The Dig: Empire and the War in Yemen

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🗓️ 18 April 2019

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

The US has played a major role in fomenting violence across Yemen, backing the Saudi and United Arab Emirates-led forces attacking the country while also conducting a direct war against Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula under the guise of counterterrorism. But while it's understandable that US involvement is the top focus for the American left, understanding the war in Yemen requires a much broader analysis. The Yemeni conflict not only includes multiple outside actors but also multiple groups of Yemenis pursuing different outcomes, rooted in a complex history that few outside of Yemen understand. Explaining that context is what this show, in partnership with the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP), is all about. This special episode includes two interviews with contributors to Middle East Report, MERIP's print publication. First, up is Yemeni journalist Afrah Nasser and political scientist Stacey Philbrick Yadav; and then, Dan speaks with political-economist Adam Hanieh.

Check out The Fight for Yemen, the latest issue of Middle East Report at merip.org/magazine/289

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0:00.0	This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com and by Verso Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you.
0:15.1	One that you might like is Capital City, Gentrification in the real estate state by
0:20.8	Samuel Stein.
0:22.4	Our cities are changing. Around the world, more and more money is being
0:27.2	invested in buildings and land. Real estate is now a $217 trillion industry, worth 36 times the value of all the gold ever mined.
0:41.0	It forms 60% of global assets and one of the most powerful people in the world,
0:47.3	the President of the United States, made his name as a landlord and developer.
0:54.0	Samuel Stein shows that this explosive transformation of urban life and politics
1:01.0	has been driven not only by the tastes of wealthy newcomers, but by the state-driven
1:06.4	process of urban planning. Planning agencies provide a unique window into the way the state uses and is used by capital
1:16.0	in the means by which urban renovations are translated into rising real estate values
1:22.0	and rising rents. Capital City explains the role of
1:26.2	planners in the real estate state, as well as the remarkable power of planning to
1:32.1	reclaim urban life.
1:35.0	Also, if you're in New England, come see me interview Stein live in Providence, April 23rd, 7 PM at Riffrath Books.
1:46.3	Capital City, Gentrification and the real estate state
1:50.7	by Samuel Stein, out now from Verso Books.
1:55.0	Welcome to The Dig.
1:57.0	Welcome to the dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and
2:09.1	I'm temporarily broadcasting from Santiago de Chile. The scope of Yemen's humanitarian disaster is
2:16.8	breathtaking. 10 million people are on the brink of famine and nearly a
2:22.3	quarter million are at catastrophic levels of food
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