{"id":7913,"date":"2015-05-07T07:08:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T12:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7913"},"modified":"2015-05-07T07:08:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T12:08:19","slug":"where-porter-is-on-and-off-in-explaining-us-media-bias-on-saudi-aggression-against-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7913","title":{"rendered":"Where Porter is On and Off in Explaining US Media Bias on Saudi Aggression against Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where Porter is On and Off in Explaining US Media Bias on Saudi Aggression against Yemen<\/a><\/h3>\n

In an important new\u00a0article<\/a>, award-winning journalist Gareth Porter notes that US and Western media are using the term \u201cproxy war\u201d as \u201ca way of softening the harsh reality of Saudi aggression\u201d against Yemen.<\/p>\n

A proxy war by definition, Porter explains, uses third parties.\u00a0 Therefore,\u00a0 it is [mind-numbingly] \u201cobvious that the Saudi bombing in Yemen, which has killed mostly civilians \u2026 is no proxy war but a straightforward external military aggression.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since Iran, billed by the US government and media as the other side in the so-called \u201cproxy\u201d war, has (unlike Saudi Arabia) not attacked Yemen, it would theoretically be possible that Iran was engaged in proxy war, while the Saudis are engaged in a naked, illegal attack.<\/p>\n

However, Porter notes, while Iran does have minor ties with the Houthis, the nature of the Houthis\u2019 current campaign in Yemen is the precise\u00a0opposite<\/em>\u00a0of an Iranian proxy campaign: the Houthis directly disobeyed Iran\u2019s advice, which said\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0to take control of the Yemeni capital.<\/p>\n

Further, US spy agencies themselves\u00a0told\u00a0<\/a>Huffington Post unequivocally that \u201cIran does not exert command and control over the Houthis in Yemen\u201d, and \u201cIt is wrong to think of the Houthis as a proxy force for Iran\u201d.<\/p>\n

But, since the US is massively supplying the Saudis with lethal weapons (Obama sent them thousands ofbanned\u00a0<\/a>cluster bombs and the\u00a0biggest\u00a0<\/a>shipment of lethal weaponry in US history),\u00a0coordinating\u00a0<\/a>the bombings, and\u00a0refueling\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0rescuing\u00a0<\/a>Saudi bombers (while\u00a0refusing\u00a0<\/a>to rescue US citizens trapped in Yemen, though 8 other countries including India, China, and Russia are rescuing their own and foreign nationals), there is what in the real world would be an undeniable argument that the\u00a0US<\/em>\u00a0is using Saudi Arabia as a proxy to wage war of aggression against Yemen.<\/p>\n

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Where Porter is On and Off in Explaining US Media Bias on Saudi Aggression against Yemen In an important new\u00a0article, award-winning journalist Gareth Porter notes that US and Western media are using the term \u201cproxy war\u201d as \u201ca way of softening the harsh reality of Saudi aggression\u201d against Yemen. A proxy war by definition, Porter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5243,5242,441,512,5244,1426,655,1150,701,827,1920,865,901],"class_list":["post-7913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bias","tag-gareth-porter","tag-iran","tag-media","tag-media-bias","tag-misinformation","tag-propaganda","tag-proxy-war","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-united-states","tag-us-media","tag-washington","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7914,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions\/7914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}