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Ukrainian Putschists Sue Russia
Post Date: 2017-03-06 13:25:26 by Stephen Lendman
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Ukrainian Putschists Sue Russia by Stephen Lendman Kiev’s illegitimate regime is suing Russia in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on false charges of violating the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.” Let’s get this straight. The US-installed putschist regime in Kiev, waging terror war on its Donbass citizens, wants Russia held accountable for its own high crimes. You can’t make this stuff up. The case could drag on for months or years, the outcome meaningless as the ICJ has no enforcement authority. Or it could end quickly if ...
Obamagate Scandal
Post Date: 2017-03-06 08:56:53 by Stephen Lendman
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Obamagate Scandal by Stephen Lendman If Obama ordered Trump Tower wiretapped as Donald Trump claims, evidence may or may not be easily obtained. If FISA court authorization occurred, a congressional inquiry could prove it. If conducted warrantless by the NSA, CIA or FBI, verifying Trump’s claim will be much harder. Cooperation by agency heads would be needed. NSA director Admiral Michael Rogers is an Obama administration holdover. So is FBI head James Comey. CIA director Mike Pompeo is a Trump appointee. If Obama got FISA court authorization to wiretap Trump Tower, or a server the building uses for electronic communications located anywhere, court records would verify it. Still, ...
The NYT Dismisses a Potential Obamagate Scandal
Post Date: 2017-03-06 08:22:49 by Stephen Lendman
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The NYT Dismisses a Potential Obamagate Scandal by Stephen Lendman Throughout Obama’s tenure, The Times supported his criminality and other abuses of power - his imperial aggression in multiple theaters, subservience to Wall Street and other corporate favorites, crushing neoliberal harshness harming America’s most vulnerable, and police state ruthlessness. He let Big Brother spy on everyone legally and illegally at home and abroad - recording our phone and electronic communications with or without judicially authorized warrants. Is it out of the question to think he did nothing to interfere with Trump’s campaign, including monitoring his communications? One-sidedly ...
Trump to Separate Undocumented Refugee Mothers from Children
Post Date: 2017-03-06 08:11:53 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump to Separate Undocumented Refugee Mothers from Children? by Stephen Lendman According to Reuters, “(w)omen and children crossing together illegally into the United States could be separated by US authorities under a proposal being considered by the Department of Homeland Security” - citing unnamed government sources. The idea is to discourage mothers in unfavored countries from coming to America with children - treating them harshly to dissuade others from seeking refuge here. Detention facilities for undocumented immigrants are deplorable, hundreds of thousands of detainees inhumanely treated, conditions as bad or worse than imprisoned criminals face - at an enormous ...
Mr. President, Your Predecessor Actually Wire Tapped ALL Of Our Phones… What Are You Going To Do About It?
Post Date: 2017-03-05 14:34:36 by hondo68
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President Trump went on a Tweet storm this morning, presumably because at some point in the last 24 hours he learned that his predecessor President Obama reportedly “wire tapped” the phone lines in Trump Tower during the 2016 election campaign. In the process of tweeting, the President actually confirmed what many of us already know – we are being actively monitored by a domestic police state. We can fully sympathize with the President’s outrage over being wiretapped, but it should be no surprise to our readers. Back in 2011 we noted, to accusations of being conspiracy theorists, that everything Americans do is being monitored, including real-time monitoring of our ...
Trump Asks Congress to Investigate Obama Over Wiretapping
Post Date: 2017-03-05 13:19:06 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump Asks Congress to Investigate Obama Over Wiretapping by Stephen Lendman On Sunday, his press secretary Sean Spicer issued a statement, saying reports “concerning potentially politically motivated investigations immediately ahead of the 2016 election are very troubling.” “President Donald J. Trump is requesting that as part of their investigation into Russian activity, the congressional intelligence committees exercise their oversight authority to determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016.” He added neither the White House or Trump will comment further “until such oversight is conducted. A previous article discussed two ...
Banning Howard Zinn's Books
Post Date: 2017-03-05 08:58:53 by Stephen Lendman
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Banning Howard Zinn’s Books by Stephen Lendman Best remembered as an activist historian, scholar, educator, and author of numerous books, including his notable “People’s History of the United States,” Zinn died in January 2010 at age 87. He impacted the lives of his students, readers and many others, including my own. He wrote about history too few others teach, never discussed by major media. He spoke publicly at hundreds of meetings and rallies. When he began teaching, he said he “could not possibly keep out of the classroom (his) own experiences.” He “never concealed (his) political views: (his) detestation of war and militarism, (his) anger at ...
Trump Abandons Cooperation with Russia
Post Date: 2017-03-05 08:44:15 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump Abandons Cooperation with Russia by Stephen Lendman Trump’s campaign rhetoric about cooperating with Russia in combating terrorism was bluster without follow-through, according to AP News, saying: He’s “telling advisers and allies that he may shelve, at least temporarily, his plan to pursue a deal with Moscow on the Islamic State group and other national security matters, according to administration officials and Western diplomats.” It doesn’t surprise given longstanding US hostility toward Russia, especially during the Cold War and Putin’s tenure. Trump stacked his administration with defense, national and homeland security hardliners. Reportedly he ...
Trump's Wiretapping Accusation: Part of a Coup Plot if True
Post Date: 2017-03-05 08:32:51 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump’s Wiretapping Accusation: Part of a Coup Plot if True by Stephen Lendman Pre-and-post election, pro-Hillary dark forces, supported by media scoundrels, invented reasons to vilify Trump, wanting him delegitimized. Failing to prevent his electoral triumph, relentless attacks continue. Targeting key administration officials Michael Flynn, Jeff Sessions, Kellyanne Conway and likely others to come is part of a sinister plot to weaken him - ahead of likely aiming to oust him from office for the wrong reasons. There’s plenty about his agenda to criticize. Instead the Big Lie about nonexistent Russian US election hacking persists. So do phony allegations of Trump’s links ...
Trump Tower Wiretapped by Obama?
Post Date: 2017-03-04 13:21:11 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump Tower Wiretapped by Obama? by Stephen Lendman According to Trump, Obama wiretapped Trump tower pre-election, tweeting: “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” “Is it legal for a sitting President to be -‘wire tapping’ a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!” “I’d bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!” “How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election ...
The NYT War on Truth
Post Date: 2017-03-04 07:50:57 by Stephen Lendman
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The NYT War on Truth by Stephen Lendman On issues mattering most, The Times features fake news, not the real thing. On March 1, its editors lied headlining “Russia Sides With Chemical Weapons,” saying: “Russia proved again on Tuesday that there is no crime heinous enough to make it turn against Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad. It vetoed a resolution before the United Nations Security Council that would have punished Syria for using chemical weapons.” Fact: Throughout six years of Obama’s war, now Trump’s, using terrorists as imperial foot soldiers against a sovereign independent state threatening no one, claims about Assad using chemical weapons ...
America's Major Media: A Cesspool of Misinformation
Post Date: 2017-03-04 07:36:08 by Stephen Lendman
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America’s Major Media: A Cesspool of Misinformation by Stephen Lendman The late actor/writer/comedian Ernie Kovacs once said he knew why television is called a medium - “because it’s neither rare nor well done.” The same applies to so-called print journalism - like television, featuring fake news, not the real thing. The deplorable state of America’s media keeps reaching for new lows of misreporting, manipulating readers and viewers, suppressing hard truths, spreading misinformation on vital world and national issues. At her weekly press briefing, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova blasted CNN in response to its irresponsibly calling ...
Trump to Appoint Russophobe as White House Director of Europe and Russia
Post Date: 2017-03-03 13:09:47 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump to Appoint Russophobe as White House Director for Europe and Russia by Stephen Lendman Improving ties with Russia was lost when Trump chose Mattis for defense, replaced National Security Advisor Michael Flynn with HR McMaster - perhaps the coup de grace with the expected announcement of Russophobe Fiona Hill as White House Director for Europe and Russia. She heads the hawkish Brookings Institution’s Center for the United States and Europe. From 2006 - 2009, she served as National Intelligence Council’s national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia. In her book, titled “Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin (published by Brookings),” she called him a ...
Will Trump Try Ousting Venezuelan President Maduro?
Post Date: 2017-03-03 12:52:54 by Stephen Lendman
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Will Trump Try Ousting Venezuelan President Maduro? by Stephen Lendman Previous Bush/Cheney and Obama administration regime change efforts failed. Washington considered Hugo Chavez a regional enemy. The same goes for current President Nicolas Maduro. It wants him toppled, a US-installed puppet replacing him, Bolivarian fairness ended, state-owned enterprises privatized, and control gained over Venezuelan enormous oil reserves, the world’s largest, including heavy and extra-heavy oil. Since Maduro became president in 2013, Washington waged economic war, wanting Venezuela destabilized, causing shortages of basic goods, harming ordinary people most, high inflation exacerbating ...
Wanting Improved Ties with Russia Considered Heresy
Post Date: 2017-03-03 08:29:47 by Stephen Lendman
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Wanting Improved Ties with Russia Considered Heresy by Stephen Lendman Anti-Russia sentiment in Washington matches McCarthy era witch-hunt hysteria. It’s more dangerous because of bipartisan hawks infesting Congress and the administration in key defense, national security and intelligence positions. Instead of Dwight Eisenhower warning of the dangers of the military/industrial complex in his farewell address, chicken hawks Bill and Hillary Clinton, Bush/Cheney, Obama, and now Trump consider muscular militarism a good thing, enormous risks ignored. Trump is in trouble anyway. Deep state Hillary supporters want him delegitimized, undermined and removed from office - aiming at key ...
The NYT Wants Trump Delegitimized and Ousted from Office
Post Date: 2017-03-03 08:18:40 by Stephen Lendman
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The NYT Wants Trump Delegitimized and Ousted from Office by Stephen Lendman He won. Hillary lost. It should have ended there. Yet nearly four months post-election, rage against him continues - for the wrong reasons, not the right ones. Legitimate criticism is warranted, gratuitous bashing despicable. He’s targeted for defeating media darling Hillary and rhetorically wanting improved relations with Russia, along with being an outsider elevated to the nation’s highest office, an unexpected winner last November. The deplorable NYT is one of his leading bashers. Its editors lied, saying Session had to recuse himself - an act of cowardice when he should have held firm. Trump should ...
Fake News Calls Russia's Envoy to Washington a Spy
Post Date: 2017-03-02 13:21:35 by Stephen Lendman
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Fake News Calls Russia’s Envoy to Washington a Spy by Stephen Lendman Reckless US Russia bashing is reminiscent of US propaganda preceding all its wars, vilifying targeted countries and their leaders before attacking them. The possibility of the world’s dominant nuclear powers clashing militarily should terrify everyone. Nuclear armageddon could follow. Permanent wars reflect longstanding US policy. The Russian Federation never attacked another nation, fostering world peace and stability instead, threatening no other countries, despite Big Lies claiming otherwise. Russia’s ambassador to Washington, Sergey Kislyak, is a distinguished diplomat, not an intelligence agent. ...
Shadow Cabinet to Challenge Trump
Post Date: 2017-03-02 13:10:05 by Stephen Lendman
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Shadow Cabinet to Challenge Trump by Stephen Lendman It’s standard practice in Britain, not in America, a shadow cabinet never before formed to challenge a US administration. In the UK, it’s done nothing to change irresponsible governance, at least not in recent decades. Expect nothing positive from the US initiative. Why now? Why Trump? Why weren’t the deplorable Clintons, Bush/Cheney and Obama challenged? Why weren’t they impeached and removed from office? Why were they allowed to govern unaccountably for 24 long, painful years? Why have their high crimes gone unpunished? Former New York City public advocate Mark Green assembled a group of former undemocratic ...
AG Sessions on the Carpet Over Nothing
Post Date: 2017-03-02 08:39:44 by Stephen Lendman
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AG Jeff Sessions on the Carpet Over Nothing by Stephen Lendman It’s hard feeling sympathy for a man with a history of racist opposition to equal rights and protections under the law for all Americans. Still, vilifying him for conversations he apparently had with Russia’s ambassador to America, Sergey Kislyak, during the presidential campaign when he was a US senator is way over-the-top and unjustified. He shouldn’t have been asked about it during confirmation hearings or other times. Targeting him is part of endless Trump bashing for the wrong reasons, not the right ones. On March 1, the neocon, CIA-connected Washington Post published a hatchet job article, criticizing ...
NYT Editors Bash Trump's Foreign Policy for the Wrong Reasons
Post Date: 2017-03-02 08:09:09 by Stephen Lendman
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NYT Editors Bash Trump’s Foreign Policy for the Wrong Reasons by Stephen Lendman His domestic and foreign policies warrant serious criticism this early in his tenure. Times editors prefer gratuitous bashing, continuing efforts to delegitimize him pre-and-post-election - vilification substituting for truth and full disclosure, typical of their deplorable misreporting. Focusing on Trump’s Tuesday congressional address, they correctly said it was short on explaining administration foreign policy - wrongheaded claiming “threats” America faces, none except invented ones as justification for endless imperial wars, raping one country after another. Times editors: Trump said ...
Trump Before Congress
Post Date: 2017-03-01 08:34:33 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump Before Congress by Stephen Lendman His Tuesday address was long on making America safe for Wall Street, war profiteers and other corporate predators, short on what’s most needed to serve all Americans equitably and promote world peace. He focused on increased military spending at a time major cuts are needed, combating terrorism without explaining ISIS and likeminded groups are US creations, used as imperial foot soldiers. He called for repealing and replacing Obamacare, omitting what he and GOP lawmakers want is something worse, maybe devastating for the nation’s most vulnerable. “We will soon begin the construction of a great wall along our southern border,” ...
Obama, Hillary and GW Bush on Trump
Post Date: 2017-02-28 13:05:37 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama, Hillary and GW Bush on Trump by Stephen Lendman His deplorable record so far aside, Obama and GW Bush aren’t allies - for sure not Hillary, still seething from her electoral loss, likely plotting revenge, maybe involved in anti-Trump protests behind the scenes. On Tuesday, Trump accused Obama of possibly being behind protests against him and White House leaks - “because his people are certainly behind it,” he said, referring to holdovers in his administration until they can be replaced. Campaigning last year, he called Hillary a “world class liar,” using the State Department as her “own personal hedge fund,” lacking “the temperament (and) ...
The Latest NYT Fake News on Russia
Post Date: 2017-02-28 07:37:08 by Stephen Lendman
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The Latest NYT Fake News on Russia by Stephen Lendman An easy way to be misinformed and stay that way is by following Times reports - all fake news all the time on issues mattering most, especially geopolitical ones. Many of its reports read like Pentagon handouts, especially ones related to US imperial wars and Russia bashing. According to The Times, “(t)he Kremlin (believing Trump won’t change US policy toward Russia) seek(s) to bolster its global influence by exploiting what it considers weakness in Washington…” The Times called Putin “a champion of an alternative, illiberal model,” whatever that means. Claiming he aided Trump’s election is utter ...
Hillary Planning a 2020 White House Run?
Post Date: 2017-02-27 06:06:07 by Stephen Lendman
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Hillary Planning a 2020 White House Run? by Stephen Lendman She tried and failed twice. Does she have another run in mind? Reports suggest she may launch a TV talk show, featuring her as host, perhaps intending it to be platform for a third presidential campaign. She considers herself party leader in exile, likely seeks revenge for losing to Trump. A TV show would be a way to bash him and serve as a self-promotion vehicle. She no doubt thinks she can beat Trump in 2020. Will she again seek her party’s nomination? It’s too early to know, but at this stage no other Democrat has popular support for the nation’s highest office. One thing seems sure. She’s not going ...
Venezuelan VP Refutes Spurious US Charges Against Him
Post Date: 2017-02-26 08:52:43 by Stephen Lendman
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Venezuelan VP Refutes Spurious US Charges Against Him by Stephen Lendman A previous article discussed outrageous US sanctions imposed on Venezuelan Executive Vice President Tareck El Aissami over fabricated drugs trafficking allegations. Assets, if any, held in America were frozen under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act. A Treasury Department statement lied, saying Aissami allegedly “facilitated shipments of narcotics from Venezuela, to include control over planes that leave from a Venezuelan air base, as well as control of drug routes through the ports in Venezuela.” Pure rubbish! A malicious Big Lie, part of Washington’s continued war on Venezuelan ...
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