How US-Saudi War Turned Yemen into the Biggest Crisis on Earth

1. Medea Benjamin… Ben Norton… Both, very un-american: knowledgeable and intelligent… Lamentably, traits that evade, completely, most of the nation…

2. Two of the richest countries in the world attacking and invading the second pòorest nation in the world and can't even control that theatre!

3. This woman is absolutely heroic and righteous! She has bigger balls than everyone in congress or the senate! RESPECT!

4. tick, tick, tick, tick the clock moves and nothing being done fast enough. We need action now!

5. Perhaps the guest is not aware that the genocide in the Congo is ongoing and millions of people
   around the earth are now and have been in crisis for decades and some for centuries, my heart goes
   out to those being targeted for ethnic cleansing in Yemen, just wish these lefties would stop
   pretending they are not aware of the West and the rest of us on planet earth. While she is railing
   about the crisis half way around the world, how about the crisis ongoing inside the colonially
   occupied US? Regime change in progress on Nicaragua, Venuzela, Bolivia.

6. Medea Benjamin is a true patriot and hero, not war criminals and militarists. Go Code Pink!

7. What a first class discussion. One of the best I've witnessed all year. Excellent questions and precise, informative answers. I'd like to know if you have thoughts on what the impact would be on bringing the people together to use the 17 Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. I see this as potentially the industrial strategy that could can neoliberalism. I am posting some of the SDG literature on ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/project/Building-a-world-network-for-the-17-SDGs-for-2030

8. Its very helping me thankyouu❤

9. I can see the guest is very devoted to the Yemen war, but it is strange that she never talked about the Iranian role in this war. This sends a clear message that her fight and calls are nothing but a propganda !

10. For the US to withdraw from Yemen, we are giving Iran a chance to strengthen its militias aka Houthis by supporting them with weapons and aids. This will not help relieve the humanitarian crises in Yemen.

11. It is extremely superficial to blame this on the Saudis alone

    The Saudis are the proximate cause of the famine, not the ultimate one

    Nobody seems to ask the simple question why is it that a country is going to starve to death if imports are cut off and what that means.

    If you are going to starve to death without imports, that means that you are completely ecologically unsustainable as a society, and you are in the long run doomed to suffering that fate.

    And Yemen happens to be the poster child of what Malthusian catastrophe looks like.

    It is the most water stressed place on Earth, its population has increased tenfold in a century and is projected to double by 2050 and then probably double again.

    Which is why it is relying for imports for most of its food.

    But it also some years ago stopped being an oil exporter (due to the combination of growing internal demand and oil field depletion), and it produces almost nothing of value for the world market.

    That combination of drastic overpopulation and loss of its main source of external revenue was a major reason why it was so easy to destabilize it during the Arab Spring.

    In the grand scheme of things It really does not matter what the US and the Saudis are doing to Yemen. Let's say they stop it today. What happens then? Imports resume, population keeps growing, and then what? This is always going to end in a massive famine and complete collapse of society there. Sooner or later. It's just a matter of when, not if.

    BTW, all the countries in the Middle East are in the same exact predicament, it's just that Yemen is in the worst position and the first to go. But the same will eventually happen to the Saudis themselves, and everyone else.

    It will also happen to wealthy Western/westernized countries like South Korea, the UK, the Netherlands, and many others at the some point in the future, because they too are wholly dependent on imports of food and/or energy.

    And the more people focus on the politics of the situation instead of the biophysics of it, the more certain those outcome become. And the more likely the even worse outcome of global nuclear war becomes.

12. US citizens doing nothing about this should feel shame

13. Great interview! It's hard to look at the footage of those children, but it needs to be seen!

14. Both turned death on Yemen. Only innocents continue too suffer. Both Saudi Arabia and the US powers have no ethics.

15. Please do not call congressional war powers a "right" .. congress' war powers are its *responsibility*.

16. If they are being manufactured – they will be used, so they need to be closed down. What a dirty business!!!

17. It seems to me that the corporations who make and profit from these arms sales are the ones with blood on their hands – presidents since after WW2 have been pushed by these people to keep their gravy-train going and those who attempted to resist them were assassinated. So blaming presidents is unfair.

18. Good work you guys!!

19. UK, US and Saudi are the true regimes.

20. I want to be Nadea Benjamin! Just kidding, but she has guts, period…….She is an example to all women of the world!

21. "YEMEN" A virtual black-out on media concerning this topic it boggles the mind! People forget coming of 2019 means we have been at war with AFGHANASTAN an outstanding 18 years! A waste of resources that will be USA's downfall sadly.9-11 maybe whole purpose was to topple USA as a superpower?

22. MOST OF USA IS IMMUNE TO HUMANE FEELING

23. It's really something that the Saudis, backed by the U.S., are bombing the hell out of Yemen, blockading the country, causing immense outbreaks of famine and disease, not to mention deaths from the violence. And while all this is going on, Iran is being blamed for this catastrophe!

24. Medea-Beautiful!

25. I am a Muslim American parents from Palestine. i hope to be alive to see the day this despicable regime is overthrown and their zionist heads chopped off in public squares.

26. iraq and syria seem more stable than yemen as of now!

27. Has anyone noticed that Paul Ryan attached they House Yemen vote to the Farm bill so US support won't end? People in Yemen are starving and Ryan attached the vote to a bill relating to food production.

28. We know it is wrong, they (Congress) know it is wrong. They know that we know that it is unethical. We know that they know that we know it is unethical. Hypernormalisation

29. …all whilst idiots like John Bolton claim Iran and Russia ignore international law and order.

30. The Houthis post plenty of fighting pieces right here to You Tube, both of the hill fighting on the Saudi border and the fighting around the port of Hodeidah…

31. The reason such motion in the congress is allowed,
    is because Saudi starts meeting with Russia.

32. Medea Benjamin is a hero

33. The wannabe ME leader led by incompetent leadership cannot subdue the poorest country in ME.
    Enough said!

34. How? Because nobody cares! In fact, the reason why we find ourselves asking 'why are we always in the mess we're in' is always the same reason… We simply just don't care.

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