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Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

10/25/21 Nasser Arrabyee on the Yemen Atrocity and the Battle for Marib

Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

Scott Horton

News, Politics

4.8989 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Scott is joined by Nasser Arrabyee who gives an update on the state of the war in Yemen. The battle for Marib is raging as the Houthis take control of more and more districts. The city is one of the last strongholds outside of Houthi control, and it looks like that may change soon. Arrabyee also gives an update on the rest of the country, where the Saudi blockade continues to wreak havoc on the population.  Discussed on the show: Scott’s interview about Marib with Scott Paul Nasser Arrabyee is a Yemeni journalist based in Sana’a, Yemen. He is the owner and director of yemen-now.com. You can follow him on Twitter @narrabyee. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Dröm; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt; Lorenzotti Coffee and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton Show.

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I'm the Director of the Libertarian Institute,

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editorial director of anti-war.com.

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Author of the book, Pools Arran,

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time to end the war in Afghanistan,

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and the brand new enough already. Time to end the war in Afghanistan and the brand new enough already time to end the war on

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terrorism and I've recorded more than 5,500 interviews since 2003 almost all on

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For. You can sign up the podcast feed there, and the full interview archive is also available

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at YouTube.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yemen. Used to write for the New York Times back when they were interested in what he had to say,

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but all that changed when America switched sides in the war six and a half years ago.

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And we've been talking to him ever since. Welcome back to the show, how you doing, Nasser?

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Well, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you for having me on.

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Yeah, happy to have you here. It's Yemen-Now.com is the new site there, Alon. So there's big news I've been trying to keep up with

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everything at anti-war.com Jason and Dave both do a really good job of keeping up with

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everything obviously the most important topic to begin with here is the battle for Marib, this major city east of Sinah, which has been in the hands of the former government of Yemen for, I guess, most of the last six years here, in their alliance with Al-Isla.

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But now my understanding is that the Huthies have driven them out

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and have taken over the town of Marib.

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But there's still bitter fighting going on and airstrikes and also a looming if not already

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happening extra humanitarian crisis from all the people being driven out of there and all the

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civilians being driven out of there by the fighting. So please do tell

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sir. Thank you very much. What's really happening in Madhib is the last ditch, the last minute attempt to cling to this city or the Saudi government of the Saudi

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