American Wars: We’re Killing Thousands of People to Enrich a Few Powerful Corporations

November 7th, 2018

By Alex Potter

Guest writer for Wake Up World

I’ve lived in Yemen. The lives of its people are worth more than any military contract.

The other day, over 20 people died in an airstrike in Yemen’s coastal city of Hodeidah. The bombs, dropped by a Saudi-led coalition, hit a farmers market, where men from neighboring villages sold their goods, hoping to at least break even and bring some food home to their families. In the aftermath of the attack, families gathered to pick up the pieces of their loved ones, and hitchhiked to the local general hospital in search of the wounded.

These were only a few of the uncountable thousands of civilian casualties in Yemen’s war, which I’ve followed closely since living there for years as a journalist. But the frequent strikes on markets, school buses, and hospitals seldom make news in the United States. Is it because Yemen seems so far away, that the blood of children doesn’t seem to reach our fingertips? Or is it because arms sellers’ profits from Yemen’s war are so substantial, we don’t dare cut ties?

Yemen’s been on a downward spiral since a failed transition period after the Arab Spring led to a civil war. Since early 2015, a Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen’s exiled president has rained down air raids on the country — more often than not, hitting civilian targets.

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