The crisis in Yemen is at pitch level. The Saudi’s are bombing Houthi rebels and Egypt is reported to be joining the Saudi’s in an invasion of Yemen. This will take proxy wars in the region to new and even more dangerous heights. The US is clearly on the side of the Saudi’s.
The deposed Yemini President Hadi, a US ally and to-to guy, is on the run and reportedly now in Riyahd the Saudi capital.
In Iraq US troops bomb Tikrit, the hometown of the late Sadaam Hussein, with reports of an eight-hour non-stop bombardment. France has gotten into the act but the US is careful to say that Iranian Special Forces are not involved in efforts to retake Tikrit from Sunni and ISIS rebels.
How are global alliances and the re-ordering of these alliances playing out? What will this mean for the nuclear negotiations with Iran? Is there a danger of a full-blown war?
On the home front, tea party darling Ted Cruz announces his sights on the US Presidency; the campaign for Hillary Clinton remains relatively low-key as she fights off email-gate and other scandals. And with her reputation as a hawk, what could her Presidency mean for the increasing turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa?
And the working class fights back. The campaign for a rise in the minimum wage in both red and blue states; following Seattle are more wage victories in sight despite the frontal attack on organized labor coming from the Right?
Our panelists are Jackie Goldberg, Tom Hayden, Dr. Gerald Horne.
