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Homeless in Gaza
by Stephen Lendman
UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in the near east (UNWRA) Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbuhl called for ending Gaza's blockade.
Otherwise, reconstruction will take over a decade, he said. Others estimate much longer.
Shelter Cluster is an Inter-Agency Standing Committee involved in helping people affected by natural disasters or conflicts.
Rebuilding Gaza will take 20 years under Israeli-imposed restrictions, it said. Palestinian officials estimate a cost of at least $6 billion to do so. Krahenbuhl estimates at least 20,000 homes destroyed as well as extensive infrastructure destruction.
He called it "imperative for the international community and for the people of Gaza to reconstruct after the devastation." Israeli aggression bears full responsibility.
Mocking Putin's Good Faith Ukraine Peace Plan
by Stephen Lendman
On Wednesday, Putin offered a seven-point plan to end Southeastern Ukraine's conflict. A previous article discussed it.
It's genuine. It's sincere. It's fair-minded. It favors neither side. It's a way to restore regional peace. It's an important proposal to keep conflict from spreading.
It doesn't matter. Obama wants war, not peace. So do rogue NATO partners. Kiev's puppet regime is a convenient proxy.
MSM scoundrels ridiculed what demands support. More on this below.
Putin's Ukraine Peace Plan
by Stephen Lendman
Ukraine is America's newest colony. Behind the scenes, Washington runs things. It's putschist-installed regime is a convenient proxy.
Southeastern Ukraine is Obama's war. Ending it is as simple as him calling off his dogs. He wants war, not peace.
He wants another puppet regime Washington controls. He wants Ukraine incorporated into NATO.
It shares a nearly 1.500 land and sea border with Russia. As a NATO member, it's a dagger threatening Russia's security.
It risks East/West confrontation. It's madness if it erupts.
Putin is geopolitically polar opposite Obama. He's not revanchist. He has no territorial ambitions. He doesn't threaten his neighbors.
He supports multi-world polarity. He believes sovereign independence is inviolable.
He wants conflicts resolved diplomatically. He deplores war. He champions peace.
Hard Truths v. MSM Big Lies
by Stephen Lendman
In his book "Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media," Michael Parenti said former FCC commissioner Nicholas Johnson "once urged people to 'talk back' to their television sets."
"We can talk back to all the media a lot better and demand a lot more only when we know how we are being manipulated and why we are being lied to," said Parenti.
Managed news misinformation and Big Lies proliferate daily. They substitute for hard truths on issues mattering most.
Today's MSM is a lying machine. Washington's war on humanity is called humanitarian intervention.
Israeli aggression is considered self-defense. Kiev fascist putschists are treated like democrats.
Southeastern Ukrainian freedom fighters are called terrorists.
Ukraine Fasist and Regular Army Troops Leave Battle and Head for Maidan
Michael Collins
Ukraine may be headed for another round of Maidan Square protests that dwarf those seen in February. Regular army soldiers and special fascist punisher battalions are leaving the battle field with a very bad attitude toward the government of United States puppet, President Petro Poroshenko. (Image)
Things are not going well for the United States backed government in Kiev, Ukraine. Early last week, President Poroshenko spoke confidently of wrapping up the so-called Anti Terrorist Operation (ATO) in the eastern part of the country by August 24, Ukraine's independence day. Instead of a victory parade after pummeling the large eastern cities of Donetsk and Lugansk into the ground, eastern resistance forces upstaged the Kiev celebration. The militia of the Donetsk Peoples Republic marched captured Kiev army troops down the main street of that city in their own independence celebration. Poroshenko's conquest was foiled.
Question 3 for 9/11 Smarties: Why was The 2001 Invasion of Iraq called off on September 11, 2001?
By Elizabeth Young
911 is without a doubt the most written about, analyzed and discussed conspiracy in the history of mankind. Yes, even the official story:
Nineteen fanatical Arab hijackers, masterminded by an evil genius named Osama bin Laden, crashed airplanes into important buildings in the N.E. sector in the United States because they “hate our freedoms,”
is a conspiracy between Osama Bin Laden (who isn’t even wanted by the FBI [1q]) and the Arab terrorists who the U.S. government claims hijacked planes and crashed them in to important buildings in the N.E. sector in the United States.
“Conspiracy” is a REAL word for a REAL act that has existed in human societies in all cultures throughout human history. If conspiracies did not exist, we would not have a word for it. The problem that we face today is that the US Government has arrogated to itself a singular role as a political pontificate that believes that it and its agents in the Justice Department, alone, constitute the only “person” (corporate person) on this Earth who is allowed to use the word “conspiracy” as it employs the charge of “conspiracy” every week in trials to put both guilty and innocent people in jail while deriding and discrediting all others who employ the word as “conspiracy theorists.” (Paris Flammonde) [2q]
There are inside, outside and even outside inside stories (conspiracy theories) about what really happened on 911.
Test your knowledge of the September 11, 2001 stories and see if you can spot the Terrorist Job (the story), The Inside Job/Global Domination (the story behind the story), The Exotic Weapon story (another story behind the story) or The Metaphysical story (the story behind the story behind the story behind the story!).
Question 3. Why was the 2001 invasion of Iraq called off 5 hours after the 2nd tower collapsed? The USS Carl Vinson was in the Persian Gulf with orders to invade Iraq. Logic would dictate the invasion would go forward when the buildings were destroyed and not be called off. [10b]
Kiev Fascists Murder Russian Journalist
by Stephen Lendman
Russian photojournalist Andrew Stenin was found dead in Southeastern Ukraine. He was murdered in cold blood. More on what happened below.
Obama's new friends are cold-blooded killers. They're waging war on freedom. They're killing civilians.
They want all opposition elements crushed. They want fascist rule institutionalized.
They want democracy in name only. They want it prevented at all costs.
They want all independent news sources suppressed. They want their message alone getting out.
They harass, beat, terrorize, abduct and murder independent journalists. Russian ones are most vulnerable.
On August 5, Russian photojournalist Andrew Stenin went missing. He was working in Southeastern Ukraine for Russia's International Information Agency Rossiya Segdnya.
America's Aristocrats Declare Victory Against the Public; They War Now Mainly Against One-Another
Eric Zuesse
On August 31st, the Republican political site Politico bannered “Wall Street Republicans' Dark Secret: Hillary Clinton 2016,” and Ben White and Maggie Haberman delivered a blockbuster report about the big-money Republican donors they had talked to, who confided (not for specific attribution, though) that they might finance Hillary Clinton to become President, if Jeb Bush announces after November's mid-terms that he won't run for the Republican Presidential nomination. Ms. Clinton is so appealing to Republican aristocrats, many of them will back her if Republicans won't nominate Bush.
Of course, virtually all Democratic aristocrats are already pouring money into the place-holding fundraising campaign for Clinton's expected entrance into the Democratic Presidential contest.
This means that virtually the entire aristocracy will be flooding Clinton's Presidential war-chest, unless Jeb Bush seeks the Republican nomination.
Why ‘Reform’ of American Education Is Failing: There Is No Authentic Accountability
Eric Zuesse
Diane Ravitch Condemns 'Accountability', I Dissent, She Responds. So: Let’s All Discuss It Now.
On August 29th, America's leading voice on 'reform' of k-12 education condemned President Obama for being supportive of 'accountability' in our educational system. Headlining "Why Is the Obama Administration Making War on Teachers," she closed by wondering, "Why did President Obama embrace the Republican agenda of testing, accountability, and choice?" She blanket-condemned there all three of those.
In a reader-comment (as "cettel22"), I responded to another reader's comment, which seemed to be endorsing Ravitch's opposition to "accountability." I pointed out that a falsely-measured 'accountability' should not be understood as diminishing the value of truthfully-measured accountability:
Israel Breaches Gaza Ceasefire Agreement
by Stephen Lendman
Israeli agreements aren't worth the paper they're written on. Straightaway Gaza ceasefire agreed on terms were violated.
Twelve Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) activists were arrested. Their whereabouts remains unknown.
Days earlier, Israeli soldiers targeted Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) member Khalida Jarrar in Ramallah.
She's ordered deported to Jericho for six months. She got 24 hours to leave.
Israel wrongfully accused her of "pos(ing) a threat to the security of the region, so she must be put under special monitoring." More on Jarrar below.
On September 2, Israeli warships used live fire against Palestinian fishermen off Gaza's coast. They did so in flagrant violation of Operation Protective Edge ceasefire terms.
It permits fishing within a six nautical mile limit. They were well inside it. They escaped injury.
An IDF spokeswoman lied claiming they "deviated from the designated fishing zone.
Israel breached its pledge to ease Gaza's blockade. Palestinians report business as usual.
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