News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
[Last week, we booted up New Power after a long absence with a look into the conflict in Yemen. We discussed how the US imperial policy is to outsource the dirty work of conventional warfare to local thugs such as the Saudi Crown. Today we provide more evidence to this fact. These articles will hopefully... Continue Reading →
[We are bombarded with stories of inhuman atrocities in Syria, of children suffering and indiscriminate bombing. While this is clearly horrible the Western media turns a blind eye to the situation in Yemen. In Yemen, the backwards monarchy of Saudi Arabia carries out air-delivered butchery in hopes of crushing the Houthi rebels. The Saudi invaders... Continue Reading →
[Saudi Arabia is one of the most reactionary regimes in the world. It is less a traditional state than a family-owned corporation that has been entrusted to secure oil for Empire. It is now Empire's instrument to subdue the people of Yemen through a campaign of massive violence. All good people oppose Saudi Arabia and... Continue Reading →
AhlulBayt News Agency - The commander of the infamous US security firm, formerly known as Blackwater, in Yemen and dozens of Riyadh’s mercenaries were killed Saturday in a missile attack by Yemeni forces in Lahij Province. The Yemeni military backed by fighters of the Houthi Ansarullah movement launched a Tochka ballistic missile on the al-Anad... Continue Reading →
[Saudi Arabia is another face of Empire. This criminal act shows how Empire has no regard for international law. - NP] by Greg Botelho and Schams Elwazer, CNN (CNN) Iran's government accused Saudi Arabia of "intentionally" striking its embassy in Yemen, another incident likely to ratchet up tensions between Tehran and Riyadh and imperil efforts... Continue Reading →
[Yet more tragedy caused by the interference of the imperialists in Yemen. "We must oppose foreign intervention in Yemen, especially by Empire. We must denounce the militarist policies of Empire, especially the United States, Israel, and Saudi Arabia and its Islamic State and Al Qaeda allies who are using genocide and sectarianism to destroy the... Continue Reading →
[The US currently has a hand in almost every major conflict on the globe. As of 2013 the US Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, has been operating in 134 countries. -Uziel] RIYADH/ADEN (Reuters) - The United States is speeding up arms supplies and bolstering intelligence sharing with a Saudi-led alliance bombing a militia aligned with... Continue Reading →
by Chavala Madlena, Hannah Patchett & Adel Shamsan 10 February 2015. (source: http://stopwar.org.uk/) “In their eyes, we don’t deserve to live like people in the rest of the world and we don’t have feelings or emotions or cry or feel pain like all the other humans.” A 13-year-old boy killed in Yemen last month by a... Continue Reading →
[The US wages a secret, illegal war against the peoples of Yemen. As in Pakistan, the US attacks the people using drones. The US always claims it kills Al Qaeda members, but the reality is that these drones often land on civilians. It is rare that the US and the media verify who they have... Continue Reading →
[The USA has been waging a secret bombing war in Yeman, killing thousands of civilians. The US has blacklisted and encouraged the imprisonment of those reporters who report on the human rights abuses by the USA there. It is a secret, dirty war that needs to be exposed. The popular outcry against the mass death... Continue Reading →
[No trials, no civil rights.. just death from above. This is Obama's justice. --NP] 3 suspected US drones kill 12 militants in Yemen SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Three U.S. drone strikes killed a total of 12 suspected al-Qaida militants Thursday, a Yemeni military official said, raising to eight the number of attacks in less than... Continue Reading →
[So much for US support for freedom of the press. --NP] US disappointed in Yemen journalist's release CAIRO (AP) — The United States expressed disappointment Wednesday in the release of a Yemeni journalist who rights groups say was detained because of his reporting on al-Qaida and alleged U.S. complicity in attacks in Yemen. Abdelela Shayie... Continue Reading →
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