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Polls Show Anti-Russia Propaganda Works
Post Date: 2017-02-07 07:12:49 by Stephen Lendman
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Polls Show Anti-Russia Propaganda Works by Stephen Lendman Given unrelenting anti-Russia propaganda, ongoing for so long, during much of Obama’s tenure, continuing by Congress and media scoundrels, public hostility toward Russia is no surprise. Most Americans think Moscow interfered in last November’s election to help Trump defeat Hillary - despite no evidence suggesting it, baseless accusations alone claiming it. According to a mid-January Reuters/Ipsos poll, 82% of Americans consider Russia a threat - up from 76% last March. Only North Korea ranked higher at 86%. A Russian poll showed slightly more than half of respondents believe relations with America will improve ahead. ...
Jews in Ukraine Endangered
Post Date: 2017-02-06 12:05:55 by Stephen Lendman
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Jews in Ukraine Endangered by Stephen Lendman Xenophonic, ultranationalist, fascist anti-Semites run Ukraine, courtesy of US policy under Obama - Trump so far doing nothing to halt them waging war on their own people. Nazi symbolism is openly displayed in Kiev. Ultranationists parade through the city, honoring Nazi- era collaborator/mass murderer Stepan Bandera. State-sponsored murder targets Donbass residents and anyone critical of regime power and practices. Press freedom was abolished, independent journalists endangered. So are Ukrainian Jews. The nation has a disturbing history of anti-Semitism, notably after the 1917 Russian revolution and during the Nazi era in Germany. ...
Trump's Hostility Toward Iran
Post Date: 2017-02-06 07:14:23 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump’s Hostility Toward Iran by Stephen Lendman His tough talk on Iran and administration actions so far are disturbing, reflecting longstanding US hostility since its 1979 revolution. It’s all about its sovereign independence, deference to Israel, and all that oil America covets. Its reserves are the world’s fourth largest. During his interview with Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, aired Sunday, Trump repeated longstanding US/Israeli disinformation on Iran, disgracefully saying “(t)hey have total disregard for our country.” “They are the number one terrorist state. They’re sending money all over the place and weapons, and you can’t do ...
Americans: The World's Most Over-Entertained, Uninformed Know-Nothings
Post Date: 2017-02-05 13:16:49 by Stephen Lendman
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Americans: The World’s Most Over-Entertained, Uninformed Know-Nothings by Stephen Lendman What more appropriate topic than on Super Bowl Sunday. The National Retail Federation estimates around 189 million Americans tuning in, myself not among them. On Monday, they’ll know all about “the game,” nothing about the major issues of our time, hugely affecting their lives, welfare and futures. It’s why America gets away with murder on an unimaginable scale time and again, permanently at war at home and abroad, humanity’s survival endangered by its recklessness. Too few Americans understand, more focused on who wins “the game,” mindless about what ...
Is US Rapprochement with Russia Possible?
Post Date: 2017-02-05 13:01:08 by Stephen Lendman
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Is US Rapprochement with Russia Possible? by Stephen Lendman After a century of US hostility, except for time-out during WW II to defeat Nazism, it takes a giant leap of faith to think Trump, a businessman making his first foray into politics, can achieve what none of his predecessors accomplished since Woodrow Wilson’s era. Virtually the entire Congress, media scoundrels, and dominant public opinion are anti-Russia. Even if Trump is sincere, for whatever reasons, he’s up against these forces opposing rapprochement. His hostility toward China, Iran, Venezuela and perhaps other Russian allies makes improved relations all the harder to achieve, maybe impossible. Still it’s ...
Trump’s Alt.Right Movement Joins Soros in Russia-Bashing
Post Date: 2017-02-05 10:50:42 by Ada
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In one of the most blatant double-crosses by the extreme right-wing since Nazi Germany broke its non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union in 1941 and launched a sneak attack on Russian territory, President Donald Trump’s so- called «alt.right» cadres have lined up to blame Russia for interfering in U.S. electoral politics. During the 2016 campaign, it was fashionable for Democrats, backed financially by George Soros’s network of nongovernmental organizations, to accuse Russia of hacking into Democratic Party computers and «fixing» the vote to enable Trump’s election victory. Trump and his team had called for better U.S. relations with Russia during ...
Does This Anti-Trump Hysteria Help Him Somewhat? A Lot? or A WHOLE LOT?
Post Date: 2017-02-05 10:39:47 by Ada
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There was no abatement of Lefty hysteria in this, the second week of the first Trump administration. The principal eruptions were: mobs of demonstrators at airports protesting a change to Customs and Immigration procedures; Main Stream Media denunciations of Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court; Hollywood airheads going Hitlery-Hitlery-Hitler at some glitzy awards ceremony; an antifa riot on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. In Radio Derb, I give over a segment to each of those issues. Here I’ll just pass comment on the anti-Trump hysteria in general. The most interesting political question about it all is: How much does it help Trump? I’m going to take ...
Justice Department Appeals Blocked Travel Ban
Post Date: 2017-02-05 07:59:39 by Stephen Lendman
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Justice Department Appeals Blocked Travel Ban by Stephen Lendman A blizzard of Trump tweets addressed the issue. See below. His entry into America suspension, targeting seven predominantly Muslim countries created an international firestorm. It was a terrible move, unconstitutional, politically motivated, unrelated to its stated purpose. Instead of backing off, he’s contesting to get a judicial stay overruled on appeal, a case likely heading for Supreme Court resolution. Or perhaps not with only eight justices. If the Court divides four - four, the lower court’s ruling stands, defeating Trump’s effort to reverse it. US District Judge for the Western District of ...
Ukraine an Obstacle to Lifting Sanctions on Russia
Post Date: 2017-02-05 07:46:48 by Stephen Lendman
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Ukraine an Obstacle to US Lifting Sanctions on Russia by Stephen Lendman Ukraine is a fascist police state, its putschist regime installed by Washington, waging war on its own people since usurping power in February 2014. Trump’s UN envoy Nikki Haley outrageously “condemn(ed) Russian actions” in Ukraine, ignoring flagrant Kiev aggression, shamefully claiming Ukrainian people “suffered for nearly three years under Russian occupation and military intervention.” Her disgraceful misrepresentation of hard facts shows improving US/Russian relations may be wishful thinking - except perhaps in combating terrorism, but even that’s uncertain given longstanding US ...
Defense Secretary Mattis' Anti-China Saber-Ratting
Post Date: 2017-02-05 07:33:24 by Stephen Lendman
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Defense Secretary Mattis’ Anti-China Saber-Rattling by Stephen Lendman On an official visit to Tokyo, Mattis said Washington stands “100% shoulder to shoulder with Japan” in its dispute with China over territory known in Japan as the Senkaku Islands, what Beijing calls the Diaoyu archipelago - in its own South China Sea waters, also claimed by Taiwan. Mattis belligerently said Washington will support Japan militarily if an attack occurs on territories it claims as its own, stressing: “I made clear that our longstanding policy on the Senkaku Islands stands. The US will continue to recognize Japanese administration of the islands and as such, Article 5 of the US-Japan ...
Trump Moves to Deregulate Wall Street
Post Date: 2017-02-04 08:19:15 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump Moves to Deregulate Wall Street by Stephen Lendman His February 3 executive order addressed deregulation of America’s financial system, largely operating ad libitum already - a symbolic action on his part. Congressional legislation is required to repeal or change so-called Dodd-Frank financial reform. Obama’s measure was a scam, doing far more harm than good, virtually nothing to curb abusive practices. Lobbyists and lawyers representing Wall Street wrote the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, assuring dirty business as usual. The measure capitulated to Wall Street, empowering the Street’s owned and operated Fed to enforce oversight, instead ...
Temporary Restraining Order Blocks Trump's Travel Ban on Designated Muslims Nationwide
Post Date: 2017-02-04 08:07:44 by Stephen Lendman
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Temporary Restraining Order Blocks Trump’s Travel Ban on Designated Muslims Nationwide by Stephen Lendman Affecting Muslims from seven countries, a previous article explained Trump’s entry into America and extreme vetting order is unrelated to border and national security protection. It’s all about politics, a racist unconstitutional order, largely targeting Muslims from nations where America’s imperial wars rage, or in the case of Iran, its longstanding hostility toward a nation for its sovereign independence and to please Israel. The best way to protect America is by ending its imperial madness, its raping and destroying one country after another, its ruthless ...
WaPo Urges Piling on Iran
Post Date: 2017-02-04 07:46:59 by Stephen Lendman
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WaPo Urges Piling on Iran by Stephen Lendman Longstanding US hostility toward Iran is all about its sovereign independence in a region where Washington and Israel want all rivals to their hegemony eliminated. It has nothing to do with Iranian policies, except ones countering US, NATO and Israeli support for terrorism, Tehran allied with Russia an effective countering force. The neocon, CIA-connected Washington Post praised Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn for putting Iran on notice, as well as new US sanctions imposed - illegal like earlier ones other than by the Security Council. WaPo: Iran “continues to seek hegemony in the Middle East at American expense.” ...
"Armed" is Same as "Armed and Dangerous" When it Comes to Police Searches, 4th Circuit Concludes
Post Date: 2017-02-04 00:03:08 by hondo68
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Opinion from 4th Circuit Court of Appeals implies that exercising your Second Amendment rights means you inherently lose some of your Fourth and First Amendment rights. A decision last week in U.S. v. Robinson from the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals declared that being armed, even legally, is the same as being "armed and dangerous" and leaves you open to police search. It also implies, according to a concurring opinion, that gun carriers lose significant First Amendment as well as Fourth Amendment rights. John Biehler/Foter Shaquille Robinson in March 2014 was a passenger in a car pulled over by police in Ranson, West Virginia. It was pulled over, ostensibly, because driver and ...
Judge Neil Gorsuch: Some Cause for Concern (Gun Owners of America - Larry Pratt)
Post Date: 2017-02-03 15:48:22 by hondo68
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In recent days, news outlets have been reporting that 10th Circuit judge Neil Gorsuch has now risen to the top of President Trump's list of potential Supreme Court nominees. He apparently replaces Judge William Pryor, who was widely reported as previously leading the pack of potential nominees. Judge Pryor faced significant backlash from many on the right, including Evangelical Christians, criticizing Pryor's apparent support of the radical homosexual and transgender agenda. The danger in being the front runner for a spot on the High Court is that you receive intense scrutiny, and, as with most candidates, Judge Gorsuch is difficult to evaluate fully. Having spent some time digging ...
Torture Prison Head Named Deputy CIA Director
Post Date: 2017-02-03 13:16:07 by Stephen Lendman
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Torture Prison Head Named Deputy CIA Director by Stephen Lendman On Thursday, Trump named Gina Haspel his deputy CIA director, agency head Mike Pompeo, saying: “Gina is an exemplary intelligence officer and a devoted patriot who brings more than 30 years of Agency experience to the job. She is also a proven leader with an uncanny ability to get things done and to inspire those around her.” “We are fortunate that someone of her intellect, skill, and experience will be our Deputy Director. I know she will do an outstanding job, and I look forward to working with her closely in the years ahead.” She’s a modern-day Ilse Koch, wife of Karl Koch, Buchenwald ...
Trump on Israeli Settlements
Post Date: 2017-02-03 13:04:28 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump on Israeli Settlements by Stephen Lendman Under international law, Israeli settlements are flagrantly illegal. Fourth Geneva prohibits “(i)ndividual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of their motive.” Numerous UN resolutions affirmed the illegality of Israeli settlements. There’s no ambiguity on this issue, nor about how Palestinians are ruthlessly persecuted. Occupied Palestine belongs to the Palestinians, not Israel. Not according to Trump, pre-election saying “I don’t think ...
TRUMP SENDS PROPERTY RIGHTS UP IN FLAMES
Post Date: 2017-02-03 10:03:49 by Ada
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Alongside of Catholicism and Protestantism, the primary religion in the United States is not Islam or Judaism but the American civic religion. The Pledge of Allegiance is the creed of this religion and the American flag is its chief symbol. In the American civic religion, the worst sin that an American can commit is to refuse to pledge allegiance to the flag or to desecrate it. Federal law contains numerous provisions regarding the use, handling, display, and disposal of the flag. After some college students recently burned American flags on their campuses, President-elect Donald Trump tweeted, “Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag — if they do, there must be ...
MY PRIVATE AUDIO
Post Date: 2017-02-03 08:46:31 by Neo TryingtoWarnYou
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The Holy Grail-advance to 11 min mark
Trump Administration's Policy on Ukraine?
Post Date: 2017-02-03 08:02:26 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump Administration’s Policy on Ukraine? by Stephen Lendman It’s not encouraging based on Nikki Haley’s Thursday UN Security Council remarks - sounding like neocon Samantha Power never left. Her maiden voyage appearance as US envoy outrageously “condemn(ed) Russian actions” in Ukraine - ignoring flagrant Kiev aggression, including willful shelling of Donetsk civilian areas. “The United States stands with the people of Ukraine, who have suffered for nearly three years under Russian occupation and military intervention,” Haley ranted. “Until Russia and the separatists (sic) it supports respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, ...
Iran Puts US on Notice, Trump Administration Intends New Sanctions
Post Date: 2017-02-03 07:49:18 by Stephen Lendman
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Iran Puts US on Notice, Trump Administration Intends New Sanctions by Stephen Lendman US-instituted adversarial relations with Iran are longer than with any other nation except Russia - since the Carter administration, continuing extremely hostile straightaway under Trump. After his National Security Advisor Michael Flynn provocatively put Tehran on notice following its legitimate ballistic missile testing, along with the Trump administration suspending access to America for residents of seven Muslim countries (including Iran), its government countered with its own actions. It’ll stop issuing visas to Americans wishing to enter the country. It intends replacing the US dollar with a ...
Trump v. Iran
Post Date: 2017-02-03 07:36:40 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump v. Iran by Stephen Lendman Iran hasn’t attacked another country in centuries. It threatens none now. It’s vilified for its sovereign independence. It values cooperative relations with all nations - urging world peace and stability, an end to aggressive wars. White House National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, saying its legitimate ballistic missile program “undermine(s)” regional security and threatens American lives indicates continuation of irresponsible longstanding US hostility toward Tehran - risking unthinkable war if things get out of hand. Trump’s antipathy toward the Islamic Republic is no surprise, likely highly influenced by Israel and its ...
Trump Threatens Palestinians
Post Date: 2017-02-02 12:40:55 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump Threatens Palestinians by Stephen Lendman Trump has a blind spot when it comes to China, Iran and long-suffering Palestinians, apparently bent on continuing hostile policies - not a good thing. There’s no good ending to this scenario of it persists. He warned Palestinians against suing Israel in the International Criminal Court (ICC) or International Court of Justice (ICJ) - threatening severe steps, including cutting off aid, closing PLO offices in Washington, even restoring the organization to terrorist group status, contemptuous of their fundamental rights, one-sidedly supporting Israeli state terror. He’s using the power of his presidency to cow Palestinians into ...
White House Puts Iran on Notice Over Its Legitimate Missile Tests
Post Date: 2017-02-02 07:37:44 by Stephen Lendman
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White House Puts Iran on Notice Over Its Legitimate Missile Tests by Stephen Lendman On Wednesday, Trump’s National Security Advisor Michael Flynn irresponsibly lashed out against Iran’s recent legitimate ballistic missile tests. Without justification, he claimed they “undermine security, prosperity and stability throughout and beyond the Middle East that puts American lives at risk.” He cited Security Council Resolution 2231, making the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA nuclear deal) binding international law. It called on Iran “not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including ...
Glaring NYT Hypocrisy
Post Date: 2017-02-02 07:29:28 by Stephen Lendman
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Glaring NYT Hypocrisy by Stephen Lendman The self-styled newspaper of record notoriously features biased reporting and fake news, not the real thing on virtually all issues mattering most. It’s one-sided anti-Trumpism is disgraceful, abandoning a fair and balanced assessment of his campaign rhetoric, pledges and agenda so far in office. There’s plenty to criticize if done accurately and responsibly. There’s also room for praising what he gets right. He’s only been in office two weeks, his full agenda yet to unfold. His executive order suspending entry into America was deplorable, targeting six Muslim nations, banning entry from a seventh, Syria, indefinitely on the ...
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