Yemen in the time of cholera - Part 6

We've learned recently that the US is considering selling death dealing drones to Saudi Arabia in their criminal and US enabled war against Houthi rebels in Yemen. While we sell the Saudis just about everything else to wage war, earning billions for the munitions industry, we've been reluctant to add less manageable drones. But since China has moved into the void, Uncle Sam is loathe to cede easy profits to an economic adversary. If you're surprised to read this, don't be. US mainstream media has put an embargo on virtually any mention of Yemen as the 24 million suffering under US bombs and US planes flown by Saudis are in the middle of our proxy war against Iran being fought by Saudi Arabia against the Shi'ite Houthi rebels aligned with Iran. In a choice between our most demonized pretend enemy Iran and our best weapons buyer Saudi Arabia, mainstream media goes along with Uncle Sam who whispers 'See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil' of Yemen in their news access starved ear.

Speaking of embargoes, besides devastating US bombs raining down on them, the 24 million Yemenis reel from the US enabled Saudi embargo of food and medicine that has caused a million cases of cholera, 2 million refugees, half a million on the brink of starvation, and 22 million looking for their next meal.

Saudi Arabia cannot commit these grotesque war crimes against Yemen without US support. And the US cannot maintain this support without the unquestioned cooperation of a media, print and electronic, which daily subvert and disgrace the function of a free press.