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Futile: Saudi’s Decade-Long Attempt to Bottle Up Yemeni Youth Revolution Is Failing “Saudi Arabia has crushed our revolution, turned our lives into hell because our uprising was interpreted by the ruling family as a threat to [their] influence and because of their fear of the revolution spreading to the Saudi interior.” — Yemeni artist Aisha Ali Saeed By Ahmed ABDULKAREEM SANA’A, YEMEN — A decade has passed since a massive popular uprising was sparked in Yemen by the wave of pro-democracy protests surging across the Middle East and North Africa known as the Arab Sprin...

Women increasingly setting the tone in Yemen's protests Unlike in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, popular uprisings in Yemen have not brought down the country's ruler. But with more and more women protestors taking the lead in demonstrations, that might change. Yemeni women are beginning to flex their political muscles Anti-government protestors have nicknamed the grey asphalt space in front of Sana'a University "Change Square." Demonstrators have been camping out there for several months, and among their ranks are a conspicuous number of women. Women are well-represented, too, among protestors i...

Yemen 'Arab Spring' unity torn asunder by hunger and war Reuters 1/28/2021 SANAA/TAIZ, Yemen, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Ten years after joining an uprising in Yemen against autocratic rule and an economy in shambles, the same activists find themselves on opposite sides of a war that has pushed the country to the brink of famine with dim prospects for peace. Ahmed Abdo Hezam, 35, a fighter with government forces known by his nom de guerre Ahmed Abu Al-Nasr, had been a university graduate in the agro-industrial city of Taiz when he first joined youth-led protests that ended Ali Abdullah Saleh's 33-y...

spending cuts, much of it from medicare and medicaid but also the 1.5 trillion in tax revenue, more than 1 trillion in war savings as operations in iraq and afghanistan draw down and interest savings amounting to more than $400 billion. texas governor rick perry may be asked more about this on the campaign trail. census data shows more than 18% of texans live below the poverty line. that's 3 points higher than the national average. the state also has the highest share of people without health insurance. and it's tied with mississippi for the highest percentage of minimum wage worke...