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A terrible and astonishing story, tracking the horrific and deadly weapons that kill innocents in Yemen to General Dynamics and Raytheon. These are evil companies. Kudos to the Times for exposing them. "A Tragedy in Yemen, Made in America." nyti.ms/2zPLG5N
The evil & hypocrisy of these companies is amplified by their role in DC think tanks. Take Raytheon, which designed the targeting software on the Yemen bombs in the NYT story. Its board chairman, Stephen Hadley, is chairman of the board of the US Institute of Peace. Mockery. 2/3
Interestingly, Hadley's role at Raytheon has been carefully excised from his USIP biography. Why would that be? usip.org/people/stephen… USIP's board also includes a former Raytheon and Lockheed Martin exec, John Rood. usip.org/people/john-c-… As Orwell said, War is Peace! 3/3
General Dynamics, the other bomb maker exposed in the Times story, is not only a weapons manufacturer. As a result of its recent acquisition of CSRA, it is now in the top tier of US intelligence contractors. What a world. washingtontechnology.com/articles/2018/…
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1/3 - In its deceptive NORTH KOREA story today, @nytimes describes @CSIS as "a major think tank in Washington" but doesn't disclose that its top funders include major US military contractors deeply involved in Korea and Northeast Asia. nytimes.com/2018/11/12/us/…
2/3 The top US contractors that donate to @CSIS include Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, L-3, Rockwell, General Atomics, and Booz Allen. CSIS is also funded by two Asian giants: Japan's Mitsubishi and South Korea's Samsung. csis.org/support-csis/o…
3/3 It is absolutely shameful for the Times not to disclose the true nature of @CSIS, its donor base, and its dominant role in shaping US policy in Korea. Unfortunately, the @nytimes dropped its public editor in 2017. So who takes responsibility for this deception, @nytimes?
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Last night an @NPR reporter was saying that McCain would find humor in the Vietnamese referring to US bomber pilots as 'pirates." It was a common term, and deadly accurate. This is a replica of a US plane from the war, made from the metal of an actual shot-down aircraft.
This was given to my late father by a young South Vietnamese student taking my dad's class on Vietnam at a Tokyo university. I sat in on the class (1967 - I was in HS) & got to know the student. I suspect he was sent to study in Japan by the NLF. The plane now sits on my desk.
In this context, it's interesting to see the very conciliatory statement from Vietnam's ambassador to the US on McCain and his "very special position in the history of the Viet Nam." Maybe we can learn something from their willingness to forgive. vietnamembassy-usa.org/news/2018/08/s…
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Here’s some thoughts on Kim and Trump after covering the US and North Korea for the past 18 months for @thenation.
1. There was a turning point last July when North Korea said in response to US flights of B1-B bombers over Korean skies that it was considering sending a missile toward Guam. Then, when the US let it be known that its next military exercises might be scaled down, NK backed off.
2. The exercises, however, were only diminished in size. But the US and South Korea continued to train in decapitation strikes of North Korea’s leadership, with SEAL Team 6 on one of the US submarines. NK responded with its longest missile test yet and a bomb test.
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1. Kudos and thank you @facebook for putting my video from #Yemen back up. They apologized and acted quickly. Four year old Ikram was in a hospital in #Sanaa this month. One of the many, tiny casualties of the disastrous war in Yemen. Thanks to @NickKristof for helping with this!
I met Ikram and her mother on my recent trip rebel-held #Yemen this month for @NewsHour. An estimated 85,000 children have already died of malnutrition and preventable diseases in Yemen as a direct result of this war, and the UN says that for some the famine has begun...
3. The numbers of those in need are staggering. And they keep getting worse: the number currently being fed by the UN - 8 million. Number going to be fed this coming year - 12 million. Number who need food - 20 million. That’s out of a population of 28 million. #yemen
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Blockade in #Yemen has killed so far 247,000 children due to famine & CURABLE diseases since March 2015

2,000 women & over 3,000 children have been killed by direct coalition bombardment campaigns.
#StopTheWarOnYemen

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That’s without counting the thousands of injuries. Children are left disabled as well as mentally and physically scarred for life or orphaned.

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Farnborough International #FIA18 is a major arms fair, with the UK government pushing international arms sales. Here are the military delegations they invited: gov.uk/government/new… #StopArmigSaudi #warStartsHere
The UK government has, of course, invited Saudi Arabia to shop for weapons at Farnborough. The Saudi-led bombing of #Yemen is utilising many of the weapons exhibited at #FIA18, from BAE's Eurofighter Typhoon, and Raytheon and MBDA missiles. #StopArmingSaudi
Shown here at Farnborough 2014 - some of the weaponry since used in the Saudi-led war on Yemen. Thousands of deaths and a humanitarian catastrophe later, the UK government is still pushing for *more* sales. #StopArmingSaudi #WarStartsHere #FIA18
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#Yemen : pro- #Saleh forces almost expelled #Houthis from the cities of Al-Mahweet, Ibb, Dhamar & the capital #Sanaa , clashes continue in Hajjah, Amran, Sayyan cities & many other villages of countryside
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Lets be CLEAR here
There is NO ceasefire
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