2024-01-26: News Headlines

Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. (2024-01-26). Biden's Illegal Bombing Of Yemen Intensifies The Risk Of Regional War. popularresistance.org In response to Israel's assault on the people of Gaza in early October, Yemen's Houthi movement, Ansar Allah, began mounting attacks on commercial ships in and around the Red Sea. The Houthis said the attacks were aimed at Israeli-connected or Israel-bound ships and they would continue until there is a ceasefire in Gaza. Meanwhile, the pressure on this vital trade route is impacting the global economy as ships are being redirected to more expensive routes. | On January 11, South Africa presented its case documenting Israel's genocide in Gaza to the International Court of Justice. The following day, the U.S. and U…

Mitchell Plitnick (2024-01-26). Biden is following Netanyahu off a cliff. mondoweiss.net In refusing to pressure Israel into a ceasefire while continuing to launch strikes on Yemen, Biden has shown utter contempt for all Arabs and Muslims, including his own Arab and Muslim American citizens who say they won't vote for him over Gaza.

The Dissenter (2024-01-26). Unauthorized Disclosure: Matthew Hoh. thedissenter.org "Unauthorized Disclosure" is back for another season in 2024! | We kick the year off with a show regular, Matthew Hoh, who is a former Marine, former State Department official, and the associate director for the Eisenhower Media Network. You can find his writing on war and foreign policy at Matthew discusses the US government's attacks on Yemenis and how the Israeli government's war on Gaza is expanding to a wider regional conflict. He addresses the denial and detachment from reality exhibited by offici…

WSWS (2024-01-26). New Zealand personnel to assist in US-led bombing of Yemen. wsws.org The New Zealand ruling class is intervening against Yemen's Houthis, and in support of US-led warmongering in the Middle East and the Israel's genocide in Gaza.

teleSUR- hvh, DRL (2024-01-26). Yemen confirma ataques de 200 drones contra barcos en mar Rojo. telesurtv.net Según el líder del movimiento hutí, los ataques contra los barcos continuarán hasta que cese el genocidio de Israel.

guest author (2024-01-26). °Yemen. Un pueblo indomable! — La historia (I). workers.org Por Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein* El 3 de enero de 2024 — En 2015, Yemen, un país desconocido para muchos en Occidente, inició una guerra en defensa de su soberanía que estaba siendo amenazada por una alianza intervencionista liderada por Arabia Saudí. El pueblo yemení tuvo que pagar con la vida . . . |

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies (2024-01-26). Biden Must Choose Between a Ceasefire in Gaza and a Regional War. counterpunch.org In the topsy-turvy world of corporate media reporting on U.S. foreign policy, we have been led to believe that U.S. air strikes on Yemen, Iraq and Syria are legitimate and responsible efforts to contain the expanding war over Israel's genocide in Gaza, while the actions of the Houthi government in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and

Fran Shor (2024-01-26). Yeh Man, the U.S. Has an Addiction to War and Empire. counterpunch.org What explains the Biden Administration's obsession with the Houthis and the Pentagon's almost daily launching of missile and air strikes on targets in Yemen? The ostensible rationale is to protect shipping in the Red Sea. Yet, other Arab allied nations, with the exception of Bahrain (a country that houses the largest US military base in

Matthew Hoh (2024-01-26). Imperial Costs: Two Stories Summarize the Cost of Empire to Democracy. counterpunch.org SEALs died taking part in a blockade mission against Yemen, a mission that dates back nearly a decade and is part of a two-decade-long history of US military action against Yemen (the US first launched a drone strike in Yemen in 2002). US policy towards Yemen is part of the larger, failed and counterproductive Global War on Terror, which itself is part of a larger, failed and counterproductive US Middle East policy. US Middle East policy, in its current form, goes back to the 1970s and is part of a larger, failed and counterproductive US militarized foreign policy. Can anyone go to the families of those two SEALs…

presstv.ir (2024-01-26). Al-Houthi: Targeting of Israel-linked ships in Red Sea will continue. presstv.ir Yemen's Ansarullah leader Abdel-Malik al-Houthi says the targeting of ships linked to Israel will continue until aid reaches the Palestinian people in Gaza.

John P. Ruehl (2024-01-26). Houthis Emerge as Latest Threat to U.S. Control Over Global Shipping. counterpunch.org On December 30, 2023, the Singapore-flagged Maersk Hangzhou, owned by Danish company Maersk Line, came under missile and subsequent boat attacks by Houthi rebels in the Red Sea. The U.S. Navy responded by using helicopters to destroy three of the four ships used in the assault. Maersk, the world's largest shipping company, immediately announced it was suspending operations in

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