NOTE: Shortly after this story was filed, the UN announced a “humanitarian pause in the country’s ongoing conflict” starting July 10 and expected to last a week. As framed by the UN, the “pause” was agreed to by “Yemen’s President Hadi” as well as the Houthis and “other parties” in Yemen, as if there were…
“Its 35 degrees centigrade over here. No water, no electricity. Fasting, battles and war! Water is life! Without it, we can’t clean, drink, wash… Without it, everything is pale, dry, dusty, smelly and we are thirsty” “The water crisis in Aleppo is intensifying as the summer temperatures soar into the high 30s. We are having to…
“Le peuple yéménite n’est pas un mauvais peuple, ce sont de bonnes personnes. Ils veulent être respectés, ils veulent que leur souveraineté soit respectée. Nous ne menons aucune guerre, une guerre a été déclarée contre nous. Notre conflit était interne et il aurait du être réglé en interne” Hanan al-Harazi, sa mère et sa…
The Saudi-American war against Yemen, led by a coalition of the richest Gulf monarchies (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, etc. along with their servants like Egypt and Morocco) against the poorest Arab country, enters its fourth month. According to the United Nations, it has killed more than 3,100 and wounded 15,000, displaced 1 million and…
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In a sane, humane world, the headline would be 19 arrests for executing civilians without trial. But Pupul Chatterjee (@pupulchatterjee) shares the news from the Staffordshire Police that 19 people have been arrested at the UAV Engines factory in Shenstone, Staffordshire, owned by Israeli arms…
“ Yemeni people are not bad people, they are good people. They want to be respected, they want their sovereignty to be respected. We did not wage a war, a war was brought upon us. Our issue was an internal one and it would have been sorted out internally” Hanan al-Harazi, her mother and her 8…
Traduit par Rochelle Cohen Le Mercredi 8 Juillet marquait une année après le début de la guerre à Gaza, qui a coûté 2.200 morts palestiniens et 73 morts israéliens. Des deux côtés de la barrière qui sépare les israéliens des palestiniens, deux femmes locales, Mousheera Jammal et (dans un article connexe) Janet Svirzenski, partagent leur…
“It is a shameful state we have created where a victim chooses to endure the pain and suffering, silenced by fear that judgment will come before justice.” Aysha Taryam Silencing women’s voices, past and present. As far back as the 1990s Egypt’s Ministry of Interiors employed “battagiya” [thugs or gangs] masquerading as “depraved elements” from…
Wednesday 8 July marks one year since the beginning of the war in Gaza, which claimed 2,200 Palestinian and 73 Israeli lives. On two sides of the fence that separates Israelis from Palestinians, two local women, Mousheera Jammal and (in a related story) Janet Svirzenski, share their take on what happened and why. “I am…
Even the medical profession in France is not immune to attack from the Judeo Zionist entity! 12th June 2015 the Disciplinary Committee of the French Medical Board, reprimanded Professor Christophe Oberlin for perceived bias in presenting a case for Crimes against Humanity in Gaza during Cast Lead 2008-9. They also found Dr Oberlin guilty of…
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