Behind the News: The Yemen War
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🗓️ 4 April 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Doug interviews Annelle Sheline, author of a new Quincy Institute policy brief about the Yemen war, on the reasons behind Saudi Arabia's brutal war. Doug also interviews Natalia Petrzela, author of the column "How Moisturizing Became Macho," on how we went from Muscle Beach to gender neutral cosmetics products.
Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html
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| 0:33.0 | Hello and welcome to Behind the News. |
| 0:35.0 | My name is Doug Henrywood. |
| 0:36.0 | Two segments today. |
| 0:37.0 | Anel Shalene of the Quincy Institute will brief us in the war in Yemen. |
| 0:41.0 | And in something of an antidote to the overdose of miserable news, |
| 0:45.0 | Natalia Petrazella will look at changing fashions in straight men's bodily culture. |
| 0:50.0 | We've heard a lot about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:53.0 | A brutal and pointless war that deserves plenty of condemnation. |
| 0:56.0 | We hear a lot less about the war being conducted by Saudi Arabia, |
| 1:00.0 | with the assistance of the United Arab Emirates on Yemen, |
| 1:03.0 | which has killed 10,000 directly, almost 400,000 through hunger and sickness, |
| 1:07.0 | and has pushed 16 million to the brink of starvation. |
| 1:10.0 | Unlike the bloodletting in Ukraine, the war in Yemen is being prosecuted |
| 1:14.0 | with US-made weapons and Washington's political support, |
| 1:17.0 | despite Biden's promise last year to withdraw that support. |
| 1:21.0 | The Saudi Air Force could not carry on its relentless bombing campaign |
| 1:24.0 | without parts and maintenance furnished by our government. |
| 1:27.0 | The other guys' cruelty seemed to get a lot more notice than ours do. |
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