Assistant Professor of Language & Literacy @michiganstateu.
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Jan 5, 2021 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
#Thread: Though it's important to shed light on the ongoing humanitarian crisis in #Yemen, you could read this entire @reuters article (and most articles written about Yemen) and not know why this boy is starving or who is responsible for these conditions: reuters.com/article/us-yem…
The boy travelled from Al-Jawf to Sana'a because al-Jawf is among "high intensity battlefronts" & is the target of repeated civilian airstrikes. acleddata.com/2019/06/18/yem…
#Thread: The Saudi-UAE war on #Yemen began 5 years ago with full support from Obama/Biden. Together, they manufactured the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
Obama never apologized & Biden only came out against the war in 2019.
This is what they did to Yemenis from 2015-2016:
First, let's establish that this is, and always had been, a US war on #Yemen.
Their authorization of military intervention was unconstitutional
Mar 3, 2020 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
Those of you contemplating voting for Elizabeth Warren, please read this.
In 2015, I was living in Massachusetts & Warren was my senator. The military intervention began in Yemen, my country of birth, & was wreaking havoc on civilians. But this wasn't just Saudi's war.
President Obama had bypassed Congress – an unconstitutional act – to support the Saudis in their war against #Yemen. He was providing weapons, mid-air refueling, training, target support, and anything else the Saudi-UAE coalition needed to bomb and starve Yemen.
