Trump’s Yemen Surge: How Policy from DC Think Tanks Brought Famine Roaring Back

With Washington think tanks shaping Trump’s latest Yemen strategy, aid cuts and escalated attacks are pushing millions of civilians back to the brink of famine, humanitarian groups warn.

Robert Inlakesh
By Robert Inlakesh
Yemenis gather at Al Mashhad cemetery in Sanaa to bury victims of U.S. airstrikes, April 23, 2025.

President Donald Trump’s new Yemen campaign is driving what experts call a spiraling humanitarian disaster, nearly doubling the previous administration’s costs while slashing aid and intensifying airstrikes. Under pressure from powerful Washington think tanks, Trump has sharply increased airstrikes, cut $107 million in aid, and designated

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Israel Is Set To ReInvade Central Gaza’s Khan Yunis, Exposing Military Failures

With a new invasion of Khan Yunis, the Israeli military’s claims of defeating Hamas are called into question, as refugees suffer and fighting continues unabated.

Robert Inlakesh
By Robert Inlakesh
Khan Yunis Feature photo

On Monday, the Israeli military announced plans to reinvade Khan Yunis, a densely populated city,  issuing an evacuation order for around 250,000 displaced refugees. This move suggests that Israel has not succeeded in defeating Palestinian armed groups despite claiming near victory in Rafah. Refugees from Khan Yunis have fled to Muwasi, a

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Biden’s $7 Billion Afghan Heist

The president’s order diverting frozen funds to American families of 9/11 victims will only make the humanitarian and economic crises in Afghanistan worse.

Medea Benjamin
Cheryl Benard
Masuda Sultan
By Medea Benjamin
And Cheryl Benard
And Masuda Sultan
Biden Afghanistan Feature photo

With his Executive Order redefining Afghanistan’s Fiscal Reserve as a slush fund to be disbursed on his whim and with the stroke of his pen, President Biden has taken what may well be the final step in an experiment gone amok. The U.S. first attempted to make Afghanistan into a Western democracy, instead installed a kleptocracy, made Afghans endure

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Syria’s Rukban Now Little More Than a US-Controlled Concentration Camp – and the Pentagon Won’t Let Refugees Leave

According to the Cambridge Dictionary, a concentration camp is defined as “a place where large numbers of people are kept as prisoners in extremely bad conditions, especially for political reasons.” It is undeniable that the Rukban camp fits this definition to the letter.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
Rukban

DAMASCUS, SYRIA -- The United States military has rejected offers to resolve the growing humanitarian crisis in the Rukban refugee camp in Syria, which sits inside a 55 km zone occupied by the U.S. along the Syria-Jordan border. The U.S. has also refused to let any of the estimated 40,000 refugees -- the majority of which are women and children --

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Four Years of Hell: To Crush Yemen’s Independence, US-Saudi War Created World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis

Despite the enormous international onslaught, hundreds of thousands of deaths, widespread famine-like conditions, hundreds of billions of dollars wasted on war — despite all of this, the US-UK-Saudi-UAE coalition has been unable to crush the will of the Yemeni people, who continue to fight for independence and sovereignty.

Ben Norton
By Ben Norton
Yemen | Saudi war

Grayzone -- March 26, 2019 marked the fourth anniversary of the US-Saudi bombing campaign in Yemen. These four years have unleashed Hell on Earth for millions of civilians. It would be impossible to overstate the devastation, destruction, and death they have experienced. For 1,460 days, Saudi Arabia, one of the richest countries on the planet,

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Watch | US Foists “Humanitarian Aid” on Venezuela, Helps Create a Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen

Kei Pritsker breaks down the nature of US humanitarian aid and how it’s weaponized to advance foreign policy objectives.

Kei Pritsker
By Kei Pritsker

  (Transcript) --This video was produced as part of a MintPress News and Grayzone collaboration -- There’s been nonstop talk about the humanitarian situation in Venezuela. In case you haven’t heard, U.S. politicians are really concerned for the Venezuelan people’s well-being -- screaming their all-too-familiar code words that justify

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