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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Wall Street Journal Urges War on Syria
Post Date: 2013-05-24 03:07:58 by Stephen Lendman
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Wall Street Journal Urges War on Syria by Stephen Lendman Perhaps publishing it was strategically timed. It comes with John Kerry in the Middle East. He'll be there through Sunday. He met with foreign ministers of 11 so-called Friends of Syria countries and opposition group representatives. In Jerusalem, he discussed Syria with Netanyahu. At the same time, the suspicious Woolrich London killing occurred. Another article suggested a possible false flag. The Journal op-ed urges war on Syria. So did others discussed below. On May 22, Journal editors gave Jack Keane and Danielle Pletka feature op-ed space. They took full advantage. They headlined "How to Stop Assad's ...
Iraq Today: America's Imperial Legacy
Post Date: 2013-05-23 03:16:01 by Stephen Lendman
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Iraq Today: America's Imperial Legacy by Stephen Lendman US imperial wars reflect mass slaughter, widespread destruction, ecocide, resource theft, exploitation, unspeakable human pain, suffering and misery, as well as permanent occupation. Washington came to Iraq to stay. US military and other security elements infest the region. It's the oil and unchallenged Middle East dominance, stupid. The price of imperial arrogance is unconscionable. Ordinary people bear the cost. Countries are laid waste. Victims suffer most. Iraqis understand. America's war remains one of history's greatest crimes. Iraq was the region's most developed country. The cradle of civilization no ...
Mission Creep Toward Full-Scale War on Syria
Post Date: 2013-05-23 03:15:19 by Stephen Lendman
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Mission Creep Toward Full-Scale War on Syria by Stephen Lendman On May 20, Secretary of State John Kerry headed back to the Middle East. It's his fourth regional visit since January. On May 21, he met Oman's Sultan Qaboos. An air defense system/weapons sale, Syria, and related issues were discussed. On May 22, he met with foreign ministers of 11 so-called Friends of Syria countries. He did so in Amman. Opposition group representatives also attended. Among other issues, they discussed the US/Russian proposed peace conference. A Geneva June 10 date is scheduled. Reports suggest both Syrian officials and opposition representatives will attend. At the same time, mixed messages ...
Armed DHS Guards Protect IRS From Tea Party Protesters
Post Date: 2013-05-22 08:41:47 by Ada
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Agency created to protect against terror attacks now policing free speech The DHS appears to have finally found a use for all those bullets it’s been buying. At a Tea Party protest outside an IRS building in St. Louis yesterday there were no regular police – only armed Homeland Security guards. Video footage from the demonstration at which protesters, including Infowars,com readers, chanted “no more harassment,” shows numerous DHS Federal Protective Service vehicles along with several armed DHS guards. There is not a regular police officer in sight. The St. Louis demonstration was just one of numerous similar protests against the IRS’s punitive targeting of ...
Israel Heads Closer to War on Syria
Post Date: 2013-05-22 03:04:51 by Stephen Lendman
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Israel Heads Closer to War on Syria by Stephen Lendman Syria is Washington's war. It was planned years ago. It began in early 2011. No end of conflict looks near. Escalating it appears likely. Israel's very much involved. It abhors peace and stability. Its history reflects belligerence. It’s a direct threat. It borders Syria. Both countries are longstanding imperial partners. The Israeli Lobby plays a key role. So do major media soundrels. More on Israel below. Orwell once said "(w)ho controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." Saving the future requires understanding both past and present. Preventing imperial ...
Reinventing Guatemalan History
Post Date: 2013-05-21 03:07:51 by Stephen Lendman
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Reinventing Guatemalan History by Stephen Lendman History reinventors support despots. Social democrats are vilified. Crimes of war, against humanity and genocide are sanitized. They're whitewashed. They disappear in plain sight. Wall Street Journal columnist Mary O'Grady tried reinventing Guatemalan history. She failed. More on that below. Washington tolerates no independent governments. Left of center democratic ones are most vulnerable. In 1953, the CIA's first coup deposed Iran's Mohammad Mosaddegh. At the time, The New York Times called him "the most popular politician in the country." Reza Shah Pahlavi replaced him. A generation- long reign of terror ...
Obama-Backed FSA Rebels Name Their Brigade “Osama Bin Laden”
Post Date: 2013-05-20 08:43:49 by Ada
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White House openly seeking to arm terrorists in Syria Underlining once again how the White House is openly seeking to arm terrorists in Syria, video has emerged of one of the FSA rebel groups referring to their unit as the “Osama Bin Laden” brigade. Click for Full Text!
America: A Modern-Day Sparta
Post Date: 2013-05-20 02:54:28 by Stephen Lendman
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America: A Modern-Day Sparta by Stephen Lendman Permanent war is longstanding policy. America deplores peace. Throughout its history, it's waged war annually at home and/or abroad. Today it does so globally. Giving peace a chance is loathed. Direct or proxy wars rage in multiple countries. "Yes we can" reflects Obama's pro-war, pro-imperial, pro-ravage, plunder and dominate agenda. He prioritizes it. He abhors human rights, equity, justice, and other democratic values. Rogue leaders operate that way. Rule of law principles are spurned. Constitutional protections no longer apply. Any nation, organization or person designated a state enemy is targeted. ...
America Honors Its Worst
Post Date: 2013-05-19 03:14:07 by Stephen Lendman
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America Honors Its Worst by Stephen Lendman Presidential Medals of Freedom are awarded annually. They mock what they claim to represent. Many go to deplorable recipients. Previous dishonorees include GHW Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Gates, Henry Kissinger, Tony Blair, Shimon Peres, Margaret Thatcher, Alvaro Uribe, Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, and Alan Greenspan among others. Nobel Peace Prize recipients include notorious war criminals. In 1906, Theodore Roosevelt was honored. He once said "I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one." In 1919, Woodrow Wilson won. He broke his pledge to keep "us out of war." In 1953, George ...
Saturday, May 18, 2013 Why Obama Will Survive the Equivalent of Five “Watergate Scandals”
Post Date: 2013-05-18 23:37:42 by christine
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Mark Twain once talked about history not necessarily repeating, but he noted that history sure does rhyme. Richard Nixon was unable to survive one direct hit upon his administration, namely, the Watergate scandal. Conversely, Obama is facing five scandals which dwarf Watergate in terms of criminality, abuse of power, malfeasance of office and outright treason. The damage inflicted upon the American people by the criminal syndicate occupying the White House is unparalleled in American history. Yet, Obama is going to survive and this article will describe how Obama is this century’s version of the famous escape artist, Houdini. The Alternative Media Is Doing Its Job In Part One of ...
Putin v. Obama et al
Post Date: 2013-05-18 03:06:14 by Stephen Lendman
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Putin v. Obama et al by Stephen Lendman On May 16, the Wall Street Journal headlined "Russia Raises Stakes in Syria," saying: Russia "sent a dozen or more warships to patrol waters near its naval base in Syria, a buildup that US and European officials see as a newly aggressive stance meant partly to warn the West and Israel not to intervene in Syria's bloody civil war." RIA Novosti said deployed ships include the Admiral Panteleyev destroyer, the Peresvet and Admiral Nevelsky amphibious vessels, the Pechenga tanker, the Fotiy Krylov salvage/rescue tug, the Severomorsk anti-submarine ship, the Azov Popucha-II Class landing ship, and other vessels. According to ...
Israel Threatens More Syrian Attacks
Post Date: 2013-05-17 03:14:14 by Stephen Lendman
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Israel Threatens More Syrian Attacks by Stephen Lendman May 15 is Nakba Day. It follows Israel's May 14 Independence Day. This year was no exception. Clashes erupted across the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Israel confronts peaceful demonstrations violently. Fundamental human rights are spurned. Rogue governments operate that way. Preemptively attacking other countries is official Israeli policy. On May 4 and 5, Israeli warplanes targeted Syria. Doing so was preemptive, unprovoked, lawless aggression. On May 15, The New York Times headlined "Israel Hints at New Strikes, Warning Syria Not to Retaliate." An unidentified Israeli official suggested further military strikes ...
The Left vs. the Liberal Media
Post Date: 2013-05-15 06:28:44 by Ada
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Media Lens debunks the BBC’s humanitarian interventionists It all started in July 2001 when two men, concerned about bias in the corporate news media in the UK, began to send out “media alerts” to a small number of family and friends. Twelve years on and Media Lens—the brainchild of writer David Edwards, a former manager in sales and marketing, and David Cromwell, a physicist by background—has established itself as the UK’s media watchdog. There’s no doubting the impact they have made. “Without their meticulous and humane analysis, the full gravity of the debacles of Iraq and Afghanistan might have been consigned to bad journalism’s first draft ...
Anti-Assad Forces: Caught in the Act Again
Post Date: 2013-05-15 03:07:58 by Stephen Lendman
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Anti-Assad Forces: Caught in the Act Again by Stephen Lendman Previous articles discussed Washington-supported death squads in Syria. It's common practice in all US direct and proxy wars. Massacres and unspeakable atrocities are committed. Women are raped. Civilians are treated like combatants. Official coverup and denial follow. Vietnam's Operation Phoenix became a prototype for today's wars. Terrorizing people into submission is official US policy. Guns for hire are enlisted, armed, funded, trained, and directed. Nothing too heinous is out of bounds. Killing continues daily like sport. So do gruesome atrocities. In March 2012, Der Spiegel discussed the "Homs burial ...
U.S. Currently Fighting 74 Different Wars … That It Will Publicly Admit
Post Date: 2013-05-14 12:02:49 by Horse
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And Many More Covert Wars Without Congressional Oversight … Let Alone Public Knowledge Fire Dog Lake’s Kevin Gosztola notes: Linda J. Bilmes and Michael D. Intriligator, ask in a recent paper, “How many wars is the US fighting today?” Today US military operations are involved in scores of countries across all the five continents. The US military is the world’s largest landlord, with significant military facilities in nations around the world, and with a significant presence in Bahrain, Djibouti,Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Kyrgyzstan, in addition to long-established bases in Germany, Japan, South Korea, Italy, and the UK. ...
Turkey: US Imperial Tool
Post Date: 2013-05-14 03:07:45 by Stephen Lendman
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Turkey: US Imperial Tool by Stephen Lendman In 1999, Nobel laureate/outspoken anti-war critic Harold Pinter minced no words denouncing NATO's Yugoslavia war. "Let us face the truth," he said. "The truth is that neither Clinton nor Blair gives a damn about the Kosovar Albanians. This action has been another blatant and brutal assertion of US power using NATO as its missile." "It set out to consolidate one thing - American domination Europe. This must be fully recognized and it must be resisted." Obama's using Turkey as its missile against Syria. Both countries share a common border. CIA elements infest the region. They're very much involved in ...
Dirty Wars, Filthy Hands: 5 Unsavory Ways America Conducts Its Global War on Terror
Post Date: 2013-05-13 07:32:15 by Ada
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America's allies are terrorists, warlords, and corrupt officials, plied with bounty payments and quid-pro-quo assassinations. The recent revelation that the Central Intelligence Agency has handed tens of millions of dollars over to the offices of the president of Afghanistan should come as no surprise. The CIA has a long history of this sort of activity. And most importantly, it’s the latest reminder of how America’s global “war on terror” has been forged through backroom deals, cold hard cash and the fostering of corruption. Click for Full Text!
Another Anti-Assad False Flag
Post Date: 2013-05-13 03:06:08 by Stephen Lendman
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Another Anti-Assad False Flag by Stephen Lendman Since early 2011, Obama's been waging proxy war on Syria. Imported death squads masquerade as freedom fighters. The scheme's familiar. It repeats. It reflects US imperialism's dark side. In the 1980s, CIA-recruited mujahideen fighters battled Afghanistan's Soviet occupiers. Ronald Reagan called them "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers." He characterized Contra killers the same way. Naked aggression is called humanitarian intervention. New wars follow earlier ones. Ravaging humanity is called liberation. Nations are destroyed for their own good. Propaganda convinces people that America is ...
Anti-Assad Rhetoric Intensifies
Post Date: 2013-05-11 02:52:48 by Stephen Lendman
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Anti-Assad Rhetoric Intensifies by Stephen Lendman US-led anti-Assad efforts continue. Obama's going all out to topple him. He's heading America for more war. His imperial strategy prioritizes it. Rule of law principles are discarded. Unchallenged global dominance alone matters. America's longstanding permanent war agenda advances it. Syria's now being ravaged. Assad's wrongfully blamed for US proxy death squad crimes. Ad nauseam propaganda claims otherwise. Facebook and Twitter have Stop Assad campaigns. UK-based Media Lens reports reliably on media bias. On May 8, it headlined " ' This Madman Must Be Stopped' - Syrian Chemical Weapons." ...
Kerry in Moscow
Post Date: 2013-05-09 02:57:29 by Stephen Lendman
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Kerry in Moscow by Stephen Lendman Russian condemnation of Israeli air strikes preceded Kerry's arrival. Moscow's Foreign Ministry called them "a threat to regional stability." It wants politicizing chemical weapons use stopped. On May 6, Russian Security Council head Nikolai Patrushev said "no one has reliable information about the use of chemical weapons in Syria." "If anyone does, we would like them to show their evidence that such weapons have indeed been used." On May 5, UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria (COI) investigators said testimonial evidence indicates "rebel forces" used sarin. A day later they reported "no conclusive ...
UN Human Rights Council Duplicity
Post Date: 2013-05-08 03:08:04 by Stephen Lendman
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UN Human Rights Council Duplicity by Stephen Lendman A previous article said the following: On May 5, Reuters headlined "UN has testimony that Syrian rebels used sarin gas: investigator." Geneva-based "UN human rights investigators have gathered testimony from casualties of Syria's civil war and medical staff indicating that rebel forces have used the nerve agent sarin, one of the lead investigators said on Sunday." "The United Nations independent commission of inquiry on Syria has not yet seen evidence of government forces having used chemical weapons…." On May 6, the UN News Centre headlined "Syria: UN human rights Inquiry ...
Profile of Lawless Aggression
Post Date: 2013-05-07 03:10:34 by Stephen Lendman
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Profile of Lawless Aggression by Stephen Lendman Israel and America are longstanding imperial partners. They spurn international laws. They do so repeatedly. They ignore their own. They jointly plan and wage wars. Israel's attack on Syria was a joint US/Israeli provocation. Haaretz's military correspondent Amos Harel suggested it, saying: "The (US) administration officials' familiarity with the nature of the Syrian targets seems to indicate that there had been advance coordination with Israel, and make the attacks look more and more like part of a larger campaign that isn't over yet." Israel's weekend attacks were lawless acts of aggression. Post-WW ...
America and Israel: Imperial Partners in Crime (Part II)
Post Date: 2013-05-06 03:12:50 by Stephen Lendman
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America and Israel: Imperial Partners in Crime (Part II) by Stephen Lendman In late January, Lebanese military sources reported multiple Israeli violations of Lebanon's airspace. One or more targets on the Syrian-Lebanese border were struck. Around the same time, Israeli warplanes attacked a military research center in Jamraya. It's about 10 miles from the Lebanese border. Early Sunday morning, Israel struck it again. On May 5, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) headlined "Explosions Hit Scientific Research Center in Jamraya Caused by an Israeli Rocket Attack, Casualties Reported." The Damascus al-Hameh area was struck. Syrian state television said: "The new ...
Noam Chomsky: US, a top terrorist state
Post Date: 2013-05-05 14:23:32 by Ferret
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In this episode of press TV's documentary program renowned American academic Noam Chomsky says the United States would be recognized as a leading terrorist state if international law is applied.
America and Israel: Imperial Partners in Crime
Post Date: 2013-05-05 03:06:49 by Stephen Lendman
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America and Israel: Imperial Partners in Crime by Stephen Lendman Longstanding ties remain firm. Both nations are imperial partners. Naked aggression is official policy. Regime change in Syria is planned. Daily events head inexorably toward full-scale intervention. The latest incident ups the stakes. On May 4, The New York Times headlined "Israel Bombs Syria as the US Weighs Its Own Options," saying: An unnamed US official said "Israel bombed a target in Syria overnight Thursday. (Washington) consider(s its own) military options, including carrying out (its) own airstrikes." According to Reuters, "(t)he attack took place on Friday after Prime Minister Benjamin ...
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