Bernie Sanders plans to force a vote as early as next week on a War Powers Resolution that would block U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen, my colleague Dan Boguslaw and I reported. What’s unusual about the WPR – beyond the fact that Sanders is able to bring it to the floor whether leadership wants him to or not – is that party doesn’t necessarily determine how a lawmaker will vote on it. A growing number of Republicans actually support ending the war in Yemen and a disturbing number of Democrats are supportive of it (though there are still more Republican supporters than Democrats).
The cost of gasoline and diesel, etc. is not entirely caused by external manipulations of the fuel's market, for example by Saudi Arabia. It comes also from US corporations that rise their prices to the levels of those of the Saudi and other cartel members.
If this country were ruled by patriots and not by craven opportunists (mostly of Republican affiliation) those US companies would be subject to stiff windfall taxes and the rise in prices would be considerably less steep.
And now, if I may, I would like to bring up the subject of what is lost in a war, wherever it takes place, but here in the case of Yemen in particular. I would like to do it by way of one heartbreaking example:
Electrical supply in Yemen, even before the civil war (to call it something nicer than it deserves) got going in earnest between two equally unacceptable contenders, a group of teenaged girls attending school in the capital Saba, invented appliances that could be powered with solar energy and started a company to make and sell them, winning international prices for innovation.
That was nine years ago.
Where are they now? Where their achievements, when everything good and decent has been ground into dust by two criminal enterprises bent on driving out of existence anything that bothers them?
The cost of gasoline and diesel, etc. is not entirely caused by external manipulations of the fuel's market, for example by Saudi Arabia. It comes also from US corporations that rise their prices to the levels of those of the Saudi and other cartel members.
If this country were ruled by patriots and not by craven opportunists (mostly of Republican affiliation) those US companies would be subject to stiff windfall taxes and the rise in prices would be considerably less steep.
And now, if I may, I would like to bring up the subject of what is lost in a war, wherever it takes place, but here in the case of Yemen in particular. I would like to do it by way of one heartbreaking example:
Electrical supply in Yemen, even before the civil war (to call it something nicer than it deserves) got going in earnest between two equally unacceptable contenders, a group of teenaged girls attending school in the capital Saba, invented appliances that could be powered with solar energy and started a company to make and sell them, winning international prices for innovation.
That was nine years ago.
Where are they now? Where their achievements, when everything good and decent has been ground into dust by two criminal enterprises bent on driving out of existence anything that bothers them?
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2013/01/yemeni-girls-use-solar-energy.html