Meditations On Yemen by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2020-08-01 at 23:23:05 )

Meditations On Yemen by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

We do not like to talk about Yemen. We do not like to think about Yemen.

Yemen is the elephant in the room.

Yemen is the black eye on a child that everyone at church pretends to believe is from falling down the stairs again to avoid an uncomfortable confrontation.

Yemen is the incestuous molestation everyone knows has been happening but they just keep eating their Thanksgiving dinner and making small talk.

The mass atrocity that is happening in Yemen is the worst thing that is happening in our world, and it is not even close.

It is worse than anything the mass media ever talk about.

It is worse than Donald Trumps rude tweets.

It is worse than immigrant kids in cages.

It is worse than racism and police brutality.

It is worse than anything that is being done by governments that Washington,D.C. does not like.

It is probably worse than even your most paranoid and far-fetched theory about the evil things powerful elites might be doing behind veils of government secrecy.

And they are doing it right out in the open.

Untold hundreds of thousands already dead since 2015, with millions displaced and suffering due to blockades, disease, and military violence.

All this death and suffering is entirely man-made, and it is entirely the fault of the United States-centralized power alliance.

The horrors in Yemen, which are being spearheaded by a Saudi-led coalition, would not be happening without the express approval and support of the United States and its tight empire-like network of allies.

A consensus in Washington,D.C. could force a Saudi withdrawal and an end to the war and the blockades immediately.

This is not a mass atrocity that requires an intervention. All that is required is the cessation of intervention, from the United States-centralized power alliance.

But it does not cease. And I have been tripping harder and harder the last few days on how insane and immoral it is that we are not talking about that constantly.

It is hard to get a subject trending when it is not happening in New York City and does not directly involve a Clinton or a Kardashian. But there is really no more urgent injustice in the world right now.

Yemen cries out. We try not to look at it, but it cries out.

Yemen is there when we are silent, no matter how hard we try not to look at it, no matter how much we dissociate and compartmentalize away from it.

Yemen is there in those still moments when we are undistracted.

Yemen is on the backs of our eyelids when we close our eyes.

We have all seen the pictures.

Those tortured, impossibly thin bodies.

I do not need to show them to you again.

You are seeing them right now in your minds eye.

It is weird that we do not talk about that more, that we do not think about that more.

The correct response to the United States government and its allies when they make accusations against a nation they do not like is "Yemen".

The correct response to the mass media when they are babbling about irrelevant nonsense is "Yemen".

Year after year this has been going on, and because it is far away we have been able to look elsewhere and not think about the horrors that our governments have been permitting and facilitating.

So we have done so.

We gain nothing from looking.

That hell on earth need not trouble us if we do not look.

But we have got to.

We have got to look.

We lose more and more of our humanity every day that goes by when we do not.

Yemen cries out.

Look at it. Look, and do not turn away.

Force the eyes of the world open.

Force an end to this hell on earth.

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