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On March 29, activists with the Yemeni Liberation Movement (YLM) launched a hunger strike in Washington DC to demand that the United States end its support for the Saudi-led blockade on Yemen. Michael Arria spoke with spoke with YLM organizer Monica Isaac about the strike, the Biden administration’s response, and how activists have pushed ending the Yemen blockade into the political conversation.

Joe Biden at the Sheraton West Des Moines Hotel in Iowa, January 2020. (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr)

Joe Biden and his associates appear demonstrably incapable of exchanging the history that they know for a history on which our future may well depend. As a result, they will cling to an increasingly irrelevant past. Under the guise of correcting Trump’s failures, they will perpetuate their own.

Joe Biden speaking in Clear Lake, Iowa, August 2019 (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr)

Dropping bombs on the Middle East is a rite of passage for modern Presidents and last week Joe Biden officially joined the club.