Monday, June 18, 2018

Ten Million Dead

The human catastrophe going on in Yemen at this present moment shames us all. Thanks to a bloody conflict between sectarian imbeciles and geo-political assholes, at least TEN MILLION PEOPLE are at risk of starving to death before the end of this year. EIGHT MILLION have already begun to suffer the ill effects of severe malnutrition.

From CBC:

The United Nations aid chief urged the Saudi-led military coalition that controls Yemen's ports to expedite imports of vital food and fuel supplies, warning that a further 10 million Yemenis could face starvation by year-end.
After three years of conflict in which the Yemeni government, backed by Riyadh's coalition, has fought against Iran-aligned Houthi fighters, Yemen is the world's worst humanitarian crisis with some 8.4 million people severely short of food and at risk of starvation.
From "Real News Network":
This is a disastrous war that the United Nations has warned could lead to famine that starves millions of Yemenis. Thus far, 8.4 million Yemenis are on the verge of starvation, and by the end of the year another 10 million Yemenis, for a total of 18.4 million Yemenis, could starve. And this conflict is getting even worse. The U.S. is deeply involved in this battle for the port of Hodeida, which is where 80 percent of aid enters Yemen, which is the poorest country in the Middle East. The United States is providing intelligence and other military assistance to the Saudi and Emirati forces in their attack, and the U.S. military is also doing in-air refueling for this attack on the port of Hodeida. This will likely be the bloodiest battle in the three-year war. The United Nations has warned that 250000 Yemenis could be killed in the brutal fighting.
I don't know the details behind the conflict and that doesn't matter one way or the other. I do know that it has to do with a local struggle for power in Yemen with one side representing Saudi Arabia and the Sunni variant of the Islamic variant of the religious delusion, and the other side being connected to Iran and the Shiite variant of the Islamic variant of the religious delusion.

If one side or the other stopped and surrendered right now, perhaps the famine would end. But that doesn't seem likely. Especially since if one side surrendered there fighters would probably all be tortured and then executed by the victors.

It is up to the rest of the world to call for an end to this nightmare. But that isn't going to happen either, is it? For god's sake! The USA is providing Saudi Arabia with the weapons to continue fighting the war. It's re-fueling Saudi fighter-jets in flight so they can continue to bomb the country around the clock.

Canada, as usual, is providing pipsqueak help, selling ground weapons to the Saudi butchers. No. We're NOT calling for an end to the insanity. We're helping one side continue it!

You know the peace movement won't accomplish anything. Our occasional peaceful marches and demonstrations were somehow totally incapable of ending the brutal war in Afghanistan (which still rages) or in stopping the cynical imperialist slaughters in Iraq, Syria, Libya. And with those two tactics having revealed their utter uselessness, we're apparently all out of ideas.

No. This horror will continue and we will continue to stumble along. Rapist degenerates from Immigration and Customs Enforcement will continue to steal children from refugee parents and sell them to pedophiles. Klansmen cops will continue to shoot Black US-Americans with impunity. Canada will continue to stretch and yawn in boredom and apathy as First Nations teenagers continue to commit suicide. Palestinians will continue to be brutalized, humiliated and murdered by Israeli scum.

And two-thirds of so-called "progressives" will be more fixated with how the dastardly Vladmir Putin thwarted their stalwart heroine, Hillary (Wall Street Shill/War Criminal) Clinton) and conquered the USA through his dim-witted puppet, Donald (My Daddy Was a Klansman and I Rape Adolescent Girls) Trump.

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