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Reported Hamas/Israeli Talks: Hold the Cheers
by Stephen Lendman
Ahmad Yousef
Last Sunday, Hamas official Ahmad Yousef said "chats" were taking place with Israel under European mediation.
No direct Hamas/Israeli talks occurred. None are planned.
"We await the formation of an Israeli government so things can get more serious," said Yousef.
"European diplomats and civil society activists come to the Gaza Strip constantly and pose Israeli viewpoints and convey the reaction of the movement through unofficial chats."
Issues discussed include ceasefire terms and ending siege conditions "by opening a seaport to the outside world."
A scheduled Jimmy Carter-led Elders delegation visit was cancelled. It planned to assess conditions, highlight the humanitarian crisis, and meet with Hamas officials.
Putin on WW II Hardships
by Stephen Lendman
May 9 marks the 70th anniversary of what Russians call the Great Patriotic War - representing victory over Nazi Germany.
No nation endured more and today gets less credit than Russia. Without its contribution, Hitler might have won.
No one knows for sure how many Russians perished. A 1993 Russian Academy of Sciences study estimated 26.6 million.
Some independent Russian researchers believe 40 million died - including combatants and civilians.
Millions more suffered serious injuries. Human misery endured can't be quantified. Large parts of Russia were devastated.
Many years of rebuilding and recouping were required. Americans can't imagine what Russians endured.
Proposed US Strategy for Dominating China
by Stephen Lendman
US imperial policy prioritizes endless wars for unchallenged global dominance - madness by any standard at a time super-weapons can end life on earth.
Russia and China are Washington's two main rivals - Moscow militarily, Beijing mainly for its growing economic dominance.
It's now the world's largest economy based on purchasing power parity (PPP) - the cost of a representative basket of goods in one country v. another.
Its growth since the 1980s is one of the greatest success stories in modern times - extraordinary by any standard, enough for Washington prioritizing regime change.
Are the Baltimore riots being staged to distract the American people from the real cause of discontent?
Who is really behind the Baltimore and Ferguson ‘race’ riots?
From the very beginning the riots in Baltimore have been developing in a very scripted manner. It’s almost as though someone is pulling the strings before and during each successively worse conflagration. Just like the obviously manufactured violence in Ferguson, Baltimore is even more carefully engineered and coordinated to captivate (and distract) the attention of the nation.
Who, but agents of the government, would have the time and money, personnel and plots to conduct such an ongoing, covert black operation? With Jade Helm gearing up to take the southwestern states by storm this summer, it would appear that something is in store for each quadrant of the USA between now and the middle of September.
Here is the way it was put by the SOTN editor in a previous post titled:
Are government agent provocateurs inciting violence in Baltimore?
The evolving conflagration in Baltimore is neither spontaneous nor unplanned. Every stage of the build-up of tensions and anger has been carefully orchestrated by forces behind the scenes … just like Ferguson.
The only question that remains then is: “Who are those forces?”
All the circumstantial evidence points directly to government agent provocateurs acting directly at the scenes of the crimes to incite violence against law enforcement and property. They are also obviously working “fast and furiously” behind the scenes engineering the next explosive event.
This is how government (as well as its hidden proxies and covert agents) have always utilized both hard and soft power to trigger the enraged populace anyway they can toward full-scale riots. It’s a formula used in virtually every race riot in American history. In this way the attention of the citizenry is diverted from the real causes of discontent.
See what the mayor of Baltimore herself is guilty of in contributing to the manufactured lawlessness … and in broad daylight, with no attempt to hide her responsibility for the recent destruction!
Are crisis actors being employed to put on the staged riots?
Gunslinger NATO Commander Believes War Is Peace
by Stephen Lendman
US NATO commander General Philip Breedlove is part of America's lunatic fringe. He believes provoking Russia belligerently promotes world peace.
He wants more US combat troops close to Russia's borders - more provocative military exercises antagonizing its leadership.
He wants Nazi-infested Ukrainian military forces more heavily armed to the teeth with US heavy weapons than already.
He wants war, not peace. In Thursday testimony before Senate Armed Services Committee members, he said:
"I support the consideration of using offensive weapons to change the decision calculus on the ground (in Donbass) and to facilitate bringing our opponent to the table for a solution, a final solution" - serving US imperial interests exclusively.
How the Establishment Is Trying to Deep-Six Sanders's Campaign
Eric Zuesse
The Hillary Clinton campaign is now focusing its public pitch at liberal fools to get them to ignore her record and believe her words. Here are examples:
Techno-Financial Capital and Genocide of the Poorest of the Poor
James Petras
‘The war and its results have turned Yemen back a hundred years, due to the destruction of infrastructure . . . especially in the provinces of Oden, Dhalea and Taiz.’ - Izzedine al-Asbali, Yemeni Human Rights Minister
‘Yemen is devastated. There are no roads, water or electricity. Nobody’s left but thieves.’ - A resident of Sana (Yemen)
Introduction
The Euro-American and Japanese ruling classes, as well as their collaborators in the Afro-Asian and Latin American countries, have accumulated vast profit. This has occurred through a complex stratified system re-concentrating the world’s wealth through: 1. The exploitation of labor in the First World (North America and Western Europe); 2. super-exploitation of labor in the Second World (China, ex-USSR); 3. dispossession of peasants, native communities and urban dwellers to grab resources, land and real estate in the Third World; and 4. wars of genocide against the poorest of the poor in the ‘Fourth World’. Besides all the forms of brutal exploitation and dispossession, which enrich the Euro-US ruling classes, by far the most sinister and threatening to humanity is the concerted worldwide effort to literally exterminate the poorest-of-the poor, the hundreds of millions of people no longer essential for the accumulation and concentration of imperial capital today.
A Terrible Beauty White denial in the face of overwhelming evidence is a sight to behold
By Daniel Patrick Welch
First of all, spare me any #notallwhites vitriol because *you* haven't personally lynched any black people today. [Incidentally, it may be a frivolous aside, but can there be any more depressing harbinger of non-change that this--Lynch--is the last name of the newly installed Attorney General?] If that is your initial reaction, you have already missed the points I haven't even made yet. You might want to stop reading here (though you in particular should probably read the whole thing). It is a thing of sheer beauty--terrible, evil beauty to be sure. But beauty nonetheless in the way that a near perfect, almost poetic conflation of hubris, hyperbole and hypocrisy can be admired for its boldness and bluster: Resistance to oppression is required to be polite, and to conform to standards of politeness set by the very oppressors themselves and their allies, witting or un-. FUCK YOU. The youth of Baltimore are rising and expressing a pent up rage that is centuries in the making. It is not for me to tut tut and impose my idea of political organization. The left needs to watch, and learn. Look at who is protecting whom, who is threatening whom, who is siding with whom. Judge the media. Judge the police state. Judge a white supremacist society in all of its tentacles that shape our perception and experience in so many fields. This is the lens through which to understand what's going on.
Anniversary of Last May's Odessa Massacre
by Stephen Lendman
What happened reflected Kiev ordered no-holds-barbarism - an atrocity committed by a US-installed, Nazi-infested fascist regime against anti-Maidan Odessan civilians wanting to live free.
Nazi Right Sector thugs murdered hundreds of defenseless victims in cold blood.
What happened was far worse than reported. Massacring people reflects the worst of fascist viciousness. Mass murder was planned in advance. Hundreds of anti-regime Odessans sought shelter in the city's Trade Union House (TUH) building.
Right Sector thugs awaited them inside - armed and dangerous. Mass slaughter followed.
Nearby tents used by peaceful protesters were set ablaze. Doing so preceded a well-planned operation.
Police stood by and did nothing. They conspired with fascist killers. So did Odessan firefighters. They only appeared after massive TUH entrance doors burned through.
KIev's Poroshenko Vows Continued War
by Stephen Lendman
He lied agreeing to Minsk ceasefire terms. He violated them straightaway.
He has no intention of observing them. Washington won't permit it. Obama wants escalated conflict. He's readying Ukrainian forces to launch it full-scale.
He deplores peace and stability. So does Poroshenko. He's beholden to Washington controlling his geopolitical agenda. On state-controlled television, he said "(t)he war will be over only when Ukraine regains control of Donbas and Crimea."
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