|
Latest Articles: War, War, War
Epic speech (Dahlia Wasfi)
Post Date: 2013-09-25 09:30:34 by christine
3 Comments
Unchanged US Policy on Iran
Post Date: 2013-09-25 02:53:27 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
Unchanged US Policy on Iran by Stephen Lendman Longstanding US plans remain firm. Softened rhetoric means nothing. It reflects mumbo jumbo duplicity. It's subterfuge. It's fake. It masquerades as change. Anti-Iranian policy is fixed. Washington tolerates no independent governments. It wants subservient pro-Western ones replacing them. It goes all out to do so. Punishing sanctions are longstanding. They're lawless. They're ineffective. They hurt ordinary Iranians most. They're imposed for that reason. War is a bottom line option. Rogue states operate that way. America's by far the worst. Obama lives by the sword. Throughout his tenure, he's ravaged one ...
Iran Bashing
Post Date: 2013-09-25 02:51:49 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
Iran Bashing by Stephen Lendman It's longstanding. It's been ongoing since the 1979 Iranian revolution. February 11, 2014 marks its 35th anniversary. It ended a generation of repressive Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi rule. He's not missed. In 1953, Theodore Roosevelt's grandson/CIA operative Kermit Roosevelt engineered the Agency's first coup. Democratically elected Mohammad Mosaddegh was ousted. At the time, The New York Times called him "the most popular politician in the country." It didn't matter. Washington wanted its man in charge. Reza Shah Pahlavi was installed. America and Britain regained an Iranian client state. A generation of darkness ...
Obama's General Assembly Address
Post Date: 2013-09-24 14:34:09 by Stephen Lendman
1 Comments
Obama's General Assembly Address by Stephen Lendman His address didn't surprise. It was beginning-to-end demagogic boilerplate. It featured imperial mumbo jumbo. He turned truth on its head like he always does. A year ago he claimed intervening in Libya was to "cope with violent conflict, care for the wounded, and craft a vision for the future in which the rights of all Libyans would be respected." "And after the revolution, (he) supported the birth of a new democracy, as Libyans held elections, and built new institutions, and began to move forward after decades of dictatorship." Fact check Libya was Africa's most developed country. Most Libyans ...
Syria's Troubled Waters
Post Date: 2013-09-24 02:35:46 by Stephen Lendman
1 Comments
Syria's Troubled Waters by Stephen Lendman Conflict continues. It's raged for two and half years. It shows no signs of ending. Washington's peace overtures ring hollow. Obama prioritizes war. Russia represents the last line of defense against it. Vladimir Putin responsibly endorses peaceful conflict resolution. On Monday, he addressed Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member states. They include Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan. Afghanistan and Serbia are observers. Iran's a possible future member. CSTO is an intergovernmental military alliance. Its charter opposes aggression. Putin warned about foreign terrorism threatening ...
Washington Presses Russia for War Resolution on Syris
Post Date: 2013-09-23 14:03:59 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
Washington Pressures Russia for War Resolution on Syria by Stephen Lendman It doesn't surprise. Regime change was planned years ago. Washington tolerates no independent states. It doesn't matter if they're democratic, despotic or anything in between. America seeks unchallenged world dominance. It's waging war on humanity to achieve it. It bears repeating. Syria's in the eye of the storm. Washington's determined to oust Assad. It doesn't matter how faithfully he abides by the US/Russia chemical weapons disarmament agreement. All indications show he's doing so. He's got every incentive to do it. He's got every reason to scrupulously avoid violating ...
New York Times Disparages Mother Agnes Mariam
Post Date: 2013-09-23 03:00:37 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
New York Times Disparages Mother Agnes Mariam by Stephen Lendman It doesn't surprise. Times editors lie for power. They support Obama's war on Syria. They want Assad toppled. They endorse any way to do it. More below on their attempt to discredit Mother Agnes below. Doing so reveals their pro-imperial agenda. It shows how low they'll stoop supportively. Longstanding Times policy reflects anything goes. Times editors weigh in against governments Washington opposes. They publish one-sided reports. They do it repeatedly. They suppress real news and information. They violate core journalistic ethics. They spurn their own code of conduct. They substitute managed news ...
Fabricated US/Israeli Intelligence on Ghouta Gas Attack
Post Date: 2013-09-21 12:55:49 by Stephen Lendman
2 Comments
Fabricated US/Israeli Intelligence on Ghouta Gas Attack by Stephen Lendman John Kerry repeated Colin Powell's infamous moment. He did so multiple times. He lied claiming Syria launched Ghouta's gas attack. Clear evidence shows otherwise. Insurgents bear full responsibility. Previous articles explained. They did so in convincing detail. More will follow. On September 21, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) headlined "Former British Ambassador: Israel deceived US with fabricated evidence on chemical weapons use in Ghouta." Former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig John Murray, said Israel lied. It manufactured fake evidence. It wrongfully blamed Syria for Ghouta's ...
Obama Intends War on Syria
Post Date: 2013-09-21 02:55:13 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
Obama Intends War on Syria by Stephen Lendman Obama intends waging war on Syria. Russia's heroic efforts delayed it. An uneasy calm before the storm prevails. Shock and awe attacks are planned. They could come any time. Pretexts are easy to create. False flags are longstanding US policy. So are Big Lies. Regime change is prioritized. Obama intends getting it one way or another. In mid-September, Russia, China, and other Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) members and observer states met in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Vladimir Putin said "military interference from outside the country without a UN Security Council sanction is inadmissible." The summit's joint declaration ...
Syrian Insurgents Battle Each Other
Post Date: 2013-09-20 14:51:11 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
Syrian Insurgents Battle Each Other by Stephen Lendman Even media scoundrels took note. More on that below. A previous article discussed opposition elements in disarray. Syrian National Coalition (SNC) internal disputes show it's unable to function effectively. Leadership is weak. The SNC is an artificial construct. It lacks legitimacy. It resembles a gang that can't shoot straight. On July 8, self-styled prime minister Ghassan Hitto resigned. He did so after four months in office. He did it two days after SNC members elected Ahmad Asi-al Jarba president. The post was vacant since Mouaz al-Khatib resigned in April. He cited frustration over lack of enough international ...
Rohani Seeks Rapprochement
Post Date: 2013-09-20 14:49:24 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
Rohani Seeks Rapprochement by Stephen Lendman On September 19, Iranian President Hassan Rohani addressed Americans and US officials directly. He did so responsibly. His Washington Post op-ed headlined "Why Iran seeks constructive engagement." More on that below. America and Iran are polar opposites. Obama represents the worst of rogue governance. Hypocrisy substitutes for democracy. War on humanity is official policy. Peace is verboten. In contrast, Iranian President Hassan Rohani combines diplomacy, political acumen and scholarship. He's known as the "Diplomat Sheikh." He earned master's and doctoral law degrees. He urges peace and reconciliation. He ...
Evidence Shows Insurgents Responsible for Gas Attack
Post Date: 2013-09-20 02:56:38 by Stephen Lendman
1 Comments
Evidence Shows Insurgents Responsible for Gas Attack by Stephen Lendman On September 18, Russia Today (RT) headlined "Russia to provide UNSC with data for chem weapons' use by Syrian rebels." Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said: "We have plenty of reports on chemical weapons use, which indicate that the opposition regularly resorts to provocations in order to trigger strikes and intervention against Syria." "There’s a lot of data. It’s widely available on the Internet. This data is presented in the report, which our experts put together in association with the use of chemical weapons in Aleppo in March this year." "Theres also ...
Anti-Assad Death Squads Responsible for Gas Attack
Post Date: 2013-09-19 02:52:37 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
Anti-Assad Death Squads Responsible for Gas Attack by Stephen Lendman Assad's wrongfully blamed for Ghouta's gas attack. Evidence shows insurgents bear full responsibility. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was clear and unequivocal, saying: "We have the most serious grounds to believe (Ghouta's attack) was a provocation." Assad had nothing to do with it. "There is no answer to a number of questions we have asked, such as where the weapon was made - at an official factory or using homemade methods," Lavrov added. Clear evidence shows insurgents have sarin and other toxic chemicals. Pentagon contractors trained them in their handling and use. They ...
Possible US war on Syria to last a decade, Gordon Duff says
Post Date: 2013-09-18 20:45:48 by Tatarewicz
7 Comments
PressTV... The war rhetoric against Syria intensified after foreign-backed opposition forces accused the government of President Bashar al-Assad of launching a chemical attack on militant strongholds in the suburbs of Damascus on August 21 If the United States falls into Israel’s trap and starts a war against Syria, the conflict is likely to last for more than a decade, a US political commentator says. “If the Obama administration does engage in a war against Syria, and I believe that is Israel’s policy, that war will last more than a decade,” Gordon Duff, a senior editor at Veterans Today, said in an interview with Press TV on Wednesday. “The initial policy ...
Five Lies Invented to Spin UN Report on Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack
Post Date: 2013-09-18 09:00:36 by Ada
2 Comments
As predicted days before the UN’s Syrian chemical weapons report was made public, the West has begun spinning the findings to bolster their faltering narrative regarding alleged chemical weapon attacks on August 21, 2013 in eastern Damascus, Syria. The goal of course, is to continue demonizing the Syrian government while simultaneously sabotaging a recent Syrian-Russian deal to have Syria’s chemical weapon stockpiles verified and disarmed by independent observers. Image: 107mm rocket shells frequently used by terrorists operating within and along Syria’s borders. They are similar in configuration and function to those identified by the UN at sites investigated after the ...
WHAT THE WASHINGTON NAVY YARD SHOOTING REALLY MEANS
Post Date: 2013-09-18 07:15:34 by Ada
5 Comments
There was a shooting yesterday in DC. The details are still sketchy as I write this, but it appears that a deranged man decided to kill other people for some reason. In response, the usual talking heads will be debating whether this is actual TerrorTM or merely something like it. But the T-word will be spoken in the same grave way we speak of cancer – a thing to be dreaded above all else. Certainly this shooting was a horrible, tragic thing – especially for the families involved. But that said, any talk about an “age of terror” is utter crap. Terror is NOT worse now than it was before 9/11 – it’s just that we’ve been bombarded with fear for more than a ...
Syria Gas Attack: Assad Wrongfully Blamed
Post Date: 2013-09-18 03:02:44 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
Syria Gas Attack: Assad Wrongfully Blamed by Stephen Lendman On Monday, UN inspectors released their eagerly awaited report. Security Council members were briefed in closed session. On Tuesday, the report was published online. It's titled "Report on the Alleged Use of Chemical Weapons in the Ghouta Area of Damascus on 21 August 2013." On September 16, the UN News Centre headlined " 'Clear and convincing' evidence of chemical weapons use in Syria, UN team reports." Swedish scientist Ake Sellstrom headed the UN team. It's called the Mission to Investigate Allegations of the Use of Chemical Weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic. On March 21, UN ...
Media Scoundrels Wrongfully Blame Assad for Gas Attack
Post Date: 2013-09-18 03:01:33 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
Media Scoundrels Wrongfully Blame Assad for Gas Attack by Stephen Lendman The blame game repeats with disturbing regularity. Media scoundrels bear full responsibility. They lie for power. They do it repeatedly. They do it disgracefully. They ignore hard facts. Throughout months of conflict, Assad's been wrongfully blamed for insurgent massacres, atrocities, chemical weapons use and other high crimes. Throughout months of conflict, no evidence whatever links Syrian forces to chemical weapons use. They had nothing to do with attacking Ghouta. Not according Washington, Britain, France and Israel. Media scoundrels regurgitate their lies. It doesn't surprise. They're waging war ...
UN Inspectors Gas Attack Report: A Manipulated Fraud
Post Date: 2013-09-17 14:55:17 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
UN Inspectors Gas Attack Report: A Manipulated Fraud by Stephen Lendman A separate article explained. Crime scene evidence was manipulated. Doing so made it worthless. UN inspectors mentioned problems. They didn't highlight them. Their summary fact sheet ignored them. So did major media reports. Nothing links Syrian forces to Ghouta's attack. Plenty suggests insurgents were responsible. Rockets were launched from territory they held. Pro-government supporters were targeted. They were civilian men, women and children. Why would Assad attack his own people? Why would he do it with UN inspectors close by? Why would he shoot himself in the foot? Many questions remain unanswered. ...
Washington and Israel Conspire to Oust Assad
Post Date: 2013-09-17 03:03:33 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
Washington and Israel Conspire to Oust Assad by Stephen Lendman On September 15, Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi said his government "views with great seriousness the Russian-US deal." It intends to observe it to the letter, he stressed. It's "committing itself to whatever comes from the UN. We accept the Russian plan to get rid of our chemical weapons." "In fact, we've started preparing our list. We are already documenting our papers, and we have started to do our job." "We don't waste time. For 40 years, Syria has always been trusted once it has committed itself." Syria will "absolutely" grant UN inspectors ...
Lindsey's Plan for War on Iran
Post Date: 2013-09-16 23:05:24 by Big Meanie
3 Comments
This summer produced a triumph of American patriotism. A grassroots coalition arose to demand Congress veto any war on Syria. Congress got the message and was ready to vote no to war, when President Obama seized upon Vladimir Putin's offer to work together to disarm Syria of chemical weapons. The war America did not want—did not come. Lindsey Graham is determined that this does not happen again. The next war he and his collaborators are planning, the big one, the war on Iran, will not be blocked the same way. How does Graham propose to do this? He plans to introduce a use-of-force resolution, a peacetime declaration of war on Iran, to ensure Obama need not come back to ...
East/West Cracks on Syria
Post Date: 2013-09-16 14:54:27 by Stephen Lendman
1 Comments
East/West Cracks on Syria by Stephen Lendman Weekend Geneva smiles appear headed for frowns. A fundamental East/West disagreement exists. John Kerry, Britain's William Hague and France's Laurent Fabius met in Paris. They want tough Security Council resolution language. They want UN Charter Chapter VII authorization. They want it for military force if Assad reneges on US/Russia agreed on terms. According Fabius: "We want concrete, verifiable acts and all options must stay on the table if these are not done." Hague added: "A resolution, in our view, should create a binding commitment for the regime to give up its chemical weapons within a specific time frame and ...
Sen. Lindsey Graham Seeks Preemptive War with Iran
Post Date: 2013-09-16 14:22:58 by X-15
0 Comments
Social Oncology, Race, and the Legacy Media "Itīs Just a Lump. It Will Probably Go Away."
Post Date: 2013-09-16 11:59:02 by Original_Intent
3 Comments
I think I will don a loin cloth, stop bathing, and ascend a moutain where I will gibber, drool, and perhaps cástrate myself and wait to go to Hale-Bopp. This is a patrioitic plan. I don´t want to distance myself too much from my fellow Americans. Though, on thought, I may welsh on the castration part. Every morning, as I shamble through the heather of the internet in search of reason (any day now), I find another story of a savage racial attack on whites by blacks. At least, when a black man says, “I´m gonna kill the next white I see,” and does so, I begin to suspect a racial motive. Perhaps this is unfair. Perhaps the gentleman really meant to say, ...
Obama's War Plans on Syria Unchanged
Post Date: 2013-09-16 02:15:53 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
Obama's War Plans on Syria Unchanged by Stephen Lendman Longstanding US regime change plans remain firm. Previous articles explained. Washington targets all independent governments. Replacing them with subservient pro-Western puppet ones is policy. Pretexts are created to do so. War is America's option of choice. It's a national addiction. Post-9/11 ones rage. New ones are planned. Syria remains in the eye of the storm. Obama's war plans are delayed. They're not deterred. Another false flag ahead is likely. What better way to launch war. John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met in Geneva. On Saturday, they concluded three days of talks. They ...
Latest [Newer] 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 [Older]
|