A day after President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, his entire cabinet, and the prime minister resigned, calm prevailed over the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, even as international officials warned of a “power vacuum.”
Houthi rebels maintain effective control over the capital and indeed much of the nation, and while some of their officials welcomed Hadi’s resignation, the group itself took no official position.
Hadi and the other officials were in talks with the Houthis on a power-sharing deal, but clashes erupted when the talks stalled, leading Hadi’s supporters to claim a coup was being carried out.
Yemen’s parliament, such as it is, rejected Hadi’s resignation, and held emergency meetings on trying to resolve the situation. So far, they’ve not managed to resolve anything, however, and Hadi’s return seems unlikely.
Western corporate media — Mental darkness
The goal of Western corporate media being to keep the public in total ignorance of all the drone killer madness that our Empire has going down, not the least surprising is it that all of mainstream media is crying in their beer that “Obama’s drone program will no longer be able to fight terrorists in Yemen.”
Truth is, light that forces all darkness to give way is, not to fight terrorism is why drone killers were created, for nothing equals the vengeance generated by drone killing the freedom fighters along with the kids. For without the vengeance caused by Western brutal imperialism, there would be no terrorism coming at us from the Middle-East.
Strange dilemma! Shia Houthi tribes are enemies of terrorist, be that Al-Qaeda stripes of ISIS, ISIL, IS. The same goes for the secessionists in the South. Between the two of them — they agree. Shia will rule the north, as they used to do historically, while south tribes would take over their historic regions. They are no different then the rest of the sultanates, or emirates of the Southeast Arabia. Making it a centralized state ruled from Sana'a is stupid. Which leaves al-Qaeda without recruits, except what Saudi Arabia can pay and ship across the border. This is why there is all sort of advertising going on for the "Al-Qaeda" in Yemen. They are like precautious kids raising their hands — all trying to get attention. They want to claim the Paris attack! Anything to get US and others to intervene and PREVENT THE PEACE FROM BREAKING OUT. While neocons are in their lairs pontificating the importance of Bab-Al-Mandeb in their future control of the planet. Can someone tell them to relax. One less phony outfit to fund and manage — that is good for us. As for the importance of this or that real estate — we thought the same way of Vietnam. This ought to be the lesson to all who still think of the world as zero sum game, and every change that we do not control and direct, as catastrophic event. Neocons are indeed obsessed bunch — that is entangling US in all sorts of stupid global bar fights. Minding our own economy would be by far more important. And not lie about how good it is — would be a start.