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The Dig

Yemen and the Houthis w/ Helen Lackner

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Featuring Helen Lackner on the Houthis, the politics of their attacks on Red Sea shipping, and the long history of Yemen from British colonial Aden through the current civil war.

Read Helen's articles for Jacobin jacobin.com/author/helen-lackner

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0:00.0

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0:12.0

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0:15.6

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0:29.4

These communities, among the most vulnerable too, but also least responsible for the climate

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0:39.7

Today as the world's forest spurn and our oceans acidify, grassroots movement Asidiphy,

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0:52.1

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0:57.0

where readers in the US and UK receive free shipping on orders over $25 and 20 pounds respectively.

1:07.0

Welcome to the dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and

1:19.6

I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

1:23.0

Huthie attacks on ships traversing the Red Sea

1:26.0

have prompted many people all over the world to ask,

1:29.0

who are the Huthies?

1:31.0

Why are they taking these actions in solidarity with Gaza against the Israeli genocide

1:36.6

even as it elicits U.S. military reprisals?

1:40.7

What, generally speaking, is going on in Yemen?

1:43.7

Today, we provide a dig-length answer to those questions and more.

1:48.6

My guest is the very long-time Yemen scholar Helen Lackner. We discuss the Hutis, their ideology, history, and politics,

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