{"id":385122,"date":"2018-11-15T10:10:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T09:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-calls-for-ceasefire-keeps-attacking-yemen\/"},"modified":"2018-11-15T10:10:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T09:10:55","slug":"us-calls-for-ceasefire-keeps-attacking-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-calls-for-ceasefire-keeps-attacking-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"US Calls for Ceasefire, Keeps Attacking Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In case you missed it, US efforts to prolong\u00a0the world\u2019s most serious humanitarian crisis in Yemen<\/a>\u00a0continue to succeed spectacularly. US military support enables the Saudi coalition to continue to bomb markets, docks, mosques, hospitals, school buses, weddings and funerals, and other civilian targets with impunity. The Saudis\u2019 Yemeni enemy, the Houthi rebels, have no effective air defenses. On March 26, 2015, with the blessing and tactical support of the Obama administration, Saudi Arabia and its allies\u00a0launched an illegal, genocidal, aggressive war<\/a>\u00a0on Houthi-controlled Yemen. Yemen was \u2013 and is \u2013 in the midst of a civil war in which the long-oppressed Houthis overthrew the \u201clegitimate\u201d government that the US and others had imposed on Yemen. Since March 2015, the US and the Saudi coalition have subjected Yemen to daily war crimes, not only killing civilians but destroying non-military targets of all sorts, causing a form of biological warfare with a cholera plague,\u00a0as well as massive famine<\/a>\u00a0for more than half the country\u2019s 25 million people. The UN\u2019s World Food Programme (WFP) head said<\/a>\u00a0on September 27:\u00a0\u201cYemen is a disaster and I don\u2019t see any light at the end of the tunnel right now.\u201d Yemen was not a significant issue in the American election, even as the Trump administration sanctioned and supported military escalation that heightened\u00a0the suffering of millions (and that has already killed tens of thousands)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In case you missed it, US efforts to prolong\u00a0the world\u2019s most serious humanitarian crisis in Yemen\u00a0continue to succeed spectacularly. US military support enables the Saudi coalition to continue to bomb markets, docks, mosques, hospitals, school buses, weddings and funerals, and other civilian targets with impunity. The Saudis\u2019 Yemeni enemy, the Houthi rebels, have no effective […]<\/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-385122","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\/385122","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=385122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}