May 5
GUEST: Mary Anne Mercer, former director for prevention of HIV/AIDS in Africa University, professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins University, and contributing writer for Huffpost, talks about the dangerous famine in Yemen and what Western nations must do now to avert a catastrophe.
Mary Anne Mercer - Contributor Huffpost
Yemen and Palestine are the two most oppressed peoples in the world. Bomb fragments tell the real story. They are always made in the USA!
Not only that, they are paid for by the billions the US gives to Saudi Arabia and Israel each year. The famine and slaughter can easily be traced back to a system that puts profits above any sense of morality. Perhaps that that what capitalism is best at: separating morality from our business plans. People just can't be considered if the elites want to turn their millions into billions.
All this takes some covering up. But our corporate media is so very good at doing that. We get endless "People Magazine" stories about the personalities of our day. Our news is rife with soap opera plots, and what the stars use to keep thin. The suffering of children in Yemen and Palestine just never makes it into the nation's living room. It's simply bad for advertising.
So aid workers like Mary Anne Mercer are the truth tellers for our time of empire. They are never given much print space. But once one notices the suffering of children, there is a chance that the rest of the empire's propaganda can be peeled back. The empire has no cloths; all we have to do is open our eyes.
