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Neocon House Speaker Paul Ryan
by Stephen Lendman
Ryan awakened Thursday morning one step away from succeeding John Boehner as House speaker - ousted by a palace coup. He wasn’t conservative enough for hardline Republicans.
As expected, House members elected Ryan as his successor, receiving 236 votes, a comfortable margin of victory - winning in the Republican dominated body after Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy withdrew his candidacy and Ryan bested Rep. Daniel Webster (unrelated to the 19th century statesman/politician by the same name) decisively - by a 200 - 43 margin among Republican members alone.
US Intends “Direct Action on the Ground” Supporting ISIS
by Stephen Lendman
It bears repeating and stressing what other articles explained. Washington uses ISIS and other takfiri terrorists as US foot soldiers in Syria, Iraq and wherever else they’re deployed.
In over a year of US bombing both countries, zero ISIS targets were struck - infrastructure and other government sites only. Claims otherwise are Big Lies about Obama’s wars in both countries.
Last year, he promised no “American combat troops fighting on foreign soil. We will not get dragged into another ground war” - another of his many Big Lies.
Last week, White House spokesman Eric Schultz said he has “no intention to authorize long-term, large-scale ground combat operations like our nation has conducted in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Duty to Warn Confessions of a Medical Heretic (Part Two)
By Gary G. Kohls, MD
Last week I wrote about some of the ethical concerns that I have had with the modern medical profession. Over my 40 years of practicing medicine I have experienced increasing frustration with its direction, mainly because the business of medicine has been increasingly distorting the ethics I was taught in medical school. The profession has become increasingly difficult to recognize over the 40 year span.
Like many other physicians who have tried to take the Hippocratic Oath seriously (“first do no harm”), I also tried to resist the increasing corporate influences that eventually made the once-honorable practice of medicine into a crass profit-making industry. I makes me sad to report that outside forces have gradually made us physicians into computer bound high class technicians that are largely prescribers/providers of Big Pharma’s often toxic and always unaffordable drugs. In the current profit-above-all-else era, it is not even remotely possible for us physicians to be the compassionate healers of the long-gone era that I knew.
Netanyahu’s Latest Ethnic Cleansing Scheme: Forcibly Displacing East Jerusalem Arab Residents
by Stephen Lendman
It’s hard believing he’s considering something this outrageous. Israeli media report he may revoke the longtime Arab population’s permanent residency status, his scheme for curbing Israeli initiated violence, a sure-fire way to increase it exponentially throughout the Occupied Territories.
The fate of over 370,000 East Jerusalemites hangs in the balance. Netanyahu’s proposed scheme sounds ominously like Hitler loading Jews on trains for death camps.
Where will this huge population go if forcibly expelled? What does Netanyahu have in mind - greater ruthlessness and mass murder than already? For sure with full US support for whatever he does, no matter how outrageous!
Assad Agrees to Snap Elections
by Stephen Lendman
He agreed to them earlier and again now, parliamentary and presidential ones, despite his overwhelming June 2014 reelection, a process independent monitors called open, free and fair.
Russian Communist party MP Alexander Yushchenko is visiting Syria “as part of a delegation of Russian parliamentarians with a humanitarian mission,” bringing food and medicines for children, according to Tass. Assad expressed willingness to hold snap elections with “all political forces that want Syria’s prosperity,” as well as consider constitutional changes, said Yushchenko - “after the victory over terrorism on the territory of Syria and the country’s liberation,” Assad explained.
Netanyahu Says He’ll “Live Forever by the Sword”
by Stephen Lendman
Let’s not mince words. Israel is racist, apartheid, fascist police state, Netanyahu heading one of the world’s most ruthless regimes - fully supported by Washington, partnering in each other’s high crimes against peace, fundamental human rights and equal justice for all.
On October 26, Haaretz headlined “Netanyahu: I Don’t Want a Binational State, but We Need to Control All of the Territory for the Foreseeable Future,” quoting him saying:
“I’m asked if we will forever live by the sword - yes,” he responded, explaining what’s already well known. Long ago he scoffed at the so-called peace process, calling it “a waste of time.”
NYT Big Lie Claims Russia Bombing Syrian Hospitals
by Stephen Lendman
On October 20, The Times tried justifying the Pentagon’s latest Afghan war crime, willfully bombing a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital without just cause - premeditated Times deception suggesting otherwise, ignoring indisputable facts.
The death toll keeps rising, 26 according to MSF as of October 23 - 37 others injured, many severely. Numbers of known fatalities “may not be final numbers,” said MSF.
“All that now remains of the three operating theaters, the ER and outpatient departments, and the intensive care unit are collapsed roofs, blackened walls, floors thick with dust, and twisted pieces of metal that were once beds or trolleys,” it explained painfully.
NYT Anti-Palestinian Propaganda
by Stephen Lendman
Other articles explained The Times features all propaganda, all the time on issues mattering most - not a dime’s worth of straight talk on major national and geopolitical topics, vital at a time America’s war on humanity threatens everyone.
A glaring example is its one-sided support for Israel, longstanding anti-Palestinian policy, blaming them for state-sponsored high crimes, ruthless genocide against an entire population. The latest Times propaganda piece headlined “Palestinian Anger in Jerusalem and West Bank Gets a Violent Soundtract” - ridiculing decades of horrific pain and suffering at the hands of a ruthless occupier, ignoring its vicious brutality.
How Obama Could Beat the Debt Ceiling and Go Out a Hero
by Ellen Brown
Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talk of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.
— Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, 1935
On November 3rd, the US government will again run out of money due to a debt ceiling artificially imposed by Congress. This is the third time in four years that a radical faction has taken the country to the brink of default to extort concessions that are at best only marginally related to the budget.
The debt ceiling is an unconstitutional gimmick that violates the 14th amendment, which says the validity of the government’s debt shall not be questioned. The debt was incurred by Congress when it passed the budget, and the money has been borrowed and spent. Congress cannot now refuse to pay.
One good gimmick deserves another. The debt ceiling could be eliminated for good, by restoring to the government its constitutional authority to create money. Article 1, Section 8, provides: “The Congress shall have the power to coin money [and] regulate the value thereof . . . .” The president could pay the government’s bills by issuing some large denomination coins by executive order.
Obama Rejects Fighting Terrorism
by Stephen Lendman
His actions say it all. In over a year of bombing, US warplanes struck zero Syrian and Iraqi terrorist targets - none. It’s unsurprising he rejected Putin’s offer to cooperate in fighting ISIS and other terrorist groups.
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