The US and the UK on Thursday night launched strikes against more than a dozen sites in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, where the majority of Yemenis live, in a move that risks escalating the situation in the Middle East into a major regional war.
A US official told CNN that the strikes were launched by fighter jets and Tomahawk missiles fired by warships and submarines and that Houthi drone and missile sites were targeted. Yemeni media reported strikes in several cities, including the capital, Sanaa, and the Red Sea port of Hodeidah.
President Biden said in a statement that the strikes received support from Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and Bahrain. He claimed that the US and Britain “successfully conducted strikes against a number of targets in Yemen used by Houthi rebels to endanger freedom of navigation.”
The bombing of Yemen came in response to Houthi attacks on Israel-linked shipping in the Red Sea that started in protest of the US-backed Israeli onslaught in Gaza. The Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, have vowed not to back down in the face of the US military and said their attacks in the Red Sea will only stop once the Israeli slaughter in Gaza ends.
Ahead of the US and British strikes on Yemen, Houthi leader Abdel-Malik al-Houthi vowed a strong response. “Any American attack will not remain without a response. The response will be greater than the attack that was carried out with 20 drones and a number of missiles,” he said.
So far, there have been no reports of the number of casualties caused by the US and British strikes. The US and its allies have a history of killing civilians in Yemen, as the UN estimated in 2021 that about 377,000 people were killed by the US-backed Saudi/UAE war against the Houthis that started in 2015. More than half died of starvation and disease caused by the blockade and the coalition’s brutal bombing campaign.
The strikes risk shattering a fragile truce between the Houthis and the Saudi-led coalition that’s held since April 2022, although the Saudis have distanced themselves from the US anti-Houthi activity in the Red Sea.
Some members of Congress have criticized President Biden for launching the strikes in Yemen without congressional authorization. “The President needs to come to Congress before launching a strike against the Houthis in Yemen and involving us in another middle east conflict. That is Article I of the Constitution,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) wrote on X.
I AM THE WOMAN IN THE PROPHECIES OF NOSTRADAMUS WHO UTILIZES PEACE TO AVERT WAR!!!
Hey Donna. What do you mean? What quatrains are you talking about? I don’t know much about his prophecies. Can you suggest a link for me? I am really curious
My prophecy looks like a rising liquid mountain with covetous bastards rising to the top while stomping on the innocents below.
One day like an image we have seen of a reaction of a drop of water hitting a pond in slow mo as it then rises up as a liquid mountain, and the top seperates into another drop, this is the mountain they climb because they have been trained to do so in the past. In the end they will be removed from us and thrown out.
Its a refining.
Its a sad horrible way to get there, but it gets there none the less. natures will and Gods hand says it will be. I think the Chinese call it “mandate of heaven” and there is nothing they can do besides follow the path they have been given, or turn and repent before its too late.
I can’t reply to your prophecy and poetry with any comment worthy of it
I don’t remember if it was you, but somebody was asking where Gypsy33 was. She’s over at Caitlin Johnstone substack. https://substack.com/@caitlinjohnstone
It was me. I also saw a comment from her at Consortium News.
No, you are not.
“Way to go Houthis”
-Donna V.-
Yes, way to go Houthis. Shut it down. Bloodthirsty Israel and USA must pay a price for the crimes they are committing in Gaza and the West Bank. I totally support the Houthis. The American people need to rise up and make their voice heard. No war! Everyone make sure to march on Monday as everyone should be able to find MLK peace marches all over the country. Check for local marches in your area. Stand up and be counted.
Shut up. You support /condone the invasion and annexation of Ukraine.
Fcking hypocrite.
The American people are fine fighting their internal issues. Stay out, Putin lover.
You angry, is the Kremlin paying your salary?
I do not condone the invasion of Ukraine. I understand it’s context, though, and the part my country played in instigating that war.
My position exactly! I oppose Russia’s invasion because I’m anti-war (who’d have thought on this website?!), but the rest of it is totally the fault of the U.S. In fact, the U.S. wanted this war to expand its global hegemony.
You need help, professional help.
Good luck, All I see is a globalist failing agenda where nations back currencies with commodities which will only increase war and slave labor.
I have a bad view that this wont end till they are fat enough and in power enough to be slaughtered like a fat goat in a wedding feast of future generations of whom will look back and never forget these peoples names.
Thats my take. They are being seperated out by their own will and there is nothing they can do, however more pain for the masses is to come. My take is this is just the tip of the iceberg
I wonder who will write the first comment accusing the US of genocide for this strike. Never mind that Houthis fired missiles at US ships. That does not count.
I wonder if it is possible to have written a more disgusting comment than you did. Very unlikely. Minimizing genocide while cheering on bombardments of defenceless cities in a wartorn country. This for the crime of actually doing something to enforce the most reasonable demand in the world: ending an ongoing genocide, the very thing the US and the UK, the Netherlands, Bahrain, Australia and Canada are mandated to do under the Genocide Convention, if not just basic humanity, but criminally decline. But then scum does as scum is.
Let’s be clear. Neocon scum. Fascist scum. Nazi-like scum. History will not judge these people well.
Let’s be clear, you are a fascist./ Nazi calling everyone you disagree with fascist / nazis.
D bag.
I know this is hard for you with your limited mental capacity, but words have meanings. The terms Nazi and fascist have very particular meanings. I would point out that I don’t every call you fascist shit stains Nazis, but compare you to them. So get it straight you fucking ingrate.
sounds like Hamas.
Not really.
Genocide Joe is doing this to support Israeli mass murder in Gaza. Happy?
No, the Houthis shot first. Many fking times
And how many drone strikes on Yemeni wedding parties over the years have we launched?
Yeah, tell me.
Perhaps we can compare number of attacks on each other.
Not surprising that fascist shit stains don’t want to face reality.
Once again you fail to provide the context for what is currently happening. Like all neocons you exist in a world without history. All actions only exist in the moment and they are always justified, aren’t they? Why don’t you do some basic reading about what has been going on in Yemen for the last 20 years and get back to us.
Oh educate us. What in the past 20 years justifies attacking of ships in international waters?
You first. What over the last 20 years has justified the attacks that Yemen has been subject to?
Nice try. But Yemen wars of past does not give in a free pass to attack international shipping and certainly not US and UK warships.
But the UK and US get a free pass to attack anyone they want so why not the Houthis? Either way you are being willfully ignorant in this case. The Houthis have been crystal clear why they are doing what they are doing, but apparently you think a slight disruption in international trade is more of a justification for military aggression than an ongoing genocide.
You missed the point. The Houthis fired on the UK and US ships. They have no right to do that. Regardless of what is going on in Gaza. Secondly, they have no right to fire on international shipping. Some of the ships they fired have nothing to do with the conflict.
But the US and UK have the right to bomb anyone they deem necessary, and the Israelis have the right to kill as many Palestinian civilians as they see fit? It seems like your moral calculus is all kinds of fucked up. By the way, how many people have the Houthis killing in their disruption of shipping lanes?
Sure the US/UK have a right to defend their fleets from this attack. And yes so far Houthis have missed with most of their shots so I don’t think that they have killed anyone. However, they clearly intend to do so when they fired their missiles.
Since they have not killed anyone yet, that is why the US/UK response was so mild. If they do kill US sailors and/or its Allies, the next response from US will be more serious.
You really are quit the moron, aren’t you? Either that or willfully ignorant. I’m talking about the conduct of both the UK and the USA over the last 20 + years during the so called GWOT. Are you really so daft that you don’t know what’s been going on in Yemen for the past 20 years? What gave the Americans the right to bomb and destabilize Yemen to the point of civil war and then fund and help prosecute a proxy war via the Saudis when the winners were not to their liking?
No Frank, you are the moron. You don’t understand international politics and you think that everything is the USA fault. You think that Houthis can fire on US ships at will and nothing will happen. That is very dumb. You think that Hamas can carry out the worst attack on Israel civilians since 1948 and again nothing bad will happen to Gaza. You live in a make believe world.
Says the man denying genocide when it’s staring him in the face. Falsely claiming statements are out of context when they are plainly in context. Something can only be out of context if the context is not provided which SA did in all cases where they quoted Israeli cabinet ministers. You, like all neocons live in a world without history (or at least the history that is inconvenient to your belabored justifications for slaughter), where all the only aggression that is justified is that being perpetrated by America or American supported militaries. You and your ilk is being outed as the morally bankrupt fascists you are. Genocidal maniacs the lot of you. Your unhinged barbarity is only hastening your fall, when in the words of MLK, Jr. (quoting the book of Amos ), “justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Nice rant. Pointless. Again showing a lack of understanding of international politics. Blame everything on the USA.
Why don’t you explain it to us since you have it all worked out. What don’t I understand about international politics?
You’re like fucking Biden and his ignoring the Houthi’s stated purpose for doing what they are doing. You pretend there isn’t a genocide going on or that the Houthi’s haven’t been explicit about their intentions. They halted their attacks when the genocide was on hold. It couldn’t be more obvious.
Just because the Houthis stated that they are attacking the US/UK warships because of the war in Gaza, does not mean they get to take shots at the fleet. If one of those missile find home, Americans will die. What do think was going to happen after Houthis fired on US vessels?
Because of the GENOCIDE in Gaza. Don’t call it a war. And I knew exactly what was going to happen and I’m sure the Houthis did too. That’s what sets them apart from the US. Isn’t that embarrassing? They actually value human life more than our government does.
You call it a genocide because of civilians deaths cause by Hamas fighters hiding in civilian areas. Hamas choose the battlefield, not Israel. All those civilian died because of Hamas decision to go to war with Israel. It is a war, Like all urban wars, civilians die.
I call it a genocide because that is what it is. Hamas’ is an excuse, not a reason.
And once more, Hamas has no military. That is why they fight from tunnels. You can’t be that ignorant to think they could take the battle into Israel when they don’t have a fucking military.
“Hamas has no military” and yet they were stupid enough to attack Israel knowing that Israel would hit back. If you want to call it genocide feel free. But a better term would be genocide by suicide. No attack on Oct 7, no tunnel combat and no hostages and thousands of people would still be alive. You can not be that ignorant to not understand this simple fact.
So now we’re back to Hamas being stupid as the justification for Israels genocide. Twist yourself into a pretzel explaining away a genocide if you wish, but it’s still a genocide. And genocide is NEVER justifiable.
“Hamas has no military.”
The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades (Hamas’s military) disagrees with you, as do Mohammed Deif (Hamas’s military commander) and Marwan Issa (Hamas’s deputy military commander).
Ok then. Relatively speaking. Maybe they can use their Air Force and Navy when their “Army” gets bogged down.
Screw international shipping! Very environmentally and ecologically destructive, just another of the many evil acts that humans commit against the Earth and all the other life here.
And yet you are typing on a computer that was made possible by international shipping. If you practice what you preached you be living off the grid some where and not posting.
That’s a BS argument, nothing more than an irrelevant personal attack. I never said everyone should give up everything all at once, because that would be virtually impossible. But we can all do SOMETHING. For example, I gave up my car about 25 years ago and I have no kids. Those two things alone are major benefits to the planet. People like you just don’t WANT to give up your destructive lifestyles, so you come up with baloney like this.
Thanks. Now I don’t have to give up my car.
You do if you want to stop contributing to all the harms caused by driving, which include habitat & ecosystem destruction from extracting oil, killing of birds and marine life from oil spills — which BTW have been happening DAILY for decades, our propaganda machine just doesn’t report it — toxic pollution from everything to do with petroleum and petroleum products especially refining them, and air pollution including the climate crisis. So, your choice. Why do I know which choice YOU will make?
Not going to happen, Jeff. The land I own and work on is an hour away. There are no grocery stores in walking distance. Taking the bus to my class would take me over an hour each way. My mother-in-law lives over an hour and half away and is not doing well. Frequent trips there are our reality. I love the freedom my vehicles give me. Probably going to buy an UTV this spring to make my land work more effective.
So you will increase you carbon footprint like a typical person with white male privilege syndrome
No, just going to do what needs to be done. Geebus but you have become a bore.
Now you know how I feel about vous
Then why do you follow me around?????
It’s you following me, and fixating on my backside
In your fetid imagination.
In your gutter mind
It isn’t my mind in the gutter.
More of your clueless banter
Projection.
Then stop following me around.
You’re the one doing the nightly drive-by., sparky
Because unlike you I’m not here 24/7
LOL.
Like my new avatar? Jealous?
Hardly.
Can’t find a Brian Deer photo?
it’s nice!
There it is, the personal attack that’s supposed to negate what I wrote. Sorry bub, but it doesn’t. I’d be very happy to give up my computer if I could survive without it; I never wanted the damn thing in the first place. I didn’t create this society, I’m just stuck with it. I do try to do SOMETHING however. For example, I have no kids and I gave up my car almost 25 years ago. Using the claim that I’m not perfect as your argument just shows that you don’t have an argument in opposition to what I wrote.
Tim burns, what right do you have for asking about justifications.
All yous are so slanted you have become cross eyed and cant see.
If you can not answer the question attack the person who is asking the question. So tell me how one justify firing at international shipping and US /UK warships?
What justifies those ships even being there? Only ships from countries in that region have any moral right to be there, and if a country there doesn’t want them, they should leave.
That’s nonsense.
Shut up, Kremlin typewriter.
No, the Israelis shot first, and again and again, killing thousands of babies. THAT is what the Houthis are fighting about. That is what Genocide Joe is defending.
Israel shot at Yemen? When? I missed that.
No, hamas attacked Israel in Oct 7.
Have turned down negotiations for a two state solution numerous times.
The Houthis are miles away.
The fck are they doing shooting at international flagged ships.?
Where ya been, Timmy?.. Yemenis were under genocide watch since 2014 when they kicked the Yankee puppet regime out of their country.
You get first place price for equating this attack against military targets in Yemen as genocide.
No, dummy. I was equating genocide with 10 years of US foreign policy.
I wonder how long long it will take for the fascists to start making comments that totally ignore the historical and more recent context for the Houthi’s actions. Oh wait…..
Meanwhile the genocide of the Palestinians continues apace.
No one will. They aren’t as ignorant as you. But to imply that people are using the term genocide to describe anything the US does is just you trying to deflect from what the US is actually doing regarding Gaza. And that is allowing and enabling the Israelis to carry out an ongoing attempt of the extermination and forced evacuation of the people of Gaza. Or GENOCIDE.
Says the guy from the country that has committed more genocide in our lifetime than the rest put together. With that statement you take hypocrisy to a new level, congrats!
News flash, I’m not from Germany or Cambodia.
Nazi Germany wasn’t in your lifetime unless you’re really old. Cambodia was only a fraction of what the U.S. has done, and was actually CAUSED by the U.S. bombing there.
USSA (United Nations) and United Kingdom governments are Anglo terrorists. Damn them.
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A common sense update on Global-Communism versus Sovereign Nations (senior editor at Ronin’s Revelations). January 11, 2024 edition:
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https://roninhardjan.substack.com/p/americas-shadow-government-behind
The inmates are running amok in the asylum. No adults are in charge. How will this end?
In utter defeat, God willing.
nobody knows how it ends once the dogs of war are released
this situation is more than dangerous. pray for peace and sanity.
That about sums it all up.
Mainstream media are heavily censoring comments in the NYT, WaPo, and WSJ.
They don’t allow discussion of the Houthi declared motives concerning Gaza. It is discussed only as if they went nuts and without cause or reason decided to attack world shipping.
Any mention of Israel, as in the Houthi concerns for Gaza, is forbidden. So far, anyway.
Biden is Bibi’s poodle.
Biden is a self-serving political technocrat.
Words like “corrupt” or “evil” do not even begin to do him justice.
One of the worst presidents in my lifetime, way worse than Trump (who’s actually not even on that list, despite the fact that he’s a racist, sexist xenophobe).
Well, here is what Senator Bernie Scoundrels thinks of Donald John Trump who currently appears to be the only viable alternative to biden:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/13/end-of-democracy-bernie-sanders-on-if-trump-wins-and-how-to-stop-him
That’s laughable. The U.S. hasn’t been a democracy for decades, maybe never. Sanders is nothing but a sellout. He was once independent, now he’s just another establishment Democrat, despite not officially being one.
Precisely.
I’m not defending Biden, but none of the Republicans running for president are any different. They, and all of the main stream media, are owned by Israel and MIC.
Not world shipping. http://www.hindustantimes.com/videos/houthis-spare-russian-chinese-ships-in-red-sea-how-other-vessels-are-using-it-to-avoid-attacks-101705059222817.html
Mainstream media is nothing but propaganda, however sophisticated it may be. Ignoring it is the best way to deal with it. Fools who allow themselves to be brainwashed by it are beyond hope.
Biden is going to go down as the most savage president we’ve ever had. He’ll beat out Bush junior just in terms of the number of countries he fucks over. And just wait till he gets us into a war with China…
What a surprise ..
But then again, if Nuremberg laws were applied – https://chomsky.info/1990____-2/
That’s an oldie, but a goodie.
nobody was worse than buchanan or pierce or Johnson but, yes, Biden is really digging his own grave here as far as “legacy” goes. Polk was truly wretched too.
Bush II was really Cheney, who ran foreign affairs and energy. Bush II was just a figurehead.
The US and the UK on Thursday night launched strikes against more than a dozen sites in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, where the majority of Yemenis live
that was one hour ago. how in the eff does a website figure that shit out in the matter of one hour? WTF is there something wrong with me or is it just my calendar at fault…..
son of bitches
what
I know it is hard to comprehend but don’t give up, you’ll get there one day.
https://www.indianpunchline.com/india-gets-a-rude-awakening-in-west-asia/
India Gets A Rude Awakening In West Asia
Authored by MK Bhadrakumar.
Biden carrying out his master’s (Netanyahu) orders. It’s easy to see who controls who…
Its not biden, its someone else, he is just blindly eating away at the trough with his eyes in the food bin
I’ve been saying it for weeks.
Houthis were begging to be struck.
They got what they asked for in the name of peace. 🤷🏽♂️
Shock and Awe.
Like Donna V once said:
Way to go Houthis!!
What would you do to stop something you saw as a genocide?
Nothing. He’s all about genocides.
Not possible. I’m against Putin’s invasion and annexation of Ukraine. Im against invasion and annexation of Gaza.
And you?
I know. You are anti US and pro dictators
Oh really so you support a ceasefire in Gaza? You will call on the USA to pull out of Iraq and Syria?
I would. Would you call on Russia to pull the f out of Ukraine in the name of peace?
EDIT: crickets
I would call on both sides to get to the negotiating table ASAP as I have consistently done since day one of the Russian invasion which I condemn. Here’s the thing: the chances of Russia letting Ukraine join NATO or exercise any autonomy that would infringe on what Russia sees as it’s legitimate security concerns are about as good as the USA allowing Russia or China installing nukes in Cuba. Ukraine is not equal to imperial adventures abroad ala the GWOT. One (the Ukraine war) has managed to kill around 10,200 civilians while the other (the GWOT) has killed at least two orders of magnitude more than that.
Speaking of civilian deaths, during the Ukraine war (over the course of about 23 months) the aforementioned 10,200 deaths have been recorded. In just three months Israel has killed around 25,000 Palestinian civilians. For some reason the US government is ok with Israel’s actions (which they justify by the deaths of ~ 695 civilians), but not with Russia’s (which they justify by the deaths of ~ 14,000 civilians). Why is that? What’s the difference between these two situations. If we want to do a little more thinking we can ask why the USA supported the brutal attack on Yemen by the Saudis? What could have justified that slaughter? Does that have anything to do with the Houthis response to the slaughter of the Palestinians? What about the previous decade of U.S. destabilization efforts that preceded the fall of the Saleh government? Could that experience possibly inform Houthi sensibilities in this case? There is one common denominator between all these situations and that is American meddling. American meddling that has at this date let to upwards of 5 million deaths over the last 20 or so years. You claim my analysis makes me “anti-american” and a “dictator lover,” but you are wrong I am anti imperialist. This absolutist construction of “you are with us or you are against us” pertaining to military adventures is the mark of a depraved neocon mind.
Speaking of crickets.
Don, we know you alreadu know what provoked Putin. Biolabs and germ warfare, us pressure involvement in ukraine, minsk stuff.
We know you know,
Quit pretending your ignorant please.
Or are we to assume all pro us warmongers actually know nothing to whats really going on?
Must have really hurt When Putin raided the US biolabs in Ukrai ne and then took the documents to China and let them know what the US was building in germ warfare viruses against Asian biology.
The US stumbles and makes endless enemies everywhere.
And its allies it turns its back on in time of need.
Your efforts to save them is misiscule compared to their enormous continual screw ups. Your own teams defeats itself.
You have no hope. Canr believe you still root for them.
If such documents exist, why would Putin only share them with China and not the world?
They were, your favorite msm just didnt notify you i guess
And the pictures of Putin smiling and shaking hands with Suadi Arabia., gets ya rigjht there! ,
I quess to give ya a couple points,
Zalenski can play the piano.
What a dumb comment.
What i have been doing since Putin invaded and annexed Ukraine.
Speak out while you fluffers have been supporting him.
What have you done?
Putin did not annex Ukraine. Zelensky sold Ukraine to Biden, including the Ukrainian people for cannon fodder when he could have had peace and neutrality for the nation. All he has to show for now is rubble and 500 000 KIA. That is all he got for trusting Biden.
Holy sh!t.
You are currently in Russia. WTF
You should visit Russia, you are living on the moon, come down for a change.
You are really bat#shit crazy.
Fluffers. Haha. You’re describing yourself? I am not supporting anyone. I’m just aware of the history and geopolitics that are behind world events today.
Shock and Awe
More like Aw shucks, it didn’t phase them in the least.
Good. So stop bitching about the US.
Not so much bitching as pitying.
We know, you are exercising your privileged Russian rights.
You people have a problem with staying on topic.. Given the heartaches you embrace it’s no wonder.
You people cannot stay consistent with your fake anti war narrative because your support to conflict goes to whoever is the side not supported by the US.
No real morals.
Support Putin in Ukraine but then support Hamas in Palestine against their invader
What the f is your ideology?
Do you believe in countries’ independence and freedom? .
Bunch of Hypocrites.
There you go again… tsk tsk
Oh, there YOU go again.
Answer the fcking question.
Hypocrite.
yes the people of Yemen have been begging for it for eight years now, haven’t they.
eight years ago, that’s when the Saudis started teaching the Yemeni peoples a lesson with US weapons.
Oh, go back in time.
The standard playbook answer when you have nothing to justify your team’s f up actions.
Houthis asked for it. They knew the consequences and yet pressed forward just like your Hamas boys.
So shove your BS excuses.
Now you care about Yemen people?
I haven’t seen you concerned about the Ukrainian people your emperor Putin is killing and taking land from.
Fking Hypocrite.
D bag.
idiot
Im fking right and you know it.
Fking hypocrite.
DJ:
Try not to be so-acerbic.
I’ll try that when you stop being a phony,
Fake Peace Activist.
I know many peace activists, you are not like them.
They would have never given likes to the people you have here nor would they have provided an assuring reply on posts from pro war, pro Putin, pro dictators, anti US bloggers… the list goes on.
Phony.
Don Julio is a troll here. He’s not going to be anything but acerbic, to say the least. His only role here is to disrupt this comment board with his pro-U.S. propaganda & lies, and he doesn’t care what anyone here thinks of him doing that.
Could you please feed and clothe the civilians and children in battle torn yemen.
Well Houthis certainly are not interested in doing that. They rather acquire weapons to fire at US and UK warships. Then watch as their military assets get destroyed.
More Bidenesque bullshit. The Houthi’s have made their intentions known no matter how hard you try to ignore that. Stop the genocide and the attacks stop on the shipping.
And the US intentions are also clear. Attacking international shipping and US/UK warships to get a policy that Houthis wants is not going happen. Keeping the ships and keep losing stuff. So Houthis have a choice, they can help their people or play international politics with the big boys. The first leads to a better life for the people in Yemen, the second leads to death and destruction.
And you did it again. Not mentioning the WHY just like Biden/Blinken/MSM. Always make it as an attack on shipping and never mention the reason why. That’s how the whole load of bullshit is sold to us, and your comments are pretty much a parroting of them. The Houthis should be applauded for what they are actually trying to do. And that is to put a halt to the ongoing genocide that is going on in Gaza.
No, the Houthis will do it.they started this sh!t.
The president needs to inform congress ahead of any strike….
(So they can “buy the dip”—Not for any petty constitutional reasons)
No, he does not.
Not according to the war power act.
Madison v. Marbury: “[A]n act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void.”
US Constitution, Article I, Section 8, never since amended: “The Congress shall have Power … to declare War.”
If Congress has not declared war, the US is not at war and a strike such as this is merely presidential misappropriation of government property for use in the commission of a violent crime.
To my knowledge the war power act has not been successfully challenged in court. Maybe I’m wrong, if I am let me know. As you know the act clarifies how Article 1 and Article 2 work.
Too much money involved so Congress, or the courts appointed by Wash., will do nothing to contest these atrocities against the American People and others abroad. War is good business and Wash. won’t let the Constitution stand in the way of all those profits.
Illegitimate BS. The courts are as corrupt as anything, and they’ve perverted that constitutional provision by saying that the president may use the military, and is only prohibited from declaring war without the consent of Congress.
Classically. You don’t like the law and the way the courts rule, so the the courts have to be corrupt. Very immature point of view.
Noting immature about it. On the other hand, your sheeple pro-establishment pro-war position is totally mentally and spiritually unevolved, to put it objectively and diplomatically. The courts and their judges are as corruptible as anyone. By “corrupt,” I don’t just mean taking bribes.
The only legitimate role of the courts is to interpret laws passed by legislative bodies comprised of elected officials (and to protect the rights of minorities as laid out in the Bill of Rights, not relevant here). There is no meritorious argument that perverting a constitutional provision meant to prohibit a president from using the military against another country without Congress so approving that use of force is legitimate.
Key word, TIME SENSITIVE.
Now, shut up, and move to another topic.
That is Article I of the Constitution
That’s the wha..?
See war power act that results the conflict between Article 1 and 2.
Everyone needs to check in their local areas for peace marches on MLK, Jr. day this coming Monday. Americans of all political stripes need to stand up and make our voices heard. No more war! We need to stand up to the fascists and make it clear to the rest of the world what the majority of Americans stand for and that we are not with the neocon warmonger fascist bipartisan regime currently in power in Washington.
“They ask if our own nation wasn’t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm
NYC has been having them everyday since Oct. 8th, each one bigger and bolder than before. And not just Arabs either. Orthodox Jews have been right out in front. The Jewish Voices for Peace have been running the Boycott Divest and Sanction movement since it’s inception… Whites, Blacks, Latino and Asian are together on this.
For the small but loud Zionist crowd – the future is looking bleak indeed!
I might have to bring the family down for a weekend. Where do I find out info about these marches?
A friend of mine who is a long time human rights activist keeps me posted. I’ll pass on any info to you via disqus.
See you on the barracades.
Hiya Frank,
We have an event for MLK Day..
Hope you can make it…
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I hope anyone interested in the precursor to peace… Justice, will make the scene!
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Sorry the notice didn’t post.
We got a March starting at noon at Union Sq. going to the UN and then on to Gracie Mansion.
Hope you can make it!
Thank you. We are doing a children’s march here in our hometown in CT, but in the coming weeks I really want to take them to NYC for a march.
Shut up, phony.
You support Putin’s invasion and annexation of Ukraine.
Then you blame it on the West. How dumb.
Fking Hypocrite.
That’s right, we’re having one today too, right now in fact.
We’ve practically got the Israeli consulate on 2nd Ave. under siege.
Oh, you were saying something?
No, I was just farting. Pardon me. I’m listening, continue, please.
pig!!
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in a revolution of values. There is nothing except a tragic death wish to prevent us from reordering our priorities so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war. There is nothing to keep us from molding a recalcitrant status quo with bruised hands until we have fashioned it into a brotherhood.”
-MLK, Jr.
Shut up, phony.
You are Russian.
So you disagree with Dr. King’s words?
This guy’s a troll, I wouldn’t bother with him.
shut up you, You are nazi.
Notice that the mainstream propaganda machine never mentions any of Dr. King’s words about the U.S. being a force of evil in the world or his anti-Vietnam war position. It’s all about racism, which the ruling class couldn’t care less about one way or the other, and about which we can’t do any more than pass anti-discrimination laws, which have already been passed.
Divide and conquer is the age old strategy that always seems to work. The speech I quoted from is probably the speech the got Dr. King murdered.
Jerry Brown (yes, that one) had a radio show after he was out of the governor’s office the first time but before he began running for office again. On that show, he once provided very strong evidence (proof as far as I’m concerned) that some agency or agencies in the U.S. government murdered Dr. King. I have no doubt that it was because of his anti-Vietnam war position, that he didn’t take publicly until near the end of his life.
Curious that the Houthis seem to be better at target discrimination than the Israelis. http://www.hindustantimes.com/videos/houthis-spare-russian-chinese-ships-in-red-sea-how-other-vessels-are-using-it-to-avoid-attacks-101705059222817.html
As if the U.S. had any credibility or moral authority left, after Ukraine and now with Gaza, it’s gone.
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devolution at the nexus of AI… yep, seems just right…argghhhiihhhg
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OMG… Trying to discourage GENOCEDE the bassturds! What is next??? Try to get along with the third world?
First they bomb you, next they occupy you.
You nailed it.
Putin’s Russia.
Don, what kind of people deny anesthetics to children, small children, to be amputated? Some 1000 children have been amputated, one or more limbs without any anesthetics. Women getting caesarians to give birth without anesthetics. People have no beds to lye in.
The Israelis confiscate medical supply, including anesthetics, before the few trucks they allow to get inside Gaza.
Have you no shame, do you support such inhumanity?
They are Satan’s children as sadistic as it gets.
Yes, Putin has done all that to Ukraine.
Have you no shame coming here in support of Russia but then turn around and not support Israel?
Does Palestine have more rights than Ukraine?
Russia has confiscated Ukraine’s sovereignty.
But that doesn’t bother you.
Hypocrite.
No matter what the article is about, the Don has to inject his support for the installed regime in Kiev, into it.
He is single minded. Trying to keep the attention on Ukraine. Don’t know why he would want that as then people would realize how proper fucked Ukraine is at this point.
They knew from day one how Ukraine would end up, but the money, lots of it was right. They will continue the war as long as there is more money.
The USA and Ukrainian neo-Nazis robbed the Ukrainians of their sovereignty.
It shows how little you really know. You are a thoughtless liar, with no integrity or decency.
There is no excuse for your ignorance at all.
They used the people for cannon fodder, making Ukraine another failed state. Now they walk away from the catastrophe they caused with bags full of money.
Characterless shi-theads.
Big LIE, Putin hasn’t done anything of the sort. Quite the contrary, Russia has made major efforts to avoid civilian casualties in Ukraine, totally the opposite of what the U.S. does in its many wars of empire where it just kills everyone indiscriminately like the psychopath and sociopath that it is.
They bomb to kill and maim people, they bury young children under rubble to let them die a long and painful death. The Israelis are evil and cowardly, they do not confront Hamas, they kill their children in the most brutal way possible. There is nothing more hateful and evil than the Israeli Zionists.
They must go if there will ever be piece in the ME.
Anti-sematic rant.
You really should just give up, Tim. The campaign to conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism is over, and the Zionists and their apologists and enablers (you) lost.
Besides, it doesn’t read as anti-semitic OR anti-Zionist. Sometimes an unhinged rant is just an unhinged rant, and whatever topic it’s hung on is beside the point.
OK, that’s possible. I’m not sure you’re right, but it’s possible.
” The Israelis are evil” And that is not Anti-Sematic?
As a Jew, I can unequivocally say, NO!!!
No, that’s not antisemitism. Obviously.
I wouldn’t say it’s over, far from it. I’m still educating well-meaning but ignorant friends to the fact that Zionism and Judaism are two different things, and that many of us Jews hate Israel and aren’t Zionists. (In fact, most Zionists in the U.S. aren’t even Jewish!)
Quite right. I just meant that the twisted conflation campaign has failed to achieve its goal of shielding Zionist misbehavior by equating criticism of Israel with antisemitism. I really think it has, in the US anyway. The educational process necessary to correct the fundamental misunderstanding is definitely not finished. I’m finding much less resistance, though. Are you?
Yes, definitely less resistance. I have an Israeli friend with family there, haven’t discussed this with him yet though, pretty apprehensive about doing that.
Remember that Israeli society is much more open to criticism of Israel than American society has been. Gideon Levy, who has been writing for Ha’aretz since 1982, could never have done the same in a major US newspaper. That said, it’s pretty clear that the vast majority of Israelis are supportive of the current slaughter.
Rich, coming from the master race supporter.
No it’s not, and you just exposed yourself as a lying Israeli shill. I’m 100% Jewish, and I agree with Lysistrata’s comment. Jews are not necessarily Zionists, in fact I’d bet most of us outside of Israel are not. We’d be better off if Israel didn’t exist, because its existence and behavior cause antisemitism that wouldn’t otherwise exist.
The morale of this story is: Don’t F with the crazy cowardly, and whatever other name you want to precede them with.
Basically, Don’t Start a War with Israel.
Would you have given that advice to the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943?
The Israelis don’t fight real wars, they bomb and kill unarmed civilians, more than half of them small children, what bombs don’t do they have starvation and denial of medical care do it. NOTHING TO BE PROUD OF, it is evil, sadistic Israeli soldiers and government officials with no moral compass. What a shame for the Israelis and their USA/NATO accomplices.
IDF soldiers are monsters, brainwashed thugs, nothing to be proud of.
“The Israelis don’t fight real wars” The Arabs armies of 1948, 1967 and 1973 found out the hard way about Israel ability to fight real wars>
horrifying developments, the dogs of war are released. Cannot believe we are attacking a state that has never attacked us (yet again) instead of simply joining the chorus of world voices asking for a ceasefire in the Hamas/Gaza war.
They are complicit in a most brutal genocide, they are as guilty as the Israelis. For decades they have known of the brutality against the Palestinian people, they agreed and funded and protected it.
The case before the ICJ did list the amputation of young children without anesthetic, no medieval torture can compete with that. The Israelis inspect the few trucks they allow in to Gaza and confiscate anesthetic medical supply. How inhumane can it get? And our governing neocon scumbags know and support that kind of torture on young children.
I don’t remember if it was you, but somebody was asking where Gypsy33 was. She’s over at Caitlin Johnstone substack. https://substack.com/@caitl…
that site also now has an uncensored board, come on over!
I read Caitlin in Consortium News, reading her helps to keep my sanity.
Look up the status of the civilian poverty in yemen, its sad, and this is the best the globalists can do. These people couldnt run a pay toilet.
Yeah, but they’re in power now in Yemen. can’t argue with success.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/4404366-the-houthis-yemen-what-to-know/
To quote Job which applies now: “What I feared has come upon me; what I dreaded has happened to me.” Yes, it looks like WWIII is coming, and the only thing we can do about it is protect ourselves and our interests as the darkness envelopes the world and the evil and darkness originates in Tel Aviv and Washington.
these missiles were not set up for any valid purpose;no one planed to land naval Infantry in Yemen.They were set up to menace peaceful transit.
Yemen stands with Palestine and are trying to stop more munitions from going to Israel and other things that supply the gov. in Tel Aviv for their ethnic atrocities. The US started this war from behind just as it did in Ukraine. Wash. is all in on the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the rest of Palestine. “I am a Zionist”, so said our Potato in Chief. Without the US taxpayer, Israel would have seized to exist decades ago.
The long term damage to mind and body are not even mentioned. Malnutrition causes irreversible brain damage, the children experience trauma before they are born. Our leading political and money elite are despicable human monsters, no animal does what they do to others.
I agree, and I must add to that, the children of Ukraine.
I’m sure you agree with me on that as well.
and add to that the children of the Donbas who were the victims of the installed Kiev regime that was “killing his own people”.
Putin provided much needed R&R for the children, if anything, not enough of it.
You funny
Shut up, liar.
Do some f cking research.
Are those the same children that died because Putin asked Igor Girkin to start a war against Ukrainian forces?
Girkin is on record admitting that you dipsh!p.
No, I do not agree, Russians moved children out of combat zones for some R&R and stupid Biden accused Putin of a war crime at the ICC, showing how desperate the neocons really are.
You do believe whatever they tell you in DC regardless of how absurd it is.
Actually, I think you get paid for trolling, you can’t be so stupid and believe all you claim to believe.
This guy is a troll here and just spreads U.S. propaganda & lies. It’s often hard to resist responding to his BS, but I try to do so.
And you are the other troll i counter here for spreading BS Russian propaganda, you dipsh!t
Kremlin Propagandist.
How is your disastrous war going in Ukraine?
Let me guess, all great, no casualties, no complaints, economy better than ever, warm winter, the SMO is going according to plans. Lol.
What a tankie.
Don, you can’t be helped.
How is Biden doing, maybe his polls have gone up, they were close to freezing point the last time I looked.
Agree and YES, Yemen also stands with UKRAINE
“are trying to stop more munitions from going to Israel” How in the H, Houthis firing at Cargo ships in the Red Sea going to stop munitions from going Israel? Look at a map.
They are allowing other ships through, read some articles. Only those bound for Israel or are suspected of transporting weapons. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=houthies+target+israel+ships&ia=web
“US and UK Bomb Dozens of Sites in Yemen….The Houthis…have…said their attacks in the Red Sea will only stop once the Israeli slaughter in Gaza ends.”
Genocide…regional war…the creation of generations of US-hating terrorists…anything – anything but demand an Israeli ceasefire.
we don’t even have to put any fat in the fire as far as enforce the ceasefire, other nations would do it. we just have to get out of the way and let a ceasefire happen. “lead, follow or get out of the way”. we need to just not use our veto against the security council resolution for a ceasefire. we just need to stop being assholes!
Yemen would certainly retaliate…! Watch for a surprise counterattack…!
No, they already retaliated and this was the outcome.
See, they asked for this.
If they retaliate to retaliation, they will get more retaliatory retaliation.
I’m sure they are currently consulting that very point.
I thought you were against the Palestinian genocide? Why not support the Houthis who are one of the only countries in the world standing up for them?
There are other peaceful ways to support, they dont need to resort to deadly attacks on commercial ships.
Why not support Ukraine getting abused and their land stolen by Putin just because they want to be free, you dip sh!t?
Got it. So it’s ok for Ukraine to use deadly force to defend itself, but not the Palestinians. Why is that?
edit: Oh and BTW I do support Ukraine taking whatever steps it deems necessary to preserve it’s territorial integrity. I just don’t want to be paying for it. Also, Ukraine could have done a better job of not murdering it’s own citizens before the invasion as well as tamped down on some of the white nationalists in their midst. They didn’t do that though, did they?
You dont pay US taxes so stop bitch!ng about it.
And you dont and have never here, supported Ukraine.
The only thing you support here is Russia and everything anti US.
Dont try to change your narrative now.
The articles in this website dont disappear nor the comments you’ve made, phony.
Your perspective is so warped by neocon ideology that you think any criticism of American conduct in the years before the war is “supporting Putin.” You also think that any analysis of the military situation that doesn’t paint a rosy picture for Ukraine is “supporting dictators.” Anti governmental policies is not equal to anti U.S. In other words you are a neocon shit stain who should go jump in the lake.
I’m sure the US will be watching. But their is not much they can do. Fire a few missiles at US base somewhere. Fire a few more missiles at US ships. If they do they better hope they miss, because the counter attack from the US will be not be so mild the next time.
Think out of the box if you can…!
Yemen would certainly retaliate…! Watch for a surprise counterattack…!
BRICS Member South Africa Takes Zionism to Court
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/01/no_author/brics-member-south-africa-takes-zionism-to-ourt/
“Some members of Congress have criticized President Biden for launching the strikes in Yemen without congressional authorization.”
And with good reason: The area is now an official war zone and even vessels with no affiliation with Israel will stay clear of it.
Of course, can’t win in Afghanistan or Ukraine so attack a few sand dunes in the south of Saudi.
No sane person supports Joey Biden or his NEOCON trash!
I guess you prefer Trump over Biden.
I mean at this point while I would not vote for Trump I would definitely prefer him over Biden.
Stop lying. You dont vote in US.
You aren’t fooling anybody here.
Says the profile who posts on Ukrainian hours. You know there are probably programs that you could get a hold of that could time your posts so that your location is not so obvious.
Those of us with actual brains can easily see that there are a lot more positions than just supporting one of those evil pigs. How about neither? How about someone from another party beside the two Wall Street war monger parties? How about putting our time & effort toward organizing a rebellion or whatever it takes instead of wasting them on the kabuki theater that is U.S. elections?
That all said, while Trump is a disgusting pig in many ways, Biden has been far worse as president. The main job of a president is foreign policy, because that’s where they have the most power, basically unilateral. Biden finalized the provoking of Russia to attack Ukraine and has spent more than $100 billion in military aid for his proxy war there, and is trying to provoke a war with China. He’s also supporting the war- and human rights crimes of Israel in Gaza. The worst thing that Trump did was to assassinate an Iranian general, and while that’s really bad and could have started a war, it didn’t and Trump didn’t start any wars.
Tim Burns is a mental midget. He has only enough brain power to process the two lines fed to him by corporate media. Any opinions outside of this matrix cause steam to come out of his ears. He’s what one would call a useful idiot.
A retarded three year old student is preferable to Joey Biden. FJB and POS obama!
So you’re running, then?
You are funny! Hope you are enjoying retarded Joey Biden and his puppet master POS obama.
I don’t “enjoy” any president. And the trend of government, in which each president tends to be worse than the last one, hasn’t changed.
But that trend isn’t due to any given president being a better or worse person than the last one. It’s due to the continual accretion of power in the presidency, which is in turn due to president after president getting a pass on bad behavior, leaving the next one feeling free to behave badly in the same ways and to create new bad behaviors.
Every president is at least to some degree affected by the previous president of the same party, for a couple of reasons.
One is that presidents tend to remain in control of party machinery after they leave. The Clintons domination of the DNC largely continued until 2016, even though Obama beat Hillary in the 2008 primaries. The Bushes’ domination of the RNC continued until Trump thrashed Jeb in 2016.
Another is that if you are a president of Party A following another president of Party A into power (even if there’s an intervening Party B presidency), you’ve probably campaigned on continuing and expanding that previous president’s legacy “accomplishments” (especially if the new president was the vice-president of the previous president).
That said, I’ve seen little indication that Obama has personally exercised much if any influence over Biden’s presidency.
You missed the statement by Joey Biden’s press talking head that obama consults with Biden everyday. Most people missed it and mainstream news ignored the statement.
No, I didn’t “miss” it. I just saw no particular reason to give any weight to it. Just as presidents of Party X generally claim to be sealing the legacies of their predecessors, they also generally claim to be close personal friends who communicate constantly.