Episode 43: Hope and Skepticism as the US War in Yemen Turns Six with Shireen Al-Adeimi

In the Context of Empire

Jon and Matt were joined by Dr. Shireen Al-Adeimi to discuss the history and recent updates in ongoing US, Saudi, and UAE war on Yemen. Dr. Al Adeimi is an assistant professor of education at Michigan State University. She also devotes much of her time to activism directed toward ending the genocidal war in Yemen. Her writing can be found at In These Times, and she has made many other media appearances on a variety of platforms including Democracy Now.

Discussed in this Episode:

-A brief overview of the war and the complicity of the United States

- Trump's designation of the Houthis as a terrorist organization and the further human catastrophe that decision could cause

- The hypocrisy of the US designating the Houthis a terrorist organization while having fought on the same side as al Qaeda in Yemen, Libya, and Syria

- Shireen's recent article in In These Times about Biden's recent announcement about ending US involvement in this war, and why there is cause for both hope and skepticism

- The double standards held by the US that allow Saudi Arabia to get away with (mass) murder

- Accountability and the forms it could take

- Shireen's outlook for the future of this crisis and lessons she has learned from her past 6 years of activism

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