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Erdogan Family's Ill-Gotten Wealth
Post Date: 2016-05-08 12:42:07 by Stephen Lendman
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Erdogan Family’s Ill-Gotten Wealth by Stephen Lendman Earlier reports said he and son Bilal amassed tens of millions of dollars from colluding with ISIS to sell stolen Iraqi and Syrian oil, along with other dubious activities. Germany’s Bild newspaper asked how he and family members amassed great wealth. His annual salary is modest, Bild saying: “While their father earns some 50,000 euros per year, his children bathe in luxury. Where does it come from?” No “official data” explain it. His son Ahmet’s estimated net worth is around $80 million. How was it gotten, asked Bild? “(D)oes he get support from (his father’s) government?” His ...
NYT Endorses US-Sponsored Coup Attempt in Venezuela
Post Date: 2016-05-08 08:25:49 by Stephen Lendman
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NYT Endorses US-Sponsored Coup Attempt in Venezuela by Stephen Lendman The Times is a longstanding mouthpiece for wealth, power and privilege. Its record is deplorable - pro-business, anti-populist, endorsing all US wars of aggression, color revolutions and coups by other means against sovereign independent states. It denigrated Hugo Chavez throughout his tenure, calling him “a would-be dictator…a populist demagogue…an authoritarian caudillo (strongman),” among other pejoratives. It bashes President Nicolas Maduro the same way. Its history shows a consistent record of supporting despotic regimes like Saudi Arabia, other repressive Gulf States, Egypt, Turkey and ...
blog_thecomplex_full1 The Military Has Cataloged Its Ethical Failures, and They’re Kind of Awesome
Post Date: 2016-05-08 06:11:12 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Did you hear the one about the first lieutenant who had to pay $120,000 in fines for accepting bribes from contractors he’d awarded with lucrative Defense Department deals? Or the Navy civilian in Texas who asked a defense contractor for a $5,000 payment so the contractor could be "recommended" for a $153,000 contract? What about the four senior officials, including two Air Force generals, a Marine general and a Navy admiral, who extended their stay in Tokyo to play golf at an illegal cost of $3,000 to the government? The thing is, those aren’t jokes. They’re true stories. And they point to a growing problem within the military: a pattern of misconduct, ...
Two Turkish Newspapermen Convicted of the Crime of Journalism
Post Date: 2016-05-07 09:03:58 by Stephen Lendman
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Two Turkish Newspapermen Convicted of the Crime of Journalism by Stephen Lendman A rubber-stamp Istanbul court sentenced Cumhuriyet’s editor-in-chief Can Dundar and its Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gul to five years, ten months and five years imprisonment respectively on the phony charge of revealing state secrets. Acquitted of espionage and plotting to overthrow the regime, they remain free pending appeal, Dundar saying “(w)e will continue to do our job as journalists, despite all these attempts to silence us. We have to preserve courage in our country.” They reported hard truths of regime wrongdoing, high crimes against peace, evidence proving Ankara intelligence smuggled ...
Erdogan's Fascist Dictatorship
Post Date: 2016-05-07 08:51:29 by Stephen Lendman
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Erdogan’s Fascist Dictatorship by Stephen Lendman He’s been solidifying unchallenged power since becoming Turkey’s 12th president in August 2014 - previously serving as prime minister since 2003. He founded and heads the Justice and Development Party (AKP), using it as an instrument for dictatorial rule. On May 5, he ousted Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu effective May 22, reports indicating he’ll install his son-in-law to replace him, current energy minister Berat Albayrak. He plans constitutional changes, “institutionaliz(ing)” dictatorial rule, on Friday saying “there is no turning back,” claiming his scheme has popular support. Turkish ...
Caravan To Midnight - Episode 524 Michael Hoffman, James Perloff & Rachael L. McIntosh [Let's have another bleeping farcical SELECTION]
Post Date: 2016-05-07 08:29:42 by noone222
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Poster Comment:This is actually two interviews and both are very well worth hearing.
WHICH PRESIDENT BROUGHT US SOCIALISM ON A GRAND SCALE?
Post Date: 2016-05-06 20:16:04 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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WHICH PRESIDENT BROUGHT US SOCIALISM ON A GRAND SCALE? Recently, on a website that originates in Chicago, I asked one of the regular commenters who was blaming the “socialist liberals” for the crime, violence and corruption that is rampant in Chicago, who, in his opinion, was the first president to connect with Karl Marx and his socialist philosophy on government. He responded it had to be Bill Clinton. I responded that in the eyes of the International Socialist Review, he was incorrect. Even though countries all over the globe are failing economically due to years old, implemented socialist programs, all of our present candidates for president in 2015 embrace socialism to some ...
House Speaker Ryan Withholds Trump Endorsement
Post Date: 2016-05-06 12:20:11 by Stephen Lendman
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House Speaker Ryan Withholds Trump Endorsement by Stephen Lendman Neocon House Speaker Paul Ryan’s agenda should scare everyone. Last October, he succeeded John Boehner in a palace coup. The former speaker wasn’t hardline enough for tea party Republicans. Ryan’s ascendancy lurched Washington further to the right. He wants more spending for militarism and wars, less for social programs - endorsed privatizing Social Security and Medicare en route to ending them altogether. He favors abolishing America’s social contract, everyone on their own sink or swim, tax cuts for the rich, and more generous corporate handouts. His ideal America is government and monied interests ...
Sweatshop Turkey
Post Date: 2016-05-06 12:09:10 by Stephen Lendman
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Sweatshop Turkey by Stephen Lendman Turkey shamelessly exploits its Syrian refugee population. Hundreds of thousands of adults and children work for sub-poverty wages under deplorable conditions. State-authorized sweatshops exist in many parts of the world, Turkey a notorious example, a hugely repressive police state, profiting from human misery. London’s Guardian reported on Syrian child refugees in Turkey, many unable to go to school, forced to choose between harsh sweatshop labor or war at home. They work 12 hours a day, six days a week, earning sub-minimum wage pay and no benefits. Syrian Relief Network (SRN) director Kais al-Dairi explained “irreversible” harm done ...
Take the Fifth -- And Face Life Imprisonment Without a Trial
Post Date: 2016-05-06 10:15:45 by Ada
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Philadelphia resident Francis Rawls has been in solitary confinement for seven months, despite the fact that he has not been accused of a crime – let alone convicted of one. He may spend the rest of his life in that condition as punishment for invoking his unconditional right, supposedly protected by the Fifth Amendment, against self-incrimination. Apart from the seventeen years he spent as an officer with the Philadelphia Police Department, Rawls has never done anything to threaten the public. He has no criminal record. He is suspected of possessing child pornography, which would evince an unspeakably vile appetite and make him a suitable subject of social ostracism. There is no ...
Half the US Electorate Calls Nominating Process Rigged
Post Date: 2016-05-06 07:38:22 by Stephen Lendman
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Half the US Electorate Calls Nominating Process Rigged by Stephen Lendman A new Reuters/Ipsos poll showed half of US voters believe “the system US political parties use to pick their candidates for the White House is ‘rigged,’ “ the news agency reported. Over two-thirds want it changed, control shifted from party bosses to voters. Republicans and Democrats have different rules. So do individual states. Trump railed against a “system…rigged by party operatives with ‘double-agent’ delegates who reject the decision of voters.” Unelected super-delegates are elitist party members, backing dirty business as usual most voters reject. Perhaps never ...
Erdogan Ousts Prime Minister, Consolidates Power
Post Date: 2016-05-05 12:07:46 by Stephen Lendman
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Erdogan Ousts Prime Minister, Consolidates Power by Stephen Lendman Despots dispense with protocol and other democratic procedures, hardening rule by ousting competitors, replacing them with officials they control. State-controlled media claimed Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu announced his decision to leave on his own accord over differences with colleagues, not failure to do his job properly. “The fact that my term lasted far shorter than four years is not a decision of mine but a necessity,” he said, hinting at pressure from Erdogan to leave while urging party unity. He served 20 months as prime minister, planning his departure at a May 22 extraordinary convention. Erdogan ...
Cruz and Kasich Concessions Clear Way for Trump's GOP Nomination
Post Date: 2016-05-05 08:49:37 by Stephen Lendman
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Cruz and Kasich Concessions Clear Way for Trump’s GOP Nomination by Stephen Lendman All the muscle and dirty tricks Republican party bosses and media scoundrels threw at Trump failed. Bashing made him stronger, emerging last man standing after Cruz and Kasich conceded. His challenges include overcoming the anybody but Trump/dump Trump campaign, uniting Republicans behind him. The New York Times said “many Republican leaders refrained from falling in line behind Mr. Trump, with dozens avoiding inquiries about where they stood or saying they wanted Mr. Trump to detail his policies or tone down his language first.” “Others tied themselves in knots as they praised and ...
US government: North Carolina LGBT law violates civil rights
Post Date: 2016-05-04 19:11:43 by BTP Holdings
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US government: North Carolina LGBT law violates civil rights Emery p. Dalesio, Associated Press Associated Press May 4, 2016 US government: North Carolina LGBT law violates civil rights The U.S. Justice Department says a North Carolina law that limits protections to LGBT people violates federal civil rights laws. RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- A North Carolina law limiting protections to LGBT people violates federal civil rights protections and can't be enforced, the U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday, putting the state on notice that it is in danger of being sued and losing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding. The law, which also requires transgender people to use ...
Progressives, Left and Right
Post Date: 2016-05-04 17:06:55 by Ada
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I recently was invited to speak at the annual convention of the Texas Libertarian Party and was struck by how libertarians cling to an outdated and counterproductive conception of the political landscape. In particular, many libertarians remain wedded to a misguided understanding of what the threat to liberty really is, where it comes from, and thus how we ought to fight against it. That’s why we’re still saddled with clichéd 1980s phrases like “neither Left nor Right,” “low-tax liberals,” and even the cringeworthy “capitalist means, socialist ends”—all in evidence among the literature describing libertarianism on tables in the ...
European Commission Rewards Erdogan's High Crimes
Post Date: 2016-05-04 10:22:17 by Stephen Lendman
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European Commission Rewards Erdogan’s High Crimes by Stephen Lendman After bribing Turkey with billions of euros to keep desperate refugees out of Europe, EC members are poised to recommend visa-free travel for its citizens for stays up to 90 days, despite Ankara failing to fulfill all demanded conditions, mainly most important ones. If approved as expected on Wednesday, millions of Turks will have visa-free access to 26 EU countries, Britain and Ireland excluded. They have their own visa requirements. On Wednesday, European Commission for Competition Margrethe Vestager tweeted “(t)he European Commission is today proposing…to lift the visa requirements for the citizens of ...
Cruz Concedes: Trump the Presumptive GOP Nominee
Post Date: 2016-05-04 09:17:29 by Stephen Lendman
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Cruz Concedes: Trump the Presumptive GOP Nominee by Stephen Lendman Trump’s overwhelming defeat of Cruz in Tuesday’s Indiana primary knocked his only serious challenger out of the race. GOP primary season climaxed yesterday. Cruz is out, Kasich no more than a footnote. The Wall Street Journal put it succinctly, saying “Mr. Trump will now be the Republican nominee for president.” The New York Times said the “once unimaginable” aspirant is “all but certain to roll into the Republican convention in July with the party establishment’s official but uneasy embrace.” Its choice is him or Hillary Clinton, virtually certain to be Democrat nominee ...
The Obama Doctrine: America Should Rule the World
Post Date: 2016-05-03 08:12:21 by Stephen Lendman
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The Obama Doctrine: America Should Rule the World by Stephen Lendman In his May 2 Washington Post op-ed, Obama pushed for adopting the anti-consumer, anti-labor, anti-environment, pro-corporate predation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to let America write the rules on global trade and everything else. He hyped “a boon to American businesses…” He lied claiming benefits to “American workers.” TPP’s adoption would be major step toward relegating them to neo-serfdom. It gives America “a leg up” on China, excluded from TPP. Obama lied, claiming US standards are consumer and eco-friendly, unlike its Asian rival. America was thirdworldized on his ...
Leaked TTIP Documents Reveal a Stealth Corporate Coup
Post Date: 2016-05-02 12:20:48 by Stephen Lendman
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Leaked TTIP Documents Reveal a Stealth Corporate Coup by Stephen Lendman The so-called Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), like its Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) counterpart, isn’t about growth-promoting trade benefitting everyone equitably. Just the opposite!! Both assault personal freedoms. They’re anti-consumer, anti-public welfare, anti-ecosanity business sweetheart deals, giving corporate predators control over the lives of populations in all countries agreeing to these deals. It lets them operate unaccountably, overriding sovereign legal restraints at the expense of societies fit to live in. Greenpeace leaked 248 pages of classified documents being ...
Cruz/Sanders Campaigns on Life Support
Post Date: 2016-05-02 08:58:53 by Stephen Lendman
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Cruz/Sanders Campaigns on Life Support by Stephen Lendman Trump and Clinton are their parties’ presumptive nominees, too far ahead to be overtaken. Polls show them leading in most remaining primaries. Ahead of Tuesday’s Indiana contest, a new NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll shows Trump way ahead of his rivals. Asked on Fox News Sunday if winning Indiana assures his nomination, he brashly said “(y)es, it’s over. It’s already over.” On NBC’s Meet the Press, Cruz maintained a brave face, saying “I think the support we are seeing is surging.” Various polls indicate otherwise. On CNN’s State of the Union, Clinton said “you have to ...
History of May Day (International Workers Solidarity Day)
Post Date: 2016-05-01 16:51:54 by hondo68
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Photo of May Day demonstration in Moscow, May 1, 2014: AP Images Most Americans associate May Day with the hanging of flower baskets or the National Day of Prayer. With the Cold War now a distant memory, we seem to have forgotten that May 1, or May Day, while traditionally representing the coming of spring, has been for over a century the most important calendar day of the year for communists, socialists, and anarchists. This was the traditional day in the Soviet Union and the communist bloc countries for massive parades, replete with missiles, tanks, rank upon rank of goose-stepping troops, red flags, and huge posters of Marx and Lenin. This has not changed in countries that are still ...
One Democrat’s Outrageous New Plan Includes Cracking Down On “The Most Important” Part Of The Gun
Post Date: 2016-05-01 14:23:43 by BTP Holdings
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One Democrat’s Outrageous New Plan Includes Cracking Down On “The Most Important” Part Of The Gun The Democrats lust to control our freedoms truly knows no boundaries. If they think they can “improve” your life by limiting your freedom they will do it, no questions asked. The examples of their interference on both a state and national level is more than obvious. One of the most glaring examples of their ability to destroy our sacred liberties is the confined attack on the second amendment. Because of power hungry Democrats, millions of Americans have seen their ability to own a gun severely restricted. In some states, the power to defend themselves has been all ...
Vote None of the Above in November
Post Date: 2016-05-01 09:02:11 by Stephen Lendman
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Vote None of the Above in November by Stephen Lendman US elections are farcical, democracy pure illusion, voters deceived every time. Names and faces alone change. Deplorable policies remain in place. Democrat and Republican nomination races are virtually over except for postmortems - Clinton and Trump too far ahead to be overtaken. Polls show they’re ahead in most upcoming primaries, including California. Voter choices in November come down to death by hanging or firing squad. America’s money-controlled process assures dirty business as usual always wins. All duopoly party aspirants march to the same drummer, differing in style and rhetoric alone. Voter choices in November ...
DICK GREGORY: Obama's "EXECUTIVE ORDER 13603" Makes Us SLAVES!!!
Post Date: 2016-04-30 20:56:56 by BTP Holdings
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allowfullscreen> Published on Jul 27, 2015 Chilling commentary from activist Dick Gregory regarding EXECUTIVE ORDER 13603, which covertly violates many constitutional rights ie: FORCED LABOR, concentration camps, government take-over, food shortages, population control etc. Also discussion on Baltimore riots, Tennessee shooting, martial law, the U.S. as a POLICE STATE and much more. www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparednessPoster Comment:This Executive Order is dated March 16, 2012. Obummer has had this in the works for a while.
US Behind New Coup Plot in Venezuela
Post Date: 2016-04-30 09:17:01 by Stephen Lendman
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US Behind New Coup Plot in Venezuela by Stephen Lendman Since Hugo Chavez’s December 1998 election, Washington plotted to regain control over Venezuela and its vast oil reserves. Two anti-Chavista coup plots failed, another against current President Nicolas Maduro foiled. US economic war facilitated fascists gaining control of Venezuela’s National Assembly. Washington’s dirty hands are involved in helping their latest attempt to oust Maduro - wanting neoliberal harshness replacing Bolivarian fairness. In March, the anti-Chavista Movement of Democratic Unity (MUD) published its Roadmap for Change. MUD executive secretary Jesus Torealba “call(ed) on the entire ...
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