Posts Tagged ‘blockade’

Millions Face Starvation in Yemen Due to Saudi Arabia’s Blockade

Saudi Arabia relies heavily on the U.S. military for intelligence sharing, refueling flights for coalition warplanes, and the transfer of American-made cluster bombs, rockets, and other munitions used against targets in Yemen. Congress, however, has never authorized U.S. support for the war, which has caused 10,000 civilian deaths and has spiraled in recent […]

The Saudi blockade of Yemen is starving kids and killing thousands, so why is Washington still defending it?

The Saudi blockade of Yemen is starving kids and killing thousands, so why is Washington still defending it? Saudi Arabia on Saturday intercepted and safely destroyed a missile aimed at the capital city of Riyadh by Houthi rebels in neighboring Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition is intervening to oppose the rebels in the Yemeni civil […]

Aid Groups Call Saudi’s Total Blockade of Yemen a ‘Nightmare Scenario’

Nearly 20 humanitarian agencies on Wednesday warned of a “nightmare scenario” after the Saudi-led coalition blocked off all entry points to Yemen, a decision that cuts off life-saving aid and compounds the catastrophe in the war-ravaged country. “Yemen is the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis, with 21 million people in desperate need of assistance,” said Shane Stevenson, country […]

UN: Saudi blockade hindering aid delivery to starving Yemenis

Press TV- The United Nations has said that Saudi Arabia’s decision to shut down Yemen’s air, sea and land borders has prevented the UN from sending aid to the war-torn country. “There were no flight clearances granted to our flights today…We expected to have two flights going and those are on hold for now,” said […]

Behind the Saudi-led Blockade of Qatar

UN chief calls for lifting Gaza blockade

Press TV- United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for an end to the decade-long Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip, describing the situation in the coastal Palestinian enclave as one of the most “dramatic humanitarian crises.” Guterres made the remarks during a visit on Wednesday to a school run by the UN agency […]

Activists Blockade Nuclear Base, Plead To De-escalate Crisis With North Korea

Photo: Leonard Eiger, Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action Washington State – Activists blockaded the West Coast nuclear submarine base that would likely carry out a nuclear strike against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) should President Donald Trump give the order. Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, just 20 miles from Seattle, is home to the […]

The Big Picture – Can The Democrats Blockade TrumpCare?

The Big Picture – Can The Democrats Blockade TrumpCare? By The Big Pictureyoutube.com Sam Sacks, The District Sentinel News Co-op & Bryan Pruitt, RedState. With a vote on the still-secret Republican healthcare bill scheduled for sometime next week – Democrats are finally taking action to try and stop Mitch McConnell and the GOP. But will […]

The blockade of Qatar may have more to do with Palestine than we think

Source: By Nasim Ahmed | MEMO Israeli officials must have been tripping over each other in their rush to endorse the Saudi-led blockade on Qatar. “The Sunni Arab countries, apart from Qatar, are largely in the same boat with us since we all see a nuclear Iran as the number one threat […]

‘Not in a position to lecture’: Cuba fires back at Trump, says blockade ‘destined to fail’

“The United States is not in a position to give us lessons. We have serious concerns about the respect and guarantees of human rights in that country, where there are numerous cases of murders, brutality and police abuses, particularly against the African American population,” the Cuban government said in a statement, published by the Communist […]

Saudi Blockade Triggers Massive Cholera Epidemic In Yemen, Claiming One Life Each Hour

An elderly woman is treated for suspected cholera infection at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, May. 15, 2017. The U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Yemen says a cholera outbreak has killed 115 people over the past two weeks. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed) SANAA, YEMEN– In March, the world looked on as the Saudi-led coalition – which has […]

The Qatar blockade, petro-yuan and coming war on Iran

     Qatar hasn’t been playing ball with the US-approved, Saudi-led ‘isolate Iran’ program. Partly because Doha has made independence from Riyadh a hallmark of its foreign policy, but mostly because Qatar and Iran share the world’s largest natural gas field. US President Donald Trump’s speech to the assembled Gulf leaders in Saudi Arabia on May […]

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain ban Al-Jazeera as gulf blockade tightens on Qatar

“All channels from the Al Jazeera Media Network must be removed” and replaced with “official Saudi television ones,” the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage said in a statement, as posted by The New Arab. “Any facility acting in violation of the aforesaid Circular will be held liable and be penalized with a fine […]

Saudi Arabia’s Blockade On Qatar Is Backfiring As Doha Embraces Iran, Turkey

Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani attends a Gulf Cooperation Council summit in Doha, Qatar. (AP/Osama Faisal) Qatar’s neighbors have implemented a threat they made three years ago, and severed their ties with, and physically cut off, the small Gulf state, prompting a diplomatic crisis in the important resource-rich region. Bogus comments attributed to […]

Qatar’s credit rating cut over Gulf blockade crisis

The Arab Gulf state’s long-term rating was cut one notch to AA- from AA. The agency put the rating on CreditWatch with negative implications, expecting further lowering. S&P said the blockade could exacerbate Qatar’s external vulnerabilities and put pressure on economic growth and fiscal stability. “We expect that economic growth will […]

Aid agencies blame Saudi war, blockade for cholera outbreak in Yemen

Press TV- International organizations, including the United Nations (UN) and the Red Cross, say the Saudi-led war on and embargo against Yemen are behind a cholera epidemic that has claimed the lives of more than 180 people in the impoverished country so far. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said 11,000 confirmed cases […]

‘Entirely preventable’: Aid agencies blame Yemen blockade, economic collapse for cholera outbreak

Calling the situation “catastrophic,” Dominik Stillhart, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Director of Operations, told RT from Yemen that with 11,000 confirmed cases the hospitals he personally visited in the capital, Sana’a, were “really struggling to cope,” with “heartbreaking” scenes of people having to share beds, amid a never-ceasing inflow of new patients. […]

French Presidential Candidate Plans to Blockade Poland and Hungary for Not Obeying George Soros

Eric StrikerDaily Stormer April 30, 2017 Jews reserve the smear “demagogue” for politicians who tell the truth. When one of their spokesmen, like French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron and his fossilized sex deviant wife, singles out a race or country Jews don’t like like – say Poles and Hungarians – that’s perfectly […]

As Yemen Humanitarian Crisis Fueled by US-Assisted Food Blockade Worsens, Al Qaeda in Yemen Grows Stronger

As Yemen Humanitarian Crisis Fueled by US-Assisted Food Blockade Worsens, Al Qaeda in Yemen Grows Stronger By Robert Barsocchiniwashingtonsblog.com Shortly after Donald Trump’s unauthorized rocket-attack on Syria in early April, which Trump said he carried out to avenge the deaths of ‘beautiful babies’ killed in an unattributed chemical attack*, Gelhorn prize-winning journalist Gareth Porter noted […]

Dirty Faggots Sue Christian Dating Company to Enforce Homosexualism

ZeigerDaily Stormer July 2, 2016 Seemed pretty wholesome. RIP. Wherever normal White people try to flee the POZ with which society is being flooded, the filth catches up. Those Christians who try to preserve some measure of healthy values in their lives can’t be left alone under any circumstances. The website “ChristianMingle,” which is a […]

Netanyahu’s bloody incitement

Let’s agree on the facts.  One Palestinian male got into a West Bank settlement and killed a 13-year-old  Israeli girl in her room with a knife. Nothing more, nothing less. Before her body was cold, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rushed the same day to make a video for the English speaking world. What is […]

Yemeni nation steadfast in supporting Palestinians: Houthi leader

Leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement Abdul-Malik al-Houthi has described the Yemeni nation’s support for Palestine and Palestinian resistance movements in the face of the Israeli regime’s aggression as “solid and unwavering.” Houthi said late on Thursday that the Yemenis wholeheartedly love their Palestinian brethren and praise the courageous stands of Palestinian resistance movements, which hail from […]

Kuwait’s government pension divests from G4S following BDS pressure

The Public Institution for Social Security (PIFSS) in Kuwait has decided, as reported in the Kuwaiti media, to divest its funds from G4S, a company that is profiting from the Israeli occupation and has a notorious record of human rights abuses. The decision comes following calls from BDS Kuwait and the Palestinian BDS National Committee […]

Six people killed in Lebanon blasts

At least six people are killed and 19 others are wounded in terrorist explosions in a village in eastern Lebanon. The blasts occurred as several people detonated their explosives in a crowded area in al-Qaa Village, a few kilometers from the border with Syria on Monday, Lebanese Al-Manar reported. The bombers struck at 4 a.m. (0100 GMT), the mayor […]

Greenspan on Brexit: ”It’s Another Shoah!”

Greve HansDaily Stormer June 27, 2016 Oi vey goy, I lost so many shekels. It’s another shoah! Talmudic Jew and former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan claims the glorious independence of Great Britain is a beginning of (((deep economic troubles))). In other words, the house of cards the Jews have built over the last centuries is […]

Calais ‘Jungle’ migrants block motorway in violent confrontation with French police

The trouble started at around 15:00 near Calais when a gang of migrants and local activists began a wave of attacks on motorists, including English and Welsh football fans heading to support their teams during the group stages of Euro 2016, local media reported. Just now at #calais …. tear gas and hundreds of migrants […]

Japanese Trump commercial nails the acid trip nature of his surreal authoritarian campaign

     Millions have watched this ingenious video. Could YouTuber and meme creator Mike Diva’s Japanese-inspired Trump commercial be any more over the top? The video starts with a young Harajuku-style girl laying in her bedroom, the walls decorated with pictures of the GOP candidate. After Trump is elected “world president,” the fan girl ventures on […]

People’s Convention Before Dem Convention Continues People’s Revolution

Print Friendly Above Photo: The historical Arch Street Meeting House’s West Room – Philadelphia, PA The 2016 election cycle has revealed a deficit of democracy in our country and a failure of our major institutions to respond to the needs of the American public. As a solution to this dilemma, a grassroots coalition of organizers is […]

Common Core Education: Surveillance and Sexualization of Children

Makia Freeman, ContributorWaking Times Common core is the set of educational standards for American children funded by Bill Gates, the very same man who is pushing GMOs, vaccines and other New World Order (NWO) Agenda 21-style schemes. In another example of blatant doublespeak, the curricula are named “Common Core State Standards”, despite the fact they were forced […]

Odd Polish theories behind Smolensk plane crash still stir confusion 6 years on

On April 10, 2010 a Polish Tu-154M plane flying from Warsaw to Smolensk, Western Russia, which was carrying President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, the governor of the central bank, all senior military commanders and other high-profile officials, crashed upon landing killing all 96 people on board. Two countries, one tragedy: Russia and Poland join […]

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