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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Vilifying Venezuela's Maduro
Post Date: 2013-11-13 03:00:14 by Stephen Lendman
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Vilifying Venezuela's Maduro by Stephen Lendman Critics denigrated Chavez for 14 years. He was wrongfully called a strongman, an autocrat, a dictator. Rumsfeld once compared him to Hitler. Former Bush administration Deputy Secretary of State/Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte lied, saying: Chavez "use(s) his control of the legislature and other institutions to continue to stifle the opposition, reduce press freedom, and entrench himself through measures that are technically legal, but which nonetheless constrict democracy." Washington spent years trying to eliminate him. In March 2013, it succeeded. He was likely either poisoned or infected with cancer ...
Scuttling Middle East Peace
Post Date: 2013-11-12 03:00:04 by Stephen Lendman
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Scuttling Middle East Peace by Stephen Lendman Washington abhors it. So does Israel. Policies assure measures to advance it fail. So-called Israeli/Palestinian peace talks are dead on arrival. They continue despite no chance for success. Washington's war on Syria rages out-of-control. So-called US peace overtures ring hollow. American arms and munitions flow freely to insurgent invaders. Efforts to normalize relations with Iran are rigged. They're manipulated to fail. Previous articles explained. Iran's nuclear program is entirely legitimate. It has no military component. It's red herring cover for longstanding US/Israeli regime change plans. If Iran had no nuclear ...
Kerry: Obama Willing to Attack Iran At Any Time
Post Date: 2013-11-11 12:07:29 by X-15
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Only about 24 hours ago, the expectation was that a deal with Iran was imminent. The US was on board, Iran was on board. Everyone but France, who threw a monkey wrench into the plan at the last minute. Today, Kerry found himself back in the “dual track” PR campaign, loudly defending diplomacy with Iran and then playing up the idea that President Obama is ready and willing to attack Iran at any moment. That perplexing disconnect, between an administration that only yesterday was prepared for a signing ceremony and is now back to talking up war, reflects the ongoing attempt to placate both the pro-diplomacy crowd and those who were angry at the idea of a deal. The sheer ...
Veterans Day Hypocrisy
Post Date: 2013-11-11 02:53:43 by Stephen Lendman
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Veterans Day Hypocrisy by Stephen Lendman Some people confuse Veterans Day with Memorial Day. They're both federal holidays. The latter remembers combat related dead service personnel. The former honors war and peacetime veterans. It largely thanks living ones. It does so disingenuously. Veterans Day was formerly Armistice Day. It commemorates the war to end all wars. In 1918, guns on both sides largely fell silent. They did so on the 11th hour of the 11th day of 11th month. In 1919, remembrance began. Woodrow Wilson proclaimed it, saying: "To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's ...
Veteran's Day Requires a Rethink
Post Date: 2013-11-10 15:04:01 by Buzzard
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When the United States and England loaned Mexico money in 1903 using its customs revenue as collateral, Illuminati banker Jacob Schiff cabled his English counterpart, Ernest Cassel: "If they don't pay, who will collect the customs?" Cassel replied: "Your marines and ours." (The Life of Otto Kahn, p. 22) Marine General Smedley Butler (1881-1940) confirmed that he was "a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers." In War is a Racket (1935) he wrote: "I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect ...
Paul Craig Roberts: How America Was Lost
Post Date: 2013-11-08 15:47:43 by Horse
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“No legal issue arises when the United States responds to a challenge to its power, position, and prestige.” Dean Acheson , 1962, speaking to the American Society of International Law. Dean Acheson declared 51 years ago that power, position, and prestige are the ingredients of national security and that national security trumps law. In the United States democracy takes a back seat to “national security,” a prerogative of the executive branch of government. National security is where the executive branch hides its crimes against law, both domestic and international, its crimes against the Constitution, its crimes against innocent citizens both at home and abroad, and ...
Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States (Episode 3)
Post Date: 2013-11-08 06:54:36 by noone222
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The Main Danger to Peace and Liberty It’s Hillary Clinton
Post Date: 2013-11-06 12:45:13 by PnbC
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The Main Danger to Peace and LibertyIt’s Hillary Clinton by Justin Raimondo, November 06, 2013 I know it’s early to talk about the 2016 presidential race, but that’s only true for normal people: ideologues of one sort or another like me and my Twitter followers are already deep into it, and with good reason. That’s because the stakes have never been higher. It’s important who sits in the Oval Office, yes, but this time around it’s crucial – because the survival of our republic, the future of constitutional government in America, and the peace of the world hinges on it. And that dark cloud on the presidential horizon, which is already casting a huge ...
What Cannot Be Said About Iraq
Post Date: 2013-11-05 07:42:31 by Ada
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October was Iraq’s deadliest month since April, 2008. In those five and a half years, not only has there been no improvement in Iraq’s security situation, but things have gotten much worse. More than 1,000 people were killed in Iraq last month, the vast majority of them civilians. Another 1,600 were wounded, as car bombs, shootings, and other attacks continue to maim and murder. As post-“liberation” Iraq spirals steadily downward, Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki was in Washington last week to plead for more assistance from the United States to help restore order to a society demolished by the 2003 US invasion. Al-Qaeda has made significant recent gains, Maliki told ...
The Language of Tyrants
Post Date: 2013-11-04 06:53:15 by Ada
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If there was ever any doubt that the formerly "Great" Britain of today has devolved into a stinkhole of authoritarianism – a proposition I advanced in a recent column – it has been dispelled by the news that the British authorities justified the detainment of David Miranda by claiming that, in transporting materials released by Edward Snowden through Heathrow airport, he was engaged in a "terrorist" act. Miranda, the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald – who broke the story of the Snowden revelations – was passing through Heathrow on his way back to Brazil, where the two of them currently reside. Police detained him, seized his electronics, and ...
Terrorism Could Never Threaten American Values—the 'War on Terror' Does
Post Date: 2013-11-04 06:31:23 by Ada
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It is long past time for Barack Obama to show that he understands this truth. It's an established and obvious point, a corollary to the famous post-Watergate principle that "it's always the cover-up, never the crime." The "crime" might initially seem serious, or at least embarrassing: sending the Watergate burglars to spy on Richard Nixon's Democratic opponents, whatever happened between Bill Clinton and Paula Jones or Monica Lewinsky. But of course what came after is what did the real damage. So too in the world of terrorism. Attacks can be terribly destructive, as we saw in hideous form 12 years ago. But the long-term threat to national interests and ...
Police State Britain
Post Date: 2013-11-04 03:00:36 by Stephen Lendman
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Police State Britain by Stephen Lendman Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) operates like NSA. They work cooperatively. They're out-of-control rogue agencies. They spy on their own populations. They do it globally. They conduct espionage. They collect enormous amounts of personal information. They do it illegally. Obama wages war on freedom. He targets whistleblowers and investigative journalists exposing government wrongdoing. So does Britain. It equates doing so with terrorism. London's Guardian is threatened. Its offices were raided. Hard drive stored information was destroyed. Its editor, Alan Rusbridger, was warned. Cease and desist or else. He ...
Iraq Today: America's Genocidal Legacy
Post Date: 2013-11-03 01:52:21 by Stephen Lendman
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Iraq Today: America's Genocidal Legacy by Stephen Lendman America came to Iraq to stay. Contingents of US forces remain. America's embassy cost over a billion dollars to build. It's the world's largest. It's inside Baghdad's Green Zone. It includes 21 buildings. Extraordinary security measures protect them. They're on 104 acres of land. It's the equivalent of 80 football fields. Democracy is verboten. So-called liberation is a convenient illusion. Iraq was ravaged and destroyed. Daily violence rages out-of-control. Unemployment, poverty and human misery are extreme. An epidemic of birth defects, cancer and other war related diseases plague the country. ...
Pakistan summons U.S. ambassador over drone strikes
Post Date: 2013-11-02 20:54:34 by Tatarewicz
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ISLAMABAD, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan Saturday summoned U.S. ambassador to the Foreign Ministry and lodged a formal protest over the drone strike which killed the Taliban Chief Hakimullah Mehsud, the Foreign Ministry said. "In order to register our concerns, the U.S. Ambassador was called to the Foreign Office by the Foreign Secretary to register our protest over the recent drone attacks," a Foreign Ministry statement said. The latest drone strike will have a negative impact on the government's initiative to undertake a dialogue with the Tehrik-e- Taliban Pakistan, it said. The government, however, is determined to continue with these efforts to engage with the TTP, to ...
Remembering Michael Mandel
Post Date: 2013-10-31 03:00:42 by Stephen Lendman
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Remembering Michael Mandel by Stephen Lendman On October 27, Mandel died peacefully at home. He passed from cardiac amyloidosis. It's a rare heart disease. It causes arrhythmias, heart blockage disturbances and death. He died in his 67th year. He went much too soon. He was too good a man to lose. He's badly missed. He was seriously ill for months. He was a good friend. He was a valued guest on this writer's Progressive Radio News Hour. Since earlier this year, he was too ill to return. He's survived by his wife Karen, children Max, Giulia, Lucy, Tevi and Orly, and sister Sharon Fuller. For 39 years, he was Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, ...
Rebels conduct new chemical weapons attack in Syria near Turkish border - report
Post Date: 2013-10-30 03:48:55 by Tatarewicz
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RussiaToday... The rebels used chemical weapons in north-eastern Syria near the border with Turkey on Tuesday, a Lebanese TV channel Al-Mayadeen reported. The toxic shell exploded near a Kurdish defense forces’ checkpoint close to the border with Turkey in the city of Ras al-Ayn al-Hasakah. The attack was reported by Kurdish defense forces who are conducting military operations against the rebels in the region. They are quoted as saying they saw toxic yellow smoke that followed the shell explosion, while some of them had symptoms of severe chemical intoxication accompanied by nausea. The reported chemical attack comes amid the second day of fierce fighting in the town. The Kurdish ...
Life After An EMP Attack: No Power, No Food, No Transportation, No Banking And No Internet
Post Date: 2013-10-28 16:00:39 by Jethro Tull
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Life After An EMP Attack: No Power, No Food, No Transportation, No Banking And No Internet By Michael Snyder, on September 19th, 2011
Most Americans do not know this, but a single EMP attack could potentially wipe out most of the electronics in the United States and instantly send this nation back to the 1800s. If a nuclear bomb was exploded high enough in the atmosphere over the middle part of the country, the electromagnetic pulse would fry electronic devices from coast to coast. The damage would be millions of times worse than 9/11. Just imagine a world where nobody has power, most cars will not start, the Internet has been fried, the financial system is offline indefinitely, ...
Ali in exile: Rarely seen photographs capture Muhammad Ali when he was banned from the ring after refusing to serve in Vietnam
Post Date: 2013-10-27 04:02:47 by noone222
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He was born Cassius Clay, but we all know him by his chosen Islamic name - Muhammad Ali. While there are many pictures of the legendary boxer in the ring, very few show him in the years he was banned from the sport for refusing to serve in the Vietnam War. 'War is against the teachings of the Holy Qur'an,' he said. 'I'm not trying to dodge the draft. We are not supposed to take part in no wars unless declared by Allah or The Messenger. We don't take part in Christian wars or wars of any unbelievers.' When he failed to enlist on April 28, 1967, he was not only arrested, but had his boxing license suspended and his title stripped. Initially a Houston, Texas ...
Former Bush Official: We Went Into Iraq Because 'We Were Looking For Somebody's Ass To Kick': Report
Post Date: 2013-10-26 16:29:59 by Ada
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New York Times reporter Peter Baker is out with a new book that reportedly reveals some eyebrow-raising details about the Iraq War. A senior official from former President George W. Bush's administration is quoted in “Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House” saying American troops went into Iraq because the U.S. was looking for a fight. "The only reason we went into Iraq, I tell people now, is we were looking for somebody’s ass to kick. Afghanistan was too easy," the anonymous official said, according to Politico. Politico also reports the book details the differences in Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. The two reportedly "were on opposite ...
Lawless Drone Killings
Post Date: 2013-10-25 02:57:23 by Stephen Lendman
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Lawless Drone Killings by Stephen Lendman Two UN reports highlight the problem. More on them below. Sixteen-year-old Malala Yousafzai is an activist for women's education, a blogger, and Sakharov Prize winner. She's a Pakistan National Youth Peace Prize recipient. She was a 2013 Nobel Peace Prize nominee. Desmond Tutu nominated her for the International Children's Peace Prize. On October 16, Canada said it plans to grant her honorary citizenship. Obama invited her to the White House. Perhaps he wishes he hadn't. She took full advantage. She didn't hold back. "(D)rone attacks are fueling terrorism" she said. "Innocent victims are killed in these acts, ...
Iran's Outreach Deserves Diplomatic Response
Post Date: 2013-10-23 02:51:00 by Stephen Lendman
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Iran's Outreach Deserves Reciprocal Response by Stephen Lendman Professor Nader Entesaar chairs University of South Alabama's Political Science and Criminal Justice Department. He researches and teaches defense and foreign policy issues, developing world ones (especially in the Middle East), international politics and political economy, as well as international law and conflict management. He called Iranian President Hassan Rohani's diplomatic efforts an important step toward advancing Tehran's outreach. In New York, he "and Foreign Minister Zarif did a masterful job of presenting Iran’s foreign policy objectives," he said. "They both (stressed) ...
Syrian Peace Talks
Post Date: 2013-10-22 02:49:53 by Stephen Lendman
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Syrian Peace Talks by Stephen Lendman Obama's war on Syria rages. Opposition forces are divided. Kofi Annan's March 2012 six-point plan failed. Three months later, so did Geneva I. June 2012 talks were called a "last ditch effort" to halt violence. Similar headlines followed Annan's plan. Fighting rages daily. Obama bears full responsibility. He deplores peace. He wants regime change. He's supporting proxy death squads. He has been all along. They target Assad loyalists. Dozens of innocent civilians die daily. Assad's wrongfully blamed for their crimes. Nothing suggests change ahead. Geneva I talks included America, Russia, China, Britain, France, Turkey, ...
The Times They Are a-Changin’
Post Date: 2013-10-21 07:17:44 by Ada
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No thanks to the "mainstream" media There are no major stories to cover, but lots of seemingly minor ones that all point to major trends in the works. Let’s start with the news that the Heritage Foundation is "censoring" pro-surveillance material coming out of that policy- wonk factory: yes, you heard me, although "censoring" is Politico reporter Josh Gerstein’s phraseology. Funny, but we never heard about "censorship" of any anti- surveillance, pro-civil liberties views in all the years of the Bush administration, or anywhere at any time for that matter. Gee, I wonder if this means Gerstein and/or Politico have a certain bias when it ...
American Apocalypse
Post Date: 2013-10-19 17:45:57 by PnbC
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American ApocalypseThe case for divine retribution by Justin Raimondo, October 18, 2013 I don’t believe in God. However, I do believe in divine retribution. Without going into the specifics of this somewhat counterintuitive theology, suffice to say here that its central axiom is the idea that actions have consequences. One cannot go on committing evil without reaping a whirlwind or two. Eventually Nemesis overtakes Hubris, and the results aren’t pretty. This is our future. Or, at least, one hopes it is – otherwise, there is no justice in this world, or perhaps even in the next. This struck me as I was reading a column by Steve Chapman, a mildly conservative journalist ...
The American Genocide Against Iraq: 4% of Population Dead as result of US sanctions, wars
Post Date: 2013-10-18 05:39:56 by Ada
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A new household survey of Iraqis has projected the civilian death toll from the Bush administration’s invasion and occupation of Iraq at roughly 450,000. Passive information-gathering techniques like logging deaths in the Western press have produced estimates closer to 150,000, but such techniques have been proven to miss a lot of people. (To my knowledge no one was counting all the deaths reported in the some 200 Arabic-language Iraqi newspapers in the 2000s, so even the passive information-gathering was limited. And, the Wikileaks US military log of civilian deaths did not overlap very much with e.g. Iraq Body Count, so both of them were missing things the other caught.) Of those ...
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