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Kim Sharif - Director of Human Rights for Yemen: World has to see 'what US is doing to aid and abet crimes in Yemen'


Sputnik
Wed, 12 Apr 2017 18:57 UTC
People inspect a house destroyed by a Saudi-led airstrike in the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017
© AP Photo/ Hani MohammedPeople inspect a house destroyed by a Saudi-led airstrike in the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017
Commenting on the recent letters of a group of US Congressmen to the US president and Secretary of State on the situation in Yemen, Director of Human Rights for Yemen from London Kim Sharif compared the dire developments in the Arab country with a Nazi-era concentration camp.

Several reports have recently suggested that US President Trump is considering providing assistance for an offensive on a key port held by rebels in Yemen and has already increased intelligence sharing and logistics support.

In addition, the US leader is reportedly considering allowing an arms sale to the Saudis that Obama blocked, and has additionally approved an arms sale to Bahrain, which is part of the Saudi coalition.

In light of the US President's willingness to also engage in Syria through missile strikes without Congressional authority, 55 US
Representatives recently called on him to come to Congress before taking military action in Yemen. They sent a letter to their President warning that "direct support for the Saudi coalition's war against Houthis would take too many resources away from the counterterrorism fight against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula."

"Engaging our military against Yemen's Houthis when no direct threat to the United States exists and without prior congressional authorization would violate the separation of powers clearly delineated in the Constitution. For this reason, we write to request that the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) provide, without delay, any legal justification that it would cite if the administration intends to engage in direct hostilities against Yemen's Houthis without seeking congressional authorization," the Congressmen wrote.

Comment: The UN World Food Programme (WFP) launched a new emergency food operation in Yemen to provide immediate aid for almost nine million people facing famine in the country, the agency announced on Tuesday.
"We have to secure urgent resources to meet the needs of all 9 million people who are severely food insecure in Yemen as well as the millions of malnourished children and women. Until we are able to do this, we have to spread out what we have to ensure that we are helping the people who are at the most immediate risk of starvation," WFP Representative and Country Director in Yemen Stephen Anderson said, as cited in the WFP's statement.

According to the statement, the new program will cost up to $1.2 billion over one year and will allow WFP to provide food assistance to some seven million people classified as "severely food insecure," as well as nutritional support to 2.2 million children.

"The situation is getting close to a breaking point in Yemen with unprecedented levels of hunger and food insecurity. Millions of people can no longer survive without urgent food assistance. We are in a race against time to save lives and prevent a full-scale famine unfolding in the country, but we urgently need resources to do this," Anderson added.

Within the framework of new plan, in April-May and "until WFP can secure the funds that it needs," the organization will prioritize the 6.7 million people who in the most urgent need of food assistance, of which some 2.5 million will be provided with a famine prevention aid package.
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Red Flag

Trump buying into Syria fake news, calls Assad 'animal' for false flag chemical weapons attack


RT
Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:57 UTC
trump
© Joshua Roberts / Reuters
President Donald Trump has called Syria's president an "animal," accusing him of attacking his own people with chemical weapons, However, despite the missile strike Trump ordered in response, he told Fox News that the US is not going to war there.

"Are we going to get involved in Syria? No," Trump told TV host Maria Bartiromo during an interview on FOX Business.

"But if I see them using gas.... when you drop gas or bombs or barrel bombs — massive barrels with dynamite — and drop it right in the middle of a group of people ... you see kids with no arms, no legs, no face. This [Syrian President Bashar Assad] is an animal," he added.


Comment: There has been zero evidence presented of Assad being responsible for a chemical weapon attack against his own people. At one time Trump seemed smart enough to see through the propaganda spread by the deep state, now he is fully buying into it. Maybe he wasn't as clever as everyone thought.


He claimed that even "some of the worst tyrants in the world don't use the kind of gas they use."
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Airplane

New Jersey Governor calls for suspension of federal regulation that allows 'abusive practice' of overbooking flights


RT
Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:04 UTC
United Airlines airplanes
© Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has called for the immediate suspension of the federal regulation allowing airlines to overbook flights and remove passengers, in the wake of the United Airlines controversy.

The governor wrote to US Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao on Tuesday to ask for the suspension, specifically citing the recent "actions of United Airlines" as shining a spotlight on the "abusive practice" of overbooking flights and bumping passengers.

"This conduct is abusive and outrageous. The ridiculous statements, now in their third version, of the CEO of United Airlines displays their callousness toward the travelling public with the permission of the federal government," Christie said in a statement.

"I know the Trump Administration wants to reform regulations to help the American people. This would be a great place to start."
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Attention

Middle East reacts to Washington's strike against Syria

Yuriy Zinin
New Eastern Outlook
Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:50 UTC
Middle East newspapers
The recent missile strikes initiated by the Trump administration has resonated across the whole Middle Eastern region both in the media sources and social networks.

A number of Persian Gulf monarchies praised this recent attack of Washington, along with the forces that are representing the so-called opposition in the Syrian Arab Republic, which is hardly surprising, since the latter has been enjoying Wahhabi petrodollars for a long time now, so it's fully relying on the judgment of its sponsors.

There's been other responses voiced by the prominent political figures of the region that are based on the actual historic facts.
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Star of David

'This miracle, this gift, this jewel': Obama's ambassador to Israel declares he's a Zionist

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Mon, 10 Apr 2017 15:24 UTC
Daniel Shapiro
© Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove's twitter feedFormer US ambassador Daniel Shapiro at Park Avenue Synagogue March 28, 2017.
Two weeks ago in Washington, Hanan Ashrawi told a crammed hall at the National Press Club something I did not know before, that Obama's ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro, was now an expert at a quasi-official Israeli security thinktank. Speaking with bitter disdain, the longtime Palestinian negotiator described Shapiro as part of the "revolving door" of Israel lobbyists inside and outside government, who have made sure the US participation in the peace process was biased toward Israel:
They don't need to lobby; they are decision makers... You'd be surprised that...ex-ambassador Daniel Shapiro, for example, decided to stay in Israel, has joined the Institute for National Security Studies. Which is something that also Dennis joined at one point or another - Dennis Ross. So it's interchangeable. Either they are influencing policy or they are making policy.

And that's why American policy was so distorted, because they played a significant role in framing and defining the discourse and perceptions but went beyond that to manipulating the verbal public space, anything related to the peace process. And they generated a narrative based on myths and provided alternative facts. It's not Kelly Anne who invented alternative facts. We've been victims of alternative facts all our lives, they've certainly willfully misled public opinion.
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Eye 2

The selective concern for beautiful babies

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Tue, 11 Apr 2017 14:32 UTC
Three of the four Bakr boys killed by Israel on the Gaza beach in 2014, fleeing for their lives
Three of the four Bakr boys killed by Israel on the Gaza beach in 2014, fleeing for their lives.
"Assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women, and children. It was a slow and brutal death for so many — even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack."

So said President Trump in preparation for his 'retaliation bombing' in Syria, based upon an unproved assumption.

"No child of God should ever suffer such horror," he emphasized.

These were the same children to whom Trump barred any hope of entry earlier this year, the same children about whom he said:
"I can look in their faces and say 'You can't come'. I'll look them in the face."
Let's not even talk about the four children who were reportedly killed by the recent US attack, supposedly meant to save them. Because that's just 'collateral'. Who even needs to look them in the face?
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Brick Wall

'This is the Trump era': AG Sessions reveals enforcement plan at US-Mexico border


RT
Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:18 UTC
Jeff Sessions
© Jim Watson / AFP
The US attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has announced new reforms and guidelines for immigration enforcement including the speedy hiring of immigration judges and detention of all adults crossing the border. Immigration advocates decry the reforms as bigoted.

"For those that continue to seek improper and illegal entry into this country, be forewarned: This is a new era. This is the Trump era. The lawlessness, the abdication of duty to enforce our immigration laws and the catch and release practices of old are over," Sessions said, announcing the new reform and guidelines before audience of Customs and Border Protection agents in Nogales, Arizona on Tuesday.
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Igloo

China selects site for its first Antarctic airfield


RT
Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:02 UTC
Antarctica
© Mark Ralston / Reuters
China has selected a location for its first-ever airfield in Antarctica, which is to facilitate Beijing's research efforts on the frozen continent. It is also considering establishing its fifth Antarctic base there next year, local media report.

The site selected for the future runway is near China's Zhongshan station on Antarctica's Prydz Bay, according to the China Daily. Members of China's 33rd expedition surveyed a three-square-kilometer area and chose a place for the future airfield, the newspaper reported, citing Sun Bo, deputy Director of the State Oceanic Administration's Polar Research Institute of China.
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Telephone

Trump unexpectedly calls China's President to discuss North Korea

Michael Martina and Christian Shepherd
Reuters
Wed, 12 Apr 2017 13:46 UTC
USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70)
© US Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Tom Tonthat/Handout via ReutersThe aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) transits the Pacific Ocean January 30, 2017.
Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a peaceful resolution of rising tension on the Korean peninsula in a telephone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday, as a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group steamed towards the region.

Trump's call with Xi, just days after they met in the United States, came as an influential state-run Chinese newspaper warned that the Korean peninsula was the closest it has been to a "military clash" since North Korea's first nuclear test in 2006.


Comment: China threatens to bomb North Korea's nuclear facilities if it crosses Beijing's 'bottom line' in retracted article


The communication between the leaders underscores the increasing sense of urgency as tension escalates amid concern that reclusive North Korea could soon conduct a sixth nuclear test, or more missile launches, and Trump's threat of unilateral action to solve the problem.
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Arrow Down

Putin: Trust between Russia and US getting worse under Trump


RT
Wed, 12 Apr 2017 13:45 UTC
TrumPutin
© New Statesman
Trust between Russia and the US has degraded under the Trump administration, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated. During his presidential election campaign, Trump said he would like the US to have better relations with Russia.

In an interview on Wednesday, Putin said that if Donald Trump had intended to bring about a thaw in US relations with Russia, he has failed to see this intention through.

"I would say the level of trust [between Russia and the US] is at a workable level, especially in the military dimension, but it hasn't improved. On the contrary, it has degraded," the Russian president told Mir broadcaster.

Comment: And of course this is exactly what the neodemocons want. Their ultimate goal isn't to find Russia guilty over the phony allegations they concoct day to day. Their goal is to prevent any rational progress in US-Russia relations. Movement in that direction would be of great benefit for the world, and that goes to show the true intentions of the US elite.

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