Yemen Is Starving, and We’re Partly to Blame
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80 percent of people in the Arab worlds poorest country are in danger of starving to death under a U.S.-backed blockade and bombing campaign.
Yemen Is Starving, and Were Partly to Blame
By contributors | Jul. 5, 2015
By Chris Toensing
Twenty million people in Yemen, the poorest country in the Arab world, are at risk of dying from hunger or thirst. Thats 80 percent of the countrys population, which according to UN agencies badly needs emergency supplies of food and water, along with fuel and medicine.
This almost unimaginable crisis sounds like something out of a disaster movie. But the cause isnt an earthquake or a tsunami.
The main reason for all this suffering is months of merciless bombardment and blockade led by the richest Arab countries Saudi Arabia and its neighboring petro-princedoms and backed by the United States. Washingtons providing the attackers with technical assistance, intelligence, and top-shelf armaments.
The countries bombing Yemen are targeting a rebel group they claim is a proxy for Iran. The evidence for that is very thin.