Senators Challenge ‘War Powers’ in Hopes of Extracting US from Saudi War Against Yemen

US: A bipartisan effort by four senators, Mike Lee (R-UT), Rand Paul (R-KY), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Chris Murphy (D-CT), is looking to end US military’s involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen. They have introduced the first-ever War Powers vote to come out of the Senate. The bill is based on the fact that Congress has never authorized the use of military force in Yemen. The US has participated in the Saudi invasion of Yemen since it began in 2015, with US tanker planes performing mid-air refueling missions for Saudi bombers, and US warships participating in the naval blockade that is causing mass starvation in Yemen. -GEG

A bipartisan effort by four senators is looking to end the US military’s involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen, with the introduction of the first ever War Powers Act vote to come out of the Senate.

Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Rand Paul (R-KY), Mike Lee (R-UT), and Chris Murphy (D-CT) are forwarding the bill, which notes that Congress has never authorized the use of military force in Yemen. This should allow Congress to oblige the administration to end US involvement in the war. Sens. Sanders and Lee had a formal press conference Wednesday.

The US has participated in the Saudi invasion of Yemen since it began in 2015, with US planes performing mid-air refueling missions for Saudi bombers, and US warships at times participating in the Saudi-led naval blockade which is causing mass starvation in Yemen.

Efforts in the House late last year to challenge the Yemen war under the War Powers Act were blocked by the leadership, which replaced it with a non-binding resolution confirming that Congress never authorized a war on Yemen’s Shi’ite Houthi movement, which passed 366-30.

These same senators tried to push a bill last summer to block arms sales to Saudi Arabia, though this narrowly failed. Since then, they and other critics of the Yemen operation have criticized Saudi war crimes, and noted the danger of having the US so deeply involved in these war crimes.

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South Africa: Racial Tension Is Causing White Genocide and the Death of Farmlands

Lauren Southern recently visited South Africa in the midst of a severe drought where some areas have not had rain for four years. Cape Town is expected to run out of water in a matter of weeks, and farming has ceased. Racial tension is compounding the problem. The communist government has imposed a program called Black Economic Empowerment, which limits white employment to no more than eight percent of the workforce to reflect the white pro-rata share of the overall population – in spite of the fact that these workers have the skills that are needed for economic development. As a result, white engineers and skilled craftsmen have been laid off. In the name of racial equality, the government has doomed the economy to decline even further. This is resulting in a lowering living standard for blacks even more than for whites. Cape Town is expected to run out of water in just a few more weeks, but the technicians with the best chance of preventing that have been terminated because of the color of their skin. -GEG