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5:30 pm, May 14th, 2015 - 8 comments
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While John Key has been hobnobbing with the Saudi dictatorship, here’s another perspective on their brutal bombing and atrocities in Yemen:
“What is happening today in Yemen is a complete failure of the Saudi and US plans to restore a puppet regime that serves their interests.” – Khaled Barakat, Palestinian writer and activist
Addressing the role of the US in the aggression on Yemen, he says, “the US imperial strategy under Obama – as differentiated from the US imperial strategy under George W. Bush – is one that considers that Arab regimes should do the actual fighting, rather than US soldiers. Internally, Obama and the US government do not have the political support to send US soldiers to Yemen; indeed, his election was primarily based on exploiting popular sentiment against US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“The US strategy today is for Arab regimes to. . .
full at: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/05/14/palestinian-writer-and-activist-khaled-barakat-calls-for-action-against-saudi-invasion-war-crimes-in-yemen/
For an intelligent analysis from a former senior US advisor, Paul Craig Roberts. You will learn a lot about USA geopolitical strategy
By the same author….
‘Hell Unleashed’
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41838.htm
The Yes Men are putting out a new movie, trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tSEjepPNgc
“In these films, they impersonate corporate entities that they dislike, a practice that they call “identity correction”. The Yes Men operate under the mission statement that lies can expose truth. They create and maintain fake websites similar to ones they intend to spoof, which have led to numerous interview, conference, and TV talk show invitations.”
If you haven’t seen their other films, this BBC interview they pulled off this brilliant:
How naive am I. I thought this Dow confession was real.
But in the real world they would never admit liability. Damn.
My household enjoys The Yes Men. Creative Commons licence viewing of the full film: The Yes Men Fix the World can be seen on Youtube.
My son has a copy of the fake New York Times that they distributed a few years ago. I see they have now done the same with the Washington Post.
Wow, that’s cool, wish I had one of those papers.
The new movie is on at the Documentary Edge Festival in Auckland and Wellington during May/June:
http://documentaryedge.org.nz/2015-programme/film/the-yes-men-are-revolting
I hope all the Wellington Standarnistas and their families are safely home and above the floods.