Hey there.
Last week US bombs rained down on a school bus in Yemen, killing at least 50 people,
including dozens of children.
The US forever war is filled with horror, but this one is worth focusing on, because
it's so, so pointless.
We're not fighting ISIS here, we are supporting the invasion of Yemen by Saudi Arabia and
the United Arab Emirates.
It's just US supported murder, pure and simple.
For no good reason.
The Saudis and Emiratis are reliant on the US for intelligence, aerial refueling, and
all the military technology they are using.
We could stop this immediately, possibly saving millions of lives.
The Horrors of Yemen are especially frustrating because they are so easy to fix.
Much of the US forever war is justified as an attempt to fight terrorists like Al Qaeda
and ISIS.
As an in-depth report from the Associated Press underlined last week, in Yemen, the
United States is directly allied with Al Qaeda.
As far as I can see, that makes this war illegal.
In Yemen, the United States is acting as a state sponsor of Al Qaeda, the organization
that brought down the twin towers on 9/11.
Though they wouldn't put it in those terms, a bipartisan group of US legislators has been
trying to end this illegal, horrific war.
This March I hopefully documented the efforts of three US Senators to end the war.
This effort failed.
To add to the frustration, it failed quite narrowly.
Because nobody paid attention.
Unlike many issues, it wasn't the US congress that failed here.
It was us.
The American people, and the people of the world, failed the US congress.
It's easy to blame the media.
The war in Yemen is barely covered, and when it is, the stories often fall for the "It's
all About Iran" lie that the US and Saudi governments are selling.
But I think there's more to it than that.
Our cable news channels are a business.
They cover what we want them to cover.
And unfortunately what we want them to cover today is Donald Trump.
It's pointless to hope for anything worthwhile from the two Trump channels.
They are now making more money than ever, and they're not going to risk that by covering
some boring war that makes the US look bad.
But I think people are right to expect more from MSNBC.
It sells itself as the "progressive" news channel.
Historically, back before the days of the Russia panic, Progressive used to mean anti-war.
But MSNBC is failing as well.
They almost never mention US participation in Yemen.
Last month Adam Johnson, a left-wing Journalist, found a clever way to make people aware of
this.
He used a Stripper.
He pointed out that as of July 2nd a full year had passed without MSNBC covering the
US participation in the war on Yemen.
Over the same period they had run 455 segments talking about the stripper Stormy Daniels.
Trump cheated on his wife with Daniels, and his botched attempt to pay her off has been
a big part of the media's Trump bonanza over the past year.
Johnson's insertion of Yemen into the main money-making story was a great success.
The story was picked up everywhere and was very embarrassing to MSNBC.
It worked.
5 days ago, prompted by that embarrassment, and horror at the school bus bombing, Chris
Hayes of MSNBC ran a powerful two minute segment on the US War on Yemen.
I've linked it here, and I suggest you watch it.
Seriously, press pause, click the link up here to my left and watch it.
I'll wait.
He's right.
Our government, our public dollars are paying to kill Yemeni children.
And it's our government, and our representatives that can stop it.
See what I mean?
Great stuff.
Emotional, moving, great production values.
Those two minutes should be worth more than the hours of amateurish YouTube videos I've
put together on Yemen over the past year.
Or at least they should be.
But they're not.
Because we are failing MSNBC just as badly as we failed those heroic senators back in
March.
MSNBC has posted this video on YouTube.
And it hasn't done much better than my videos on Yemen do.
Of the 26 videos that MSNBC posted on YouTube on August 9th, the Yemen video is the worst
performing, by a lot.
At a little over 10,000 views it underperformed a video about Wookies.
Four videos that covered the Trump Russia investigation all broke 100,000 views, and
the video that included the crucial key words Mueller, Russia and Julian Assange broke 300,000
views.
With results like this, how many more Yemen segments do you honestly expect MSNBC is going
to produce?
Congress is trying to do the right thing here.
Even the US media is occasionally trying to do the right thing with Yemen.
We just aren't paying attention.
But we can fix this.
As I said at the beginning, Yemen is the easiest problem in the world to fix.
All the pieces are in place.
More people just need to know about it.
Because to know the war in Yemen is to oppose it.
So please, take that great MSNBC clip on Yemen and share it.
Share it right now.
You don't have to be from the United States to make a difference here.
If MSNBC gets a spike of views on this clip, I assure you they will take notice.
And If you want to take the next step, and educate yourself on what's actually going
on in Yemen, I suggest you watch my first five videos on Yemen's disaster, that are
now front and center on this channel's main page.
They are probably the best thing I've ever done.
If you take the half hour to watch those videos you will know more about Yemen than 99% of
Americans.
You'll have the tools necessary to make a difference to solve this surprisingly easy
problem.
Thanks for watching, please subscribe, and please, please share that MSNBC clip on Yemen.
It really could make a difference.
Thanks.

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