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

Source: MPN

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

by Kei Pritsker | March 26, 2019

(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 U.S. intervention, like "a humanitarian crisis … socialist dictator starving his own people."

Fine.

But if the United States really wants to save people from a dire humanitarian crisis, why aren't we also then talking about sending aid to the 23 million Yemenis facing starvation right now as a result of the U.S.-backed Saudi bombing and illegal blockade of Yemen — right, Marco Rubio?

Marco, you there? Marco?

Oh there you are, voting AGAINST the Senate resolution to end U.S. support for Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen.

Highly selective "humanitarianism"

The U.S.-backed Saudi Coalition's assault on Yemen is the real humanitarian crisis. In fact, it's the world's worst humanitarian crisis of the modern era. The war has already taken the lives of 80,000 Yemenis, not including the 85,000 children under the age of 5 who have starved to death as collateral damage of Saudi's bombs.

Despite how dire the crisis in Yemen is, it's not even noteworthy to U.S. politicians crying crocodile tears for the people of Venezuela. In fact, these same politicians screaming how "socialism is starving Venezuelans" have been totally OK with the U.S. selling Saudi Arabia weapons so it can bomb the hell out of the Middle East's poorest country.

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