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Supporters of President Donald Trump pray as they wait in anticipation of his visit to the U.S.-Mexico border, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, in Harlingen, Texas
IN the dying days of the Trump maladministration, his motormouth Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has put the Houthi insurgents in Yemen on the “terror list” — along with Cuba.
If, as the old saying goes, Latin America’s tragedy is that it is so close to the US and so far from God, then Yemen is far, far from Allah and way too close to Saudi Arabia.
The barebones and poverty-stricken Houthi insurgency represents absolutely no terror threat to the people of the US and, in itself, is not much threat to oil profits.
Morning Star international editor ROGER McKENZIE says Trump’s ceaseless belligerence is a desperate effort to prevent the emergence of a multilateral world
The global left must be unwavering in it is support for Venezuela as Washington increases its aggression, and clear-eyed about the West’s cynical motives for targeting it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
HANK KENNEDY contends that US military attacks in the Caribbean amount to modern piracy driven by Venezuela’s oil wealth