[This is a translation of an article that appeared in Al Akhbar [Arabic] a few days ago. Link below.] Ansar Allah detain two Americans on Espionage Charges  Two Americans have been under surveillance who have regularly visited the site that is the current temporary residence of the UN team.  The UN are based in the Sheraton Hotel…

Over 10 million people in Yemen are starving, 1 in 3 children are malnourished and these are the official statistics, the reality is probably far worse than what we are being told. There is only one functioning general hospital able to deal with critical injuries, situated in the capital Sanaa. The Saudi blockade and its…

We are the children of Yemen. You do not know our names, like Aylan Kurdi, the 3-year-old Syrian boy whose little lifeless body was found washed up on a beach in Turkey, or Ali Saad Dawabsheh, the 18-month-old Palestinian baby who was burnt alive after Jewish settlers set his house on fire in the middle…

“Acts of violence– Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death–and the meaninglessness of killing.” ~  Dag Hammarskjold This is a simple story recounted to me this morning by a friend in Yemen. A simple story but one that reduced me to tears as it so aptly exemplified…

Yemen is the moral litmus..it is revealing more than any other nation the naked, exposed evil of the destroyer alliance. There is no hidden agenda here, it is unmitigated genocide permitted, facilitated and condoned by the international community of tyrants and cowards. A brief snippet from the conversation I had tonight with Mohamad Shami in…

Anyone who has witnessed or experienced the effects of war upon the innocent knows this look. This look of incomprehension, shock, the turning within for some kind of elusive clarity. There is a point at which, so much bloodshed, mutilation is seen that something within just flicks a switch and we become like bodies without…

“Sana’a must be seen, however long the journey, though the hardy camel droop, leg worn on the way.” Traditional Yemeni Poem Over 2500 years ago, more than 1000 years before the Prophet Mohammed [pbuh] introduced Islam to the world, legend has it that Noah’s son Ham founded the ancient city of Sanaa.  Sanaa the city of…

Just when we think they cant spew any more filth, this report appears in the warmongering New York Times, justifying the wholesale slaughter of Yemeni children by their Saudi allies and bankrollers in the region. “Why would we acknowledge something that doesn’t exist?” said Brig. Gen. Ahmed Asiri, the coalition’s spokesman, when asked whether the…

Yemen: Wholesale murder of a nation. Amir Askari Yahyavi ~ ” The Yemeni people have through the machinations of a coalition of barbarians in suits been exposed to perdition. I condemn the tabloids to hell for their complicity in imposing this mean, cruel existence of the Yemeni people, through the lies, false castigations and the…