US bombs are killing children in Yemen. Does anybody care?
The lack of outrage at the US’s key role in this humanitarian disaster raises troubling questions.
Articles by Moustafa Bayoumi
For Immigrants in Trump’s America, the Dystopian Future Has Already Arrived
Source: The Nation
Documented and undocumented, young and old, immigrants are being swept up throughout the country.
On February 8, Aboubacar Dembele went to a Bronx courthouse to resolve an assault charge from an altercation he’d had on a city bus last December. This was his first arrest, and his lawyer says Dembele was acting in self-defense. But things didn’t go as the 27-year-old had expected. Directly after leaving the courthouse, Dembele, who is married to an American citizen, was nabbed by a reported eight to 10 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, all dressed in street clothes.
The US just bombed Yemen, and no one’s talking about it
Source: The Guardian Unlimited
What if the United States went to war and nobody here even noticed? The question is absurd, isn’t it? And yet, this almost perfectly describes what actually happened this past week.
While many Americans, myself included, were all hypnotized by the bizarre spectacle of the Republican nominee for president, a US navy destroyer fired a barrage of cruise missiles at three radar sites controlled by the rebel Houthi movement in Yemen. This attack marked the first time the US has fought the rebels directly in Yemen’s devastating civil war.