The Brutal Illogic of the US Attacks on Yemen / Séamus Malekafzali

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🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Séamus Malekafzali joins This Is Hell! talk to us about his Baffler article, "More Fog, More War: The brutal illogic of the U.S. attacks on Yemen." The Moment of Truth with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check out Séamus' article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/more-fog-more-war-malekafzali Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0	You're going to see.
0:13.0	I'm going to be here.
0:15.0	The water is with me.
0:17.0	I was going to
0:18.0	get our power. Bigger! This is hell and is there anything that is causing greater grief in our world today
0:56.2	than the horrible suffering happening in Gaza at this very moment?
1:02.0	That's a rhetorical question and you don't have to answer. However in a
1:05.9	weird way I'm hoping that there is nothing worse happening in the world than what is
1:12.4	taking place in Gaza today because
1:14.4	something worse is hard to imagine and if there is something worse that we don't
1:19.2	know about I mean that's even more frightening. Of course not knowing about what's happening in the world
1:25.6	shouldn't be a surprise for us here in the United States or anyone who consumes Western
1:30.9	establishment media. Sure over the past 30 years, the privatization of journalism in the United States,
1:37.0	its corporate conglomeration, and its destruction by private equity,
1:41.0	and all the machinations of capitalism that are anathema to free speech or free anything.
1:46.4	All of that, including the US press closing its vast majority of foreign press bureaus,
1:51.6	so we have no idea of what's going on overseas
1:54.4	which explains a lot of why we were not prepared for anything like 9-11.
1:59.2	All that has Americans and most of the people in the West even more ignorant of the rest of the world than we already were.
2:05.0	Case in point, what we will be talking about today and that's not only the Gaza War,
2:11.0	which we are relatively uninformed about, especially its context, but how Yemen
2:16.4	and the Houthi fit into this potentially apocalyptic mess. Things got even more complicated in the now regional conflict this past weekend
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