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March 16th, 2021
'This Is Hell': UN Food Chief Visits Yemen as Children Starve The head of the UN's World Food Program (WFP) visited Yemen and described the conditions he saw in the country to reporters as "hell." His visit comes as the UN is warning 400,000 Yemeni children will starve to death in 2021 if conditions do not change.
David Beasley described what he saw in a visit to a Yemeni hospital to The Associated Press. "In a children's wing or ward of a hospital, you know you normally hear crying and laughter. There's no crying, there's no laughter, there's dead silence," he said. "This is hell. It's the worst place on earth. And it's entirely man-made."
The suffering in Yemen is a direct result of the US-backed Saudi-led war that has been raging since March 2015. Besides a vicious bombing campaign that frequently targets civilian infrastructure, including food supplies, the US and Saudi Arabia have been enforcing a blockade on Yemen. By Dave DeCamp Read the full story >
US Increases Dominance as Global Weapons Supplier A report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) found that from 2016 to 2020, the US increased its dominance in the global weapons market, providing about 37 percent of the arms sold for those years, compared with 32 percent from 2011 to 2015.
The SIPRI report said US arms exports grew by 15 percent from 2016 to 2020 compared to the previous five-year period. Washington provided 96 states with weapons. States in the Middle East accounted for about 47 percent of the US's overall arms sales.
Saudi Arabia was Washington's top customer for the time period, accounting for 24 percent of US arms exports. This number reflects the Saudi intervention in Yemen, which began in March 2015, and continues today. The US-backed Saudi-led coalition has frequently bombed civilian infrastructure in Yemen, where civilians are starving to death because of the siege. By Dave DeCamp
Daniel Larison To Join Antiwar.com as Contributing Editor We are pleased to announce that Daniel Larison will join Antiwar.com as a contributing editor. Dan's weekly columns will appear on Wednesday, and will start this week.
Dan maintains his own site at Eunomia. He is former senior editor at The American Conservative. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter. By Eric Garris Bring Americans Home from Iraq's Endless War Friday is the 18th anniversary of George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq. That misadventure proved to be a humanitarian catastrophe. As well as Washington's worst geopolitical blunder in four decades. Tragically, America's involvement is the misbegotten gift that keeps on giving - and killing.
President Joe Biden should bring America's troops home from Iraq. Now.
In 2000 candidate Bush advocated a "humble" foreign policy. However, less than eight months after he took office the 9/11 attacks transformed the U.S. and its role in the world. Two decades later Americans are still paying the price for Bush's bloody blunders. By Doug Bandow An article written by two Atlantic Council employees that argues Washington should consider a more realistic approach to Russia caused quite the stir within the think tank. The article, written by Emma Ashford and Mathew Burrows, says the US should "avoid a human-rights-first approach to Russia." The authors suggest that the Biden administration should instead "seek to build a less aspirational policy toward Russia, minimize the use of sanctions, and look for incentives that might induce Moscow to take steps in line with US interests." By Dave DeCamp Kosovo Sends Entire Platoon of Peacekeepers To Aid US in the Middle East The restoration of neoliberal-neoconservative axis of interventionism in Washington is proceeding apace, with the announcement that Kosovo has sent its first contingent of peacekeepers abroad.
The renegade province of Serbia, recognized by the US as an independent state since 2008 but in reality at best a vassal principality, held a ceremony on Tuesday for a platoon - 32 troops in total - that departed for Kuwait, and from there to parts unknown. By Nebojsa Malic
Moscow Alarmed by Report About US Preparing Cyberattacks on Russia Danny Sjursen on the Biden Administration's Afghanistan Plan US in No Rush to Return to Nuclear Deal Before Iran's Elections Do you want more news? Keep your finger on the pulse of US foreign policy. Subscribe to our Daily Digest and each evening, the day's top news stories and editorials are delivered straight to your email. Please support our work by signing up. Subscribe now >Antiwar.com, 1017 El Camino Real #306, Redwood City, CA 94063 | 323 512 7095 | www.antiwar.com
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