"A Breach of Yemeni Sovereignty": Biden Becomes Fourth U.S. President to Bomb Yemen

[Uncle Joe]

The United States and Britain launched dozens of military strikes on Yemen on Thursday, raising fears of an escalation of conflict in the region. The strikes, launched in response to Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea that have disrupted global trade, left at least five people dead. The Houthi movement began targeting ships in November "essentially using a naval blockade in the Red Sea to prevent the blockade against civilians in Gaza," according to our guest, Yemeni American scholar Shireen Al-Adeimi. "This is an offensive act. This is a breach of Yemeni sovereignty," she says about the U.S. coalition's strikes, which were launched without approval from Congress, and which Al-Adeimi additionally characterizes as "a defense of capitalism."

[Voltaire2]

1. It's all theater.

Having survived the Saudi proxy war against them it is very unlikely that the Houthi military is going to collapse from a direct imperial assault.

[getagrip_already]

2. Imperial assault?

That's rich.

This a band of terrorists that seized control of a city in a civil war and has launched both pirate hijackings and terror missile strikes on international shipping.

They fucked around. They were struck.

This isnt some imperialist land grab. It is international punishment for piracy and terrorism.

They can stand at their shiny podiums in their pretty uniforms and screech all they want. They fire ballistic missiles, they get return fire.

[Voltaire2]

8. Yes, we are the imperial core, the military and financial hegemon.

The Houthi's are not 'a band of terrorists', but if you choose to view them from that perspective, and think that describing our global role as the imperium is some sort of joke, I suspect we will not be having a reasonable discussion.

So sure. We done taught those terrorists a lesson.

[getagrip_already]

9. yes, they are terrorists, sorry

There really is no other way to describe a group that fires missiles at commercial shipping.

Or that hijacks it for no reason other than political statement.

They are not some downtrodden group struggling against imperialism. We are not trying to seize their country or their wealth.

They fired missiles and drones. They got return fire.

Doesn't make us the bad guys here.

[Hieronymus Phact]

10. So they're not terrorists

Why are they attacking unarmed merchant vessels in international waters?

[JohnSJ]

3. Typical Democracy Now bullshit. Shooting at ships in international waters is what the Houthi's

are doing.

Democracy Now is just a one-sided view to push their left wing agenda.

Talk about genocide, look at Yemen.

It was laughable when they pushed that the U.S. was responsible for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It is pretty obvious where they get their talking points from.

[Uncle Joe]

4. If you don't like Democracy Now, there are six corporate conglomerates

that own 90+% of everything the American People see on T.V. hear on the radio or read in publications that will be happy to tell you whatever you want to hear.

They have done a wonderful job of keeping the American People informed at least since 1980.

RIP Smedley Butler

[JohnSJ]

6. Democracy Now is quite happy to exclusively push their one-sided left-wing, anti-Democratic

party agenda.

They were right on top of it in 2016 trashing the Democratic party, and couldn't get enough of Jill Stein, Glen Greenwald, and others to achieve that agenda.

and they are NO Smedley Butler, who was a patriot.

[Uncle Joe]

7. Yes because six corporate news conglomerates for a nation of 330 million and a world

approaching 7 billion is a good thing?

That dynamic creates a dumbing down effect, and that's how we got *rump.

Democracy Now speaks truth to power like no other news organization precisely because they're financially supported by actual people.

If power chooses not to listen to them don't blame the messenger.

Democracy Now speaks to precisely what Smedley Butler wrote about.

I don't always agree with every report they issue but I value in depth information and I get more of that from viewing Democracy Now in on hour than I do from keeping the T.V. tuned to CNN and MSNBC all day long and I do that as well.

[JohnSJ]

12. truth to power, really? They bashed Biden and the Democrats for supporting Ukraine aid when

Russia invaded Ukraine, and falsely blamed the U.S. for causing Russia to invade Ukraine.
They blamed the U.S when the Houthis attacked ships in international waters, and felt compelled to criticize the U.S. for going after the targets where the Houthis utilized missiles used in those attacks.

Truth to power, my foot.

[Uncle Joe]

13. Two points, 1. The Houthi Rebels have stated in the OP, that they're only targeting

ships bound for Israel because of its' genocidal war against Gaza.

2. The Houthi Rebels have stated in the OP they will stop doing this if there is a ceasefire in Gaza.

Have you seen the corporate media report either of those points?


The primary gist of their coverage is that Iran supports the Houthi rebels, no debate on whether they're right or not because their coverage of the International Court is mostly crickets and the Houthis are claiming that they're doing this to stop a genocide.

The corporate media has to worry too much about not pissing off their major commercial buyers, corporate parents and oligarch owners, *rump was a creation of that top down authoritarian mentality and I imagine that may be the case with Netanyahu in Israel.

[JohnSJ]

14. Nice try justifying the terrorists attacking any ships in international waters

That is typical Democracy Now nonsense

[Uncle Joe]

15. Still can't find anything, eh?

One other thing about the corporate media, they love to tell you who Iran supports but not so much the Prince of journalistic dissection.

You see, I'm wondering if 666 Kuchner, Prince Bonesaw and I had to destroy Gaza to save Hamas Netanyahu have high rise condos and gas wells planned for development in Gaza?



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Marine#:~:text=Gaza%20Marine%20is%20a%20natural,cubic%20feet%20of%20natural%20gas.

Whether you like it or not, Smedley Butler is still relevant today.

[betsuni]

16. Exactly. Bashing, slandering Democrats is punching down, helping right-wingers everywhere.

[Hieronymus Phact]

17. They're Tankies

[Walleye]

5. Haven't they captured a ship and taken the crew hostage?

[getagrip_already]

11. yes, and they have tried to sink several others.

They fired dozens of missiles and drones at commercial ships that were fully capable of sinking or heavily damaging them. The only thing that stopped them were the warships in the area.