Mike Pompeo’s global ‘democracy’ bender was pure sabotage
The outgoing secretary of state spent his final days planting booby traps and ensuring his own political future.
The outgoing secretary of state spent his final days planting booby traps and ensuring his own political future.
No one has yet taken responsibility but the attack has shaken the fragile new cabinet to the core.
Trump vetoed Congress’s call to end the war so it would be up to a potential Biden administration to see it through.
While Britain is meant to be acting as a steadfast defender of human rights, it appears to be doing the opposite when it comes to the Gulf’s oil-rich monarchies.
Looking ahead, the misery in Yemen is set to increase, possibly exponentially, as COVID-19 keeps on transmitting across the country.
The U.S., guilty by association in the launch of the war in 2015, has failed to fully engage its diplomacy in the service of peace, continuing instead to fuel the fighting with huge arms sales.
Faced by the human and economic ravages of COVID-19 and enduring—if precarious—stalemates in myriad conflict zones, including the Gulf, Yemen, Syria, and Libya, the region’s leaders are likely to keep well back from the brink.
A recent poll found that 80 percent of Americans think the U.S. should help countries around the world with weak healthcare systems fight COVID-19.
Negotiations to end the fighting in Yemen must include nongovernmental and grassroots actors in order to achieve a sustainable peace.
Gulf powers and the UN should help settle the conflict between the Yemen government and southern separatists to enable national ceasefire talks.
Saudi Arabia recently announced a ceasefire in Yemen, and then immediately violated it. What’s next?
History has shown that GCC member-states move closer together in times of international/regional crisis, even if major underlying differences between them persist.
Yemen’s warring parties should implement a United Nations ceasefire proposal to prepare for a COVID-19 outbreak and preserve an opportunity to end the war.
Reversing militarism in the Middle East will be difficult as Americans arms have been flowing into the region for decades.
A window of opportunity to end the Yemen war may be closing. There is a chance to break the cycle but it will require regional and international effort.
Few noticed Trump’s recent offer to work with Iran to combat ISIS and on other “shared priorities.”
It’s difficult to quantify the indirect human costs of war: mental illness or chronic injuries in people eternally grieving or struggling to adjust to worlds that have often been turned upside down.
Twitter recently removed thousands of accounts it attributed to “a significant state-backed information operation on Twitter originating in Saudi Arabia.”
Conflicts in Libya, Yemen, and Syria appear to be winding down. It’s time for the United States to take a different approach.
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