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An Open Letter to the Graduates of West Point: Refuting President Obama’s Lies, Omissions and Distortions
James Petras
Introduction
On May 2014 President Obama delivered the commencement address to the graduates of United States Military Academy at West Point. Beyond the easy banter and eulogy to past and present war heroes, Obama outlined a vision of past military successes and present policies, based on a profoundly misleading diagnosis of the current global position of the United States.
His presentation is marked by systematic lies about past wars and current military interventions. The speech’s glaring failure to acknowledge the millions of civilian killed by US military interventions stands out. He glosses over the growth of NSA, the global police state apparatus. He presents a grossly inflated account of the US role in the world economy. Worst of all he outlines an extremely dangerous policy of confrontation with rising military and economic powers, in particular Russia and China.
The Story of 68 Palestinian Families in Lebanon
by FRANKLIN LAMB
Masnaa border crossing (Syria/Lebanon)
Predictions about the likely course of events in this region, including occasional ones by this observer, have a way of not panning out as expected. But one prediction I offered recently to Palestinian friends in Syria—namely that Lebanon’s “media” would fail to inform the world about an important Palestinian victory achieved in late May—has so far turned out to be accurate.
The confrontation which took place recently in a small office at Lebanon’s General Security (GS) Information Branch headquarters was for the most part civil in tone—an over-the-hill American in handcuffs refusing to answer questions from a fat guy in uniform, who kept making a racket by striking his desk with a small metal rod, this as the Yankee began a hunger strike: it has been kept quiet. No coverage in the media. And frankly, that’s fine, because arguably it wasn’t that newsworthy in any event. But the problem which had given rise to the incident surely was.
Global justice, sustainability and the sharing economy
By Rajesh Makwana
If the sharing economy movement is to play a role in shifting society away from the dominant economic paradigm, it will have to get political. And this means guarding against the co-optation of sharing by the corporate sector, while joining forces with a much larger body of activists that have long been calling - either explicitly or implicitly - for more transformative and fundamental forms of economic sharing across the world.
With public interest in the sharing economy on the rise, a polarisation of views on its potential benefits and drawbacks is fast becoming apparent. Much of the mainstream media continues to focus on the ability of the sharing economy to generate wealth and create new billionaires, while some social entrepreneurs and progressives claim that interpersonal sharing is the solution to the world’s most intractable problems. At the same time, a growing number of analysts are concerned that the sharing economy could enable businesses to evade regulations and even break the law. These increasingly conflicting views reflect the diverse interests of the many individuals, organisations and businesses engaged in what is essentially an emerging movement for sharing that has yet to clarify its purpose.
Pesticide Control, Psych Drug Control Is Gun Control
By Tracy Turner
Caveat, this is not a medical advice nor a gun-control article.
This http://tiny.cc/3mxogx “List of 45 Mass Murders and Pharma Drugs they were on” is an excellent read, but merely a drop in the bucket compared to other http://tiny.cc/1vxogx psych-med-violence lists and databases. According to Yahoo Answers: “It is now 1 in 100 in the US not 1 in 150 (rate of ADHD/Autism Births);
There are approximately 11,000 children born in the US each day-110 of the children born each day have a form of Autism which breaks down to about every 13.09 minutes a child is born with a form of Autism in the US.”… According to the Center for Disease Control, Canada, pesticides cause ADHD, ADD, Autism and Asperger’s.
Terrorism is Degenerating the Mankind: How to Change the Future?
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja
A "war of religion" is unfolding, with a view to justifying a global military crusade. In the inner consciousness of many Americans, the "holy crusade" against Muslims is justified. While President Obama may uphold freedom of religion, the US inquisitorial social order has institutionalized patterns of discrimination, prejudice and xenophobia directed against Muslims.” (Michel Chossudovsky “America's Holy Crusade against the Muslim World”, Global Research, 8/30/2010).
“Terrorism” is a Political Game of Action vs. Reaction
Concerned Parties Still “Demanding Judge Glenn Salter Removal for Endangering Lexi”
Posted on June 6, 2014 by State of the Nation 2014
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Press Release:
Hearing tomorrow (June 6, 2014) to get rid of Minor’s Counsel John Cate Lamareaux Center 8:30 AM Judge Salter..
Ruby Dillon is a mother living in New Port, California. She has a 9-year-old daughter named Lexi. She separated from Lexi’s father when Lexi was a baby and raised her on her own without child or spousal support from the father. He showed very little interest in his daughter until Lexi was 4 or 5. At age 5 he filed for custody of Lexi and the mother willingly entered into shared custody of their daughter.
Two years ago Lexi was dropped off to her mother from visitation with her father. They were out to dinner and Lexi was crying holding her private parts and Ruby took her to the bathroom. Lexi was bleeding. Ruby took her to the ER and had her daughter checked. The doctor examined Lexi and informed Ruby that her daughter had been sexually abused. Ruby was shocked and could not believe it. The doctor assured her that the injury to her daughter was consistent with child sexual abuse and that Lexi disclosed the abuse to him. Ruby took her daughter to Tustin Police and Lexi was forensically interviewed and they found Lexi credible. I have read the police CAST interviews containing Lexi’s graphic details of the abuse by her father, including photographing his naked child.
When Ruby reported the abuse to the Family Law Court she was looked at with immediate suspicion of ulterior motive. She was stripped of her parental rights and placed on monitored visitation and a Superior Court Judge turned Lexi over to her named, identified abuser.
Ruby has been fighting tirelessly to protect her daughter. There are mountains of evidence in this case that point toward sexual abuse by the father. There must be a 100 years of accumulated expertise in child sexual abuse detection by her therapist, forensic police detectives, medical doctors, a forensic 730 child custody evaluator and a number of other Court Appointees all of whom believe and find this child’s disclosures of sexual abuse, credible. There is also physical evidence by medical doctors as well. The heinous thing is that in this case and others we have observed over the years as Court watchers… too often Judges ignore the exculpatory evidence of their own court appointees.
In Lexi’s case, Officer Tarpley from Tustin PD, Dr. Leah Reinhart, and her 730 Evaluator Dr. Sheffner, are left in the hallway of the Courthouse and not allowed to testify on behalf of the child. The Judge refuses their entry into the Courtroom and calls the mother a liar. He says that the mother coached the child to make her disclosures… there is absolutely no evidence to support these statements or findings by the Judge (Salter). The evidence is the opposite. None of the experts have… or would say that Ruby coached her daughter to make these terrible claims.
Ruby has been treated as if she were living in a third world totalitarian country. She was a dentist with a thriving practice and a happy loving relationship with her daughter. She and her daughter have been stripped of a relationship with each other by the Court, Ruby is not allowed to even see her daughter.
The father has sole custody of the daughter. He has abandoned Lexi for a year and is living in Canada. Ruby is prevented by the court from seeing her daughter and Lexi is held prisoner by nannies and house keepers in her father’s condo in Tustin. The only place the father has legal status is Thailand… and he wants to take Lexi there. Lexi is terrified he will transport her there and she will never see her mother again. Thailand is not a signatory to the Haig Convention.
Tomorrow’s hearing is to discharge the Minor’s Counsel who refuses to represent his client in this case. The Minor’s Counsel John Cate acts as a representative of the father and with knowledge of Lexi’s disclosures suppresses evidence given him by her therapist and Lexi…who is the main, consistent, unwavering, whistle blower in this case.
Below is an article that started in the OC Voice and then made it to the OC Register’s front page.
Problems in OC Child Welfare System Get Statewide Scrutiny
American Exceptionalism Justifies War on Humanity
by Stephen Lendman
It OKs mass murder. It permits flouting rule of law principles, norms and standards.
America is a terror state. Criminality continues on an unprecedented scale.
Permanent war is official US policy. One country after another is ravaged and destroyed. Millions of corpses attest to America's barbarity.
No nation in world history matches it. Obama exceeds the worst of his predecessors. He's a war criminal multiple times over. Advancing America's imperium matters most. US hegemonic ambitions risk global war. So does its rage for full spectrum dominance over all land, surface and sub-surface sea, air, space, electromagnetic spectrum and information systems with enough overwhelming power to fight and win global wars against any adversary.
International laws, treaties, conventions, standards and norms don't matter. Washington rules alone apply. Might v. right reflects them.
Syrians Vote
by Stephen Lendman
June 3 was historic. It was Syria's first ever free, fair, open democratic presidential election.
Hassan al-Nouri and Maher Hajjar competed with Assad. He's overwhelmingly popular.
He'll win easily. Only his victory margin remains to be determined.
Syrians want no one else leading them. Especially while conflict continues. He's fighting for Syrian freedom. He's defeating Obama's dirty game. On Tuesday, 9,601 polling stations opened at 7:00AM. Heavy turnout kept them open until midnight. To accommodate everyone wanting to vote.
Syrians in hot zones voted in safe areas. The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported "massive" turnout.
Is the Destructive Drug War Being Brought to an End?
Kevin Zeese
Making positive change often seems impossible, but one area that should give people hope is the movement toward ending the war on drugs.
When I was in law school in the late 1970s, I did an internship at NORML, where one of my tasks was responding to mail from marijuana prisoners and their families. The harsh injustice of the drug war struck me then, and ever since I've been working to end the war on drugs -- a war declared by Richard Nixon.
Majorities now support the outright legalization of marijuana and oppose the war on drugs. The public has overcome decades of misinformation to justify the drug war.
Obama in Europe
by Stephen Lendman
Wherever he goes, trouble follows. He's the latest in a long line of rogue US leaders.
Contempt for rule of law principles, duplicity and moral cowardice define them. Pretense otherwise doesn't wash.
Obama exceeds the worst of his predecessors. He's guilty of high crimes too grave to ignore.
Millions worldwide call America a pariah one. They do so for good reason. Its imperial agenda targets fundamental freedoms for elimination.
Obama went all-out to destroy them on his watch. He did so at home and abroad. He made planet earth unsafe to live on.
More than any of his predecessors. He waged political, economic and hot wars on humanity. They rage out-of-control.
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