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US Increases bombing of Yemen to protect Netanyahu’s genocide

By Richard Mellor in California

It is important to not lose sight of the fact that the Houthi’s disruption of and attacks on shipping in the Bab el Mandeb Strait has not included commercial shipping but ships carrying arms and supplies, particularly US and Israeli, to Israel that allow the continuing genocide the Zionist regime is carrying out against the Palestinian people. 

The Houthis have made it very clear that the attacks will stop if the US/Israeli genocide stops. So we have a situation here where one of the poorest countries in the world, suffering years of bombing by the Saudi’s on behalf of the US, is being bombed once more, directly by the US this time, in order to protect a genocide made possible only by US money and weapons.

The Houthi’s political slogans and their views in general have religious content to them. Norman Finkelstein, who has made it clear he supports the actions the Houthi’s are taking to stop the slaughter in Gaza, gave what in my opinion is the correct answer, to a Zionist who asked him how he can reconcile that support given the anti-Jewish slogans that are part of the Houthi’s political lexicon. The Finkelstein exchange is in this video below:

The workers’ organisations in Europe and the US should refuse to handle any product bound for or from the Zionist regime, this would stop the slaughter in Gaza. Unfortunately, the leaders of the workers’ organisations support the foreign policies of their own governments, we are witnessing this as workers in various nations join their governments in the nationalist campaigns against Trump’s tariffs. 

It appears international solidarity is simply a talking point and goes out the window when it is the necessary strategy for liberation. See also this video from Electronic Intifada:

The New America: Federal (ICE) Agents Boarding Trains?

ICE agents (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) have been on trains, buses and outside coach stations, checking the US citizenship of random passengers and passers-by. (See feature photograph from a post on ‘X’). All this, of course, is against the constitutional rights of the passengers and public.

The following is a statement by Judith Roberts, Chief judge at Fort Berthold District Court: MHA Nation [The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, also known as the Three Affiliated Tribes]

As an attorney I’m deeply alarmed by an incident that occurred just this week and feel compelled to share it—to raise awareness of the legal and constitutional crossroads we are rapidly approaching.

A co-worker of mine (who is a judge), traveled by train from Montana to North Dakota for work this week. The train made a stop in Havre, MT, where ICE agents—armed and dressed in full military-style tactical gear—boarded the train.

They walked the full length of the train and questioned every single passenger about their citizenship status. According to the conductor, who has worked nearly 40 years on that route, this was a first. In all his decades of service, federal agents have never boarded his train like this.

This is not a hypothetical. This is not a scene from a dystopian film. This happened this week to my colleague, on U.S. soil, to U.S. citizens, legal residents, and foreign tourists here on holiday, without a warrant, without probable cause—based solely on geography.

Under current law ICE has expanded authority to operate within 100 miles of any border. But HOW that authority is being interpreted and exercised has chilling implications for civil liberties, freedom of movement, and equal protection under the law.

This isn’t about politics—it’s about the erosion of rights we’ve taken for granted, and the slow normalization of military-style policing tactics in everyday spaces. Even if technically permissible, these actions reflect a disturbing shift in the balance between civil liberties and governmental authority. The normalization of militarized immigration enforcement in public spaces, without individualized suspicion, risks setting dangerous precedents that erode the freedoms we are sworn to uphold.

This is not about ideology—it is about the integrity of our legal system. I am compelled to speak up because there is no justification for circumventing the very rights and principles that define our democracy. 

The question is not whether you “have something to hide.” The question is how much unchecked authority we’re willing to allow before we can no longer call this a free society.

These reports republished from the US socialist website, Facts for Working People, here.