In the article on informationclearinghouse.info, Medea Benjamin reports on how much the life of a Yemeni worth for the Saudi regime or to the Saudi’s western backers is, citing a source expressing outrage about the Saudi attack on funeral “If the U.S. is serious when it says our support for Saudi Arabia isn’t a blank check, then it’s time to prove it.”
Do Western Nations Care About Yemeni Lives Or Saudi Blood Money?
By Medea Benjamin
October 13, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – How much is the life of a Yemeni worth? Not much, according to the Saudi regime that has been bombing and starving the people of Yemen for since March 2015, or to the Saudi’s western backers, particularly the US and UK, which have been supplying the Saudi regime with weapons, military training, logistical support and diplomatic cover for its dirty interventionist war.
The latest outrage is the October 8 bombing of a packed funeral hall in Yemen’s capital city of Sanaa. This horrendous attack killed more than 140 people and injured about 600 more.
On the heels of this attack comes a blistering report by Reuters showing, through Freedom of Information Act documents, that the Obama administration went ahead with a $1.3 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia last year despite warnings from US officials that the United States could be implicated in war crimes for supporting a Saudi-led air campaign in Yemen that has killed thousands of civilians.
What has been the US and UK governments’ response to the funeral bombing? The British government announced UK arms sales to the Saudis is “under careful and continual review”, while the Obama administration issued a statement that US support for Saudis is not a “blank check” and that the US was “prepared to adjust our support so as to better align with US principles, values and interests.”
The “principles, values and interests” of the Western powers, however, have been to buy cheap Saudi oil and make record profits by selling massive quantities of weapons to one of the most repressive countries in the world. ~ continue reading on informationclearinghouse.info
WAJDI ALMOWAFAK 
In my option US govt is corrupt- unfortunately. So many people are awaking and taking notice especially with the current debates. Pray things change for the better for everyone in the world!
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Thank you for your good feelings😊
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Hello. For some reason barely any of the information about Yemen is making it into the news in the US. I had to research it on my own, searching and searching for any information to find out about what is going on there. My reason fro the info search is that I read, via the UN, about a possible oncoming famine there. I thought that was an odd event for that area. I understand why now, because of the fighting the aid is stopped as well any regular transport of goods. Am I correct in this basic information I found? That said, I was astounded that I was not reading anything about any of this in the news here in the US. Don’t be upset at the US citizenship for being ignorant of this, they have no information about Yemen at all unless they find it themselves.
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Very true!
Regrettably, deliberately there is a news blackout on what is happening in Yemen, so the Saudi aggression on Yemen seems to be a forgotten war.
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What about internet and social media, to get more information out? At times like these, in other areas, sometimes that’s the only way to get the information out there.
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You’re right! But most people don’t care about things that happen in too far locations in the world.
Also, the western media don’t state the real facts about this war.
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Correct, they do not state the real facts, about a lot of things. I think the people who do care would like to know, instead of having it blocked, hidden, or the truth twisted. Thanks so much for getting some of the information out.
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That’s an impact of fighting against the richest countries in the world that have wagged unjust war on your poor country.
We feel that western nations don’t care about Yemeni lives but Saudi blood money.
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I understand, and agree, the government, not the citizenry, is close to them.
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Of course, it’s the government not the people.
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