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US/UK Special Relationship: Partners in High Crimes Against Humanity
by Stephen Lendman
Obama hosts British Prime Minister David Cameron at the White House today. Focusing on mutual issues. Anti-populist ones. Imperial ones. Geopolitical ones. Sinister ones. Ongoing wars. Escalation plans. Choosing new targeted countries.
Stepped up cyber and other forms of surveillance. New police state crackdowns. Economic and financial issues benefitting monied interests alone.
Both countries represent an axis of pure evil and then some. Longstanding partners in global genocidal crimes.
Deconstructing Netanyahu in Paris
by Stephen Lendman
He gatecrashed Paris. French President Francois Hollande urged him to stay home. He wasn't wanted. He came anyway.
Couldn't bear not being among other leaders. An array of world rogues. As many as 50 showed up.
Participating in phony Charlie Hebdo homage. A disgusting hypocritical display. Netanyahu muscled his way to the front of the pack. Used his attendance for campaign purposes. Israeli elections are two months away. He outraged his host by urging French Jews to emigrate to Israel. Their "historic homeland," he said.
Who ever heard of a head of state urging citizens of another country to leave? Saying they'd be better off doing so.
New Geopolitical/Financial Bombshells
by Stephen Lendman
January began with a bang. Oil and other key commodity prices keep heading south. Suggesting economic weakness.
The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) provides "an assessment of the price of moving major raw materials by sea. Measuring demand for shipping capacity v. the supply of bulk carriers."
Demand depends on amounts of cargo being shipped. Less demand, lower the index. From Thanksgiving to December 19, BDI fell 40%.
Zero Hedge called it the fastest ever post-Thanksgiving collapse. Declines continued into January. Down to 749 from a one-year 1,621 high. Reflecting economic weakness.
Yesterday, Switzerland's central bank (SNB) stunned markets. Scrapping a three-year euro/franc peg. Sending the Swiss currency soaring against the euro.
Escalated War on Islam
by Stephen Lendman
Post-9/11, America declared war on Islam. Injustice triumphed. So did hate and fear. Muslims are fair game.
US targets of choice. Britain, France, Germany and other Western partners march in lockstep against them.
Waging phony war on terror. Pretext for state terror. Against targeted Muslim counties, groups and individuals. After last week's Paris killings, Le Monde headlined "Le 11 Septembre Francais." Saying US history was "before (and) after 9/11."
For France it's "before (and) after 1/7." An accompanying article said anti-Islamic protests erupted in Paris, Dresden and other European cities.
Defiant Charlie Hebdo
by Stephen Lendman
The satirical French publication normally has a circulation of around 60,000. USA Today said its latest edition has a three million copy run.
Some reports said five million. Maybe more given heavy demand. Copies are being distributed worldwide, said AP. In 16 languages. Saying "readers in France mobbed newsstands…"
"…European newspapers reprinted (its) cartoons as a gesture of solidarity." Red Eye Chicago said local booksellers are scrambling for copies.
Almost impossible to find locally where this writer lives and perhaps elsewhere across America. Red Eye said limited numbers could arrive in America by Friday.
Controversy stalks the issue. The cover again features the Prophet Muhammad. Holding a sign saying Je Suis Charlie.
Muslim groups expressed anger. Insulting their religion again, they said. Especially at a sensitive time.
Many Muslims believe depicting the Prophet is forbidden. Others feared the new cover may trigger more violence.
The Paris March of hypocrisy
By Khalid Amayreh, Occupied Palestine
It is really hard to give a passing moral grade to Sunday's march in Paris, which came in the aftermath of the terrorist attack targeting an anti-Islam weekly magazine. But that is only if one is willing to be truly faithful to his or her moral conscience and rectitude
Indeed, there are so many legitimate reasons questioning the moral credibility of the huge march.
For example, one is prompted to ask why we don't witness such a march when far greater and more blatant crimes take place elsewhere.
Crimes against humanity, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths, have recently taken and continue to take place in Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Pakistan, Central Africa, and Myanmar, without the world raising its eyebrows, or indeed rallying to voice its revulsion at these blatant monstrosities.
In Syria, government warplanes have killed tens of thousands of innocent civilians, by way of dropping crude powder barrels on civilian neighborhoods throughout Syria.
Russia Fires Ukraine as Natural Gas Transit for Europe
Michael Collins
Russia executed a bold move on January 14, one that was largely unanticipated. It shows the level of disgust with both the coup-based Ukraine government and the European Union leaders and their small state followers.
Ukraine is finished as a supply route for Russian natural gas headed for European Union countries. EU countries get 25% to 30% of their natural gas from the Ukraine pipeline. The gas transiting Ukraine will be diverted to the recently announced Russia-Turkey pipeline. The Turks will create a portal at the Greek border where Europeans can purchase natural gas. The pipeline will be complete in 2017. (Image)
Of course, the EU countries will need to build the pipeline infrastructure from the Turkish portal to various European countries.
Russian natural gas delivered to Europe via Ukraine was off 47% in 2014. The end of Ukraine transit will eventually eliminate $1.7 billion a year that Ukraine earns from hosting the pipeline.
Oil Prices: What Goes Around Comes Around
by Stephen Lendman
As this article is written, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude stands at $45.69 a barrel. Brent at $46.59.
Down from their $114 a barrel 2014 high. Off 14% in 2015's first eight trading days. Steady at the moment as this is written.
How low can prices go? Forecasts are suspect at best. Revised as conditions change. Especially when as fast-moving as now.
The latest US Energy Information Administration forecast estimates an average $58 a barrel 2015 price. Around $75 a barrel in 2016.
In October, the World Bank forecast $96 a barrel oil in 2015. In December, the IMF estimated $85 a barrel in 2015.
The Most-Censored News Story of 2014 Was ____(What?)_____.
By Eric Zuesse
There is only one ongoing news story that’s being systematically censored out of virtually all U.S. news media. This has been the finding from a first-of-its-kind test of virtually all U.S. news media that report national and international news. The most-censored news story during 2014 will be identified here.
The method that I employed in order to determine how heavily the U.S. press censors out a particular news story is: Throughout 2014 I constantly submitted original news reports, regarding specifically the topics that were (and still are) most widely considered by journalists (and often also by historians, and by other interested segments of the American public) to be the most puzzling and the least coherently explained and reported ongoing news stories in the American press. Prominent recent examples of such news stories are (and most of the examples that are being cited here come from my own news reports on them, my actual tests of these stories, as was summarized by me in mid-2014 here, and so that’s where you’ll find the details on these ongoing heavily-censored stories):
Charlie Hebdo Fallout in America
by Stephen Lendman
Civil liberties in America and Europe are gravely threatened. Already seriously eroded.
A previous article warned of more to come following last week's Paris killings.
A mid-February White House summit will be held on Countering Violent Extremism. Expect repressive legislation to follow.
Other likely policy initiatives. Ones inimical to free society norms and standards. Growing tyranny fast replacing them.
MSM reports say little. Only that Western officials want tighter border controls. Cooperation on tracking down nationals heading to Syria and Iraq.
Combating radicalized Islamic online propaganda and recruitment. Attorney General Eric Holder stressed new measures needed to "protect the values that truly unite us."
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