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Disturbing Reality in Syria
Stephen Lendman
Endless war continues with no prospect for peace because Washington rejects it - wanting overwhelmingly popular Bashar al-Assad forcibly ousted, knowing he won’t step down voluntarily nor should he.
International law supports him. Syrians alone may decide who’ll lead them, free from foreign interference.
All armed opposition groups in Syria engaged in combat against government forces along with slaughtering defenseless civilians are terrorists.Washington and its rogue allies support them - imported death squads unable to exist without foreign backing.
No so-called “moderate rebels” exist. Speaking last October at the International Valdai Discussion Club’s annual meeting, Putin forthrightly said “(w)hy play with words dividing terrorists into moderate and not moderate. What’s the difference?”
Chelsea Manning Seeks Overturn of Wrongful Conviction
Stephen Lendman
Manning was wrongfully imprisoned for courageously revealing US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan Pentagon officials want suppressed.
Responsible parties got medals and promotions. Manning got prison. Show trial proceedings sentenced her to 35 years behind bars.
Rogue states honor their worst, persecute their best, Manning one of thousands of US political prisoners.
Lawyers representing her filed a motion before the US Army Court of Criminal Appeals, calling her 2013 conviction unconstitutional, arguing it should be overturned.
One count was based on allegedly violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), aimed at holding individuals involved in breaking into computer systems responsible, what Manning didn’t do.
NATO Needs Enemies to Justify Its Existence
Stephen Lendman
NATO was always more about offense than defense, about America controlling the policies of Alliance members, increasing their numbers, pressuring them to stress militarism more than they’d chose otherwise - and selling them lots of US weapons.
When founded in April 1949, Soviet Russia was a North Atlantic Alliance enemy in name only, ravaged by WW II - needing years after Stalin’s April 1953 death to regain pre-war normality, peace essential to restore it.
Washington controls NATO, covering 75% of its budget, calling the shots, installing subservient Alliance officials to serve its agenda.
At a time when no US enemies exist, they’re invented to justify NATO’s existence - including Milosevic, bin Laden and the Taliban, Saddam, Gaddafi, Assad, Yemeni Houthis, Al-Shabaab in Somalia, and independent democratic leaders everywhere America doesn’t control.
Cold War II is much more intense than its earlier version, Putin bashed and denigrated shamelessly for not bowing to Washington’s will, for wanting multi-world polarity according to international rule of law principles.
Prominent Palestinian MP/Human Rights Champion Freed
Stephen Lendman
On April 2, 2015, Israel lawlessly arrested Khalida Jarrar, abducted from her home pre-dawn, targeted solely for political reasons.
She represents a tower of strength and commitment for Palestinian rights - a highly respected lawyer, Palestinian Legislative Council member, civil society leader, human rights champion, and PLC Prisoners Commission head.
On April 5, 2015, she was ordered administratively detained for six months - uncharged and untried. She committed no crimes.
On April 15, 2015, she was indicted on 12 fabricated charges, related to her PLC membership and political activism, notably campaigning for prisoners’ rights and criticizing longstanding Israeli repression.
Unrelenting NYT Anti-Trump Campaign
Stephen Lendman
Make no mistake. A Trump presidency would be disastrous domestically and geopolitically.
A previous article said his only redeeming quality is he’s not Hillary Clinton, The Times favorite, endorsing her candidacy, ignoring her criminal record as first lady partnered with husband Bill, US senator and secretary of state.
She’s vulnerable to racketeering charges, the Clinton Foundation a covert criminal enterprise masquerading as a charitable NGO, selling influence for millions of dollars in contributions, the Clintons enriching themselves hugely while falsely claiming to do good.
Religiou Fundamentalist Zealotry in Israel
Stephen Lendman
Israel abhors democratic values. It’s no fit place for Jews and non-Jews alike. Religious extremists believe non-Jews must either be enslaved, banished or exterminated.
Premeditated naked aggression on Gaza three times since December 2008 was called “religious war,” during which it was considered “immoral” to show mercy to enemies.
An IDF commander once said “God brought (Jews) back to this land, and now we need to fight to expel the Gentiles…interfering with our” way of life.
Is his widely accepted ideology any different from Nazis once saying “Jews should be exterminated like vermin.” Or Hitler promising endless war until “the complete annihilation of the Jews.”
Israeli zealots call themselves genetically superior, non-Jews pure evil. Killing them is OK. These type extremist views and others like them are commonplace in Israeli society.
Ukraine Putschists Like Chile’s Pinochet Regime
Stephen Lendman
According to Russia’s upper house Federation Council first deputy defense and security committee chairman, Franz Klintsevich, US-installed Kiev putschists are as ruthless as Chile under Pinochet - following the Nixon administration’s 9/11/73 coup, elevating him to power.
Klintsevich called illegal arrests, torture, detentions in secret prisons and disappearances daily occurrences - Ukraine’s security service, its SBU national Gestapo, responsible for what’s happening.
State terror overrides everything for full control, he explained. Comparison to 17 brutal years under Pinochet is chilling.
A climate of fear included mass arrests, disappearances, torture and murder. Opposition government officials, academics, union heads, independent journalists, student leaders, activists, and other suspected regime opponents were eliminated.
A story in The Times of London highlighted what’s ongoing, headlined “Kiev allows torture and runs secret jails, says UN.”
US Falsely Calls Iran Leading State Sponsor of Terrorism
Stephen Lendman
Propaganda works because when repeated enough most people believe it.
The disturbing irony of the latest State Department annual report on terrorism finds the world’s leading state sponsor, America, accusing Iran, threatening no one, without just cause. The same false accusation repeats annually.
The Islamic Republic hasn’t attacked another country throughout its history. It threatens none now. No evidence links it to terrorism.
The State Department’s report was falsified rubbish, more proof of US hostility toward Iranian sovereign independence, wanting pro-Western tyranny replacing it, an Israeli rival eliminated, the nation’s huge oil and gas reserves looted, its people exploited - at the same time diminishing Russia’s regional influence.
German Media Breakthrough on 28 Pages Exposé of Saudi Backing for 9/11 Killers
Executive Intelligence Review
June 2, 2016 (EIRNS)-The widely-watched German WDR TV program "Monitor" last night had a 10-minute blockbuster http://www1.wdr.de/daserste/monitor/videos/video-die-hintermaenner-von--das-geheimnis-der--pages-100.html special with an exclusive interview with former U.S. Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL) on the classified 28-page chapter of the Joint Congressional Inquiry into 9/11, which is said to reveal the Saudi role in the 9/11 attacks on the United States. Then-Senator Graham, as chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, was the co-chair of 2002 Joint Inquiry. The whole interview, which includes previous statements by U.S. Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY), and former Navy Secretary John Lehman, who was a member of the later 9/11 Commission, to the effect that once the 28 pages are released the entire 9/11 story will have to be rewritten, with the role of Saudi Arabia right in the middle of it, which were said to be revealed in that 28 page chapter. By refusing to release the 28 pages classified by President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama, the Monitor broadcast says, they demonstrate the hypocrisy of their war on terrorism. Furthermore they say that the Saudis not only supported the 9/11 terrorists that but also Islamic extremists all over the world.
Human Rights Watch Calls for Investigating Israeli High Crimes
Stephen Lendman
Nearly 50 years of Israeli occupation viciousness are too many. HRW called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to “formal(l)y investigat(e) serious international crimes” committed by Israel against Palestinians throughout its history - in compliance with its Rome Statute obligation.
The ICC earlier “shed light on the grave nature of many of the crimes and the pervasive climate of impunity for such offenses,” said HRW.“After nearly a half century of impunity, it’s time that those responsible for some of the gravest crimes to pay the price,” HRW’s Sarah Leah Whitson stressed.
“The ICC prosecutor should move forward and investigate the crimes so that the victims can obtain a measure of justice that has long eluded them.”
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