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Business As Usual in Egypt
by Stephen Lendman
Days of street protests created illusory change. Everything changed but stayed the same. The pattern's familiar. Ousting Morsi assures same old, same old.
Washington prioritizes Middle East control. It wants it unchallenged. It's the oil, stupid. Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, and other regional states have nearly two-thirds of proved world oil reserves. They have huge gas deposits.
Egypt's the largest Arab country. It's geopolitically important. It supports America's imperium. US officials prioritize continuity. Michel Chossudovsky asked: "Was Washington Behind Egypt's Coup d'Etat?"
Think Your Money is Safe in an Insured Bank Account? Think Again
by Ellen Brown
A trend to shift responsibility for bank losses onto blameless depositors lets banks gamble away your money.
When Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem told reporters on March 13, 2013, that the Cyprus deposit confiscation scheme would be the template for future European bank bailouts, the statement caused so much furor that he had to retract it. But the “bail in” of depositor funds is now being made official EU policy. On June 26, 2013, The New York Times reported that EU finance ministers have agreed on a plan that shifts the responsibility for bank losses from governments to bank investors, creditors and uninsured depositors.
Insured deposits (those under €100,000, or about $130,000) will allegedly be “fully protected.” But protected by whom? The national insurance funds designed to protect them are inadequate to cover another system-wide banking crisis, and the court of the European Free Trade Association ruled in the case of Iceland that the insurance funds were not intended to cover that sort of systemic collapse.
Targeting Foreign Leaders: Longstanding US Policy
by Stephen Lendman
No one's safe from America's long arm. From inception, CIA operatives developed skills to kill.
Fidel Castro survived hundreds of assassination attempts. He knows best how Washington operates.
Other leaders weren't as lucky. In April 1994, CIA surface-to-air missiles killed Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana and Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira.
Downing their plane put Paul Kagame in power. He became Washington's man in Rwanda. Ethnic slaughter continued what began earlier. It's longstanding US policy. It advances America's imperium.
Controlling the Message: Targeting Press TV
by Stephen Lendman
Washington and Israeli Lobby pressure bear full responsibility. At issue is blatant censorship. It's suppressing truth and full disclosure.
It's controlling the message. It's preventing viewers from getting vital news, information and analysis. Press TV features it daily. It provides a vital service.
It's must viewing. It tells viewers what they most need to know. It does so accurately, thoroughly and truthfully. It's too important to lose. It's targeted for that reason.
Doing so manufactures consent. It's a euphemism for mind control. In 1917, George Creel first used it. He turned pacifist Americans into raging German haters. Alex Carey studied corporate propaganda. He inspired others to do so. His book titled "Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty said:
What's Next in Egypt?
by Stephen Lendman
Morsi's out. Junta power rules. Generals have final say. Democracy's verboten. Popular interests don't matter. They never did. They don't now. What's next?
Headlines said Egyptians celebrated Morsi's ouster. Fireworks lit up Cairo's sky. On February 12, 2011, jubilant crowds reacted the same way. Millions hailed Mubarak's removal. People overthrew entrenched power, they believed.
Hoped for change didn't follow. So-called Arab spring didn't bloom. It wasn't meant to. Expect nothing different this time.
London's Guardian: Out in Front Exposing Lawless NSA Spying
by Stephen Lendman
Give credit when deserved. It happens all too seldom. The Guardian's an establishment publication. It's been around since 1821. It's credentials are well-known.
It published other notable scoops. It was out in front on Rupert Murdoch's News International phone hacking scandal. It caused an uproar in parliament. Related police corruption was revealed.
So did information about Murdoch, son James, as well as other News Corp executives and editors having private meetings with Prime Minister David Cameron never disclosed.
So let me get this straight, we fast track renditions but hunt down whistleblowers on presidential planes!
by chycho
“The CIA was granted permission to use rendition (to the USA of indicted terrorists) in a presidential directive signed by US President Bill Clinton in 1995, following a procedure established by US President George H. W. Bush in January 1993”. This program kicked into high-gear under Bush junior after 911 and continues to this day under the Obama administration.
“According to a US Congress report [2008], up to 14,000 people may have been victims of rendition and secret detention since 2001. Some reports estimate there have been twice as many. The US admits to have captured more than 80,000 prisoners in its ‘war on terror’.”
The Arabs And Their Spring
By Gilad Atzmon
It is not a secret that summer skipped Europe this year and some meteorologists even predict a sun eclipse for the next seven to ten years. When asked to explain this dire prediction a few experts ended up blaming the Arabs, ‘it is all because of the Arabs, they took all the spring.’
Joking aside, looking at the Arabs and their "Spring" reveals a chilling sight. It is basically an ongoing bloodbath.
A vast popular uprising in the name of "liberation," "human rights," "democracy" and other big words has matured in a very short time into regional chaos, civil wars, carnage, loss of life on a huge magnitude scale and scores of interventionist apparatuses that guarantee more havoc to come.
Obama Threatens Humanity
by Stephen Lendman
He represents the worst of rogue governance. He does so lawlessly. He serves monied interests. They own him. Whatever they want they get.
He violates core rule of law principles. He mocks democratic rule.
He's waging multiple imperial wars. He's doing so on humanity. He plans others.
He looted the nation's wealth. He handed it to Wall Street, war profiteers, and other corporate crooks.
He wrecked the economy. He lets popular needs go begging. He ignores growing poverty, unemployment, hunger, homelessness and despair.
He governs by diktat. He permits lawless torture. Global renditions persist on his watch.
He institutionalized tyranny. He authorized indefinitely detaining anyone called a national security threat without charge or trial (including US citizens).
He heads America's Murder, Inc. agenda. He prioritizes targeted assassinations anywhere. He authorized killing US citizens abroad. He deployed special forces death squads globally. They operate covertly in 120 or more countries.
America's Independence Day Hypocrisy
by Stephen Lendman
Ron Kovic
Ron Kovic's an anti-war activist. He was born on July 4, 1946. Vietnam combat left him paralyzed. He's wheelchair-bound.
His memoir titled "Born on the Fourth of July" became an Academy Award-winning film. Oliver Stone directed it. Tom Cruise played Kovic.
An updated 2005 book introduction said in part:
Vietnam's "disastrous war" changed his life. It affected countless "others of (his) generation profoundly and forever."
Back then was "a lifetime ago." He was 18. He has photos of how he looked. Recalling them shakes him badly. He can't do it without experiencing nightmares.
He can't face the uninjured young man he once was. His trauma still runs deep. His "beautiful body (was) destroyed, defiled and savaged."
His Vietnam experience left him "physically and emotionally haunted." It pursues, threatens and overwhelms him.
He still experiences "nightmares, constant anxiety attacks, severe heart palpitations, and a powerful, almost obsessive feeling that I would not live past my thirtieth birthday."
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