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US Occupies Yemeni Island

by Stephen Lendman
Yemen
US Occupies Yemeni Island

by Stephen Lendman

Fars News said “(t)he US has invaded and occupied Yemen’s strategic Island of Socotra (part of the Yemeni archipelago) in the Indian Ocean and is now building up its biggest naval base there, media reports said.” More on this below.

Obama’s war on Yemen using Saudi-led regional proxies is perhaps the region’s most destructive, underreported conflict - five months of genocidal war passing under the radar almost unnoticed.

US major media report little about it. Other Western counterparts give it short shrift.

Most Americans likely never heard of Yemen - for sure know nothing about raging conflict, planned and orchestrated by Washington - to return the nation to US client state status, putting millions of Yemenis in harm’s way, suffering because of a combination of US/Saudi aggression and blockade, creating a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions.

Casualties number in the many thousands more than officially reported. People are killed by war. They’re starving to death or dying from untreated wounds or diseases.

The entire so-called civilized world is dismissive - mindless that millions of Yemenis could perish before conflict ends. It could rage for years - perhaps replicating Washington’s endless wars on Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Donbass, plus almost entirely ignored covert ones and global destabilization.

Wherever America shows up, mass slaughter, destruction and appalling human misery follow. US media virtually ignore US direct and proxy aggression in multiple war theaters.

Scant reports, almost always in print media, read like Pentagon press releases - pure rubbish, bald-faced lies and coverup, ignoring Washington’s responsibility for genocidal slaughter, blaming victims for its crimes, standard procedure in all US wars of aggression to make the world safe for monied interests, enriching them more than ever.

In 2012, Washington began covertly deploying air, naval and marine forces to Socotra and Oman’s island of Masirah at the Strait of Hormuz’s southern exit point.

Socotra air and naval bases let Pentagon commanders monitor and control strategic Red Sea/Gulf of Aden/Persian Gulf waters. Plans for increased facilities and operations are highly classified.

Leaked reports suggest Washington has around 50,000 military forces on both islands - along with other regional strength, enough firepower to attack Iran or other regional targets if ordered.

Fars News cited Arabic-language Al-Masirah TV quoting a Spanish language newspaper saying “(h)undreds of workers from Asian countries have been deployed by the US navy to construct its biggest naval base on the island.”

What Pentagon officials have in mind is highly classified. Whenever US forces mass in a region, war usually follows - whether against current adversaries or new ones remains to be seen.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen [at] sbcglobal.net.

His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III."

http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html

Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.

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by Unity Jack for mother Earth
World Law was changed by the anti-fascist fighters of the Second World War.

Nuremberg Trials (1945-46) chaired by the U.S. Judge Robert H. Jackson wrote that the planning and doing of Aggressive war is the Supreme Internatiional Crime on the planet Earth, as it actuates all other crimes high, low, big, and small.

Here is how he explains that....."War is essentially an evil thing....to intitiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."

In workers, commonwealth lingo this means that the present aggressive wars of conquest being waged in multiple fronts globally is the worst possible crime and is causing, thusly the ecological organic balances of the planets web-of-life to be undone, degraded and destroyed.

That is the power of the worst evil possible on Earth.

Words are poor hobbly things as the doctor Bethune says when we see irretrievable materialism being practiced and accompanied by the big lie that our lives are being saved by it--security.

Too bad the U.S. Constitution is not being lived up to where it says that all international treaties signed on to it are to be treated as the Supreme law of the land...ie United Nations Charter, Geneva Conventions of war, and the Nuremberg Trials.

Such disreguard of international and national laws by the present Monopoly Captialists (one percent) and that its state has disreguarded the precious anti-war, anti-fascist side of the fighters for liberation of this planet from militaristic domination.

We the peoples, and the entire organic web-of-life are being betrayed by the present U.S. Military controlling NATO, Norad, and the Camp of the Empires and their world Imperium.

What needs to be happerning now is for the U.S. to take its troops out of every country they have invaded and begin the process of disarmament of the WMD-weapons of mass destruction before the are used....before they destroy even more of the planets ecological balances of the organic web-of-life so that the present threat to livability is ended.

Notice the anti-fascist fighters fought and made convenants to end Aggressive War for the good of us all. 1st cnd. Div. says that.

The fascist-nazis side used Might makes right, Unilateralism, and Pre-emptive strikes as their military methods to be carried forward in war after war with no end but the total destruction of the planets livability.

A Supreme international crime on-going pushed and led by the U.S. Military and its allies.

Remembering that Hitler said that three generations after his death (2020) AD the weapons of mass destruction would then be in place, and the Aggressive war he was waging would be fought to his successful conclusion.

The U.S. is leading the race globally to see his prediction come true while propagandizing freedom and democracy, while taking those practices away and discarding the laws of the world on the conduct of wars of aggression by selling and producing more WMD than all the commbined countries of the world.

That is it is the axis of evil that Bush Jr. and Hitler predicted. What needs to immediately be done is to Re-tool the entire industrial revolution to the renewable energy sources such as wind, tidal, and solar power which when transformed to electricity is more power than all fossil fuels. No more blackouts.

This non-pollution solution is given freely in natures kinder laws and provides work for all and forever more. You yet have a world to win!! End the WMD and its manufactury. End pollution of all wars, and fossil fuels dependency. Workers of the world unite!!
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