The Threat of All Out War: Yemen Nears the Tipping Point As US Airstrikes Intensify
The Threat of All Out War: Yemen Nears the Tipping Point As US Airstrikes Intensify
The danger of Washington's attacks on Yemen's mainland lies not only in exposing civilians to danger but has the potential to spark retaliatory measures taken by Ansar Allah should pressure from the public and family members of victims continue to mount.
U.S. and British officials maintain that their attacks target “Houthi” military positions – ammunition stores and missile launch sites, but the reality of the ground tells a different story. Yemeni civilians say they are blind and indiscriminate and often leave civilians maimed or killed. Assuming the U.S. and UK are acting in good faith, it is clear that their intelligence information is lacking.
With visible sadness and anger, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi enumerated in a televised speech on Tuesday the reasons that motivate Yemen to continue operations to prevent international navigation supporting Israel in the Red Sea – the continued mass killing of the Gazans, renewed American support for Israel, including with lethal weapons and the use of internationally banned weapons against civilians in Gaza, including white phosphorus.
The US used chemical weapons against Gaza?? What? Where is any of the evidence of this? Genuinely curious.
14Human Rights Watch reporting including pictures. Second hit from searching "white phosphorus gaza", the first being a report of when Israel used it back in 2008.
14Okay that’s what I thought I had heard originally, is there evidence that the US was supplying this chemical weapon?
So far it seems like that claim is twisting things a bit or is at least purposefully vague. All I read from the report was that Israel used chemical weapons.
To be fair, probably shouldn’t be supporting a country like who’s comfortable with chemical weapons like this.
10Just a little technical note;
White phosphorus is not considered a chemical weapon because it operates primarily by heat and flame rather than toxicity, making it an incendiary weapon. Its use is governed by Protocol III of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW)
Not saying that it can't be used in bad ways but it has legitimate uses in combat areas (mostly as a flair) so the issue of supply, etc is not as simple as were it an actual chemical weapon
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Funny report of the day:
Reporter: @[REDACTED]@lemmy.world
Reason: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/mint-press-news/I have opinions about ǃworld﹫lemmy.world’s media literacy standards: https://lemmy.ml/comment/8296147
Look at !world@lemmy.world, which uses Media Bias/Fact Check as their North star,
which is run by a member of the Council on Foreign Relations[not the same person after all].10Yes, but many posters have been telling other posters and mods on lemmy.world that mediabiasfactcheck site shouldn't even be a consideration when checking for media bias.
The mods know this, most users probably know this, but they still punish you for not using that method.
One openly zionazi user even unbelievably and unironically said that mediabiasfactcheck is the gold standard.
So if the mods and admins at lemmy.world don't care or change then most users definitely won't.
8I don't think it's actually the same Van Zandt, to be fair. MBFC guy registered the company in some house in the Midwest IIRC.
4Oh, thanks! https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/contact/
Dave M. Van Zandt obtained a Communications Degree before pursuing a higher degree in the sciences. Dave currently works full time in the health care industry. Dave has spent more than 20 years as an arm chair researcher on media bias and its role in political influence. For the record, he also is not the President of the New School, that is a different David E. Van Zandt who is the head of a liberal college in New York City. I am an unaffiliated voter from North Carolina.
I guess he’s just some hobbyist who was in the right time at the right time, that time being the “post-truth” moment of Clinton’s loss to Trump and the string of Russiagate conspiracy theories and Kellyanne Conway’s alternative facts. Does anyone even remember the Cambridge Analytica post-truth hysteria?
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Fuck Israel.
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