by Phyllis Bennis | Jan 13, 2010 | War & Peace
Barack Obama is not the first U.S. president to find Yemen a challenge. And the current $70 million package of military and security assistance is not the first $70 million US aid program to Yemen. Two decades ago, in 1990, then-President George H.W. Bush was...
by Stephen Zunes | Jan 8, 2010 | War & Peace
The United States may be on the verge of involvement in yet another counterinsurgency war which, as in Iraq and Afghanistan, may make a bad situation even worse. The attempted Christmas Day bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight by a Nigerian apparently planned in...
by Stephen Zunes | Dec 1, 2001 | Environment, War & Peace
There has been increasing attention on Yemen as the possible next major focus in the U.S. campaign against terrorism. Yemeni government forces have begun a crackdown against suspected Al-Qaida members and supporters, and a number of armed clashes have ensued. This...
by Mary Wareham | Sep 15, 2022 | Human Rights, War & Peace
The couple were in their yard cooking a meal. Then the submunitions hit. The wife died instantly. The husband lost both legs and died that day during surgery. The Russian attack was just one of dozens to hit Derhachi, a town in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, in May...
by John Feffer | Jul 27, 2022 | Food & Farm, War & Peace
When Russia bombed the port in Odesa last week, it was not an auspicious beginning to the new deal on grain exports. If anyone believed that this agreement between Moscow and Kyiv would have some positive spillover effect on the war grinding on elsewhere in Ukraine,...
