No Alibi for Tit for Tat
The Saudi-led bombing campaign of Yemen has entered its fourth year with no end in sight. The humanitarian crisis created by the bombing runs is one of the worst in the world, so bad that the UN has just asked donors for 3 billion dollars for the “estimated 13 million people who urgently need aid in war-ravaged Yemen.” The damage is so extensive More...
Riksdagsledamot: Ska du rösta ja eller nej?
Två viktiga omröstningar väntar dig som riksdagsledamot: Amnesti för ensamkommande flyktingungdomar den 28 mars och den nya gymnasielagen något senare. Det är framför allt de ca 12 000 utvisningshotade afghanska More...
Washington, Jefferson, Trump, Bin Salman
The Saudi Crown Prince and de facto owner-in-chief of the kingdom’s vast oil wealth and investments visited President Trump at the White House on Tuesday, but he was not alone. Looking down from portraits on the More...
Nikki Haley’s Uncomfortable Ignorance about Yemen
In Saturday’s New York Times the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, offered what she referred to as “The U.N.’s Uncomfortable Truths about Iran.” Iran is singled out for rebuke as “destabilizing More...
Saudi Arabia’s Filthy Lucre
“Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.” (Titus 1:11) Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have pledged to provide over More...
Yemen’s Heritage at Risk
The relentless bombing campaign and human rights violations in Yemen on all sides have led to one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. There is another aspect of the conflict that should not be forgotten. More...
Hadi on the Ropes
Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the last president of Yemen who was elected in an engineered referendum where he was the only candidate and expected to be a transitional figure, has little chance of ever returning from More...
Camels in the News
The camel, once referred to as the “ship of the desert” for the Arabian Peninsula, is one of the most enduring icons of Arabia. As Richard Bulliet argued almost half a century ago, the camel became the beast More...
A New Front in Yemen’s War
As the brutal Saudi-led campaign against the Huthis, who control an area in which most Yemenis live, drags on close to the end of a third year, the likelihood that the allegedly “legitimate” president Abdrabbu More...
Qat and Famine in Yemen
The Economist recently posted a short article called Qat-Wrenching: The Drug that is Starving Yemen. The byline reads “Famine in Yemen could be avoided if the men chewed less qat.” It is bad enough that the More...