011
Obama’s Pentagon and C.I.A. Picks Show Shift in How U.S. Fights Left, Stephen Crowley/The New York Times; Luke Sharrett/The New York Times Leon E. Panetta, left, and Gen. David H. Petraeus. By MARK MAZZETTI and ERIC SCHMITT Published: April 28, 2011 RECOMMEND TWITTER COMMENTS (28) SIGN IN TO E-MAIL PRINT REPRINTS SHARE WASHINGTON — President Obama’s decision [...]
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April 28, 2011
This is an excellent article by Nick Turse and continues a theme he has been following. Turse examines a great deal of issues and always appears in command of whatever topic he is engaging his readers on. You may remember I wrote an article over a year ago suggesting that Yemen was next in line [...]
Tags: Ali Abdullah Saleh, Barack Obama, Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, Hosni Mubarak, middle east, New York Times, Nick Turse, Protest, United States, Yemen, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali
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April 28, 2011
What follows is an introduction by Tom Englehardt to an article by Nick Turse. The introduction is posted here because it gives you a good insight into Tom and just how he works at the Tom Dispatch site. You will remember that on numerous occasions ikners.com has made it very clear that it is sites like Tom [...]
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April 17, 2011
Saleh stands defiant as desertions mountApril 16, 2011 01:05 AM (Last updated: April 16, 2011 01:05 AM)By Hammoud MounassarAgence France Press SANAA: President Ali Saleh Abdullah stood defiant as Yemen’s elected leader in a speech to his supporters Friday despite a growing list of desertions and mounting pressure on him to resign. “These popular masses [...]
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April 14, 2011
Massive anti-regime rally in Yemen capital Apr 13, 2011, 23:10 GMT Sana‘a – Hundreds of thousands of anti-regime protesters rallied Wednesday afternoon in the capital Sanaa, demanding President Ali Abdullah Saleh‘s ouster and denouncing the use of force against protesters nationwide. The protesters chanted slogans including ‘Oh Ali, leave, leave,’ ‘It’s your turn’ and [...]
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April 1, 2011
IMAGE GALLERY —-> CARTOONS IMAGE Width × Height Size Type Download 300×400 30.8 KB jpg Yemen: Mirror, Mirror..
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March 31, 2011
JUAN GONZALEZ: We begin today’s show in Yemen, where hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets Wednesday demanding the immediate resignation of the U.S.-backed President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has ruled the country for 33 years. Protesters have rejected Saleh’s proposal that he remain president until elections are held, but that he [...]
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March 18, 2011
There are some excellent videos available at the Real News Site. For reasons of brevity short descriptions are included here. However, you really should take the time to look at the material at http://therealnews.com/t2/ You will be very well served by the style and the level of material available. George Ikners ikners.com a WordPress site [...]
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March 17, 2011
A cracking good article on Libya and Israel from ther Palestine Chronicle Libya: A No Fly Zone or a Spin Zone By Mohamed Khodr While Gaddafi’s planes are flying to kill, Libyans are dying in the plains of the desert. Since oil is thicker than blood the Europeans and Americans are deliberating and divided on [...]
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Scrambled Media eats Obama crumble
While the establishment media was busy parroting President Obama’s announcement of Osama bin Laden’s supposed assassination, reporting the unsubstantiated claims as if they were unquestionable facts, much of the so-called “alternative” press was far morecautious — and accurate, it turns out. But more importantly, with the new official storyline indicating that bin Laden was in fact unarmed, bigger and [...]
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