{"id":353609,"date":"2018-03-24T05:06:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T04:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/senate-votes-to-continue-yemen-devastation-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2018-03-24T05:06:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T04:06:55","slug":"senate-votes-to-continue-yemen-devastation-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/senate-votes-to-continue-yemen-devastation-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Votes to Continue Yemen Devastation \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Senate voted down a resolution that would have withdrawn US support for the Saudi-led war on Yemen, choosing instead to continue to illegally assist what the UN has called \u201cthe world\u2019s largest humanitarian crisis,\u201d reports Dennis J. Bernstein and Shireen Al-Adeimi in this interview.<\/p>\n<p>By Dennis J. Bernstein<\/p>\n<p>Shireen Al-Adeimi is a doctoral candidate at Harvard University. But she is having a hard time focusing on her studies, when friends and family back home in Yemen are under violent attack by the heavily armed, US-backed Saudi forces, with many going hungry as a result of the Saudi blockade.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Adeimi said on Tuesday, March 20,\u00a0 \u201cThis month marks the third anniversary of the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led war on Yemen. Despite the dire humanitarian crisis, however, the United States continues to sell arms to the Saudis and provide them with military support.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25371\" style=\"max-width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/26365109320_3b422d171f_o.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/26365109320_3b422d171f_o-300x201.png\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25371\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\"  \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25371\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/26365109320_3b422d171f_o-300x201.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\"  \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Saudi military member stands next to a damaged building in the area of the presidential palace in the southern city of Aden, Yemen. Sep 27, 2015. (Flickr Ahmed Farwan)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Mike Lee (R-Ut.), and Chris Murphy (D-Ct.) had introduced a bill that aimed to force a withdrawal of the United States from the Saudi-led war, based on violations of the War Powers Act. \u00a0But the Bill, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/115th-congress\/senate-joint-resolution\/54\">Senate Joint Resolution 54<\/a>, cosponsored by 10 senators, was voted down 55-44 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Of course it was no surprise, given the amount of lobbying money spent by the Saudis to buy congressional silence and support. The bill also was met with fierce opposition by various Trump administration officials.<\/p>\n<p>The American Conservative Magazine reported that \u201cthe media has been laying out the red carpet for Crown Prince bin Salman in Washington. What the establishment press won\u2019t tell you is that no less than 25 American lobbying firms worked for the Saudi Arabian government in 2017 to the tune of $16 million, to burnish their image, manage the message, and get massive military contracts for the weapons of war that are now being used to kill, maim and slowly starve millions of civilians in Yemen today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I spoke with Shireen Al-Adeimi on Tuesday, March 20, directly following the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2018\/03\/22\/senate-votes-to-continue-yemen-devastation\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, the Senate voted down a resolution that would have withdrawn US support for the Saudi-led war on Yemen, choosing instead to continue to illegally assist what the UN has called \u201cthe world\u2019s largest humanitarian crisis,\u201d reports Dennis J. Bernstein and Shireen Al-Adeimi in this interview. By Dennis J. Bernstein Shireen Al-Adeimi is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-353609","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\/353609","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\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}