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After 5 years, Saudi Arabia is finally on the verge of defeat in Yemen by aletho By Omar Ahmed | MEMO | March 26, 2020 Exactly five years ago, the US-backed, Saudi-led Arab coalition carried out its first air strikes on Yemen in an effort to reinstate the disgraced, exiled President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi. He is a statesman in name only who I have argued previously has neither power, authority nor legitimacy. The strikes targeted the Houthi movement, which is supported by the Yemeni armed forces, and the war, claimed the Saudis, was supposed to be over in a matter of weeks. The war’s devastating effects have claimed over 112,000 lives and created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. The steadfast and resilient Yemeni people have prevented the coalition from toppling the Houthi-aligned government in the capital, Sanaa. After five years, in fact, it is fair to say that the Saudis and their mercenaries are on the verge of defeat. The Yemeni armed forces and “popular committees” whi...

Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and senior adviser, was once a liberal New York socialite who donated to Democratic politicians. Credit... Pete Marovich for The New York Times Ivanka Trump Now Acknowledges: ‘I’m a Proud Trump Republican’ By Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman Once seen as a moderate voice in the White House, the president’s older daughter was angered by his impeachment and plans on an active role as a fund-raiser for his re-election campaign. March 2, 2020 WASHINGTON — She told the Fox News host Sean Hannity that refusing to celebrate President Trump’s America was “unforgivable” and tweeted angrily about the “ill-conceived” Senate impeachment trial. She recently took the stage for the first time at the Conservative Political Action Conference, a gathering of hard-core conservative activists. And now she is officially a Republican. Ivanka Trump’s transformation from a New York socialite who donated to Democratic politicians and vocally supported gay rig...

‘Russian troll firm’ says it has a $50bn grudge to settle with US after indictment dropped by DoJ by aletho RT | March 17, 2020 A Russian firm that the DoJ failed to prosecute for “sowing discord” during the 2016 election aims to take its pound of flesh – or at least a hefty compensation for its tarnished reputation. The February 2018 indictment of Concord Management & Consulting LLC, one of several issued by the team of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, was praised by the Russiagate crowds as a crucial step in uncovering the holy grail of Trump-Russia collusion. The case was dropped just weeks before going to trial, with prosecutors claiming that the firm’s defense strategy – demanding evidence that the company had waged ‘information warfare’ against America – posed a threat to US national security. Concord had been “eager and aggressive in using the judicial system to gather information about how the United States detects and prevents foreign election interference,” the mot...

Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson test positive for coronavirus in Australia Joseph Wilkinson Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson have tested positive for the coronavirus and been hospitalized in Australia. Hanks and Wilson — both 63 years old — were working on pre-production for an untitled Baz Luhrmann-directed film about Elvis Presley when they fell ill. In an Instagram post, Hanks said he and Wilson, “felt a bit tired, like we had colds, and some body aches. Rita had some chills that came and went. Slight fevers too.” He explained that given the coronavirus pandemic and their symptoms, they decided to get tested, and the test came back positive. “We Hanks’ will be tested, observed, and isolated for as long as public health and safety requires,” Hanks continued in the post. “Not much more to it than a one-day-at-a-time approach, no?” In his own Instagram post, Hanks and Wilson’s son Chet thanked everyone for their thoughts and prayers. He also tried to reassure people that things w...

The promotion of #human rights is America's commitment to the world. Countries that respect human rights are the most stable, peaceful and prosperous 2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Sudan Executive Summary Sudan began the year as a republic with power concentrated in the hands of authoritarian President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and the National Congress Party (NCP). The NCP, which ruled for three decades with nearly absolute political authority, remained in power until early April. Protests that began in mid-December 2018 over economic concerns continued during the first few months of the year, growing in size and transforming into demands for regime change under the slogan Freedom, Peace, Justice. On February 22, President Bashir declared a state of emergency, which the National Assembly endorsed on March 11, for a period of six months. The Bashir regime then issued a series of decrees prohibiting the holding of public gatherings, processions, strikes, and simil...