{"id":301157,"date":"2017-03-29T00:22:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T23:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/as-yemen-war-enters-third-year-pentagon-moves-to-escalate-slaughter\/"},"modified":"2017-03-29T00:22:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T23:22:11","slug":"as-yemen-war-enters-third-year-pentagon-moves-to-escalate-slaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/as-yemen-war-enters-third-year-pentagon-moves-to-escalate-slaughter\/","title":{"rendered":"As Yemen war enters third year, Pentagon moves to escalate slaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>As Yemen war enters third year, Pentagon moves to escalate slaughter<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Bill Van Auken<br \/>\n    <br \/>28 March 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The Pentagon has formally asked the Trump White House to lift limited restrictions imposed by the Obama administration on US military aid to the Saudi Arabian monarchy\u2019s near genocidal war against the impoverished people of Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Post<\/em> reported Monday that Defense Secretary James \u201cMad Dog\u201d Mattis, a recently-retired US Marine general, had submitted a memo earlier this month to Trump\u2019s national security adviser H.R. McMaster, an active duty US Army lieutenant general, for the approval of stepped-up support for military operations being conducted in Yemen by both the Saudi regime and its principal Arab ally, the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>The memo, according to the <em>Post<\/em>, stressed that such US military aid would help to combat \u201ca common threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This supposed \u201cthreat\u201d is posed by Iran, US imperialism\u2019s principal regional rival for hegemony over the oil-rich Middle East. Both the Saudi monarchy and the Trump administration have repeatedly charged, without providing any significant supporting evidence, that Iran has armed, trained and directed the Houthi rebels who seized control of the Yemeni capital and much of the country, toppling the US-Saudi puppet regime of President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>A major escalation of the US intervention in Yemen will be directed principally at provoking a military confrontation with Tehran, with the aim of weakening Iranian influence throughout the region. Trump himself campaigned in the 2016 election denouncing the Obama administration for being too \u201csoft\u201d on Iran and for joining the other major powers in negotiating what he characterized as a \u201cdisastrous\u201d nuclear agreement with Tehran. His&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/03\/28\/yeme-m28.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 As Yemen war enters third year, Pentagon moves to escalate slaughter By Bill Van Auken 28 March 2017 The Pentagon has formally asked the Trump White House to lift limited restrictions imposed by the Obama administration on US military aid to the Saudi Arabian monarchy\u2019s near genocidal war against the impoverished people of Yemen. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-301157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}