UN: After Single-Candidate Vote, Yemen’s Democracy ‘Largely on Track’ Ban Terms Vote a ‘Model to Achieve Peace’ by Jason Ditz, May 29, 2012 Print This | Share This The single-candidate election which installed US-backed Major General Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi as the new president of Yemen [...]
Analysis: How Obama Changed Definition of ‘Civilian’ in Secret Drone Wars by Chris Woods, May 29, 2012 Print This | Share This Two US reports published today provide significant insights into President Obama’s personal and controversial role in the escalating covert US drone war in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. In a major extract from Daniel Klaidman’s forthcoming book Kill Or [...]
Yemen’s Renewed “War on Terror” By Ramzy Baroud Columnist and the Editor of Palestine Chronicle. Monday, 28 May 2012 00:00 Yemeni forces continue to push against Islamic fighters affiliated with al-Qaeda. Their major victories come on the heels of the inauguration of Abd Rabbuh Mansur al-Hadi, who is now entrusted with the task of [...]
Young girl waiting at a cash grant distribution by Oxfam GB in Al Hodeidah governorate, district of Al-Jarrahi, Yemen in March 2012. (photo: Wolfgang Gressmann/Oxfam, March 2012)The aid groups, including Oxfam, Save the Children and CARE, report that 10 million people, 44 percent of the population, don’t have enough to eat and say that the [...]
Why I Interrupted Obama’s Counterterrorism Adviser: Because the U.S. Keeps Killing Innocents Abroad “Mr. Brennan, will you speak out about the innocents killed by the U.S. in our drone strikes?,” asked Benjamin during a speech marking the anniversary of bin Laden’s death. May 2, 2012 | Photo Credit: AFP LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing [...]
Confessions of an angry young drone By Pepe Escobar PARIS – These are tumultuous times in Droneland. Some bewildered United States drones are actually mired in second thoughts about their god-given mission – as expressed in detail to author and blogger David Swanson. [1] They even founded their own awareness [...]
White House Defends Drones Despite Civilian Deaths ‘Sometimes You Have to Take Life to Save Lives’ by Jason Ditz, April 29, 2012 Print This | Share This It’s no real secret that the Obama Administration’s ever escalating drone war has killed a massive lot [...]
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has once again expressed his concerns over the U.S. drone strikes in his country’s tribal regions. In a meeting with U.S. Special Envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Marc Grossman on Friday, Zardari said Pakistan has always maintained that U.S. drone attacks are highly “counter-productive” in the war against militants since [...]
The Supposed Legality of Murder By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/supposed-legality-murder War is legal, but pointing out its illegality is not mistaken; it’s irrelevant and un-strategic. That’s the argument I’m hearing from a number of quarters. Chase Madar has a terrific new book on Bradley Manning in which he argues that [...]
The Drone-Happy President: Obama Escalates in Yemen – Again by Glenn Greenwald Ten days ago, I wrote about a request made by CIA Director David Petraeus to expand the drone war in Yemen in accordance with the following, as expressed by the first paragraph of The Washington Post article reporting it: At the time, I wrote that “it’s [...]
A few months back, I reposted here an article that I wrote 10 years ago, before the invasion of Iraq: a fictional scenario of how the Terror War would play out on the ground of the target nations — and in the minds of those sent to wage these campaigns. I was reminded of that piece by [...]
Rarely does the Listening Post dedicate a whole show to the story of a single journalist. But when that story speaks so eloquently of how world history is being written, or erased, we decided it was something we just could not ignore. In December 2009, Yemen‘s air force claimed it had killed [...]
A poll of Arabs in 12 countries found that by a 15-1 ratio, Israel and the US are seen as more threatening than Iran [EPA] The first of its kind – a poll conducted in 12 Arab countries, representing 84 per cent of the population of the Arab world, in an attempt to gauge the [...]
New From The American Empire Project We Meant Well How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People by Peter Van Buren From a State Department insider, the first book recounting our misguided efforts to rebuild Iraq—a shocking and rollicking true-life cross between Catch-22 and The Ugly American Read [...]
Instead, Steinitz called for the international community to impose a full naval and aerial blockade across all of Iran so that “no one can even go out[sic].” This is the only option with any chance of success, he said. Steinitz said a good [...]
U.S. Paying Millions in Cash to Families of ‘Collateral Damage’ by John Glaser, January 23, 2012 link to article http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/23/u-s-paying-millions-in-cash-to-families-of-collateral-damage/ | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Pentagon has a practice called “condolence payments.” This is when U.S. commanders pay surviving family members thousands of dollars for every civilian they’ve killed. After a [...]
MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned linguist and political dissident, spoke Monday night at Barnard College in New York City about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, just hours before Israel and Hamas completed a historic prisoner exchange. “I think [Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit] should have been released a long time ago. But there’s something missing from this [...]
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 [...]
Arab League observers have visited several cities in Syria to ‘monitor the situation’, but repression continues [AFP] Princeton, NJ - Looking back to 2011, the effect of the Arab Spring is still lingering. People have risen in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya and Syria and initiated a worldwide quest for political rights and social justice. Once [...]
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 [...]
Obama’s ‘Realistic Vision’: Less Ground Troops and More Warplanes Plan Would Cut Tens of Thousands of Ground Troops by Jason Ditz, January 04, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Obama Administration plans on unveiling what officials are calling a “more realistic” vision of the future [...]
‘Obama Just Didn’t Have the Balls to Follow With the Right Thing’ By RT January 02, 2012 “RT” – One of the first promises made by President Obama when he first came to power back in 2008 was to close the controversial Guantanamo Bay detention centre. Four years later it is still operational. [...]
| Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Yesterday’s suicide bombing attack on a NATO convoy killed at least 12 Americans, but they weren’t US soldiers. Instead, at least eight were members of the massive force of US government contractors fighting alongside the military in the occupation effort. The number of contractors working for the US military [...]
“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 [...]
U.S. Doubts Intelligence That Led to Yemen Strike By ADAM ENTOUS and JULIAN E. BARNES in Washington and MARGARET COKER in Abu Dhabi Top U.S. military leaders who oversaw missile strikes last year against al Qaeda targets in Yemen suspect they were fed misleading intelligence by the country’s government and were duped into killing a local [...]
The year 2011 saw the rise of a new country, the fall of long-time leaders and the tragedies and triumphs in between This was perhaps the biggest news year in the last two decades. In 2011, protesters overthrew entrenched autocracies, the US caught its most wanted man, a devastating earthquake and tsunami thrashed Japan, a new [...]
“Liberty, Oh Liberty, what crimes are committed in thy name.” –Madame Roland, French Revolution, on her way to the Guillotine Much like Gandhi’s Salt March in India in 1930 the “March of Life” in Yemen began in the besieged bombed southern city of Taiz with tens of thousands of men, women, and children, walking for five [...]
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 [...]
Secrecy defines Obama’s drone war By Karen DeYoung, Published: December 20 Since September, at least 60 people have died in 14 reported CIA drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal regions. The Obama administration has named only one of the dead, hailing the elimination of Janbaz Zadran, a top official in the Haqqani insurgent network, as a counterterrorism victory. The identities [...]
Three young brides 11, 12, and 13, are married to three brothers during a combined ceremony in the rural areas outside Hajjah. © 2011 Stephanie Sinclair/VII http://www.hrw.org/node/103414 Nearly half of all women in Yemen are married as children. Even in the midst of the country’s political upheaval, human rights defenders are pushing for legislation that [...]
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 [...]
Israeli Soldiers Arrested Over Ties to ‘Price Tag’ Attacks Accused of Sabotaging Military Vehicles in West Bank by Jason Ditz, December 06, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The “price tag” attacks by West Bank [...]
The Future of Al Qaeda Fawaz Gerges If this is a topic that interests you it would be good idea to read any article such as this as well as the excellent book by Abdel Bari Atwan titled “The Secret History of Al Qaeda” George Ikners ikners.com gikners@gmail.com To read the other essays [...]
The Pentagon is facilitating contracts for one of the most corrupt governments in the world to exploit natural resources by John Glaser, December 06, 2011 Afghanistan Opens Bids to Western Investors for Mineral Deposits | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Afghanistan opened bids on Tuesday to foreign investors to mine the country’s [...]
CIA, NATO Lied to Press About Lost Drone Move Couched as ‘Head Fake’ to Trick Iran by Jason Ditz, December 06, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum This weekend’s story of Iran shooting down a drone came with [...]
Deadly Attack on Pakistani Base Due to U.S. “Errors” A Pakistani official has claimed that U.S. officers gave the wrong coordinates when seeking permission to engage by John Glaser, December 03, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The unprovoked U.S. attack on a Pakistani military border post last week occurred due to “errors” by U.S. [...]
Casualties in Afghanistan Soar in Last Two Years Most of the American and Afghan killed wounded have occurred after Obama’s surge strategy, with little to show for it by John Glaser, December 03, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In over a decade of war in Afghanistan, about half of all Americans killed in action [...]
Kandahar District Local Officials: NATO Helicopters Killed Three Afghan Women Attack on Civilian Homes in Kandahar District by Jason Ditz, November 29, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum At least three women were killed today and two men were wounded when NATO helicopters attacked a civilian neighborhood in Kandahar Province’s Zhari District, according to [...]
Scott Horton Interviews John Glaser Scott Horton, November 29, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum John Glaser, Assistant Editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the imminent departure of President Saleh in Yemen (and why it hardly matters); the Egyptian model of counterrevolution, where cosmetic changes obscure the authoritarianism and US influence that remains; how international [...]
Dressed in orange prisoner uniforms, students and other activists demonstrate against the Guantanamo Bay detention center on August 17, 2011, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Dressed in orange prisoner uniforms, students and other activists demonstrate against the Guantanamo Bay detention center on August 17, 2011, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) VIEWS [...]
Defected army soldiers standing on top of the walls of their camp greet anti- government protesters during a demonstration demanding the trial of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa on Nov. 26, 2011. (REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi) SANAA (AFP) — Opponents and supporters of Ali Abdullah Saleh held rival rallies in the Yemeni capital Friday after [...]
Israeli FM Rules Out Future Negotiation With Palestinians Insists Israel Will Continue to Withhold Tax Funds by Jason Ditz, November 23, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Speaking today in a meeting with his Montenegrin counterpart, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman ruled out any future negotiations with the upcoming Palestinian unity government, saying Israel won’t [...]
Pakistan to Complain to UN Human Rights Council About Drones Parliament Confirms Intent to Collect, Submit Data to Council by Jason Ditz, November 23, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Following a debate yesterday, Pakistan’s parliament has announced that they intend to collect data about civilian deaths in the US drone strikes against Pakistani [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The European right is not to be trusted NATO Chief: No Intention of Attacking Syria Says Libya-Style Intervention ‘Out of the Question’ by Jason Ditz, October 31, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Speaking to reporters today during a visit to Tripoli, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen insisted that the military alliance has “no intention [...]
by Jason Ditz, October 30, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Yesterday’s suicide bombing attack on a NATO convoy killed at least 12 Americans, but they weren’t US soldiers. Instead, at least eight were members of the massive force of US government contractors fighting alongside the military in the occupation effort. The number of [...]
Noam Chomsky on Israel-Palestine Prisoner Exchange, U.S. Assassination Campaign in Yemen MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned linguist and political dissident, spoke Monday night at Barnard College in New York City about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, just hours before Israel and Hamas completed a historic prisoner exchange. “I think [Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit] should have been [...]
Assassinating Children by Jacob G. Hornberger The extraordinary power of the U.S. government to assassinate people has, once again, been manifested in the assassination of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki. No, that’s not Anwar al-Awlaki, the American Muslim cleric whom U.S. officials recently assassinated in Yemen. That’s Abdulrahm al-Awlaki, the 16-year-old son of Anwar al-Awlaki. There are several [...]
Drone warfare headqyarters New US Drone Base in Ethiopia is Operational by John Glaser, October 27, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The United States has been secretly flying armed Reaper drones on bombing missions from a remote civilian airport in southern Ethiopia as part of a rapidly expanding proxy war against [...]
