Sanaa, April 01: An American political observer says there is no end in sight for the spread of uprisings throughout the Arab world, blaming the US and Saudi Arabia for the sustenance of dictators in the region.
“Nothing will contain the anti-colonial revolution that is sweeping the area as a class content today until those basic survival needs of people can be met,” said Ralph Schoenman, an American author and political activist, in an interview with Press TV.
He said that the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh “has been sustained, not only by the United States military and Special Forces, and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), but above all, by the Saudi monarchy, to which it is deeply attached, and on which it is deeply dependent.”
“That is the same exact process that is unfolding in Bahrain. These regimes are being rejected by the mass of the population and brute force will not sustain them or maintain them.”
Commenting on the possibility of creating “chaos” in the Middle Eastern country, Schoenman said “the ideas and the issues that motivate and mobilize the people in Yemen have nothing to do with chaos.”
“The uprising that arose decades ago, and encompassed the southern part of Yemen, was a very coherent political and class-based rejection of the Feudalism of the Wahabi-dominated north. And that continues to this very day.”
The American activist went on to say that the word “chaos” — as defined by the US establishment — means “not sufficiently subordinate to US control.”
“Creating an apparatus that can sustain access to resources is the fundamental objective of the United States and the colonial and imperial powers.”
Schoenman’s comments came amid the ongoing anti-government protests in Yemen, which have left around 100 people dead since they began in mid-February.
———Agencies