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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Syria Peace Talks Failing Like Earlier
Post Date: 2017-04-02 08:06:08 by Stephen Lendman
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Syria Peace Talks Failing Like Earlier by Stephen Lendman Three earlier rounds of talks in Geneva failed. Current ones in Astana, Kazakhstan and Geneva achieved no breakthroughs so far - none expected because Washington wants endless war, not resolution. Syria’s delegation head to ongoing talks Bashar al-Jaafari expressed frustration over how things are going. In a Friday press conference from Geneva, he said his government submitted “several papers” to pro-Western UN envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura. One was on “fighting terrorism” and “general principles” for achieving political resolution to ongoing conflict. Papers prepared were given to Mistura ...
Neocon Fury Over Trump's Syria Policy
Post Date: 2017-04-01 07:49:19 by Stephen Lendman
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Neocon Fury Over Trump’s Syria Policy by Stephen Lendman Neocon senators John McCain (R. AR) and Lindsey Graham (R. SC) likely believe war is peace. Freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength - with attribution to George Orwell. They’re furious about Secretary of State Tillerson, saying “the longer-term status of President Assad will be decided by the Syrian people.” Separately, US UN envoy Nikki Haley said “(y)ou pick and choose your battles, and when we’re looking at this, it’s about changing up priorities and our priority is no longer to sit there and focus on getting Assad out.” McCain said he’s “deeply disturbed” about ...
US Phony War on Terror
Post Date: 2017-03-31 08:01:29 by Stephen Lendman
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US Phony War on Terror by Stephen Lendman America seeks global conquest and dominance, a diabolical agenda threatening humanity’s survival. Its so-called war on terror is a fabricated hoax - state-sponsored terror to advance its imperium by smashing one sovereign independent state after another. Democracy and humanitarian intervention are Washington’s most destructive exports, aiming to be the world’s judge, jury, executioner and dominant power, a pure evil agenda. Monied interests are served at the expense of popular ones. Washington rules replaced international laws, norms and standards. Anything goes is US policy, no matter the human cost or risk of catastrophic ...
CENTCOM Commander on Phony Regional Threats
Post Date: 2017-03-30 08:43:54 by Stephen Lendman
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CENTCOM Commander on Phony Regional Threats by Stephen Lendman America’s rage for endless wars is the greatest threat to world peace, stability and security. Russia justifiably fears possible preemptive US nuclear attack on its territory. According to its General Staff deputy head of operations Gen. Viktor Poznikhir, “(t)he presence of American ABM sites in Europe and ABM-capable ships in the seas and oceans close to Russia’s territory creates a powerful clandestine potential for delivering a surprise nuclear missile strike against Russia.” “The presence of the global ABM system lowers the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons, because it gives the US the ...
Genocide in Mosul
Post Date: 2017-03-30 08:18:02 by Stephen Lendman
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Genocide in Mosul by Stephen Lendman America’s rage for global dominance is responsible for raping and destroying Mosul - the same pattern as in all US wars of aggression, civilians harmed most, massacred in cold blood. At her weekly press briefing, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said humanitarian crisis conditions in Mosul “soared to an unprecedented degree.” “It’s time to ring alarm bells.” Hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in the city with scant food, virtually no medical care and other essentials to life. “Experts warn mass famine will be unavoidable if the operation…lasts” much longer, she stressed. ...
Tillerson to Waive Human Rights Conditions on Bahrain Arms Sales
Post Date: 2017-03-30 07:25:40 by Ada
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Officials Say Move Intended to 'Confront Iran' The Bahraini government’s violent, ongoing crackdowns against their substantial Shi’ite population was a big part of the US imposing restrictions on arms sales to the small Middle Eastern nation, insisting on at least some human rights assurances being offered before any sales are approved. At least that’s the way it was. Despite the Bahraini government never really reforming in any serious way, or even admitting its crackdowns on Shi’ites was a problem, Secretary of State Rext Tillerson has decided to waive the human rights conditions on all future sales to Bahrain. This is aimed in practice at speeding up ...
US Generals Warn of More Civilian Casualties to Come in Mosul Invasion
Post Date: 2017-03-30 07:14:26 by Ada
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Insist Increase in Civilian Deaths Was to Be Expected The Pentagon is rather quickly transitioning its narrative on the large number of civilians US airstrikes have killed in Mosul this month, with blanket denials giving way to concessions that it was probable the US was responsible for the killings and now to outright defiance about that fact. Official comments from top generals, including Gen. Joseph Votel, appear to have moved totally beyond the question of the large number already killed, and are focusing their comments today on the many civilians the US will kill in the days to come, with Votel insisting the US “will try” to avoid endangering civilians with airstrikes, but ...
CENTCOM Chief Insists ‘Vital’ US Interests at Stake in Yemen War
Post Date: 2017-03-30 07:09:43 by Ada
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Adds to Mattis Call to Escalate Direct Involvement Defense Secretary James Mattis has been reported recently to be pushing for deeper direct US military involvement in the Saudi invasion of Yemen, and it seems he’s getting backing from top Pentagon brass as well, with the Central Command chief Gen. Joseph Votel today arguing that the US has “vital interests” in participating in the war. Officials are falsely presenting the US as basically uninvolved to this point, despite US in-air refueling operations and naval participation in the blockade of ships to Yemen. Votel also focused heavily on the idea of Iran being involved in the war, despite no real evidence that is the ...
US War Crimes in Iraq and Syria
Post Date: 2017-03-29 08:55:33 by Stephen Lendman
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US War Crimes in Iraq and Syria by Stephen Lendman Wherever US forces show up, mass slaughter and destruction follow - notably ongoing in Iraq and Syria. Russia requested a special Security Council session so members can be briefed on US terror- bombing of Mosul, specifically the March 17 strike, massacring hundreds of civilians. Sergey Lavrov criticized what’s ongoing, harming noncombatants most, noting the March 17 incident “because of its scale,” he said. “If one cannot establish for hours that the airstrikes are hitting the wrong targets, then such actions of the US military startle me, as” its technology can strike targets with pinpoint accuracy, hitting ...
US War Without Mercy in Mosul
Post Date: 2017-03-29 08:50:02 by Stephen Lendman
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US War Without Mercy in Mosul by Stephen Lendman The battle for Mosul began last October - conducted by Iraqi ground forces and US-led warplanes. Relentless terror-bombing killed thousands of civilians, war crimes by any standard. Residents told to remain inside were buried under the rubble of their destroyed homes. US-installed Iraqi puppet president Haider al-Abadi lied, calling civilian deaths “miscalculations (and) unintended mistakes.” Indiscriminate US-led terror-bombing and ground shelling destroyed or badly damaged almost every structure in western Mosul where fighting still rages. The area resembles a moonscape with no visible life. The horror of what continues ...
Lies and Coverup of US War Crimes in Syria
Post Date: 2017-03-28 09:03:52 by Stephen Lendman
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Lies and Coverup of US War Crimes in Syria and Iraq by Stephen Lendman Early in his administration, Trump is guilty of horrendous crimes of war and against humanity in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere - governing lawlessly like his predecessors, escalating aggression, not ending it. Delegating authority for military operations to Defense Secretary Mattis, National Security Advisor McMaster, Joint Chiefs chairman Dunford and other Pentagon commanders doesn’t shift responsibility of the buck stopping with him on all administration policies, none more serious than waging war. Civilians in harm’s way pay the greatest price in all US war theaters. Pentagon terror-bombing massacres them ...
Dick Cheney on Nonexistent Russian Act of War
Post Date: 2017-03-28 08:19:30 by Stephen Lendman
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Dick Cheney on Nonexistent Russian Act of War by Stephen Lendman Cheney represents the worst of America’s dark side, guilty of genocidal high crimes against peace. Throughout his public life, he showed contempt for rule of law principles as a congressman, defense secretary and vice president. A special place in hell awaits him! Speaking at the Economic Times’ Global Business Summit in New Delhi, India, Cheney lied about nonexistent Russian meddling in America’s presidential election. He lied about nonexistent “rising number(s) of threats.” He lied about nonexistent “Russia(n) aggressive actions,” saying: “I think (Putin) has designs on the ...
Trump’s War on Terror Has Quickly Become as Barbaric and Savage as He Promised
Post Date: 2017-03-27 09:14:43 by Ada
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From the start of his presidency, Donald Trump’s “war on terror” has entailed the seemingly indiscriminate slaughter of innocent people in the name of killing terrorists. In other words, Trump has escalated the 16-year-old core premise of America’s foreign policy — that it has the right to bomb any country in the world where people it regards as terrorists are found — and in doing so, has fulfilled the warped campaign pledges he repeatedly expressed. The most recent atrocity was the killing of as many as 200 Iraqi civilians from U.S. airstrikes this week in Mosul. That was preceded a few days earlier by the killing of dozens of Syrian civilians in Raqqa ...
Trump’s Wars
Post Date: 2017-03-27 07:55:24 by Ada
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President Donald Trump is no stranger to conflict escalation. In his short time in office, he has managed to successfully escalate disputes against the media, immigrants and the intelligence community. Yet Trump’s most important escalation has been in the War on Terror, substantially increasing the U.S. commitment to wars in Yemen, Syria and elsewhere. Unfortunately, these steps are likely only to draw America deeper into some of the world’s most intractable conflicts. Trump’s foreign policy approach during the campaign can be charitably described as incoherent. On the one hand, he openly admitted that the Iraq war had been a mistake, and repeatedly criticized the money ...
Pentagon Heads Toward Escalating Genocide in Yemen
Post Date: 2017-03-27 06:24:12 by Stephen Lendman
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Pentagon Heads Toward Escalating Genocide in Yemen by Stephen Lendman Yemen is Obama’s war, now Trump’s, complicit with Saudi terror-bombing, massacring civilians indiscriminately, causing vast destruction, human suffering and starvation. A previous article explained millions of Yemenis face slow, painful deaths from lack of food needed to survive, blockaded coastal areas preventing it from entering the country. Amounts airlifted in are woefully inadequate. Media scoundrels suppress the ongoing horror, ignoring US responsibility for genocide. On March 26, the neocon/CIA-connected Washington Post-owned Foreign Policy magazine headlined “Pentagon Weighs More Support for ...
US Terror-Bombing Killing Thousands of Civilians
Post Date: 2017-03-27 06:12:31 by Stephen Lendman
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US Terror-Bombing Killing Thousands of Civilians by Stephen Lendman AirWars.org calls itself “a journalist-led transparency project. It “(m)onitor(s) and assess(es) civilian casualties from international airstrikes in Iraq, Syria and Libya (from) open-source reports and military claims by nations.” From August 2014 - March 21, 2017, it estimates up to nearly 9,800 civilian deaths from US-led terror-bombing in Iraq and Syria, citing casualties from over 1,000 incidents. Civilian deaths and injuries aren’t aberrations. They occur virtually daily from indiscriminate terror- bombing. AirWars’ figures likely way undercount the full extent of massacres committed by ...
“Our Western Values” No Longer Exist
Post Date: 2017-03-26 09:24:11 by Ada
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Let’s be honest. The US attack on Mosul, Iraq, is not an attack on ISIS. It it a repeat of Israel’s operation Cast Lead in Gaza. The purpose is to kill as many Muslims for Israel as possible. Here is the evidence: news.antiwar.com/2017/03/23/reports-us-airstrikes-killed-230-civilians-in-mosul-overnight/ news.antiwar.com/2017/03/23/child-victims-of-mosul-overwhelm-emergency-hospital/ news.antiwar.com/2017/03/23/un-warns-worst-is-yet-to-come-with-400000-civilians-trapped-in-western-mosul/ Remember, the reason ISIS is in Iraq and Syria is that the US equipped ISIS and sent ISIS to overthrow Assad when the British Parliament and the Russian government blocked Obama’s ...
Is Israel Provoking More War on Gaza?
Post Date: 2017-03-26 08:38:27 by Stephen Lendman
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Is Israel Provoking More War on Gaza? by Stephen Lendman Throughout its sordid history, Israel got away mass murder and targeted assassinations repeatedly, flagrant international law violations, committed unaccountably. On Friday, senior Hamas member Mazen Fuqahaa was assassinated in Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa neighborhood. According to eyewitnesses, unknown assailants shot him four times in the head before fleeing. In 2011, he was freed along with other Palestinian political prisoners in exchange for IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. Exiled to Gaza, he was likely closely monitored. According to Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al- Zahar, “(t)he Israeli enemy operates a number of spies and ...
Millions in US War Theaters Face Starvation
Post Date: 2017-03-25 08:35:26 by Stephen Lendman
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Millions in US War Theaters Face Starvation by Stephen Lendman According to the ICRC, about 20 million people in Yemen and Somalia face starvation without vitally needed food aid, mostly not forthcoming, saying: “This is not business as usual.” Crisis conditions in both countries need to be addressed “now.” Cholera “on the rise in Somalia (alone is killing about) 20 people…each day.” US drone war takes a horrendous toll. Obama’s war in Yemen, complicit with Riyadh, now Trump’s war, took a horrendous toll on civilians for the past two years. Reporting on years of covert US war on Somalia, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism said elite US ...
ASSANGE: Cyber weapons more dangerous than nukes
Post Date: 2017-03-24 16:32:14 by Ada
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On the heels of releasing thousands of documents related to the CIA’s hacking program, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is making the case that cyber weapons are more dangerous than nuclear weapons. Speaking to Arabic-language talk show “The Fifth Estate,” Assange said cyber weapons are easier to build and can do more damage more quickly. “The ideas behind nuclear weapons of involving critical mass and the physics, those are mostly known, so that information has spread around the world,” Assange said. “But in order to build a nuclear weapon, you need to build up enough uranium to make a critical mass and then you need some kind of launch system. “And ...
Mosul Operation: A Medieval Massacre
Post Date: 2017-03-24 09:04:24 by Stephen Lendman
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Mosul Operation: A Medieval Massacre by Stephen Lendman Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova described it this way weeks after US-led terror-bombing and Iraqi ground operations began last October - long before the worst horrors ongoing now. US-orchestrated operations are being conducted under “conditions of absolute information blockade,” Zakharova explained. Nothing was done to protect, evacuate or otherwise help civilians. They’ve been on their own in harm’s way without humanitarian or any other type aid or consideration for their welfare and safety since last October. Hundreds of thousands remain trapped in the city. Others getting out risk their ...
Tillerson Promises Endless Imperial Wars
Post Date: 2017-03-23 08:39:56 by Stephen Lendman
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Tillerson Promises Endless Imperial Wars by Stephen Lendman No US enemies existed anywhere since Nazi Germany, fascist Italy and imperial Japan were defeated in WW II. Yet imperial wars rage endlessly, enemies invented to justify them. Fear-mongering enlists public support. Vital homeland needs go begging to feed America’s war machine - benefitting profiteers at the expense of social justice. Earlier on Press TV, I explained America wages endless wars on countries threatening no one, raping and destroying them, exploiting their people, stealing their resources, along with enacting police state laws at home, supporting corporate interests exclusively, public welfare be damned. ...
America and Israel Threaten World Peace
Post Date: 2017-03-22 09:21:02 by Stephen Lendman
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America and Israel Threaten World Peace by Stephen Lendman Multiple global flashpoints should terrify everyone. They’re hugely dangerous along Russia’s border with Eastern European countries, in the South China Sea, in Ukraine, in Syria, Iraq, and other US war theaters, and possible Israeli war on Lebanon and/or Gaza. America and Israel perpetuate endless wars, related violence, chaos and repression. Peace and stability defeat their rogue agendas. Days earlier, Israel activated around 2,000 reserve soldiers. Along with regular IDF troops, they’ve been involved in military exercises since Sunday, simulating war on Gaza. Is another one planned? IDF chief of staff General ...
Netanyahu Vows Continued War on Syria
Post Date: 2017-03-22 09:03:52 by Stephen Lendman
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Netanyahu Vows Continued War on Syria by Stephen Lendman War in Syria isn’t civil as falsely reported. It’s US launched aggression, aided by NATO, Israel and other rogue regional allies. Its aim is regime change. Washington wants another imperial trophy. It wants Iran’s government toppled. It wants regional control along with Israel, weakening or eliminating Russian and Chinese influence in the Middle East. Imperialism is dirty business, human lives and welfare of no consequence. Millions of casualties attest to US viciousness. Trump seems bent in escalating things on the phony pretext of combating terrorism America supports. On Tuesday, Netanyahu denied reports about ...
Israel Escalating Aggression in Syria
Post Date: 2017-03-20 08:36:26 by Stephen Lendman
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Israel Escalating Aggression in Syria by Stephen Lendman On Sunday, Lebanon’s al-Manar TV said an Israeli drone struck a car in Quneitra province near Golan in southwest Syria, killing two members of the National Defense Forces, allied with Syria’s military. An IDF spokesperson declined to comment on the incident. Syrian media didn’t report it. Eyewitnesses said Israeli planes breached Syrian airspace in areas bordering both countries. In January, an Israeli helicopter attack killed an Iranian general and several Hezbollah fighters in Quneitra province, including the son of the group’s late military commander, Jihad Mughniyeh. Sunday social media reports said senior ...
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