The fact that our planet in this day and age is home to a genocide – visible to all human beings on personal devices throughout the world – an ongoing abomination unhindered by any international body, by any intergovernmental organisation or even by those noble states that proclaim to be constructing a new and more just world… says a lot about our evolution as a species and potentially about the future of our civilisation.

We now stand before a bifurcation: one clear and broad path leads to destruction and ruin; the other is to lead to a new and harmonious world… but it is winding, stony, vague and enveloped in fog.

Like a frantic victim in quicksand, flailing his arms about in vain, the frenzy of a declining Empire is only accelerating its own demise. It has chosen the path leading to ruin and its own suicide… and it has many followers – especially in its diseased appendix – the Zionist entity – and the rest of the Western World. The symptoms of this necrotic drive are seen in the Forever Wars; a self-devouring economic system based on insatiable greed and wilful ignorance; the destruction of society, of the family, of rituals and traditions; and, essentially, a total contempt for all that is natural and alive… These signs arise from a state of permanent discontent and fear, which ultimately leads to self-destruction.

And now... though today's Hegemon, the United States – built on genocide and slavery – has been waging countless wars since its inception, and Europe has been massacring and plundering the planet for over 500 years due to its endless rapacity… it is no longer just a question of geography. The core of the problem of our human civilisation today is the Western mindset and the system of financialised capitalism, both of which have infected the entire world to various degrees… with only a few exceptions.

Most of the World Majority remains incapable of throwing off the yoke of the colonialist West because of corruption, dependence, societal pressures and a lack of support from states to enlighten citizens on their own past and history.

The mythification and emulation of the Western World have become so deeply ingrained in the marrow of so many over so many centuries… that a decolonisation process will take time. And little has been undertaken officially to this end. The promising BRICS+ states are focussing mainly on trade, economic growth and hi-tech innovation.

To avoid that Western path to societal devastation and ruin and to clear the other path of fog, we of the Global Majority need to seek clarity in many areas… We may have to make seismic changes to our ways of thinking. We can begin by questioning our definitions of very basic terms… Such as: what is "development", what is "growth", "what is "prosperity", what is "progress"? Not all growth is advantageous – as in malignant metastases. "Positive growth" today pertains chiefly to monetary matters – GDP, GNI, PPP. What is "progress"? Progress today mostly pertains to technological innovations. And certainly it is imperative that peoples are lifted out of poverty, such as China has succeeded in doing… but what is the kind of "prosperity" that Humanity would like to achieve??

Today, in this post-modern world, there is little discussion of development, growth, prosperity and progress with regard to immaterial matters…

It is not only education, the arts and cultures of the world that have fallen into stagnation, but obviously also the ethics and value systems of entire states and societies… not to mention the conscience of most of Humanity.

How else could a genocide become commonplace? How else could atrocities become a daily tolerable spectacle throughout the world? How else can two genocidal leaders meet and speak so eagerly about their "real estate plans" for their concentration camp as though they were having a normal conversation? How else could we have all become a global audience for an orchestrated famine? How else can so many European states and the EU Border Control Authority Frontex become the clients of "combat-tested" weapons ("tested" in Gaza) from Elbit Systems ("Israel"'s largest arms company) that manufacture surveillance drones and remote-control turrets for armoured vehicles to enable European soldiers to avoid accountability and a bad conscience when targeted refugees are murdered by anonymous technicians located in remote offices? How else can European countries allow their historical incidents of genocide against the Jews to be "revised" and whitewashed by the Zionist entity for Israeli business advantages? How else could International Law be trampled upon without resistance? How else could serial mendacity and the constant breaching of constitutions and agreements become acceptable? How else could the citizens of those states, which vaunt their "freedom of expression" and "Western values", allow their states to reach the point at which they are now criminalising protesters for standing up for human rights?

Other than the people involved directly in battles for their survival (in Gaza, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere), courageous soldiers fighting against Nazism, committed journalists risking their lives on the fronts and activists, risking their professions for protesting against the Genocide… where is the rest of the world?

Some states voice their condemnation of the ongoing genocide but take no action, because… because it's… complicated.

And yet… we have an exception… the Ansar Allah of Yemen. There is nothing complicated about their resolute move: it is simply a matter of priority.

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Why would the majority of a people of one of the poorest countries (perhaps the poorest) on Earth devote most of their energy, their scarce resources and their steadfast beliefs in risking their lives in defence of another people, who are not directly related to them and are located in a distant country (an estimated 2,270 kilometres away)? What unites these people in this goal? And what might be THEIR definitions of "development", "growth", "prosperity" and "progress"?

A crossroads of various civilisations for at least 7000 years, Yemen's own great civilisation has, over centuries, experienced countless invasions, fierce battles, usurping dynasties and colonial occupations by those who continually sought to plunder, conquer and control this valuable, highly developed, resource-rich and "geographically optimal" territory.

In the 1990s, after a long period of economic hardship due in part to persistent Saudi oppression and notably Yemen's refusal to join the US-Saudi military coalition against Iraq, a Zaidi grassroots movement emerged in northern Yemen, known as Muntada al-Shabab al-Mu'min ("Believing Youth") – which offered social programmes to the impoverished population of the region. The successful movement grew and soon transformed into the Ansar Allah ("Supporters of God") who went on to fight six wars against the Saudi– and Western-backed Saleh regime between 2004 and 2010.

Now, despite decades of deprivation, the Ansar Allah remain undeterred in their goals for justice, in their fight to liberate Palestine and to improve their own country. To achieve these goals, they do not require "monetary prosperity" and a financialised state. In all their operations, they show solidarity and unity amongst themselves. They cannot be intimidated. They are ready to die for their beliefs and principles.

In their filmed speeches and discussions, the demeanour of the Ansar Allah is visibly marked by confidence, serenity, grace, poise, modesty… During the Third International Conference "Palestine, the Central Cause of the Nation," they displayed kindness, generosity and hospitality in welcoming foreign guests, even toward those hailing from "hostile states".

Single-handedly, they have disrupted global shipping power dynamics. Relying on the expertise of their own specialists, they manufacture weapons themselves. The US Pentagon's chief weapons buyer, Bill LaPlante expressed alarm over the sophistication of these weapons: "What I've seen of what Ansar Allah has done in the last six months is shocking."

In his article, Factors behind Yemen’s Valiant Resistance, journalist and political analyst Ayman Ahmed describes how the Ansar Allah "managed to modify conventional military tactics in very unconventional ways" by adopting a guerrilla-oriented approach: moving on foot over hostile terrains in small mobile groups, with their group leaders often improvising tactics on the spot, and using little to no electronic devices… "Their use of drones in almost guerrilla-style operations highlights how the Yemenis managed to jam billion-dollar Saudi air defenses…" […] "The Saudi regime has not been able to score any major military victory despite possessing large stockpiles of weapons supplied by the world’s leading arms merchants."

But their strongest asset of all is their motivation and determination in their pursuit of "a dignified life and standard of living for Yemeni citizens, the protection of the independence of the nation and seeking world peace and appropriate equal cooperation with the other countries of the world" – as inscribed in their "National Vision for the Modern Yemeni State." With this, they have won the support of the masses across all segments of society.

As Rune Agerhus, political analyst and member of the International Commission for Solidarity with Yemen, wrote here, "What Ansarallah has managed to establish, while facing war, starvation, and a crippling blockade, is a system that could best be described as akin to Yugoslavian worker self-management" […] "Farmland and output are controlled by the cooperatives, which are wholly owned and administered by Yemen’s peasantry." The defence of Yemen as a whole is being fought on two fronts – "the battlefront and the development front".

The system adopted by the Ansar Allah is the antithesis of contemporary capitalism. (Not to forget: Yemen has already had experience with socialism when its southern territory – a separate state in 1967-1990 – eventually formed a Marxist-Leninist government following decades of rapacious British colonial rule over the region.)

In our globalised, postmodern, technology-obsessed world dominated by Western norms, technocrats and the Market and guided by an ignorance of history and a limitation in independent reasoning, the Ansar Allah seem to many backward and savage at worst, quaint and exotic at best.

Different people may have different views of the Ansar Allah and will judge them accordingly… but the ACTIONS taken by these people in defence of another people undergoing a genocide, especially in view of their own circumstances, speak for themselves… louder than any fine words.

On 10^th April 2025, under the incessant bombings of the barbaric Hegemon, Ansar Allah's leader Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi made another urgent appeal to the world… to come to the aid of the Palestinian people and to become conscious of our ethical responsibility as part of a collective humanity. Who is listening? Where is the "world community"?

After so many millennia of human civilisation, what is the "progress" we are making as a species in our modern-day age?