The Trump administration is trying to claim self-defense to justify its attacks on Yemen. It’s a lie. – Mondoweiss

The U.S. (like the Israeli regime with which it collaborates so closely) is fond of the “magic word defense.”  When operating outside the bounds of international law and human morality, they simply spout terms like “terrorist” or “self-defense,” as if these incantations provide an impermeable shield against legal accountability for their actions.

Needless to say, they do not. And yet you would not know this from the ways that Western media corporations dutifully parrot…