Turning the Red Sea Redder: Will America’s backing for Israel’s War in Gaza...
( Tomdispatch.com ) – In mid-June, the Associated Press announced that the U.S. Navy had been engaged in the most intense naval combat since the end of World War II, which surely would come as a...
View ArticleIsrael’s Eilat Port has been Bankrupted by the Houthis supporting...
By Mustafa Abdulsalam | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Israeli port of Eilat officially declared its bankruptcy, after eight months of complete paralysis of commercial activity and its cessation of...
View ArticleYemen: Israeli Port Attack Possible War Crime: Retaliatory July Strike on...
Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – The Israeli airstrikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah port on the evening of July 20, 2024, were an apparently unlawful indiscriminate or disproportionate attack on civilians that...
View ArticleThe Yemen Model and Failed US Middle East Policy
Review of Alexandra Stark, “The Yemen Model: Why U.S. Policy Has Failed in the Middle East” (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024). Munich, Germany (Special to Informed Comment; Feature)...
View ArticleIsrael Brings its Doctrine of Total War to Yemen
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli Air Force on Thursday extended its total war on its neighbors to Yemen for a fourth time. The Air Force has gained the technical capability of refueling...
View ArticleRed Sea Crisis: Supply Chain Issues set to Continue Despite Gaza Ceasefire
By Gokcay Balci, University of Leeds | (The Conversation) – The world’s major shipping companies say they won’t be sending vessels back to the Red Sea any time soon despite a pledge by Iran-backed...
View Article“People Will Die”: The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on...
By Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester | – ( ProPublica ) – On Friday morning, the staffers at a half dozen U.S.-funded medical facilities in Sudan who care for severely malnourished children had...
View ArticleTrump’s Air War on Yemen Escalates as Civilian Population Suffers Food...
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Trump administration began bombing Yemen last weekend, when the US Air Force launched 47 air raids on at least seven provinces, killing some 53 persons. On Monday the...
View ArticleSignalgate shows Trump bombing of Yemen just for Show, Ignores Dead Yemeni...
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The high-level Trump administration Signal message thread on bombing Yemen on which someone on the staff of National Security Adviser Michael Waltz included The...
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