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US bombing continues /Outraged Houthis extend blockade to all US ships/ China’s COSCO halts shipping to Israeli ports

from thefreeonline on 13th Jan 2024 info via The Cradle

The Ansar Allah movement (Houthis) have survived a nine year war and naval blockade by Saudi colonists, backed and directed by the US and suffered an estimated 77,000 deaths, and have militant solidarity with Palestinians suffering US backed Israeli genocide.

Chinese state-owned shipping company COSCO, the fourth largest in the world, has halted sailing to Israeli ports, Israeli media outlet Globes reported on 7 January, in the wake of attacks and attempted seizures of vessels heading to Israel via the Red Sea by Yemeni armed forces.

In a similar development, the Hong Kong-based OOCL halted all cargo deliveries to Israel last month, citing “operational problems.”

On 12th Jan the US and UK bombing began with over 70 attacks and more today. Yemen officials have vowed to continue and expand their blockade to all ships in the waterway. Several million outraged citizens demonstrated across Yemen.

Yemeni forces have been attacking Israeli-bound vessels in the Red Sea in response to Israel’s war on Gaza, which the Sanaa government views as genocide.

Washington and its allies in turn formed the Prosperity Guardian naval coalition and issued an ultimatum to Yemen’s Ansarallah-led government to stop their Red Sea operations or suffer the “consequences”, however only the UK is actively taking part.

Yemen’s actions forced numerous leading shipping companies to instead travel around the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa to reach Europe, extending the shipping times by two weeks and increasing costs, but the US still vetoes UN Security Council ordering a ceasefire.

On 31 December, US naval forces sank three Yemeni boats in the Red Sea, killing ten Yemeni naval soldiers, now proclaimed as national hetoes. The Houthi attacks have so far not killed anyone.

From the onset of the Gaza conflict on 7 October, Yemeni military forces have targeted a minimum of 15 merchant vessels either bound for Israeli harbors or owned by entities associated with Israel.

Ex-Ukrainian MP’s corruption claims against Joe Biden: Key takeaways

from thefreeonline 13 Jan, 2024 by Home Russia & FSU

Those in power Kiev and Washington effectively function as an “organized crime ring,” Andrey Derkach has claimed

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Ukraine has been plagued by high-profile corruption, which is being actively covered up by top US officials, former Ukrainian MP Andrey Derkach claimed in an interview with Italian-US journalist Simona Mangiante published on Wednesday.

A veteran Ukrainian politician, Derkach came to international attention in 2020 when he published what he claimed to be recordings of conversations in 2015 and 2016 between then-US Vice President Joe Biden and then-Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko. Among other things, the two discussed firing Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin.

The latter ended up sacked while probing alleged corruption involving the Biden family, namely the gas firm Burisma, which infamously retained Joe Biden’s son Hunter on a well-paid board position during his tenure as President Barack Obama’s VP.

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Top US officials cover up Ukrainian corruption

The corruption in Ukraine has been covered up by top US officials, who have been deeply involved with both the current and former Ukrainian leadership, Derkach claims. He believes that top officials from both countries have effectively formed a criminal syndicate with no way out for any of them.

Former Ukrainian prosecutor who accused Bidens of corruption could be assassinated – ex-MP Ex-Ukrainian MP Andrey Derkach claims that Viktor Shokin, whom Joe Biden ‘fired’ in 2016, may be murdered …

“They’re all using each other in that organized crime ring. They all deceive each other, use each other, blackmail each other. But most importantly, they’re all afraid of accountability. And while there is talk about ‘who is the criminal?’ it is clear to the US that the criminal is Biden,” Derkach stated.

The politician said the Republican-led effort to impeach the US president must involve charges for facilitating corruption in Kiev, stressing that this was motivated not by bringing down Biden but rather by a desire to fix the situation in his home country somehow.

British Nationalist War – Deaths by Houthi blockade-ZERO- Deaths by UK/US greenlight to Israel -over 23K, 10,000 + Kids

from thefreeonline on 12th Jan 2024 by Wee Ginger Dug

The US and UK complain at Houthi blockade of Israel. But they led a 6 year blockade to starve Yemen’s Houthis into colonial submission to Saudi.. with 350,000 deaths in the war.

Depraved USA and UK green light Genocide of Millions for Profit in Yemen – 2017 ..The Free

British Nationalism, the Politics of Warmongering

by Wee Ginger Dug

What do you do when you’re a right wing British nationalist government in an election year and you’ve been 20% behind in the polls for months?

Even with the assistance of a supine media which looks the other way when there is mounting evidence of your rampant corruption and chronic chaos and happily propagates your bare faced lies and gaslighting, you still can’t make a dent in the polling lead enjoyed by an opposition party which has stolen many of your most egregiously nasty policies and which has abased itself to being an opposition in name only.

That’s the situation that the Tories currently find themselves in, they’re a right wing populist party which isn’t very popular at all, the political equivalent of a pub bore who vomits up all over your shoes then demands that you pay him for regaling you with what he believes to be his wit and wisdom.

Rishi Sunak has now deployed the favourite tactic of vile British nationalist governments which have outstayed their welcome, joining in with American military action in a Middle Eastern country, launching air strikes on dozens of targets across Yemen following Houthi attacks on shipping transiting past Yemen in the Red Sea.

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There’s nothing like a war to boost bad opinion polls. Sunak will be hoping that this is his Falklands moment, this is the unexpected turn of events that will save his political skin.

He won’t care at all that it’s purchased at the price of the literal skins of innocent Yemeni civilians who are caught in the crossfire. Far from trying to deescalate the conflict, the UK has joined with the Americans in bombing a third country in order to protect arms supplies to Israel, which stands accused of committing ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

Mass protests have broken out in Yemen. Tens of thousands have taken to the streets of the capital Sanaa and several other cities across the country to express their anger after 60 American and British bombing strikes on their country.

Yemeni media has reported loud explosions in the cities of Sana’a, Hodeidah, Saada, Hajja, and Dhamar. There are multiple reports of British and American military aircraft in the skies across Yemen.

The Iranian backed Houthi regime in Yemen is already warning of retaliatory measures, and the risk of further escalation is now alarmingly high.