{"id":373380,"date":"2018-08-14T20:47:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T19:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/saudi-us-propaganda-by-pbs-newshour-in-houthi-held-yemen\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T20:47:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T19:47:12","slug":"saudi-us-propaganda-by-pbs-newshour-in-houthi-held-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/saudi-us-propaganda-by-pbs-newshour-in-houthi-held-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi-US Propaganda by PBS NewsHour in Houthi-held Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One of the poorest countries in the Middle East, Yemen\u2019s war has pushed it to the brink of famine. A Saudi blockade has slowed the flow of food and helped push prices up. Markets and businesses are ruined from airstrikes. Millions are destitute. Special correspondent Jane Ferguson smuggled herself across front lines to report on what\u2019s happening inside the world\u2019s worst humanitarian disaster.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/yemens-spiraling-hunger-crisis-is-a-man-made-disaster\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/yemens-spiraling-hunger-crisis-is-a-man-made-disaster&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1534295709692000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFT1APYOWDE4AzhToqTLYWS0vC23g\">PBS NewsHour summary<\/a>, July 2, 2018<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is what American tax-supported propaganda looks like when an organization like the PBS NewsHour wants to maintain a semblance of credibility while lying through its intimidated teeth. Yes, Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the world, long dependent on imported food and other life support. But to say \u201cYemen\u2019s war\u201d is major league deceit, and PBS surely knows the truth: that the war on Yemen is American-backed, initiated \u2013 illegally \u2013 in March 2015 by a Saudi-led coalition that includes the UAE (United Arab Emirates). The US\/Saudi war is genocidal, creating famine and a cholera epidemic for military purposes. These are American and Arab war crimes that almost no one wants to acknowledge, much less confront.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cSaudi blockade\u201d is also a US Navy blockade. The blockade is a war crime. Starving civilians is a war crime.<\/p>\n<p>The most amazing sentence is: \u201cMarkets and businesses are ruined from airstrikes.\u201d Seems rather bland. But this is a tacit admission of more war crimes \u2013 Saudi bombing of civilian&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/08\/saudi-us-propaganda-by-pbs-newshour-in-houthi-held-yemen\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the poorest countries in the Middle East, Yemen\u2019s war has pushed it to the brink of famine. A Saudi blockade has slowed the flow of food and helped push prices up. Markets and businesses are ruined from airstrikes. Millions are destitute. Special correspondent Jane Ferguson smuggled herself across front lines to report on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-373380","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\/373380","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\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}