Archives for 7月 2019

一个自我实现的预言:特朗普的中东政策可能推动也门的胡希分子进入伊朗之手

由于美国和沙特阿拉伯继续发动战争并对也门和伊朗实施经济封锁,因此Houthis与伊朗的政治联盟对抗其共同敌人的可能性将会增加,这将转变沙特阿拉伯和沙特阿拉伯的恐惧。美国陷入了自我实现的预言。

Yemen Houthi origins

SANA’A, YEMEN -- Leaders of Yemen's Houthi (Ansar Allah) movement traded barbs with U.S. President Donald Trump this week after the president made remarks renewing his support for the Saudi-led coalition war and expressed a desire for Iran to “get out of Yemen.”  On Tuesday, the U.S. president said during a White House cabinet meeting that “a

“The US Got Scared” Voices of the Resistance in Post-Coup Honduras

Members of the resistance in Honduras tell MintPress how a US-backed coup – and the Neoliberalism it brought with it – have impacted their country.

Honduras Coup

TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS -- MintPress News went to Honduras and spoke with a number of leaders of the Honduran resistance amid a 66-day uprising over a neoliberal austerity deal reached between the government as the country marked the 10-year anniversary of the U.S.-backed coup d’etat. Last Thursday, the Honduran government passed a privatization

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Shocking Origins of the Jeffrey Epstein Case

Epstein is only the latest incarnation of a much older, more extensive and sophisticated operation that offers a frightening window into how deeply tied the U.S. government is to the modern-day equivalents of organized crime.

Roy Cohn Jeffrey Epstein Rosenstiel feature photo

Despite his “sweetheart” deal and having seemingly evaded justice, billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was arrested earlier this month on federal charges for sex trafficking minors. Epstein’s arrest has again brought increased media attention to many of his famous friends, the current president among them.  Many questions have since been

谁杀死了奥斯卡和瓦莱里亚:难民危机的难以忘怀的历史

萨尔瓦多所谓的随意“暴力”和毒品战争必须在被误导的美国干涉主义的政治背景下看待。如果不是这种暴力干预,奥斯卡,瓦莱里亚和数百万无辜的人今天仍然活着。

Valeria Ramirez feature photo

History never truly retires. Every event of the past, however inconsequential, reverberates throughout and, to an extent, shapes our present, and our future as well  The haunting image of the bodies of Salvadoran father, Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his daughter, Valeria, washed ashore at a riverbank on the Mexico-US border, cannot be

邪恶的根源:右翼以色列定居者集团指控巴勒斯坦人进行土地盗窃

以色列定居者团体正在改变以色列 – 巴勒斯坦的叙述,指责巴勒斯坦人企图在约旦河西岸C区非法窃取土地。

Khan al-Ahmar Area C feature photo

Jerusalem -- In a move designed to shock Israeli settlers in the West Bank into action, activists from the right-wing settler organization “Regavim” hung Palestinian flags along the main West Bank settler roads last week.  Regavim claims that there is a Palestinian take over of Area C and that the Israeli government is not doing enough to fight

寻求新的石油输送路线沙特阿拉伯收紧对东部也门的关注

沙特阿拉伯正在巩固对也门东部马赫拉省的军事控制,希望利用该地区建设一条绕过霍尔木兹海峡的石油管道。

Al-Mahrah protest feature photo

AL-MAHRAH, YEMEN -- "The Saudi forces must leave all our townships and villages from the coast to the desert," Ahmed Balhaf, a resident of Yemen’s eastern al-Mahrah province told a cheering crowd gathered to protest the presence of Saudi troops in Yemen. The demonstrations were part of a series of protests spread across six cities in al-Mahrah,